8 Standing Tao Yin from the Garden (13 July 2025)
A bonus class to enjoy during the holiday season. I explain a little bit about today’s setting in the current crazy-renovations, before we dive into a deep standing Tao Yin set to open the energy lines and mobiles the joints. Tao Yin, for those who haven’t joined the Core Champion classes before, literally means the art to guide and direct energy. It is the ancient fore runner to Qi Gong itself. ‼️Feel into your body carefully with every move, also when you’ve done a movement 100s of times before. I can’t say this enough - I too pulled a muscle during this practice today! Sometimes you only notice in hindsight. No Pain-No Pain is the motto here! (and yes, you read that right!)
We do the following movements:
Belly breathing
Soaring crane
The pump
Knocking on the door of life (also to collar bone and shoulder)
Picking cherries
Head + Chin circles
5 element stretch (arrow to the earth, swan dive, raising bubbling springs, side bend, spreading the feathers yin and yang)
Heart to sky/Heart to earth
Majestic planets
Heart to sky/Heart to earth
Swimming Dragon
Powerful Dragon
Tiger returns to the mountain
Belly breathing