Qigong: Eight Piece Brocades Chi Kung

[Michel0555]

I just did it and it somehow makes me feel calm and relaxed.

[ClygarPro]

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[juliuscaesarnajan]

@juliocesarnajan gente o mestre ta usado um ALL STAR?..^^

[juliuscaesarnajan]

@juliocesarnajan ai gente, por favor tradução para o português.. alguém traduz aí, ou com legendas

[juliuscaesarnajan]

@juliocesarnajan um bom lugar para treinar é no mar, ou melhor perto. ele nos dar uma paz...^^

[heero7yui]

Could anybody please tell me the name of this piece o music or the instrument?

[moniquevervloet]

Thanks for sharing this demonstration.

[Mourne84]

i got the compelte DVD of this video, the demonstration is well done and the posture is perfect. All my respect to Mr. Tsao.

[12345jovo]

hi there..i have a little problem..i been practicing chi gong exercise and the point is to feel the chi ...which i been training but when i meditate only feeling is tingling in mine head and then i leave the body ...i just can't feel dan tian ....great vid tnx

[fuddyboi]

might be a silly question, but does qigong burn many calories or help tone the body?

[nilquid]

Does anyone know the name of this instrument?

[caojing62]

@nilquid I'm a Chinese,it's called "Ancient Zither“or Chinese”古筝=guzheng".It has a long history in China,probably over 2000 years. U can google it or wikipedia it for more information.

[OutofNames76]

I'm trying to learn this. This is the best video I've seen so far. Does anyone know if the postures should be performed more then once, or should you go from one posture to the next? Also, does anyone know the names of each posture?

[caojing62]

@OutofNames76 I'm sorry to say the information about this art is mostly in Chinese.I'm a Chinese and still have some problems to understand the qigong or this eight piece brocades.It's popular in China for over 100 years and it's developed from some other more ancient qigong art.It really works for a lot people to help them get better body and mind.

[eljazmindenotre]

Gracias por este video

[Chikung7]

Cada vez más los hospitales de muchos países del mundo lo utilizan para ayudar a sus pacientes a recuperarse más rápidamente, incluso se ha convertido en una terapia alternativa para muchas enfermedades degenerativas.

Muchísimas gracias por el aporte.

Carlos Robayna

[lovehopefaith1000]

very effective!

[VanHalen010]

Should the breathing correlate with the movements?

[AtropoTronchesi]

I do this sequence each and everyday...it works!!!

[diskinet]

you rock, thank you for making this available and explaining the channels with the movement.. i want to meet you sifu!

[Larry6995]

Hello to all who read this. I have a question that I have been asking any practitioner of chi gung.

What does it take to reach a very high level of chi gung?

thank you for your responses.

[diverbrent]

Thank you for your great work!

[HeartOfAllThings]

It's nice to see some different variations of the eight brocades than what I've learned Nice to mix it up sometimes :)

[accVis]

great I love it

[ClygarPro]

So sleeeeeepy....

[BodaBingCrosby]

I bought the DVD and it is great. I practice every day. Can I do it more than once a day? How about increasing the repetitions? Thanks for the great product.

[kollkowski]

Can you tell me the full name of the DVD? I want to freshen up my old Qigong knowledge and really liked that video. Ta!

[EskimoShowdown]

many chinese do it 3-4 times a day. it helps to be consistent with the time of day you practice too (5-7am, 11am-1pm, 5-7pm).

[eltaocris]

Excelente maestro, si estos movimientos los acompañaramos de algunas fotos seria mucho mas facil.

God protect you for ever

[Tlatotoctli]

O.o woW

[Drakula5]

Recently I have compared about 18-20 variants of 8 Brocades sets - your variant is "averagelly best". Morover it assumes some possible additions, espacially when you add repetitions of each movement more than 1.

[chentex23]

Dont you love his shoes?

[Sanningsministeriet]

Nose-breathing also equalizes the temperature of the air, when you pull in through your mouth and the air is cold it might make cappilaries contract and bloodflow move slower. Also, when keeping your mouth shut and your tounge in your palate you close the cirquit of two meridians, better qi flow :)

Motuh-breathing gives a quick fix of air, but seldom fills the lower part of the lungs, where the most air can be collected. So: diafragm-breathing with your nose is better and more efficient.

