Chi Kung Fundamentals Details of Content
Chi Kung Fundamentals #1:
• Video: Five Animals Do the Six Healing Sounds
• 1.5 hr shows warm-ups, 5 Animals, & 6 Healing Sounds.
• Best to get both audio and video, as audio gives theory and detailed explanations of movements, plus questions & answers.
• Audio includes 4 pages of handouts:
1. Five Animals movements (described)
2. Six Healing Sounds (illustrated, with descriptions)
3. How to Deepen the Six Healing Sounds: Advanced Practice
4. Chart of Chinese 5 Element theory & list of associated energy.
•Theory: What is chi? How can we know it is real?
- The Life Force as personal teacher present to us in every moment.
- Chi Kung as language of nature, allows us to speak with our teacher.
A. Chi Warm ups
5. Shaking the Tree, gentle loosening of joints, muscles & internal organs.
6. Advanced level: "Two Year Old Chi Kung": use sound, release trapped chi.
7. Cool down: Rocking and Earth Chi breathing from Soles of feet. Ground the chi deep into earth, into body, above head.
8. Toss out Evil Chi method. Comb out Sick Chi with Golden Finger Chi.
1. Taking stock of your energetic status.
If your body is an experiment, How to take a baseline reading.
2. Ocean breathing as key method to quickly open lower belly cauldron.
B. Theory: infinite sea of chi in the body vs. sea of chi outside the body. Front door (dan tien) vs. Back Door (ming men).
1. Lying position practice. Feel the Chi between the Hands while lying.
2. Standing position. Ending, gathering.
3. Shaking the belly and laughing to loosen tense chi layers in the belly.
C. Five Animals Chi Kung as Dynamic Releasing of Trapped Chi
1. Five animals as shamanic precursor to Chinese 5 Elements theory. Link between Belly Sea of Chi, vital organs, and our personality. Five Animal Organ Spirits (Shen) as "dark side" of mind, holding secrets to our natural good health.
2. Opening the heart preparation for the Animals.
3. The Tiger hisses as it prowls. White Metal chi, lungs.
4. The Tiger scares off the enemy. Grasp Lung chi to kidneys.
5. Bear tosses aside fear, stretches its kidneys, Black/blue Water Chi.
6. Deer Leaps thru Forest. Green Wood/Liver chi. Disperses anger.
7. The Crane flies, opening and closing its Heart. Red Fire Chi is cleared.
8. Alchemical Crane, mixing kidney water with heart fire.
9. Monkey Guards His banana. Yellow Earth chi/spleen. Release worry.
10. Butterfly Transforms itself: descends heat, clears the head and chest.
D. Six Healing Sounds as sitting chi kung method of releasing trapped chi.
1. same sounds as with animals but in relaxed sitting position.
2. method of using sound to release trapped emotion.
3. method of expanding vital organ chi and pulsing it.
4. method of skin breathing (vs. using lungs)
E. Inner Smile: Shen (spirit) smiles thru energy layers of physical body.
1. different ways to practice. 3 dantian method, spine, organ, bones.
2. Inner Smile Wave method to heal others at a distance, link with sun, moon, stars, spirit guides.
Note: Workshop material is constantly being refined. In some audio versions part of Inner Smile starts Day 2
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