Date: April 4, 2024 to Jun 20, 2024
Time: 6-7pm
Instructors: Yuen Hing Tse, Florence Chan
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Location: Douglas Park Community Centre 801 West 22nd Ave
Anyone who are interested to learn Wah Tor Chi Kung or had learned it and would like to have more opportunity to practice, please join these classes.
Space is limited, please sign up ASAP.
Possible health benefits:
Helps with a debilitating or weak heart, high blood pressure, and preventing allergies, colds and the flu.
Possible causes of illness:
Poor circulation of chi and blood. This movement is the best and most complete way in improving the functions for the circulation of chi and blood through all 14 meridian lines in our body. All the movement is related to the circulation of the 14 meridian lines.
With the appropriate amount of activity, our immunity to disease will be enchanted.
A great way to prevent illness.
Part 7: Supporting Respiratory Health Movement
Function: Preventing hay fever, cold and flu
Start: Set the legs apart wider than shoulders with the arms hanging down by the sides.
1a. Move the left foot one step forward and to the front keeping it shoulder width apart.
1b Lift the toes pointing them upwards and inhale two sniffs, quick quick through the nose and simultaneously bend the back leg at the knee, keeping the front leg straight but toes pointing up with the heel touching the ground, bend forward towards the front leg until you are looking over your shin, place the right palm over the dantien and back of left hand against the centre of your back directly behind dantien (gate of life meridian point) GV4 NB. In this position, your back is bent, the face is down looking at your left shin, the left heel resting on the ground, the toes pointing up.
2a. Rise up and straighten the back while swinging both arms in a circle (focus the swing from the waist and not from movement of the arms or hands) so that the opposite hand touch the dantien and the cnetre of the back slightly above the waist. At the same time, turn the feet and bring the the upper body towards the right close to 40 degrees.
2b. At the end of the rotation, your right leg is straight, the heel is off the ground, the foot pointed with the toes touching the ground.
2c. When the breath is exhausted, hold your breath and swing both arms in reverse, rotate your back, etc., to the position describes in 1b.
3. Take two quick sniffs through the nose.
4. Repeat 3, 6 or 9 times.
5. Repeat the above cycles with the left foot forward, the back leg bent, etc., ie, reverse the left-right sequence.
6. Repeat steps 5 and 6 but make tight fists with both hands and press the knuckles at the back of the hands firmly onto the left and right kidney meridians BL23 (Shen Shu) areas behind the back. This is to increase immunity against diseases.
7. Use the knuckles at the root of the index and middle fingers. The fists remain pressed onto the back during all the up-down and body rotations without moving around, including changing the left-right positions.
Given time, it will not only improve immunity but will reverse any weakened systems.
If you practice this movement continuously, you will have longevity and good health.
May cure early stages of cancer (cancer not yet spread), high blood pressure, nervousness, mental disorder, nightmares, feeling irritable and restless, and insomnia.
Being nervous, tense, anxious or worried.
Part 6: Boosting Immunity Movement
Function: Building immunity
This movement incorporates 3 types of breathing to guide the movement.
It helps calm our nervous system and clear our worries bringing you to a relaxed state with a quiet mind.
If you can maintain long deep breathing, and relax your body, by keeping oneself “nervous and
effortless” free and only using your mind to guide the movement, you will get amazing positive
results.
3 different types of breathing:
1. Start by breathing out through the mouth and breathe in through the nose.
2. Normal natural breathing through the nose with the tongue touching the upper palate.
3. Then breathing out, breathing in and natural breathing.
Two Treatment methods
A. Supplementing method-
breathe out first then breathe in. This is for ordinary practice for preventing illness and strengthening our body
B. Reducing method-
breathe in first then breathe out. Most of the time, this breathing method is used for addressing cancer and chronic/ critical illnesses.
To start, place legs wider than shoulder width, arms hanging down by the sides.
The breathing method in this movement is different from other parts; please pay attention to the
following details.
1. Place left palm over the dantien, right palm above left palm and line up the labour palace meridian and dantien.
For women place the right hand over the left palm and for men place the left palm over the right palm. Focus the mind on the dantien.
Make sure to connect the palms with the labour palace meridian points and line up with the dantien
(just below the belly button).
2. Breathe out through the mouth while squatting down as low as you can like sitting on an empty chair with straight back and the knees bent. While breathing out, expand the dantien and move the overlapping hands outwards (6 inches or more) as a reminder to expand your dantien.
3. Keep in the squatting posture, then place the overlapping hands back onto the dantien.
Place the tip of your tongue to lightly touch the upper palate behind the upper front teeth.
Take a deep gentle breath through the nose while tucking in the tummy with some compression from both hands.
4. Rise up slowly while breathing out through the NOSE naturally.
Expand your dantien while moving the overlapping hands outwards (6 inches or more) as a reminder to expand the dantien.
5. Take 3 more deep breaths, “ in and out through the nose”.
While breathing in, compress the tummy with your overlapping hands coming in to cover the dantien and while breathing out, move your overlapping hands 6 inches or more away from the tummy.
While breathing in, you can close your eyes and imagine the fragrance of fresh flowers like roses penetrating through your heart and spleen.
6. Repeat 3, 6 or 9 times.
7. The following movement uses normal breathing, in and out through the NOSE.
Bring both palms in front of sternum area, the fingers pointing forward the wrists about 9 inches to 1ft in front of the sternum, the elbows slightly bent.
Turn the palms flat, back-to-back and close almost touching and push outward, separating the palms away slowly until more or less in line with the shoulders, the elbows still slightly bent.
While doing this, think of lovers not wanting to separate.
All the above performed in a relaxed state using natural breathing through the nose.
8. Then rotate the wrists and turn the palms inwards until they are facing each other, moving the arms and palms towards each other, bring them close together almost touching.