[taichitsao]

Thank you for the explanation!!!

[TaoOfTheFist]

But aren't you supposed to exhale from the mouth? I may be wrong, but the way I learned the breathing is to keep the lips slightly parted but the jaw lightly closed so that the exhalated air escapes through the teeth. When you make the sounds, you are hhuuu and ssshhh sounds because of that, right?

[Sanningsministeriet]

If its to make sounds thats a whole different story, thats a specific kind of technique in that case. I've just picked upp a tiger routine that resonates the sinuses with a hissing sound but the mouth is closed... a thousand exceptions to every rule, thats chinese martial arts systematics for ya ;)

[TaoOfTheFist]

Well, NOT to make sounds, but for basic breathing. I guess exclude the sound comment from last time.

[Sanningsministeriet]

Oh, allright, i get it now, not sound qigong then... :) Well, whats the application and benefit of that type of breathing? I've learned to work it all through the nose for basic filtering and to keep the qi circuit closed, since mines related to a kung fu system i've learned to keep the mouth closed for safety for tounge and jaw...

[TaoOfTheFist]

You were right, breathe in through the nose to warm the air, but then I learned to breath out the mouth, with the jaw closed and tongue on roof of mouth to block qi from escaping (and so you don't bite it off lol), lips parted. I also do kung fu.. what style(s) to you do? I'll try it your way for awhile and see what kinda results I get. Thanks!

[Sanningsministeriet]

ill try your way and see what i find! I do Five Form Fist (Lam Siu Lam Ng Ying Kuen) wich is part of the Tran family system together with five elements qigong... Tran Loi Minh is our grandmaster (lives in Paris), i train under his disciples in Sweden and directly under him occasionally. Whats your style?

[ishbu333]

There's a reason you exhale through the mouth, and a reason that you can keep your mouth open while you inhale and not allow oxygen to enter the mouth. =) explore ... the difference you feel

[joethepro3]

Yup!! : )

[americanmambi]

@Sanningsministeriet diaphragmatic breathing also flushes the internal organs in the thoracic and abdominal cavities with fresh renewed blood from the lungs and heart. It also stimulates the 'vagus' nerve which is a bundle of nerves connecting the viscera and the brain. This stimulation sends signals to the brain which cause rest and relaxation of most capillaries through out the body (specially in the extremities), this lowers the blood pressure (blood has more space to move into).

[americanmambi]

@americanmambi This drop on blood pressure causes other changes in the endocrine system (particularly in the kidneys) which further relaxes and releases toxins from the body. In most trained practitioners, just 1 breath will trigger all these changes (which we only covered slightly) causing the body to go from defense mode to growth mode which is health and regeneration of systems. There is a great scientist who speaks about the truth behind the effects of these practices, look for Bruce Lipton

[ophiliasrealm]

breathing though the nose is not only relaxing it also filters the air with the little hairs in your nose so your breathing pure air. there are no hairs in the mouth so the air isnt as clean

[skydragonx14]

that was cool im going to just do that know

[Myavrick]

Explain to me all the benefits of breathing through the nose. For year I snored and would breath through my mouth all the time.. Now since wearing a nasal cpap mask when I sleep ( I didn't like the mask over my mouth).I breath more through my nose that ever. I hear you are born to breath through your nose and unlearn to do this as you grow older...

[ambucias]

LOLOLOL so true !!

[DrYinAndYang2007]

Dear Taichitsao,

Thanks for posting this video. Could you please tell me if exhalation is being done through nose or mouth. Thanks for your time.

[taichitsao]

Prefer through the nose because you should touch the tip of your tongue to the upper roof of mouth, behind the upper teeth.

[kwaig0n]

always nose, because mouth is not for breathing ;) you should find a good chi-kung instructor

[hgearangler]

WHY IS THAT?? Please leave more details enabling us to follow more precisely !! thank you ~~

[michaelhentschel]

Hallo! Was ist das für eine Musik? Gefällt mir sehr gut.

