Tag: qigong
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Yi Leads Qi: How to Apply the Mind in Taiji Practice
The most pivotal — and most misunderstood — instruction in all of Taijiquan: Yi (?, intent) leads Qi (?, vital energy), and Qi moves the body. This post explores what that means in practice, how the classics explain it, and the developmental stages every serious practitioner must pass through.
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You Are the Animator, Not the Animated — The Teachings of Howard Huai Hsiang Wang
Wang Huai Hsiang distilled a lifetime of Chinese Kung Fu and internal alchemy into Prana Dynamics — a radical, empirical science of reverse self-engineering. His core insight: you are not a body with energy. You are the conscious awareness through which the body temporarily exists.
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Yuan Xiu Gang: Learning Zhan Zhuang
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Body Awareness in Qi Gong Practice
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This is Kung Fu
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Practise Qigong for one day
Practise Qigong for one day, One Will receive a day’s benefit. If one stops practicing Qigong for one day, It will be equivalent to losing one hundred days’ benefits. If one stops practicing for one hundred days, One get no benefit through all his life. Life Will become an empty dream.
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The concordance in the exercise of the Health Qi Gong Yi Jin Jing
Physical institution of Wu Han Lei Bin, Shi Ai Qiao The Health Qi Gong Yi Jin Jing is able to regulate the balance of five Zang and promote the potentiality to strengthen the body and prolong the lifespan through the motion of limbs and visceral organs guided by the turning and extending of the backbone.…
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Three Immortals Cultivation of the Ling Bao Bi Fa
Ling Bao (??) translates as “Spiritual Treasure.” The Ling Bao Bi Fa outlines the San Xian Gong, “Three Immortals Cultivation,” for completing the Ling Bao and thus becoming a Zhen Ren (??) or Real Human Being. San Xian Gong consists of thee stages: Ren Xian Gong (???) Human Immortal Cultivation, Di Xian Gong (???) Earthly…
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Yang Style Tai Chi Ball
By Yang Fukui, as told to Bob Feldman The Taiji ball or “qiu” is an integral part of intermediate and advanced training in Yang Taijiquan. While there was some interest in the ball among Taiji practitioners in the 1920’x and 1930’s, interest subsequently diminished and few people, even in China today, are familiar with its…
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Soaring Crane
Soaring Crane Qigong forms 1-5 Soaring Crane Qi Gong, also referred to as China Soaring Crane Qi Gong, or Crane Style Qi Gong, was developed in more recent years by qi gong master Zhao Jing Xiang, drawing upon information from other qi gong masters, ancient Taoist practices, and the movements of the crane, known for…
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Mysteries of Chi
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The Inner Smile
One of the most well-known of Taoist neidan (Inner Alchemy) practices is the “Inner Smile” – in which we smile inwardly to each of the major organs of our body, activating within us the energy of loving-kindness, and waking up the Five-Element associational network. Here we will learn a variation on this classic practice, which…
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Gathering and Dispersing Qigong
Stand straight with feet apart, about shoulders’ width. Find a perfectly balanced posture. Breathe in slowly, gathering the qi in the general Dan Tian, an area three inches below the navel. On the exhale, send the qi to the Gate of Life, which is a point on the spine across from the navel, and from…
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The fundamental principles of Hunyuan Qigong
The origins of Hunyuan Qigong go back many thousands of years to an era when those who were wise were very closely connected with Nature and themselves. At that time, one was considered healthy when one lived in unity with the cosmos, and ill when one subdued one’s own emotions. Animals were not enemies, but…
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