Sharing as Service: why and how you teach
Dimensions 21 to 25 of the 25 Dimensions. The last group, and the one that decides whether you are still doing this in 10 years.
The five dimensions of sharing as service
21. Teaching as transmission, not transaction
You are transmitting something alive. Your presence, your practice, your care about what opens in the people in front of you.
Charge for it. You are offering real value and real expertise and there is nothing impure about being paid. But the container itself is relational. When you teach from transmission people feel held. When you teach from transaction they feel processed, and they can tell instantly.
22. Teaching as your practice
Teaching is not separate from your practice. It is your practice.
Preparing, teaching, thinking about it afterward, all of it counts. That takes some pressure off, because it means you do not have to be excellent. You are practicing, with a room full of people. Some days clear, some days messy, both useful.
23. The student-teacher mirror
Your students are mirrors, and what they struggle with will show you something about yourself.
The one who cannot relax will teach you about your own relationship to relaxation. The one who is always hungry for more will show you your own ambition.
Receive the information without getting defensive about it. The best teachers I know treat their students as their most reliable teachers.
24. Building community, not dependency
A good teacher makes themselves less necessary over time, not more.
You want people practicing at home, trusting their own knowing, finding the teacher inside themselves. If you have become indispensable, something has gone sideways.
Build community instead. Teach people to support each other. Celebrate it when they need you less. A genuinely successful teacher ends up creating other teachers.
25. Offering what you have without attachment to outcome
You bring the practices, you bring clear presence, you say what you know to be true, and then you let go.
You do not control what anyone does with it and you will usually never find out. Some people get it immediately. Some take years. Some never do.
This is the paradox at the end of the list: you care enormously about what opens in people, and you hold no grip on it at all. You bring everything and hold it lightly.
That is the whole set. Back to the 25 Dimensions, or across to the Seven Foundations of Practice. The training itself is at the Great Energy Qigong Teacher Certification.
Part of the 25 Dimensions of Sharing Qigong.
If you already teach something else and are considering adding this, Qigong for yoga teachers covers that path.
By Christopher Grant, Great Energy.
Frequently asked questions
Should Qigong teachers charge for classes?
Yes. You are offering real expertise. The container is still relational rather than transactional, and students can feel the difference immediately.
What does it mean that a teacher should become less necessary?
It means building independence rather than dependency. If you have become indispensable, something has gone sideways.
Where to go next
If you have never practiced Qigong. Jump Start Your Energy is a free beginner class. No background needed, nothing to buy, and it is the fastest way to find out whether any of this does anything for you. Most people know within one session.
If you practice and want to go deeper. We teach live classes online every week, and there is a self-paced Introduction to Qigong if you would rather work through it in your own time.
If you want to teach this. Everything in this library is drawn from the Great Energy Qigong Teacher Certification. The frameworks are here in full because they are more useful shared than withheld. The training is where you learn to deliver them.
Keep reading. The rest of the framework library is at the Library, and our longer articles are on the blog.
Great Energy is an independent educational organization founded by Christopher Grant and Daniela Hess.