aBout me & ningjing

my story

Welcome.
I’m Edina Gora, the "Ambassador" and senior teacher of Ningjing.
If you’d like to know who I am and where this path comes from, here is my story.

Instinctive Beginning

We are born with a natural longing to connect with the world around us. For me, this was no different. Yet alongside the outer world, another one appeared early on — a world that could only be sensed by turning inward. A quiet inner space where I would often retreat, immersed in subtle images, sensations, and the calming richness of imagination.

I was nine when a book called Sport and Yoga by Yesudian fell into my hands. I played with the strange postures, trying to imitate them from the pictures, and although the practice itself didn’t stay with me, one sentence did:

“The greatest problem is that we do not know how to breathe.”

I began observing my own breath and deliberately taught my body to abdominal breathing. I invented small movements and paired them with breathing — and something opened. The rhythm of movement and air began to lead me; I found myself absorbed in the moment, connected both to the world around me and to the one within.

Conscious Learning

In 2001, during a difficult period of my life, I met Qigong for the first time in a formal way. On the very first day of the course, I realized that what I had been doing instinctively since childhood was, in fact, Qigong — I simply didn’t know its name.

As my body practiced breath and attention, my mind slowly began to reorganize itself.

I learned how to be quiet, and within that quietness, a kind of knowledge appeared — not learned from books or teachings, but through direct experience.

For a long time, I believed I had found something mystical.
Today I know it is a natural human ability — one that our modern, overly yang-driven world gradually trains out of us.

Growth and Transmission

I have been practicing for more than twenty years, opening doors of perception that lead from breath into what I now call Related Presence.
I learn and I teach. Sometimes I withdraw, and then I return to share. Ningjing emerged from this rhythm — not as a technique, but as the natural unfolding of the yin quality.

Over the years, this path opened more and more along the axis of sacral space–heart–awareness: a feminine way of relating that does not try to “fix” anything, but gently leads us back to our original rhythm.

I do not preserve a tradition, and I do not seek to build a rigid system.
I only share what has proved true through lived experience:
a Related Presence born from quietness — and the path that leads to it.

If something in these words resonates with you, this path may invite you too — so that your natural capacities, and the values already within you, can unfold with greater ease and freedom.

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

2021 – Schüssler Salt Applications
Konnektív Felnőttképző – accredited continuing education

2021 – Bach Flower Therapy
Konnektív Felnőttképző – accredited continuing education

2020 – The Helping Conversation
Dr. János Kollár – professional continuing education

2020 – Resuscitation Reimagined
Hungarian Chamber of Health Professionals (MESZK) – theoretical training

2020 – The Role of Magnesium in Neurological and Psychological Conditions
Dr. Zita Csomai – accredited continuing education

2020 – Holistic Approaches to Gynecological Disorders
Dr. Zita Csomai – accredited continuing education

2016 – Alternative Massage & Movement Therapist
State Exam (ENKK) – training by Konnektív Felnőttképző

2011 – Systemic, Solution-Focused Coach
Accredited coach training led by Edit Wiesner / Lemma Coaching

2008 – Fate Modelling – Accredited Family Constellation Training
Led by psychologist Krisztina Kövesdi

2007 – Peter Hess® Sound Massage Practitioner
Peter Hess Academy – taught by Zsuzsanna Radnai

2007 – Acupressure Certification
State Exam (ETI) – training by Dr. Ajándok Eőry

2006 – Traditional Thai Massage
Holisztikus Központ (Holistic Center)

2006 – Naturopathy Qualification
State Exam (ETI) – Holisztikus Központ

2006 – Basic Medical Sciences Certification
State Exam (ETI) – taught by Dr. János Veress

2005 – Zhong Yuan Qigong International Teacher Certification
Exam with Grandmaster Xu Mingtang

2004 – The Original Feng Shui
Blue Mountain Institute – led by Dr. Shan-Tung Hsu

2001–2010 – Zhong Yuan Qigong Trainings
Studies with Grandmaster Xu Mingtang, Masters Tamara Martinova, Jelena Versenina, and Lajos Kovács

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