Welcome to good morning to Gong. This program is about starting your day not only feeling good in your body, but also feeling really good in your heart, and creative in your mind. My name is Ellie Cohen and a medical Qigong practitioner and instructor and energy healing coach. I'm a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. This practice has a really long history. It started in the Shaolin Temple many thousands of years ago, and I personally studied it in Japan and from a Shaolin monk himself in China and also in San Francisco.

This practice design to open all the joints in the body to stretch and open all the meridians in the body. And also to prepare the body in mind to meditation. It was designed by bodhidharma that was invited by the Chinese Emperor into China to teach the Chinese monks how to meditate. When Bodhi Dharma got into China, he saw that the the meditators, the Chinese meditators get very weak throughout the meditation. So he designed his practices to open the joints, design practices to really clear the mind and strengthen the body. So they can work on the meditation without being fatigued or foggy.

So it's it's really good for calming the mind but really lubricating all the joints and developing strength in the body. It is also conditioning for martial artists. So martial artists would do this practice to open the joints to gain more flexibility and strength. So there's two versions of this practice. One is an introduction and which takes about two Long and you can do it on days that you don't have a lot of time. But you want to get something that kind of opens the body and opens the heart and open the mind.

So it's a short sequence and that would be an introductory. And then the full sequence would be 10 exercises that will take about half an hour, full to to make them and they designed to go on to pair organs in the body and opens all the body like we said in the body. So enjoy these practices. I hope you like it, and let me know how you like it. And you can do them separate each one. study each one separately, or you can do them all together.

So it's up to you. And I hope you'll like it.