[timelessnugget]

sounds like some chinese guitar. traditional music.

[Sanningsministeriet]

its called "qin", a old and classy chinese string instrument, not to far from a lapsteel only larger and with a hollow wooden body.

[ayehua]

Nice Video

[ayehua]

Nice Video

[ayehua]

Nice Video

[hjnbrf]

omg...hallucinations... O_O

[Pajak356]

Dziękuję(PL) Good job men:)

[boblp]

Actually sensei in chinese means gentlemen, not master or teacher; but yea sensei is also chinese, it just means a different thing

[agodie]

merci!

[MenulioVilke]

Good video too :)

[commanderdeez]

The master has a goos sense of style... rockin' those chucks!

[1necrovenom]

Thank you for teaching me alot of stuff, im glad that i can evolve my chi/ki accumulation so rapidly, will put it to good use thanks again sensai

[boblp]

sensei is from japanese, sifu is chinese

[1necrovenom]

Thanks for the proper term

[melchizedektan]

I'm sorry your wrong sifu and sensai are both chinese

[thwackspongbelm]

this is terrific. I have to learn this for my next grading. . . Thankyou for an invaluable resource

[tcsilver]

do you ? can i ask the name of your school and system ? :]

[atammarco]

are amazing!

[atammarco]

i feel a tremendous energy coming out from that body, congratulations!! I'm starting qi-gong baduan-jin in these days, if i will get the chance i'll also have a look at your dvds, they look good. your posture and ability

[SeijiiNakamaru]

Can you use the six healing sounds with the Eight Piece Brocades?

I am not sure... My kung fu school teaches the Eight Piece Brocades, but I have not learned it yet.

[roberg73]

nice pyjamas!

[dawnfuertes]

Please I need know the name sound band this video

[SteffiLuuv]

This is great, I love it!!! Thank you so much :D

[anoninnyc]

thank you

[trenerito]

gotini kecove :)

[taichitsao]

You can do it repeatedly many times for each posture!

[Ponce546]

name of music ?

[nadsat123]

hello from argentina

do i have to practice each step repetedley or all them at once?

thank you ver much.

nicolas

[dpapaioannow]

in my school we practice the mabu stance differently thighs are parallel to the ground does he do a different mabu version?

[imaginator]

very well done!

[thesethingz]

LMFAO

[mokurai81]

An expertly demonstrated beginning Qigong

exercise. Thanks for posting, Master Tsao.

For a rare and advanced technique, visit

MOKURAI81 (YouTube), "Opening the Mind's Eye".

[alargedog]

i havnt tried that 1 yet is it a new form of chi gong?????

[Bluebellinata]

Indeed a rather "old" set of movements...going back to about 12th / 13th century.

The Baduanjin (traditional Chinese: 八段錦氣功; simplified Chinese: 八段锦气功) is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise.[1] Variously translated as Eight Pieces of Brocade, 8 Silken Movements and others, the name of the form generally refers to how the eight individual movements of the form characterize and impart a silken quality (like that of a piece of brocade) to the body and its energy..

[w0r1dpeace]

You've given them so much Mr. Tsao.

[xagog]

and what about breathing?I`d like to learn that set but i don`t know how to breath

[NaNlolz]

don't think about it. If your body is relaxed, then the breathing will come naturally.

[orsted1984]

Breathing is very important! Qigong is about three things: movement, breathing and thought (or meditation what means moving energy within your body). If you ignore one of these things its not qigong. One thing I miss in this video is the movement up and down in the knees and thats the point with the breathing. When you move up you breath in and when move down you breath out. Thats the basic its simple.

[orsted1984]

Then you have a bit different exercising of eight brocades called neigong, witch means working with inner muscles and ligaments. Here you can breath freely. But neigong its a higher level of qigong, I wouldn't do it without guidance of a good master. Keep practicing, qigong is very fascinating and after couple of months when you start to feel the energy its amazing. I wish a lot enthusiasm for daily practicing, its the only way.

[alargedog]

breath in through ur nose and out through ur mouth

[mach1952]

is there a reason for such major differences in the dragon shakes his tail move when all the others are so very similar in diferent styles of the ba duan jin? is it not the sensation thats important and not the actual shape of the move?

