Part 7: Supporting Respiratory Health Movement (detailed description)

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.