UNDERSTANDING QIGONG DVD 3


 EMBRYONIC BREATHING
YMAA PRODUCTION • DR. YANG, JWING-MING • “UNDERSTANDING QIGONG DVD3” • WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY DR. YANG, JWING-MING • EDITING AND DVD AUTHORING BY MEDIAMANIC • PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY DR. YANG, JWING-MING AND DAVID SILVER

 

With this new addition of Understanding Qigong Pt. 3, I have been blown away again by the quality of material that is being presented.     I'm also starting to doubt my ability to learn from books.    Even though I own every book published by Dr. Yang on Qigong, somehow his presentation on these DVDs is much more effective in presenting the material.    After watching this series on Qigong, I ask myself, did I really read the book.   I certainly plan to re-read the books after watching the DVDs.

This DVD focuses on Embryonic Breathing, and has the following sections:

  1. Upper Level and Lower Level Qi

  2. Yin Yang Body Chart

  3. 12 Qi Channels and Eight Vessels

  4. Two Polarities of the Human Body

  5. Mind - Qi - Action

  6. Pumps and Pistons

  1. To find the Spiritual Center

  2. To Synchronize Human Spirit with Natural Spirit

  3. Jump out of the Human Matrix

  4. Spiritual Enlightenment

  5. To Conserve the Qi

  6. To Store the Qi

  7. To Manipulate the Qi

  8. Health and Longevity

Practices

  1. Normal Abdominal Breathing Review

  2. Reversed Abdominal Breathing Review

  3. Spiritual Breathing

  4. Cavity Breathing

  5. Synchronized Cavity Breathing

  6. Embryonic Breathing

  7. Yang Embryonic Breathing

  8. Yin Embryonic Breathing

  9. Applications

Dr. Yang, Jwing Ming has collected all of the available writings on Qigong that have been made available since the Cultural Revolution and has made it his goal to translate the material and make it available to the public in a format that can be understood.    Too many books on Qigong use very symbolic and abstract terms that are basically incomprehensible to the average reader.

When reading his books or watching his DVDs, the viewer is provided with the translation, which has many abstract terms, as well as a further breakdown into explanations that actually make sense and can be used by anyone seeking to learn the techniques.   Besides presenting the material in a usable manner, Dr. Yang poses questions throughout the presentation that encourage the reader/viewer to ponder and question the material in a way that leads to better understanding.

Many times I have seen Dr. Yang present a concept and before I can vocalize my questions, he is already posing them.    

Dr. Yang begins the discussion with Taiji theory and its long history, beginning almost four thousand years ago with the I Ching.    Without an understanding of the concept of Wuji, Taiji and how they lead to the creation of Yin Yang, a taijiquan practitioner will never reach the higher levels of the art.    Taiji can mean Grand Ultimate, or God, or The Force, if one is a Star Wars fan.    Taiji, being the Dao of Nature, creates things from emptiness, that being Wuji.   If one views the drawings of Taiji prior to it separating into Yin and Yang, it resembles a spiral, similar to the spiral in DNA.    As our human body comes from nature, the energy patterns in the human body copy the energy patterns in nature.

We start the Taiji form by entering Wuji, or emptiness.   As the concept of Taiji enters our mind, then it separates into Yin and Yang and we are able to differentiate between substantial and insubstantial.   Unfortunately, I've witnessed many people who will begin their form without understanding or carrying out the transformation from Wuji to Taiji to Yin and Yang.   

The mind, as powerful and limitless as it is, can be used for good or evil.    Dr. Yang describes how human beings, as they learned to lie, cheat and steal from one another, developed the human matrix.   Within this matrix we all wear masks and cover our true intentions and nature.   This in turn is one of the factors that led to the loss of the third eye, which helps people to mask their true selves.   As we practice Embryonic Breathing and come more into tune with our true selves, we can possibly bring back some of the abilities and benefits available from the third eye.

If you look at the Yin Yang symbol, the upper dot in the Yang side represents the upper brain, or upper dan tien, and the lower dot represents the lower brain, or lower dan tien.    Connecting these two brains is the spinal cord (thrusting vessel), which links them together and leads to nourishment.    In function, they are one brain and synchronize with one another.   The upper brain controls the quality of life and the lower brain controls the quantity of life.    As each have the seed of each other, witness the dots in the teardrop shapes in the Yin Yang symbol, they help to balance each other through mutual influence.

There are twelve channels in the body, with six leading to the arms and six to the legs.    By using Embryonic Breathing to build the Qi in the two channels, the Governing and Conception channels, then the 12 channels will be strong and able to distribute energy to the entire body, including the internal organs, which is where one end of each channel is connected.

As Dr. Yang explains, once the material is presented properly, the theory of Embryonic Breathing is simple and the practice of it is straight forward.

Well, I have over thirty pages of notes from watching this DVD, and I feel like I shouldn't write anymore, as it would be nice to save a lot of the goodies on this DVD for when you view it.     Trust me on this, the series on Qigong has so far been absolutely fantastic.   I wait with great anticipation for the remaining DVDs of the series to be released.

As I've said many times, the martial arts community owes a great debt to Dr. Yang, Jwing Ming for his tireless efforts to provide usable information to seekers of this knowledge.   Combined with David Silver's high level of production in the direction and making of this DVD, they have a winning combination.

 

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