Welcome back. In this video, we're gonna look at a sequence of chigan movements to help combat anxiety, lift, depression, and target the head, neck and shoulders to help those problem areas caused by repeated migraine attacks. She Gong is a way of collecting ci or lifeforce from the universe and bringing it into our bodies to help us function better. You can gather energy from outside and bring it inside your body. The Dunton three finger width below and behind your navel is where your energy is stored. She Gong combines the breath, movement, and the minds focus.
These are the three main elements. All the organs have their own key and emotions. We won't go into that in great detail here. But just to give you a few examples, the arm movements effect lunchy to move stagnant grief. Opening the hands activates all the meridian points that start in them. shifting your weight side to side activates meridians going through the feet, ankles and knees.
The movements get the chi moving along the meridians. You focus on your slow deep breathing on the movement, the elements of the movement and you try to maintain that relaxed, focused awareness slowing it all down You already know that using the breath is the best way to combat anxiety. The movements that lift the heels and arms together, help lift depression. And one of my favorite movements. willow branches swinging in the wind provides some targeted movement into the head, neck and shoulders, where you can often hold a lot of tension from repeated migraine attacks. In Cameron has taught ci Gong and Tai Chi for over 30 years.
As long as you follow along, you'll get the benefits from the movement. Remember, if anything hurts, please stop immediately. Let's get started. To prepare, place your tongue gently across the roof of your mouth. The tongue acts as a switch connecting two main energy channels step to the side and Ben Your knees slightly wider than your hips or wherever is comfortable. Tuck in your tailbone.
Tuck it ever so slightly to relax your lower back. This slight compression may feel like we're cause a slight leaning forward. Now, inhale, raising your arms and exhale as you lower them. Let's just focus on the breath to get started. Breathing in and breathing out. Breathing in as you raise your arms and breathing out as you lower them.
It's important to notice the pause between each inhale each exhale breathing in Breathing out. Breathing in you gathered the energy with your palms up your fingers pointing inward. As you exhale, anything that is unnecessary. Breathing in and breathing out. Breathing in, draw the key into your body. Breathing out, let go of any stress, tension, or worry.
Breathing in drawing the energy up all the way from your feet to the top of your head. Breathing out letting go of any energy or cheap, that's unnecessary. Breathing and raising your arms, top of hands together, looking over to the left, exhaling, lowering your arms and hands. Breathing in, looking to the right exhaling, keeping the movement slow. Inhaling, leaving with the elbows, looking to the left. Exhaling.
Focus on your breath. Slow inhale. Slow exhale. dropping your weight to the ground. This movement activates your lung points. When emotions are held in, they can be stored in your body.
Grief gets held in the lungs. So you can release these feelings and deep seated emotions through these movements. I'm conscious breathing. You don't have to think about the problems or the grief. You just have to focus on your breathing and opening the body over time, the energetics of the body naturally has a chemical effect where you release the stored things you've been holding on to this posture is willow branches swaying in the wind. Inhale with the arms racing palms up and exhale.
Inhale. Exhale. Raise your arms. Raise your heels a little and sink back down bending your knees. spread your fingers, Catherine energy and your midline, pointing in your solar plexus and expanding the arms up on the heels and down into the ground. This has a slight rocking motion as you go forward, you lift onto your toes and as you come back gently back on your heels lifting your toes, paling exhaling.
Gathering energy with your palms up bending your knees, extending your arms, heels off the ground. The forward movement lifts the heels and arms and makes you feel like you're letting go of everything you no longer need and allowing yourself to soar and feel good, calm and peaceful. Breath, dropping to the ground, bending the knees, inhaling up during the energy scene sinking down. If you get a sore lower back when you bend forward here slightly slight contraction compressing the stomach, releasing the lower back. This activates the craniosacral pump in the base of the spine. You should feel a nice feeling of compression as you lean forward and then moving up through the spine as you lift your chin you get a bit of activation through the base of the cranium.
This sacral cranial pump activates the spinal fluid. gazing at the moon now finding your fingers gathering energy breathing in. Relax your shoulders when you raise your hands above your head. sink your weight through your heels, extend your arms looking up, opening that throat area and sinking to the ground leaning forward activating that cranial sacral pump Be mindful of your center here and integrate the movement with your conscious rhythmic breathing. Lifting the chin in this posture opens the whole central channel and the interior chain in the front of the whole body. It opens outwards, stimulating the lungs and the lung points we talked about before.
Mindful transition bouncing a ball. This is an exercise in grounding and stability. Raising your left hand lead with your index knuckle. Your hands are soft. Inhale, exhale alternating hands now Raising your right hand leading with your index knuckle. Soft homes.
Alternate between hands now. Soft turns, lifting a relaxed, lean palm on the way up and turning it into a firm palm I you POM on the way down. Remembering to breathe. Shift your weight from side to side now, focusing on your inhale and your exhale and your soft palms and your firm palms, clearing your mind synchronizing the left and right sides of your body. feeling that way moving back and forth. conscious of your center Breathing in, breathing out mindful transition Catherine energy now Catherine energy with your palms up filling up to your body, your lower body all the way up to your throat.
Turn it in your hands now and extending them upwards gazing out stretching each side of the body stretching that gallbladder meridian as if you were picking fruit from a high branch opening the palms towards the end of the movement. This opens the many channels in the body. Feeling both feet on the ground. Holding your hands at waist level as if they're floating on water. Gather energy. push it forward and let it go.
Turning to the other side now rounding your fingers gathering energy Be aware of your center and the movement in your feet, ankles and knees. Letting go of all the energy you no longer need and gathering new fiber peer energy from the earth and the water During the energy, lifting to shoulder level and having a go in front of you now, gathering the energy and letting it clean and fill your central channel, including your throat, heart and solar plexus, all the way from your feet to your head, your head pause and tune in. Allow the stillness to come You and reenergize you. Allow all the energy you are creating to settle in your body. Sinking your weight crossing your wrists, brushing your for making a circular motion with your arms. Coming back to your body, palms up exhaling as you bring your elbows back, back on your heels.
We want to get a gentle rocking motion back and forth happening in this movement. So when you To pull your elbows back, you want to lift your toes ever so slightly. And as your hands come forward, your weight comes forward, lifting your heels ever so slightly. Leaving with your elbows forward. Be careful to maintain your center here as you've walked back and forth. Breathing in, breathing out cracking Looking forward, breathing out and closing the practice now, this action looks the same, but you are gathering and closing it to different intention.
So you gather and clear. And one more clearing. If there's any tension you haven't released you can release it now freely and smoothly throughout the whole body from head to toe. The intention now is to gather to bring all the lifeforce you can into your body and stored in your body. Bring it through the crown of your head, your face into every cell of your body. Place your hands on your lower downtown to contain all the energy you've generated.
Gather that energy and stored in your cells. So you have more for your life, more energy more radiance. Take some time now to conclude the practice and have an intention to seal the practice. Ceiling the practice allows it to become complete. See your energy and your aura sealed, protected. clean, clear and vibrant.