Category: Exercise

  • 13 Movements to Stretch the Body

    Movements from Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong Reference: Thirteen Movements to Stretch the Body and Make it More Supple, and Guiding and Harmonising Energy to Regulate the Breath: Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong Foundation Sequences 2 by Zhang Guangde ISBN 978-1848190719

  • Yi Chuan Footwork

    Master Cheuk Fung

  • Inverted-Sequence Exercises in Qigong

    Hu Xiaofei; Beijing Sport University What are Inverted-Sequence Exercises Inverted-sequence exercises refer to exercises like handstand, crawling, backward walking, and barefoot walking. These exercises provide body-strengthening, health-improving, and disease-removing effects for which they are deeply welcomed by people. Inverted-sequence exercises were carried out in our country as early as the ancient times. Various forms of…

  • Using a Five-step Relaxation Method to Regulate Your Moods

    When we feel down, depressed, or distressed, we need to fully exert our subjective initiatives, strengthen our self-control, control the nervousness, anxiety, and pain through our self-consciousness, and do the best to eliminate the adverse effects of passive thoughts. We can use the five-step relaxation method for the adjustment. Choose a suitable posture by sitting…

  • In-bed Health-preserving Morning Massage

    “In-bed health-preserving morning massage” is very simple. We hope that middle-aged and elderly friends could make use of the precious moment in the morning to take good care of your bodies and thus to make yourselves cheerful throughout the whole day. 1. When you wake up in the morning, do not open your eyes immediately,…

  • A Brief Analysis of Preparatory Exercises before Practicing Qigong

    Health Qigong is an auto-exercise based on the perfect combination of posture regulation, breathing regulation, and mental regulation. The practicer is required to stay focused and take natural and long-lasting breaths during the practice. But physical exercise not only bears gentle and slow movement features but also contains tendon-stretching, bone-drawing, firmness-gentleness alternating, and forces-to-the-ends movements…

  • Invigorating the Kidney and Adjusting the Qi

    Take a sitting posture. Close the eyes slightly. Rid the mind of all distractions. Relax the whole body. Breath naturally. Keep this position for 15 minutes. Then open the eyes. Put the right foot on the left knee (a reverse for females). Tap the arch of right foot with the palm of the left hand,…

  • Healing with Nature and Music

    Reference: Relaxation Music 1 – Chinese Bamboo Flute ft Piano youtube.com

  • The Ancient Poem of Universal Post

    The universal post is a mystical form of martial arts We can never fully understand the way it is done It seems like an embrace with a smiling face You use your strength from within You are relaxed and use no force It is like clouds floating in the wind from all directions You use…

  • 100 Chinese and Buddhist Health Rules 51-100

    No. 51 – Quiet Sitting To nourish yourself in quietude: lie on your bed, completely relax body and mind, let your whole body melt without using even a tiny bit of effort, so that you feel as if there was no body. Breathe naturally and exert not even a trace of effort in the mind-and-heart—…

  • 100 Chinese and Buddhist Health Rules 1-50

    No. 1 – Sleep Sleep is the first element of nourishing life. Your preferred time to sleep is between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m., becausethis time in the course of the day matches the season of winter. If things are not contained in the winter,they cannot grow in the summer, which means that on the…

  • Wudang Daoyin

    Wudang Taoist internal Dan guidance “YangShengGong” by ChenLiSheng.

  • Chen Style Silk Reeling of Liu Hong Cai

    Liu Hong Cai Chen Style Silk Reeling: Basic Exercises and Demonstrations Master Liu describes two types of silk reeling, a wrapping type of energy ‘doing’ the movement and ‘using’ it to affect another. He stresses that you have to understand energy to apply silk reeling. Silk reeling is a gathering and closing of energy, or…

  • Zhang Zhuang with Lam Kam Chuen

    Zhan Zhuang with Master Lam Kam Chuen Day 1 – 10 youtube.com Literature: Chi Kung: The Way of Energy by Master Lam Kam Chuen The Way of Power: Reaching Full Strength in Body and Mind by Master Lam Kam Chuen Master Lam’s Walking Chi Kung by Master Lam Kam Chuen Everyday Chi Kung with Master…

  • Taoist Health Preservation