Yi Chuan 2: Delving Further into the Practice of Healing Intention

Description

This second video on Yi Chuan Qigong extends our discussion and practice of the treasures of Yi Chuan Qigong. Key points included the significance of standing meditation, and the shamanic dimension of Yi Chuan. Specific postures and their purposes were detailed. Further exploration of Qigong as a tradition of “postural  initiation.” Introduction to the eight Yi Chuan postures.

What you’ll get from this video:

•  History of  Yichuan (Dachengquan): Grandmasters Wang Xiangzhai and Fong Ha

• How can Yi Chuan Qigong be practiced as a tradition of “postural initiation?”

• 1. Roots in early Buddhism and Bodhisattva Warrior tradition? Integrating martial and psycho-spiritual elements in the tradition. Working on klesha’s (emotional afflictions)
  2. The Shamanic roots and applications of Yi Chuan.
  3. Shape-shifting into a Tree.
  4. Healing through shape-shifting  into the elements.(fire, earth metal, water, wood)

• Doing “no thing;” Practices for embodying the great secret of Yi Chuan.
• Warm up exercises to generate and cultivate chi, circulate chi, “sili” testing chi, finding the heart of space, Chinese medical qigong practices, Cross-cultural  mystical names and experiences of  divine energy.
• What do you “stand for?” The importance and practice of “intention” in Yi Chuan, the martial arts, and psychophysiological healing.
• Less is more: Static and moving Qigong, Micro-movements, and healing. Activating the para-sympathetic nervous system.

• Yi Chuan Walking Meditation for self-cultivation, self defense, and healing

• Taoist alchemy’s saliva swallowing method  to quell excess fire.
• Yi Chuan postures: Introduction to the 12 hands:  Black Dragon stretches its neck,  rotates its arms, etc.
• Introduction to, and practice of the 8 Postures of Yi Chuan.
• Using Posture 6 (reaching without reaching) to illustrate the psycho-spiritual initiatory elements of Yi Chuan.
• Transforming into a ball: Healing purposes, cultivating the ming men (lower back)