The ancient healing art of Qigong is a wonderfully effective way for you to cultivate physical strength and flexibility, deepen your breath capacity, reduce physical and emotional stress, and ease mental tension.
The key to a successful qigong practice is doing it!
The practice is simple and easy to learn and the health and longevity benefits, enormous!
This basic stance video sets up the foundation for your Qigong practice and is pivotal in developing a base for which all further training sits upon.
It will help you align your posture so that you are well “stacked” from the feet up and the technique within should be referred to at the beginning of every training session so that you have your body aligned prior to commencing the forms.
You can also have private one-on-one or group Qigong and Taiji lessons; simply ring me on 0403595070 for booking details and costs.
Become competent in the following – Postural alignment and the “Basic Stance”.Wake up exercises. Heaven, Man, Earth Qigong. Swings of the White Willow. Eight Heavenly Palm Qigong. The Eight Pieces of Silk Brocade. Standing Qigong and the microcosmic orbit.
Breathing
Breathing is the most important thing you do from moment to moment. It nourishes your physiology with the oxygen it requires for healthy organ and brain function and you cannot survive without it.
If your breathing were blocked even momentarily you would panic and fight to regain your breath.
Shallow, weak breathing does not support your physiology sufficiently and can be directly linked to anxiety, panic attacks, lethargy and poor concentration to name a few.
" When people are born they are supple, and when they die they are stiff.
When trees are born they are tender, and when they die they are brittle.
Stiffness is thus a companion of death, flexibility a companion of life.
So when an army is strong,it does not prevail.
When a tree is strong, it is cut for use.
So the stiff and strong are below, the supple and yielding on top.
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Taoist saying
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