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Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body is a 3000-year-old self-healing Chi Gung (Qi gong or chi kung) system from China. It teaches the fundamentals of how to activate and harness chi—life-force energy—to improve health, reduce stress and reverse the effects of aging and to advance any other chi-based exercise program.

Chi fundamentals

Correct body alignments, how to smoothly shift weight while turning your body, and Longevity breathing are core fundamentals necessary for all chi-based programs. These improve chi flow, improve Posture and balance, loosen tension in muscles, joints, ligaments and internal organs and maximize the circulation of all fluids, including blood and lymph. Getting chi to flow smoothly throughout your body helps strengthen your immune system.

Standing: the core exercise

The core element of Energy Gates is learning to stand for a minimum of 15 minutes a day. This powerful Nei gung (neijiaquan) technique increases internal awareness, develops more chi inside your body and teaches you to feel where your chi is blocked. In the beginning, you will be taught how to scan your body by using your mind, starting at the top of the head and descending to the feet. This preliminary practice helps you internally relax and feel your body. Next, you are taught the method for using your mind to dissolve blocked chi and open the specific major energy gates of your body. You will feel more alive as your chi begins to flow more freely.

Cloud hands

Cloud Hands, is a slow-motion movement, that teaches you to continuously and smoothly move your arms, legs, waist and torso in an integrated, coordinated manner as you turn and shift weight. It connects the energy of your whole body to your spine. A similar movement appears in many Tai chi forms.

Three swings

Three swings strengthen the primary chi flows in the body, particularly in the internal organs and what Chinese medicine calls the "three burners" of chi in the body: the upper, middle and lower tantiens. The swings open up the joints of the hips, knees, ankles, shoulders, elbows and fingers.

Unique spine stretch

Unique to Taoism, the spine stretch teaches you how to bend and gently stretch each vertebra from the bottom of the back of the spine and proceeding upwards; then bend uwards as you stretch each vertebrae from the front of the spine. Besides making the spine more limber, this spine stretch begins the process of fully activating the chi of the spine and the brain, which is essential for all advanced chi gung practices. Next you begin again at the bottom front of the spine and proceed upwards, so that the spine returns to an upright position.

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Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body [Book]

Completely Revised and Expanded. This seminal book has inspired thousands to take up chi gung. It explains what chi gung is really about and what its benefits are. There are new chapters on breathing, sinking the chi, and the 16-part nei gung system. Product Details...

Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body [DVD]

A great companion to the book, it's as if you are in a class with Bruce Frantzis. No fancy uniforms or Hollywood production values - just clear teaching and lots of detail. Product Details...