Bodymind Healing Qigong Video – Extended Short Form

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Bodymind Healing Qigong – Short Form
30 Minute Practice Routine by Michael Mayer

You’ll learn practices to: improve flexibility, balance, & relaxation, center your Self, limber joints, optimize energy flow, reverse reactivity when under stress, cultivate your self-healing resources, etc. Discover a state-specific mind, body, spirit practice that may stay with you for a lifetime — hopefully:-)

Pre practice Warm up:

A. Arm Swinging
1. Loose elbows
2. Straighten elbows to activate the Penetrating Extraordinary Channel (Chong Mai)
B. Finger flicking: To activate Kidney Yang
C. Bouncing: To activate piezo electric effect to strengthen bones and tonify internal organs

1. Standing Meditation Qigong*
   A. Standing like a Tree
   B. The Circle that Arises from Stillness
   C. Holding Golden Balls in the Waters of Life
   D. Finding your own Stance- Opening the Golden Ball of the Heart
2. Dispersing Stagnant Chi
   A. Massaging, rubbing, squeezing, tapping
   B. Transforming your hands into electromagnets to remove iron filings from the skin, internal organs, washing the bone marrow

3. Ocean Wave Breathing
4. Tai Chi Ruler
   A. Change Fingers into Straws in the Garden of Eden
   B. Pouring Honey— Preventative medicine for kidneys

5. Selected Daoyin Tu type exercises: Guarding the Knees, Abductor stretch, Psoas stretch, the healing connection between neck and hips, Spiraling a Snake through your Joints, Dipping your Hands into the Waters of Life, Opening your Heart to the Heavens, Spiraling a Snake connecting Heaven and Earth —The Physician’s Staff

6. Healing the Internal Organ exercises:
   A. Wood (Gall Bladder Meridian)- Buddha Holds up the Heavens
   B. Fire- Opening the Heart, Sound HA 3 times
   C. Earth (Spleen Meridian)- Raising the Chi to Tan Tien and back to the Earth; Crane Walking, Crane flying, Sound HUH. for healing worry and correcting imbalances in leg strength.”
   D. Metal- Lung chi, arrow to the Heavens; Lung chi, scooping up slurping and swinging down palms behind the back palms up sound shhh, 2^nd Lung exercise: Moistening, clearing & tonifying the Lungs (slurping and expelling sounds)
   E. Water- Kidney Yin, outstretched palm to the side, Sound Whoo; Kidney Yang, sound Chirr- EEEE; Yi Chuan Dragon
   F. Wood- Liver, as in Tai Chi Shoulder stroke, Sound SSS
7. Animal Forms of Hua Tau (taught in the larger Bodymind Healing Qigong training). Short set, just Crane Walking and Flying —as in the Earth Healing the Internal Organ Set above).
8. Yi Chuan Walking Meditation Qigong’ (Long term students learn the eight Yi Chuan postures and the twelve palms. In the short set we do just a few.)
9. Wuji and Yi Chuan Standing Meditation Qigong

* These practices are described and illustrated in Secrets to Living Younger Longer: The Self- healing Path of Qigong, Standing Meditation and Tai Chi (Mayer, Bodymind Healing Publications, 2004), and in Energy Psychology: Self-Healing Practices for Bodymind Health (Mayer, North Atlantic/Random House, 2009. This abbreviated 20 minute set comes from the whole 10 system set illustrated in the Bodymind Healing Qigong DVD. For information contact drmichael@bodymindhealing.com. Available at www.bodymindhealing.com