Embroidered Brocade Qigong class – 2024.10.01

The Embroidered Brocade Qigong

These Qigong have huge depth and, with some of them, we can work with a variety of Qi flows and qualities. They are well worth exploring.

Although having similar names, the Embroidered Brocade Qigong and the Eight Pieces of Brocade (AKA the Ba Duan Jin) are two entirely different sets. The Embroidered Brocade is a set of seven Qigong exercises, namely: Folding Over, the Circle of Light, the Billowing Sail, the Sun and the Moon, the White Crane, the Snake, and the Taiji Walk.

In this Embroidered Brocade Qigong class

Quiet body and mind

• Daoyin warm up exercises.
• Using Wuji to quieten the body and mind.
• Folding Over: Switching between Yin and Yang.
• The Circle of Light: Awareness of the individual meridians.
• The White Crane: The connection between the heavens and the earth.
• The Sun and the Moon: Connecting the three Chakras.
• The Billowing Sail: Triggering the Bubbling Spring (disconnecting and reconnecting).

Benefits of these Qigong

The numerous benefits of these exercises include:

• Stimulating Qi flow in the Yin and Yang meridians of the legs.
• Stimulating Qi flow in the Arm Yin & Yang meridians.
• Opening Ming Men and Dazhui (Du Mai 14). AKA “Big Bone” this is the first thoracic vertebra, where the Qi can often get stuck.
• Bringing awareness of and building the skill of sinking the Qi while raising the Shen.