LIAN GONG QI GONG

 

It's the first Qi Gong we teach in the Tai Chi, Wellness, Qi Gong and Golden Program. It's a set of theraputic and health care exercises developed by Dr. Zhuang Yuan Ming from ancient chinese medicine, acupuncture, age-old massage techniques, and ancient martial arts.

LIAN GONG FIRST (QIAN SHI BA FA): stresses, strains and sprains.
LIAN GONG SECOND (HOU SHI BA FA): joints and internal organs.
LIAN GONG THIRD (XU SHI BA FA): breathing exercises

for healing bronchial asthma, respiratory, circulatory disorders,

hearth problems

Do you have any pain in the neck, shoulder, waist, legs or back?

Lian Gong rectifies the muscles, ligaments and tendons.
Increases circuilation, space, oxygen, and nutrition
Increases flexibility and individual fibers
Stretches, Strengthens, and Stabilizes the intervertebral discs,

muscles, ligaments, and tendons.

 

 

ZHAN ZHUANG GONG

"Standing like a tree"

“We need roots because we are physical, we need wings because we are spiritual”

 

The Zhan Zhuang positions enhance the flow of Chi. When you breathe Chi descends to Tan Tien and from this, it flows down your legs to your feet then backup throw your body to your arms, along your arms to your hands and then back along your arms and neck to your head. From there it returns to the Tan tien. This Qi Gong is common to all the programs of the school, and it's purpose is to feel the energy and learn to make it flow by relaxing the postural muscles.

 

 

FIVE RESPIRATIONS QI GONG

 

“The true man, with the exception of the ordinary man who breathes with the throat, breathes with the heels.”
 

 Into the five respirations school (Wuxigong) there is a sequence of exercises called wai wuxi or five external respirations:

Respiration with the head: the first part acts on the vertebral column and opens the vertebral spaces, reducing the pressure on the on intervertebral discs and on the spinal marrow and the nerves. Moreover, it promotes motor movements and the qi circulation into the function and control channel; the second part promotes the qi circulation into the right and left channels.

Respiration with the shoulders: helps to reduce the resistance of muscles and ligaments around to the articulations of the shoulders to open and relax. With the first part you practice the emission of the external qi. With the second part you open and close the inferior cinnabar field.

Respiration with the chest: the original qi fight with the pathogenic qi. The first part enforce the diaphragm’s movements, relaxing the thorax and abdomen muscles, and controlling the pressure between the lungs, the thorax and the abdomen, so hearth and lungs work with less effort. Moreover it stimulates also the digestive function. The second part it emphasizes the importance of the acupuncture point xinhui on the top of the head.

 

Respiration with the abdomen: it spreads the dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebras and the hip articulation and it rules the internal pressure of the abdomen by massaging the internal organs and the stomach.

Respiration with heels: it joints the energy of Heaven and Earth into the body and opens the six leg’s channels so the pathogenic qi can be expelled from these channels.

(Monica Esposito “Il Qi gong” La nuova scuola taoista delle 5 respirazioni.1995 casa editrice meb)

 

 

 

  

          video of five respirations qi gong and second Lian gong                      photos of 5 respitations qi gong

 

PUMPKIN QI GONG
Hu Lu Gong, squaqsh qi gong is composed of soft but firm movements. His excersises are inspired from the form and symbolic meaning of the squash. The exercise consists in identifying our body with the form of the squash and with it to capture the energy to enforce the health. In China the squash is used like container for hot water, wine and tea to conserve taste and heat of drinks. For this reason Chinese doctors use it like a container for medical herbs.Taoists, inspired from squash have created some breathing exercises to enforce the energy and to increase long life.

 

 

WU QIN XI FIVE ANIMALS QI GONG

This method has been practiced for more than 17 centuries is based on exercises of Dao Yin and Tu Na. During the exercise you have to imitate the animal's movements and to express the specific character.

Chinese medicine theorizes that they establish one correspondence between the five andimals and the five organs

 TIGER
Majestic and powerful, it strengthens kidneys, reinforces bones, and it favors the vital essence
BEAR
It harmonizes the spleen and the stomach improving the digestive functions.
DEER
It stretches muscles, assists the circulation of blood, disperses the stagnation of energy of the liver,and relaxes the tendons.

MONKEY
It feeds the heart and brain.

CRANE
It works the lungs and increases the respiratory capability.

 

 

SHAOLIN QI GONG

Xiao Ma Qi Gong
Xiao Mao Qi Gong
Xiao Hu Qi Gong
Xiao Hu Die Qi Gong
Xiao See Qi Gong