Stand or sit with your feet planted on the ground in front of you.
Inhale and raise your arms out to the sides, holding your palms facing down.
Turn your palms toward the ceiling as you exhale and rotate your palms up while rolling your shoulders back .
Inhale while in …

It only takes a few minutes to reap the benefits of a good stretch. Stretching not only stimulates circulation, but gets us motivated in mental ways as well.

By stretching and moving we help the body to collect and release the various waste materials that are produced. The lymphatic …

Well known as ‘hot yoga’, Bikram Yoga is the target of criticism from the larger yoga community. The point of contention is Bikram Choudhury’s appropriation and copyrighting of traditional hatha yoga postures.

Though Bikram Choudhury recognizes these traditional yoga postures (asanas) are within the public domain, he claims that …

Sitting in your desk chair with your feet firmly on the floor, sit tall pressing your body into the seat of the chair.

Extend your torso in a twisting motion to one side with that hand on the back of your chair. The other hand should grip the bottom …

This qigong video shows six basic sound healing exercises. Master Jesse Tsao explains how to move energy through the liver channel for cleansing of the liver. Energy is moved up through the left leg through the liver channel, up through the lungs, out to the thumb and then …

According to the World Health Organization there are about 121 million people worldwide suffering with depression. Unknown to many, depression is also the leading cause of disability for those betwen the age of 15 and 44.

Healers throughout history have taught that depression is essentially a disruption of our …

The full body stretch is a great way to quickly and effectively improve circulation and energy. This works by stepping up the processes of removing waste and delivering fresh oxygen and nutrients.

Start by facing a wall while reaching your fingers up as far as possible along the wall. …

Though qigong practitioners recommend the same foods as most other branches of natural medicine, I often wonder if a proper ‘energy cultivation’ approach to daily life should necessarily involve ingesting food in the amounts that many of us do with regularity.

If you have fasted for more than a …

Adopting a minimalistic diet for quality and longevity of life or the earth appropriating minimalistic dieting for us as population control, the minimalistic diet may be a solution to more than personal longevity.

The body is highly efficient about its own sustainability if given half a chance. Cannibalization of …

One of the most refreshing perspectives qigong has to offer with regard to emotional healing is that past damage effects tomorrow’s emotional health much less than present actions, attitudes and choices.

Qigong is a useful way to become aware of the physical and emotional effects that our thoughts on …

Stand relaxed with your arms along your sides or sit in a chair with your handsresting comfortably in your lap. Imagine the three major dantian; the three spheres along the centerline of your body that serve as qi generators and batteries for the body.

Imagine these three spheres at …

Qigong approaches emotions from a significantly different vantage point than traditional psychology. Where psychology may be concerned with past psychological events, qigong deals directly with the visceral.

Qigong is concerned with how emotions effect our physical health through factors such as breathing, posture, circulation and present behavior. Qigong can …