While doing this, imagine the lovers reuniting with smiling faces and full of joy. This continuous movement implies their connection is continuous and never ends.
9. Let both hands drop. This movement will bring you a strong feeling of chi (sensation of yin yang) if you practice daily, the sensation will grow stronger, an indication of stronger chi circulation.
Think with positive thoughts while you are bringing the palms inward and outward. If you have a cancer tumour, visualize the tumour diminishing and disappearing.
Repeat 6 & 7 3, 6 or 9 times.
Possible health benefits include:
May cure inflammations in the mouth, hiccups, heat stroke, fainting, headaches, toe inflammation, weight loss, numbness, any illness associated with and along the spine, kidney and digestive system problems.
May improve functions of blood circulation and digestive systems.
Possible causes of illness:
Blockage to blood circulation leads to pain, numbness and digestive issues. This movement brings chi through blood flow along the arms and legs and to the whole body.
Blood flows back to the heart and chi gathers into the dantien.
This circulation process brings those circulation elements to areas where our body needs them.
This helps prevent illness through this endless process and one can further develop and improve our illness preventative system as a whole.
Part 5: Improving Circulation Movement
Function: Supporting digestion
Start:
Do the preparation breathing.
Place the feet together, heels touching and toes outward 45 degrees like a V stand.
The palms turn to loose fists facing upward beside the waist area, ready to collect energy.
Breathe in, the abdomen (tummy) tucks in gradually and gently and the chest expands.
Breathe out the chest relaxes, the abdomen (tummy) expands outward gradually and gently.
Repeat all movement minimum 3 times, preferable 6 or 9 times.
1. Breathe in, and with just one intake breath, complete the following:
2. Stretch the left arm across the chest (at 45 degrees) towards the right side with the palm up. Then curl the fingers to form a loose fist while withdrawing the arm until the fist is next to the left hip/waist, the elbow pointing backward. (focus on the turn of the waist/hip, the palms follow).
3. Repeat the same moves for the right hand.
4. Still holding the breath from the last move, while crouching down by bending the knees and keeping the back straight, rotate your wrist while forming tiger claws with your fingers, palms facing forward, the elbows drop, breath out while straightening your arms horizontally. You can exert some strength in your fingers and arms while imagining the strength and power of two dragons coming out of the sea.
5. Breathe in, while retuning to the standing position drop both palms downwards at the wrists to form pointed claws with fingers.
6. Breathe out, changing the claws into open palms, then swing both arms downwards and outwards.
7. Breathe in, bring the palms, arms outward and upwards covering the head. When the arms are up, the palms should be facing the sky, fingertips to fingertips, the elbows slightly bend.
8. Raise the heels an inch or so while breathing out fully.
9. With a deep and slightly faster in breath, raise your heels up all the way while straightening out both elbows, pushing the palms further up covering your head (Bai Hui) , the palms holding up the sky.
10. Breathe out lower your heels while bending your back forward and sliding the arms down, maintaining the palms at 90 degrees from the arms. In the bent position, your arms should be hanging straight down, with the palms downward and at the end, turn the palms upward with the fingers pointing towards each other.
11. Breathe in open the palms, then turn the palms and fingers outward from the side and bring the whole body from bending downward position to the standing position.
12. Continue to breathe in, rotate the palms inwards until the palm side is facing forward and the fingers are pointing to one another to form a circle with your thumbs and third fingers in front of and near the forehead, eyes looking at the “sun” or “moon” depending if it is morning or evening. Then breathe out gently dropping both hands and swing backwards. Breathe in to bring the arms upwards and forward until arms are at 45 degrees. At this position, breathe out with the palms facing downwards and inwards at about 45 degrees, the fingers and thumbs slightly spread and relaxed.
13. Breathe out while slowly lowering both arms and bringing both palms closer to the sides of the rib cage. When the palms are at waist level, pause momentarily before lowering down all the way.
(Repeat the above sequence and then repeat both cycles 3/6/9 times.)
Variation: with one quick out breath at the end
Breathe in, rotate the palms upward with middle fingers touching, return the body to vertical position while rotating the arms outward to the sides and bringing the hands together by forming a circle with the forefingers and thumbs slightly above eye level.
Breathe out, rotate the arms outward to the sides and continue to rotate them to the front of the torso, bring the hands together so that the palms end up in an offering position with the hands cupped and open to the sky at head height, rotate the arms downward and then outward to the side, raise and bend the elbows outward with the thumbs and forefingers straddling the side of the chest, and then lower the arms so that the hands rest on the side of the legs. All of the above is to be performed in one smooth sweeping motion (repeat all of the above 6 times)
Possible health benefits include:
Improvements for a weak heart and kidneys, nervousness, inadequate chi and blood flow, backache, insomnia, palpitations, dizziness, nocturia (making frequent late night trips to washroom)
Possible causes of illness:
Problems related to urination including urinating too often, too restrictive, and ketoacidosis are all caused by kidney problems. Palpitations, insomnia and dizziness are due to the weakened functioning of our heart.
This movement requires the in and out breathing movement. The practitioner must “quiet” their mind and keep “focused”. Diligent practice of this movement will enhance chi and blood flow, which promotes a harmonious state with chi, and blood flow, which helps us to be illness free.
Part 4: Cultivating Emotional Harmony Movement
Function: Addressing emotional issues and sleeplessness
Focus on palms
1. Breathe in, with the palms facing backwards, draw the hands up to waist level by bending the arms at the elbows while making fists, and then rotate clenched fists to the upward position and the elbows to rear position. (thumbs touching your two sides while sliding up).
(Repeat the above sequence but switch moving from the left side to moving to the right side, and then repeat both cycles 3/6/9 times.
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