Jade Body Qigong

This beautiful and peace giving form is a slightly more vigorous, yet gentle form of qigong, that focuses on the spinal cord. The results of the practice will be a good opening and stretching of all the muscles, tendons and ligaments in the body, from your toes to the top of your head. The shaking motion, timed with a releasing exhale, adjusts and opens the energy pathways along the spinal cord. This frees up the energy throughout the body and your internal organs, especially benefiting your heart and your kidneys, as well as strengthening you back. Additionally, because Jade Body is such a core healing practice, it creates a feeling of physical, emotional and spiritual openness, warmth and connectedness
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Jade Body Qigong was brought to the west by Master Liu Dong, an acclaimed Qi Gong master from China residing and teaching now in Paris, France. The central part of this form focuses on moving Qi through the spine, drawing on movements inspired by the turtle (cervical spine), the crane (thoracic spine) and the dragon (lumbar spine). The entire form is performed within the natural breathing rhythm of expansion (breathing in), stillness (holding), and contraction (breathing out). This form also incorporates a preparation that is very powerful in the process of accessing and opening the heart energy.

A written description and pictures of the form are available at: http://www.qi.org/liu/jadebody.html

For general information on Liu Dong: http://www.qi.org/liu/index.html

If anyone else practices this form, please post a video or more information about it. I am posting this to share and learn, not as an expert. If you would like to learn this form of Qigong, I would recommend working directly with a qualified teacher, if possible. Thanks

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[omnilloquy]

Thanks for your comments. I would like to learn more about the form. Post a video to show the difference. Thanks, Brian

[telecommatt]

I also practice this form, although you do some movements quite differently than I. Thank you for your post.