Qi gong

What's Qi? Energy. Gong means practise, its also a musical instrument.

Find out yourself! I invite you to jump up and down with your hands in the air, wrists loose. Feet can reverb on the ground or raise the heels.

Alternatively clap your hands, then tap gently up the arm and tap down the legs on both sides. This activates Qi in the 12 meridians. Finally tap the face and head

Do not focus only on the external qi, it may reflect what you feel inward. Tap into the sense of oneness that is your mind

Yin ascends from the Earth, it has an inner being. Yang qi descends from heaven materialising from outside. To maintain balance, keep the inner awareness, while allowing qi through the channels to create a circulation like breathing. Enjoy the infinite field of your aura & allow the mind/body to direct movement together

A simple practice for exercising our capacity to direct qi is to place our conscious attention in a certain part of our body—say one of our hands, or one of our feet, or our lower dantian—and gently maintain our focus, our light awareness there, for five or ten minutes, noticing what happens, at a feeling level, as we do this

If our dis-ease is experienced primarily in the emotional body, we might practice Healing Sounds qigong, in order to transform fear into wisdom, or anger into kindness, or pensiveness into equanimity, or grief into courage, or anxiety into joy. If we’re experiencing generalized anxiety and/or depression, we might practice the Moon On Lake visualization, in order to fill our bodyminds with rippling blissful light.

If we’re experiencing physical fatigue, we might work with the Snow Mountain practice, in order to build life-force energy in the lower dantian. We can use the Inner Smile practice to direct healing energy generated in the upper dantian into any part of our body that is injured or ill. And the Holding Heaven In The Palm Of Your Hand practice supports us in receiving and directing “external qi” in a way that nourishes both our middle and our lower dantians.