Qigong 氣功
qi=energy 氣 gong=work-cultivate 功
Qigong is many things. Qigong is as large as nature and full of surprises.
Essential aspects of the practice include movement, meditation, and a philosophy for a living one’s life.
Each person discovers Qigong through personal, unique and often surprising experiences.
As qigong practice evolved over the course of history, taoists, buddhists, and chinese doctors developed varying opinions regarding the best Qigong form.
Different degrees of importance were ascribed to movement, breathing work, visualization and meditation. Based in the methods of four ancient schools, four specific practices still exist today in a variety of forms.
All four were developed to achieve the same goal, accumulate Qi in the body:
1) DAOYIN means movement. This method employs movement to circulate qi in the body. An example is Taijiquan well-known as a meditation in motion.
2) TUNA in chinese TU means exhale, NA means inhale.
TUNA qigong focuses on breathing work. One of the oldest method was Six Sounds Therapy, it reinforces and stabilizes the emotions.
3) NEIDAN Internal Alchemy used technique of visualization.
4) CHAN this qigong method required the student to sit still an face a white wall for hours.
The qigong methods that I teach includes physical exercises with static and dynamic movement; breathing control and mental concentration, self-massage and acupressure on acupuncture points and therapeutic sounds whose vibrations stimulate the different vital organs.
