About Qitaky Romanin Foundation

The Romanian Qitaky Foundation was established in March 1990, as The Romanian Institute for the Development of Human Potential by Adrian Florea, Qigong Grandmaster and a specialist in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Feng Shui and martial arts.
All this while, the Foundation has offered to all those interested theoretical and practical courses in Qigong, diagnosis and treatment using the methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine, courses in Chinese diet therapy, therapeutic massage, Feng Shui etc.
Since 1990, the clinic coordinated by Adrian Florea attended to over 12,000 patients using the methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine, such as energy transfer, therapeutic massage, diet therapy, magnet therapy, phytotherapy and acupuncture. Excellent results have been obtained in herpes zoster, renal and biliary calculi, ulcers, cardiovascular diseases, hepatitis A, B and C, cirrhotic diseases, immune deficiencies, eye diseases, orthopedic trauma, psychological depression, allergic and bronchial asthma, endocrinological disorders, rheumatism, arthritis, arthrosis, some dermatological diseases, chronic renal failure, benign tumors, prostate adenopathy and many more.

October 1993: Adrian Florea attends the First Congress of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Overseas Practitioners

1995: the institute was reorganized as a non-governmental organization, under the name The Romanian Qitaky Foundation - The Romanian Institute for the Development of Human Potential.

1996: in order to stimulate scientific research, the Foundation initiates a series of conferences that have brought together specialists in conventional medicine and leading representatives of complementary medicine, in a joint effort to combine those medical orientations to the benefit of the patients. The topics of the conferences are listed below:

1996 - "Ancient and Modern Medical Practices - Implications for the Development of Future Generations"

1997 - "Tradition and Modernity in the Medicine of Relaxation and Stress Management"

1998 - "Traditional Chinese Medicine - an Ancient Science in a Modern World". This was the first edition to go international, the honorary guest being Dr. Effie Poy Yew Chow, Founder and President of the "East West Academy of Healing Arts" in San Francisco, Advisor to the US President on complementary medicine, President of all the editions of the World Qigong Congresses organized so far in the United States. On the occasion, Dr. Chow attested the existence of a new, original Qigong style, Qitaky Qigong.

August 1998: The Romanian Qitaky Foundation becomes a member of the National Qigong Association of America.

November 1998: Adrian Florea attends the First International Congress of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.

May 1999: representatives of the Foundation attend the Annual Congress of the Academy of Cybernetics "Stefan Odobleja". Adrian Florea chairs a new section, "The Cybernetics of Human Energy", inaugurated that year.

June 1999: in order to become affiliated to the international organizations in the field, Adrian Florea established the Romanian Qigong Association.

August 1999, Baltimore, US: participation in the Annual Conference of the National Qigong Association of America November 1999, San Francisco, US: members of the Romanian Qitaky Foundation attend the 3rd World Congress on Qigong; Adrian Florea was invited to be a member of the Congress panel and was acknowledged as a Grandmaster and a World Qigong Federation representative. Adrian Florea also presented the paper "Divine Messages, Divine Structures" about a singular phenomenon in Romania, the Cave of the Bears, and held a one-day Master Workshop where he introduced participants to his original style, Qitaky Qigong; he also demonstrated how this style can contribute to improving athletic performance; the Romanian Qigong Association was affiliated to the World Qigong Federation;

April 2000, Washington, US: the World Summit on Qigong, that for the first time addressed the elite of Qigong practitioners, mainly in the domain of medical Qigong. The Summit was meant to initiate a direct dialogue with the American authorities, that may be decisive in formalizing the status of Qigong in the American health insurance system and in including it in the research and development programs financed by the state.

June 2000: a new edition of the conferences organized by the Romanian Qitaky Foundation: "Qigong - Science and Lifestyle for the Third Millennium".

November 2000: Adrian Florea attends the Second International Congress of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.

May 2001: members of the Romanian Qigong Association attend the 4th World Congress on Qigong. Adrian Florea communicates the results of research in improving intellectual capabilities by practicing this complex discipline; he also receives invitations to grant consultations and treatment in the US and Canada.

2001 - 2002: the Romanian Qitaky Foundation opens up a new path in Romania, as it formerly did with Qigong. Adrian Florea delivers a set of conferences entitled "Ambientherapy - Feng Shui. The Art of Harmonizing Man with the Environment" at the "Ion Mincu" Academy of Architecture; young architects were introduced to a new vision for designing modern buildings. The Foundation also conducted a large number of applied studies in Feng Shui.

November 2002: members of the Romanian Qigong Association attend the 5th World Congress on Qigong. Adrian Florea speaks about man's self-healing abilities.