[FlintZA]

Your videos are great refreshers for my Tai Chi after I stopped doing it for a while. Thank you very much :)

[taichitsao]

You are welcome! Resume tai chi :-)

[AhmedThaking]

does those exercises help me somehow to concentrate my Qi or something on that way??

[tamarakaneen]

if you are really interested in learning this you need instruction on the breathing that is practiced with each movement, its key.

[butifarra61]

hey, for free! I thank you sir, and you have a nice personality to teach as well. I will try to give it a try. thanks again.

[taichitsao]

We have more free teaching coming soon. Just "Subscribe" our channel :-)

[troodon1967]

Easy to follow

[varvaris]

If you don't take any martial arts or boxing i doubt you'd stand a chance, people always underestimate slow paced martial arts.

[gekiryudojo]

so you didnt look on my channel then, OK

[8palmsofpower]

I did look on your channel, and I was suprised to see a teacher with so much experience still judging people on whether he thinks he can 'annihilate' them.

[8palmsofpower]

the Qi Gong set he is demonstrating is famous as a practice for health, and if you cared to look at his channel, you would see that he has an emphasis on the health giving properties of training. Whether you can have him or not is irrelevant.

[psyboyboy]

mee too i feel his aura

i see it lol.

[Leizarus]

He have a great Aura flowing in his whole body. I can see it.

[bai914]

Interesting! I feel the same!!

[herman1234567]

How you feel/see that then ;o?

[bai914]

This is very nice! I can just follow in front my computer :-) I will do it everyday, ha ha.

[draxlmisc]

Its useless unless you know how to breath between the moves.

[timgeuze]

BAHH NIKKERS

[SiliconBong]

He's good, but can he outperform moses?

[Jesucristo301]

Sure he could. Moses was Jewish!

[SiliconBong]

LOL. ASL? Politics?? Destiny???

[CT2507]

hehe...

[guitaress1]

I heard a Master say specifically to not to qi gung near the ocean, so why is he?

[CT2507]

why not... cause of seamonsters would jump up and bite his ass ?

[Krittikas]

Very nice!

[MisterX]

Im a bit dissappointed he didnt flow them together, in the beach segment, (Im sure they were meant to flow into each other? Chi Kung is great for older folks coz it really helps with breathing, and keeps the muscles and tendons from siezing up. Also great for asthmatics.

[thejamesholz]

Awesome!!! There are several variations of the Basic Eight. This looks like a particularly elegant variation.

Excellent!

[bnvmarcello]

Great seriuosly teatcher

[Paahau]

Chi Kung differs from Tai Chi in that it deals more with controlled breathing, and less with the continual flowing motions that somewhat resemble a karate kata? that's a question:

[elcoco42]

I think the difference is in that tai chi has martial applications and uses chi instead of fisical power it also develops chi and concentration. chi kung on the other hand are excercises designed to increase ch iand your control over it but they are just excercises and dont really have martial applications

[georgio101]

Yeah, tai chi, or tai chi ch'uan is actually a martial art, mainly for fighting and s. defence. It uses chi gung to generate force. Chi gung is exercises, designed to cultivate chi within the body.

[34thshaolinstudent]

LOL @ KFphil - time is money LOL. I figured that was just an informational clip not instructional were u could see the whole thing! LOL - Yeah Qi Gong is cool stuff hopefully soon I'll publish Shaolin Badua jin Qi Gong's full DVD.

[AhFanLin]

Nice to let all people see it. Thanks!

[taichifist]

Excellent! I Love it!

[ran0010]

Looks like he's wearing converse. Yes, very relaxing.

[KFphil]

I don't understand why after 1 min 04 the video stop, it's impossible to see the five last brocades.

Thank's

Phil

[keehs]

There are few versions eg. shaolin stye, this one are executed softly like taiji stye.Well executed

[usagent36]

It's an easily learned form and really good for you. Nice to see it hear!

[taijiguy]

It's nice to see some well executed, authentic qigong rather than the "hard qigong" circus tricks that so many gullible people believe is real qigong.

[blackunderscore]

very good, thank you