WINTER SOLSTICE QIGONG EXERCISE

In this Qigong Exercise you will allow the energy of the Earth and the Heavens to flow through you, tuning your human energy to that of the Heavens (Yang) and the Earth (Yin). The Earth's energy will flow upward through you and connect with the Heaven's energy and then the Heaven's energy will flow down through you to connect with the Earth's energy with you acting as a Qi Conduit or Tuning Fork.

Begin by standing in a natural and relaxed position.

INHALE as you raise your palms from the sides of your thighs up to your hips imagining that you are gathering your energy in your center, like water filling a balloon, and say to yourself, "I am so happy and grateful... "

EXHALE as you bend forward and run the palms of the hands down the front of your legs, across the tops of the feet and out onto the floor imagining that as you reach down your Qi flows down (like water from a tall waterfall into the pool below) into the Earth as you say to yourself, "Now that I connect with the Earth... "

INHALE as you bring your hands from floor across the tops of the feet, up the sides of the legs, up sides of the body, up the sides of the head and up toward the sky imagining that you are pulling the Earth's Qi up through your feet and out the top of your head (like water flowing up through a tube and spraying out as a beautiful fountain in a bright garden) as you say to yourself, "...I feel the awesome energy flowing up through me connecting to the Heavens... "

EXHALE as you bring your hands down the sides of the head, down the sides of the body returning to a relaxed stance while imagining that the Heaven's energy flows down through you into into your center (returning to the pool of water from which it all began), while you say to yourself, "...and flowing down filling me with its' strength."

That completes one set. Repeat for a total of 9 to 18 sets.