QiGong
QiGong - Water Series
Performed by Lynne Cove
These gentle exercises help warm up your body and prepare you to practice the rest of the forms.
Qigong 18 Forms - Shibashi
This is a recorded livestream class on YouTube that has a focus on gentle, relaxing warm-ups (00 - 29:00). It includes Mimi's approach to the Qigong 18 Forms (29:00 - 1:03:00) and ends with a practice of etheric cleansing and Embrace, or Opening the Qi (1:003:00 - 1:18:19).
Winter QiGong - Element Water
These are the exercises to strengthen, cleanse and stretch the Bladder and Kidney Meridians. To aid relaxation, meditation, and focus on the breath and movement. The exercises can also be performed in a seated position and are suitable for all ages.
LEAP Gentle QiGong
This gentle exercise video combines Tai Chi and Qi Gong with a variety of adaptations to help make the routine safe and comfortable for you. Developed by the therapists in Toronto Rehab's LEAP Service (Living Engaged and Actively with Pain), this routine is great for starting a gentle exercise program at home.
QiGong The Five Animals (Standing Version)
The Five Animals is a powerful sequence of movements that moves every joint, muscle, and energy channel in the body. The slow and smooth sequence of moves also relaxes the body. It calms the mind… reducing stress and anxiety… at the same time, clearing the energy flow in the body and boosting the body’s capacity to rejuvenate and heal.
The Eight Silk Brocades
Also called Ba Duan Jin in Chinese, is the most popular Chinese Qi Gong Form. It dates back to 168 BCE. This practice as a whole is broken down into eight separate sections, each focusing on a different physical area and Qi Meridian. The Ba Duan Jin training not only has its own great benefits but is also complementary to Tai Chi practice.
Fire and Summer QiGong
These exercises focus on forms that uplift and nourish the heart, which is the main organ related to Fire in Chinese medicine and qigong.
5 Elements QiGong
In this video, Franziska Rüscher is showing the full sequence of the 5 elements QiGong set in silence. These exercises are also known as "QiGong of the 5 Phases" or "5 Elements Harmony." The 5 elements are rooted in Daoist philosophy and aim to explain natural developments in the nature surrounding us as well as in human life itself.
Traditional Tai Chi Elements
Basic moves to introduce you to the ancient art of Tai Chi. From the experts at Harvard Medical School. Performed by Stanwood Chang.
Seated QiGong for Seniors
This Seated Qigong program is great for seniors or individuals who have lower body injuries that don't allow them to perform a standing Qigong program.
Daily TaiChi for Beginners and Seniors
Don Fiore's Tai Chi practice incorporates movements that help circulate energy throughout the body and also help with balance and mental clarity. The movements can also be done while sitting down.
This program improves mobility and balance. It also provides easy-to-do movements to facilitate range of motion in the joints. Movements are modified to take into consideration restricted movements of the joints, while seeking to improve quality of life.
Seated Qi Gong Exercise for Strengthening the Immune System
This QiGong exercise aims to boost the immune system and is suitable for everyone. Prevention is better than cure. These movements don't require a lot of space. All you need is a comfortable chair.
Heaven Earth Heart Mantra - Kuan Yin Sitting QiGong
Each and every movement in this QiGong exercise is unique. As you persevere in your practice your awareness is brought to a higher level and this will bring about your understanding of life. The purpose of this QiGong is to sustain you in the quest for love and the search for a land of peace and tranquility.
Seated QiGong - Guided Meditation
Created by Marisa Cranfill (YoQi)
This routine is a perfect combo of qigong and meditation designed to facilitate a deep state of tranquility and energetic balance. Seated qigong is used to enliven the spinal cord and move energy through the central meridian channel
QiGong to Circulate Your Energy
Created by Marisa Cranfill (YoQi)
These exercises use progressive loops to circulate the Qi through the body. Circulation exercises are best to be done after purging and tonification exercises so that there is ample pure Qi in the Dan Tian.
Ba Duan Jin Qi Gong in Sitting Position
Eight Section Brocade Instruction
Baduanjin Qi Gong is one of the most popular forms of Chinese Qi Gong, used as an exercise for more than 1000 years to improve health. The Baduanjin as a whole is broken down into eight separate sections, each focusing on a different physical area and Qi Meridian. It is easy to learn and very convenient to practice.
Seated QiGong The Five Animals
Practicing Qigong consistently and even with as little as 20 minutes a day, you can replenish your body’s ‘vital energy’ at a very deep level, reawakening your body’s natural self-healing capacity.
QiGong Universal Flow
In practicing Qigong there are both external and internal movements. These internal movements or flows in China are called neigong or “internal power”. It is these internal neigong movements that make Qigong a superior health and wellness practice.
Silk Reeling For Beginners
Easy to learn and guided instruction for single hand silk reeling. In silk reeling, the movement is continuous. If one thing moves everything moves. All movement is directed from the center. This is also one of the core principles of Tai Chi. The center leads the body. For beginners, it is good to focus on breaking the movement into 4 parts. Shift weight right, change (hands position), shift weight right, change (hand position).
Daoist Five Yin QiGong Set
These are the Daoist's five Yin organs tonification exercises. Each movement is explained and performed by Dr. Jason Gordon, an acupuncturist, author, herbalist, educator, yogi, and self-cultivation catalyst. His mission is to empower his patients to find answers within themselves, thus facilitating the transformation—physical, mental, and spiritual—that was in them all along.
*Note: Please skip ahead to 11:45 minutes.