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Posted April 2, 2026
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8 Forces into 8 powers: how to awaken your spirit light

by Jost Sauer

In my webinar, Awaken the Spirit Light, I go from philosophical to physical with info, demos and practicals on how to convert each of the eight Bagua forces into its corresponding power — and how to use those powers in daily life. Here’s an overview of what’s inside.

The core teaching: force into power

The Taoists identified eight forces in the Bagua, and each force has a corresponding power. When you convert those forces into powers, your system becomes coherent, and that’s when Ling Guang, your spirit light, can shine bright.

Tai Chi is all about transforming life forces into inner power. Every problem in life is a force and we can learn how to convert every force into power. In this webinar I map all eight forces and powers:

Thunder → Pluck and Grasp: Converts territorial anger into personal strength. Where there’s anger, there’s destiny. A moment of anger can destroy your whole life, but the same energy can become the spark that starts a light-building day.

Earth → Roll Back and Divert: Turns aggressive tribal conditioning into stability and sovereign identity. This is the most yin of all the core energies. When you’re in it, you feel at home.

Heaven → Ward Off and Expand: The most important power. It’s like an inflating balloon — relaxed but impossible to invade. I share how I use Peng every day before I start work: one moment to inflate, and the chaos can’t get in.

Fire → Push and Press: Burns away illusory beliefs and reprograms them into crystalline insights. This is the power that takes you from the mundane circuits into the cosmic ones.

Wind → Split and Rend: Parting the clouds. Single Whip — the most important move in Tai Chi. When I feel a mental block, a few moves of Single Whip and bang, I’m back on track.

Water → Press and Squeeze: Fluid on the surface, carves canyons over time. This is the power I use most — learning to carve through physical obstructions without force. When the fear signal comes, think ‘water.’

Mountain → Stillness to Explosion: Behind all great leaps, stillness is required. Fajing — the explosive release of power — comes from the mountain. The Blue Zone centenarians understood this.

Lake → Joyful Connection: This is where we feel 5D rather than talk about it. No separation. Somatic rapture. The lake does not hoard its waters — it reflects, shares, and invites union.

The practical breakthrough

In this webinar I demonstrate each power as a physical move you can do at home — you don’t need to learn Tai Chi. With nothing more than your body, or a set of resistance bands, you can build all eight powers into a morning practice, even in 20 minutes.

The key insight: the morning practice creates reference points. Then throughout the day, as each force arises in the Chi Cycle, you call upon that reference point and convert the force into power in real time. Breakfast becomes roll back and divert. Work becomes Peng. Lunch becomes the fire press. The afternoon is parting the clouds. Evening is water and mountain. Sleep is the lake.

These are not just exercises. They are training you to be in control, stable in chaos, and they build Ling Guang, your spirit light.

Why this matters now

We have eight billion souls on earth now, all walking around with amnesia, believing the physical is all there is, trying to make the external as secure as possible — at the cost of overpowering each other. The Tao Te Ching described this thousands of years ago. But when you can convert the forces that are around you all the time into power, personal and even planetary systems become coherent and the light strengthens.

There’s only one way forward: develop our consciousness so we guide ourselves through with the light.

Watch the recording

The full 90-minute webinar recording is available now, including all the demonstrations, practicals, and the complete mapping of forces to your daily chi cycle.

Watch Webinar 3 — $35

If you haven’t watched Webinars 1 and 2, I’d recommend starting there — we built the foundation of the eight forces and circuits that this webinar brings to life.

Get the Full 5 part Series — $149

This includes recordings of the first 3 webinars. Webinar 4 is live next Saturday 25 April, where I look at how AI and technology fit with the forces and powers and with our biological and cosmic intelligence. Stay tuned.

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Through his books, workshops, and coaching sessions, he motivates people to live with energy, purpose, and balance.

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