Qigong Breathing Is The Key To Longevity At the Shaolin Temple, the monks know how important the breath is.
Every movement they do, every kick, every punch is done with the breath of Qi. They are famous throughout the world for increasing their martial power and the rate of their health and longevity through a series of breathing exercise called Qigong.
If you are new to Qigong then you can find out more here.
Reverse Qigong Breathing Qigong breathing is a different type of breathing to our regular breathing.
When we practice Shaolin we reverse the way we breathe Just as the heart pumps the blood, the lungs pumps the breath or Qi, which is why we don’t use our regular breath when we practice Qigong but a special breathing technique which gives us the ability to channel our breath where the body needs it most.
Martial Qigong When I practice Shaolin Steel Jacket I channel my breath into my ribs so that I don’t get hurt when beat with bricks or metal bars.
Shaolin Qigong isn’t just about shaven headed monks and fancy kung fu moves, it’s one of the most effective ways I know to increase our health, fitness, happiness and longevity.
Thousand of years ago, high up in the mountains of China, the Taoists studied Qigong and called it the elixir of youth.
The Buddhist monks practiced Qigong so they could stay alive for as long as possible and gain enlightenment.
Today, we practice Qigong to not only help us with our martial arts but also for many of the same reasons.
Doing regular exercise and Qigong helps to prevent illness, and keep us young.
Without my regular practice of Qigong I could not continue with the hard training that I do.
Instant Health One of the motivations for writing my book: Instant Health: The Shaolin Qigong Workout For Longevity was to give people an accessible step by step guide to Shaolin Qigong, free from the secrets and myths that have accumulated in the West.
The Longevity Workout The Longevity Workout consists of warm up, stretching, Qigong and self-massage.
Qigong For Liver An example of this is when we are stressed our liver channel becomes blocked; we do Qigong for liver to unblock the channel.
The Eight Treasures Qigong that I teach in my DVD and book works on opening up all the major channels including the liver channel.
This is why a Qigong practitioner experiences a much greater degree of energy, their skin glows, their immune system is strong because they are preventing illness before it occurs.
To optimize our Qigong Workout we finish off with a self-massage.
The self-massage takes less than ten minutes and is done after Qigong.
Jade Stone And Green Tea Alongside Qigong and self-massage, Chinese people have always used Jade as a longevity tool.
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