Module 1: Building Youthful Energy — Restore Your Vital Energy With Postures 1 & 2 for Sexual Health & Pain Relief
As your 7-module journey begins, Ming-Dao will share the philosophy behind the first two Huashan Qigong postures…
Posture 1: Restoring Spring will serve as the foundation for all the postures to come. It aids the absorption of fresh energy, expels toxins, regulates the organs, stimulates circulation of qi and blood, and builds vitality.
This posture uses body movements to facilitate your lungs’ processes, invites you to rapidly shake your body to loosen tight muscles, aids breathing, and helps dispel blockages to further enhance relaxation.
Posture 2: Vital Energy improves the health of sexual organs and sets your energy in motion. The hand movements drive the energy upward, then combine with the air you’re breathing to form Qi.
The next step is to move that Qi to benefit your entire being — resulting in better sexual health and a feeling of great wellbeing that moves renewed energy to every part of your body and mind.
Module 2: Uniting Your Yin & Yang for Deeper Sleep & Optimistic Moods to Prevent & Address Mental and Neurological Issues
Posture 3: The Eight Trigrams, is the foundation of the Yijing (Book of Changes), the ancient, classic Chinese divination text.
In this exercise, your hands move in shapes based on the yin-yang symbol.
As Ming-Dao will explain, yin and yang aren’t just concepts, they’re a template for movement.
You’ll use the yin yang symbol itself to guide your movements, coordinating the movements of your legs, body, and arms.
You’ll use the circle to rise higher and lower in height, moving energy from below to above and back again. You’ll shift where you stand, improving strength, mobility, and balance.
Ming-Dao will show you how to circulate energy, achieve grace and coordination, and incorporate the full idea of yin and yang into your life.
Module 3: Extending Qi to Every Limb to Resolve Tension & Restore Strength
Ming-Dao will share the first exercises in this course that are inspired by the power of animals — Posture 4: The Peng Bird and Posture 5: The Turtle.
As you’ll discover, Posture 4 coordinates your hands with the rest of your body as you turn at the waist and connect your left and right sides.
Its twisting movements are aimed directly at the lower abdomen — the source of our energy, according to the Taoists. This posture holds the promise of enhanced vitality, more energy, and a feeling of stability.
Especially if you spend lots of time sitting, it’s important to activate the waist, hips, glutes, and legs. Posture 5 provides an excellent way to gain flexibility in the waist and low back while helping to improve stability.
The circling of the arms extends energy and aids breathing. The benefit of this posture is whole-body coordination, better circulation, easier breathing, and a sturdier stance.
Module 4: Twisting & Turning for Maximum Flexibility & Joy
You’ll practice Posture 6: The Smiling Dragon, a fun and easy posture that encourages you to coil and twist like a dragon. By twisting, you massage your organs, alternately compressing and stretching them.
You’ll move your entire body as a single unit, maximizing flexibility as you renew your ties with nature.
As you stand on tiptoe and reach upward, you’ll stretch your entire body and boost your nervous system — resulting in better balance, livelier movement, and feelings of happiness.
As you explore Posture 7: The Swimming Frog, you’ll also stand on tiptoe to improve balance as you stretch your neck — to relieve shoulder tension and headaches, and counter stress.
Adapting the swimming motion of the frog is inspired by the myth of the Golden Toad, a popular feng shui charm for prosperity. The hand movements facilitate breathing and encourage greater volume of airflow. This posture fosters protection from falls, relief from stress, and greater vitality.
Module 5: Whole-Body Energy From Head to Toe to Stay Limber & Promote Circulation
Together, the words heaven and earth create a poetic term for the entire universe.
According to the Yijing, heaven is the initiating force, and earth is the nurturing force.
Posture 8: Heaven Circles & Earth Circles, is about achieving integration within yourself and with the cosmos.
Ming-Dao will share how you can recycle your own energy — and how your metabolism is the transformation of your body substances, along with nutrition and air, into your own internal energy… your personal Qi.
As you practice the circular movements of Posture 8: Heaven Circles & Earth Circles, Ming-Dao will guide you to reflect on what heaven and earth bring you. As you reach up into the skies, you’ll spread out over the earth — to achieve better waist flexibility and a calm and efficient flow of energy within your body.
As Ming-Dao will explain, all of Taoism is about seeking truth in nature. If you can see yourself as part of heaven and earth, you can achieve harmony.
Module 6: Opening Acupuncture Points & Meridians for Mobility & Vitality
This module’s exercise, Posture 9, is called Ren Rings — after the triangular foot pattern that looks like the Chinese character ren, 人, which means person.
Chinese martial artists put great emphasis on leg strength. If one is strong, then walking, lifting, and a pain-free life are easy.
The Ren Rings posture focuses on specific acupuncture points in the body and requires you to move in five different directions. The complexity of this posture helps you focus on the flow of energy through the acupuncture meridian…
It can improve mobility and sharpen your mind, as you keep track of the directions in which you turn.
With Ming-Dao as your guide, you’ll move plenty of Qi through your body while driving the energy deep into your leg muscles — distributing Qi through your entire body.
Module 7: Spreading Qi Over the Mountain to Relax Your Mind & Harmonize Your Energy
The phoenix is a traditional symbol of the feminine — and represents the arrival of a great new order in the world.
Throughout the previous six sessions, Ming-Dao will have guided you to build energy as you learned to breathe deeply. You will have focused on both flexibility and strength during the previous nine postures..
Now in this final exercise, Posture 10: Phoenix Spreads Its Wings, you’ll move the energy to every part of the body — especially to the fingers, each of which has an acupuncture meridian.
As you reflect on the image of the phoenix, Ming-Dao will explain how the Daodejing (the sage Laozi’s Chinese classic text, written around 400 BC) emphasizes the valley spirit and the value of the female outlook…
Laozi encourages everyone, regardless of gender, to discover the power of feminine energy within.
Only the female gives birth, just as the phoenix signals rebirth and renewal. On this hopeful note, Ming-Dao will help you bring this 10-movement set to its conclusion, returning your energy to your lower abdomen for safekeeping.
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