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Intro
with
Kailish Lim

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1. Waving Hands by the Lake or Pulsing or Harmonizing the Qi   Demo
Notes: Inhale Chair + arms rise. Exhale stand + arms lower. The knees bend less as the hips draw back. Sink Respiration and circulation
Organs/Elements/Seasons: Settle the liver chi.

2. Opening the Heart or Opening the Chest   Demo
Notes: . Arms forward and in. Then inhale open to the side. Exhale arms down and sink.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: Conditions heart, lungs. Meridians run through arms and fingers.

3. Separating the Clouds or Parting the Clouds   Demo
Notes: Cross hands and clouds as you inhale. Take off a t-shirt. Lift arms in front of the chest adn overhead Arms don’t touch Generic name – Cross hands Imagery: move through soft clouds. Separate out the clouds as your arms come down. Separate the clouds and allow in the light of the sun Upper cloud sinks down, lower cloud rises to take its place.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: Summer heart. Lungs. Circulatory and respoitary systems

4. Painting the Rainbow or Rainbow Dance   Demo
Notes: Step legs apart. Side lunge. Bend one knee and tip down toward the straight leg. Gaze at bottom hand
Kailash: side bend
Imagery: Dance a rainbow between your hands. Balancing 2 ends of a rainbow in your hands. Rainbow goddess. Hands open to fill iwth a rainbow of light.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: Stomach & spleen, particularly spleen conditions the stomach and strenghtens digestion. Can be a boost to immunity and heart and central nervous system.

5. Floating Silk in the Air or Rolling Ball   Demo
Notes: One hand forward while the other goes back. Rolling a ball from behind the ear. Move from the elbows, not the hands. Elbows squeeze together and elbows move apart. Turn from the waist as you move. Yin/Yang. Expansion & Contraction. Feel magnetic force, something sticky between the hands that you can stretch. Helps stiff shoulders.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: The twisting helps the Liver/gall bladder and kidneys.

6. Rowing the Boat in the Center of the Lake   Demo
Notes: Wrap your hands around the center of an imaginary oar. Dead lift.
Imagery: still lake
Organs/Elements/Seasons: Strengthen the back and condition the kidneys.

7. Raising the Sun or Lifting Ball   Demo   Demo
Notes: Legs slightly wider for bow stance. Palms up as if holding an invidisble ball. Hand behind back palm up at Ming man, the Gate of Life. Exhale Sink - Turn - lift (Somatics – yield - push - reach) The arm lifts to shoulder height, Opposite heel can rise up.
Imagery: Palms hold and invisible ball. Scooping the sun up from the ocean. Lift and energize the spirits.

8. Gazing at the Moon or Looking at the Moon   Demo
Notes: Legs a little wider. Sink. Both arms reach up and back. Look back and up at the moon. Squeeze the elbows together and then lift and separate the elbows a bit.
Imagery: Look up at the light of the full moon in between your hands. Look thru yor hands at the light of the moon Moonlight.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: Tonify spleen, liver and gall bladder. Increases chi flow through the whole spine and chest, improving circulation. Stomach and spleen. Primarily spleen - meridians go up the sides of the ribs. Tonify spleen, liver, gall bladder.

9. Lotus Leaves Rustling in the Wind or Turning Waist, Pushing Palms or Push Palms, Turn Waist   Demo
Notes: Horse stance. Push strong from the center. Keep hips stable and just turn waist. Eyes follow the hands. One palm pushes, the other palm is turned up at the level of the lower dan tien. Push palm out.
Imagery: push something heavy with inner strength.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: spleen and stomach. improves digestion. Strengthens the back.
Martial implication - Turning someone's arm to break it and pushingt their belly away.

10. Waving Hands Like Clouds or Cloud Hands in Horse Stance or Moving Clouds   Demo
Notes: use natural deep breath
Imagery: roll over clouds. Soft clouds.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: digestion

11. Touch the Sea, Look at the Sky or Scooping the Ocean, Looking at the Sky   Demo
Notes: Bow stance. Back knee bends. Back knee opens out Weight in bubbling spring Start with left leg forward
Taiji axis - harmonizing/balancing of yin/yang.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: spleen, heart lungs

12. The Dove Spreads its Wings or Flying Pigeon Spreads its Wings   Demo
Notes: Rock forward and back. Soften. Be able to see your arms and hands in perifphery Balanced chi flow. Front toes lift when you draw back, back heel lift when you come forward
Organs/Elements/Seasons: heart and lungs

13. Pushing the Waves   Demo
Notes: Pushing from the heels of the hands. Pushing forward elbows contract.
Imagery: Push a wave onto the shore. Pull it out of the ocean.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: Water element - kidneys & bladder

14. Flying Wild Goose or Wild Goose Flying   Demo
Notes:
Mimi - legs together.
Kailash - up on toes. Backs of hands don't touch on top.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: lungs.

15. Dragon Coming Out of the Sea or Alternating Fist Punches   Demo
Notes: Exhale and punch. Haaaaa. Wei Chi - defensive layer of chi
Organs/Elements/Seasons: digestion and lungs.

16. Turning the Flying Wheel or Turning the Wheel or Windmill Turning in the Breeze or Spinning the Wheel   Demo
Notes: Hold on to the rim of a large wheel. Flick hands and fingers towards earth to release stagnation. Compost for the earth. Roll up at end.
Organs/Elements/Seasons: Purify the organs of the kidneys and urinary bladder, liver and intestines. Circulates blood flow.

17. Bouncing Ball or Stepping and Bouncing the Ball   Demo
Notes: same hand and leg (Mimi) Strengthen feet and legs. Balance.

18. Gathering the Fragrance of the Earth or Closing Form for Peaceful Qi   Demo
Notes: Sea of chi
Kailash: squat - gathering from the earth
Mimi: arms overhead, above shoulders Very slow.

Dan tien: Left yin hand over right yang hand for women.

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Taken last summer at the Moulin de Chaves @moulindechaves in France
@aaron.deemer

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#7 is 18 Forms

Mimi writes:
Qigong circulates the blood without taxing the lungs. Whenever I do forms like the Taiji (Taichi) Qigong Shibashi, or 18 Forms shown in this video, I can feel this. My hands feel toasty and my whole body warm and full of energy. This is good news for someone like myself, who has never been drawn to things like running or aerobic sports! This form in particular is also calming and meditative. Its gentle movements flow continuously from one to the other in a relaxing, soft yet powerful way.

Originally created in 1979 by Lin Housheng combining Yang style taiji with qigong to help treat health conditions such as back pain, lung disease and hypertension, the 18 Forms have become one of the most popular forms of qigong today. In fact, in 1991, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recommended the promotion of the Taiji Qigong Shibashi routine worldwide!

Though the sequence is just over 40 years old, its foundational principles reflect classical concepts from Taiji (Taichi) and China's thousands of years of energy practices. Regular practice supports the health and vitality of the body, calmness and creativity in the mind and transformative breathing.

I find that the forms specifically work to build posture, tone, and healthy range of movement all without putting stress on the joints. Most of all, it's a wonderful way to connect to nature, as many of the forms invite us to do things like separate clouds, push waves, dance with rainbows, or touch the sea and look at the sky. You can see a short sample of each form, done at normal speed.

For more info, see my website http://www.mkdeemer.com/classes Classes all by dana, a Buddhist word for generosity.

#Qigong #shibashi #taijiqigongshibashi #taichi #taiji #chinesemedicine

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