Chi Kung is a combination of bodywork and attention training, which is very effective in cultivating, preserving, and strengthening health and vitality.

With simple exercises, you reshape your fitness, balance, coordination and posture. More oxygen is absorbed into the blood, and circulation improves. Body and mind are nurtured.

A small daily practice

Guarding the Chi

Do this exercise in any place where you are comfortable.

Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and toes pointing straight ahead. Hips and knees are unlocked. Place your right hand just on or under the navel, and your left hand above or on top.

Relax the neck, arms and shoulders. Feel your weight as it lands in the middle of your feet, and beyond, meeting the support of earth.
The highest point of your crown extends lightly towards heaven.

With soft-focussed eyes, you can gaze over the horizon.
You do not move, but your body may waver a little, like a leaf on a tree, or a boat on calm water. Simply feel the movement in your body as you breathe in and out through the nose. Teeth and lips are a little bit apart. Sense the breath touching you from the inside.

Now just take your time to rest in this position, no doing, no waiting, nothing special. Stay for a few minutes or as long as you wish.

When you stop the practice, before you move, take a few deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth, as a gesture of transition.

Then slowly come back into external movement.