Dance of the dragon
The Qi-Gong Dragon Dance has many positive benefits, from healing
your body, to elevating your energy level. It is a bodily prayer calling for
your Divine Spirit to flow through your body. It will activate circulation,
develop balance, stimulate the endocrine system, improve your biological defensive
mechanisms, provoke regeneration, and much more.
As a pleasing side effect, it will help your body convert
fat into useful energy. It also elevates your body temperature a bit, further
contributing to weight loss. By twisting your hips and moving your thighs, you
will also reshape your body and develop flexibility.
| You might have to read the following paragraphs a few
times to understand the next technique well enough to do it. You will
move your joined hands in a “three circle trajectory” (figure
1), while balancing your hips in the opposite direction. This will place
your spine in a balancing S shape (figure 2). Follow numbers 1 through
8 along the path and memorize those steps. The circles cross at your throat,
Solar Plexus and perineum, then Solar Plexus again and throat again, to
complete the figure eight.
Below are the step-by-step photos. You will find detailed
instructions in the Chi-Gong
book.
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fig. 1 |
fig. 2 |
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Do the entire Dance of the Dragon once, and breathe normally for
30 seconds, keeping your hands in front on your Dan-tian. Focus on happiness
and youth. Keep your spine straight and smile a bit, even if you have to force
a fake smile. The Dance of the Dragon takes about one minute per repetition.
Perform the repetitions in multiples of three. Doing nine repetitions in the
morning, nine at noon and nine in the evening, will create great changes in
your physical body and your energy vessels.
Once you become used to the movements, combine the breathing with
the Dragon form. In all the movements where you raise you hands, inhale. As
you lower your hands, exhale. The effects of the Dance will be greatly enhanced.
Many thanks to master Zu for showing me this technique.
