Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body Chi Gung
Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body is a 3000-year-old self-healing chi gung system from China. You will learn techniques used for millennia to focus your attention and awareness in order to consciously and safely control the flow of chi throughout your body, including Standing chi gung/qigong, Cloud Hands, and the Taoist Spine Stretch. You will learn specific body alignments to prevent your chi from dissipating or becoming blocked, and aid in the downward flow of chi.
These exercises strengthen and energize the internal organs, help heal joint problems, relieve stress, and maximize energy levels and range of motion. The Spine Stretch, a unique Taoist technique not found in any other martial arts or body practices, will help you both control the movements of your vertebrae and relieve spinal tension and pain.
Dragon & Tiger Medical Chi Gung (Qigong): Suitable for any age or fitness level, Dragon and Tiger is a sophisticated medical
chi gung set that is 1,500 years old.
Dragon & Tiger is a series of seven movements that work on the same energy channels used by acupuncturists. Instead of using needles, practitioners stimulate the channels indirectly by moving their hands along the energy field that surrounds the body. In China, it is used to treat cancer and other degenerative diseases and to reduce the effects of chemotherapy and radiation. Millions practice it to relieve tension, work better and improve their martial arts (it can also be practiced as a martial Chi Gung to produce great strength and speed):
Dragon and Tiger is based on the philosophy of balancing the body's energy, or chi. Chi flowing smoothly through the body is a basic part of health. Dragon and Tiger's twisting and spiraling movements echo the way chi moves through the body and cause the chi to move smoothly through the acupuncture meridians and deep energy channels.
The hand movements of Dragon and Tiger activate the chi field outside the body, causing the chi inside the body to move along the acupuncture meridian lines. Specific movements of the set's seven exercises balance the central, right and left energy channels and massage the internal organs while clearing and balancing their energy. Dragon and Tiger Chi Kung exercises every part of the body, and by increasing blood and chi circulation in the brain, enhances intellectual capacity. As a form of movement meditation, it also calms and clears the mind.
Excerpted from the Inside Kung-Fu article "Dragon and Tiger Chi Kung" by Susan Rabinowitz (of NYC's Taoist Arts Center).
Information about the Instructor of the Internal Arts classes at Yong Studios.
