>>76603730
with yoga you have to make sure of that. With Six Healing Sound Qigong, just a flow of six easy movements intended to be therapeutic, the breathing's built into the movements: when you're drawing out the sound, you're exhaling and squatting a little; when you're not doing that, you're inhaling and easing out of the squat.
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>>76602742
taichi's supposed to be a martial art. qigong is a mix of
a. ancient Chinese military group physical training. Get all the soldiers in formation and walk them through some moves for fitness reasons. Same shit you'll do in a modern western military, but a bit more refined and with fancier names.
b. therapeutic evolutions of the last. Military guys got older and started caring more about good circulation and recovery and mobility.
c. the last repackaged for western audiences in a way that will set off every single "this is complete snake oil" sensor that you've grown from using the internet, but which probably still not that bad.
with qigong you're always standing and the moves stretch your body tissues - fascia, tendons - in interesting ways. The second move of Eight Pieces of Brocade is called "Drawing the bow to shoot the eagle" which has you holding one arm out to your side while pulling the other arm into its elbow and you'll feel yourself drawing the bow in your body, the same way you know to expect a hamstring stretch when you push your hips back in a normal fitness routine.
qigong's fun but it's popular with old people and men instead of young women, and there's not nearly as much penetration in the west as yoga has. I think yoga's pretty dumb but still use its moves that get laundered to me from physical therapist youtubers and breathwork people.
