QIGONG IN A PARK: TAOIST FIVE ELEMENT QIGONG

Five Elements, Five Seasons, Five Animals: Five Qigong practices, encouraging health and vitality for the body, mind and spirit.

Our external or internal experiences are paired with the Five Elements, When the external (climate, both physical and social) and internal (our physical selves) elements are balanced, we experience health and prosperity. When out of balance we experience disease.

The elements are not static, they are fluid. We move from one element to another. They may also be referred to as the “Five Phases” or “Five Transformations” or “Five Orbs."

Today during Qigong in a Park we practiced the Taoist Five Element Flow.

Five elements show up often during Qigong practice. The flow that we practiced today focused on the elements and the corresponding Yin organs.

Metal: Lungs
Water: Kidneys
Wood: Liver
Fire: Heart
Earth: Spleen or Pancreas

During the standing meditative postures we added whispered sounds. A purging practice, Healing Sounds cleanse and nurture the physical body and emotions, "our baggage". There are six healing sounds, we practiced the five today. The sixth sound purges the Triple Warmer. We'll save that for another time.

The Element/the Yin Organ, the sound and an emotion to purge, soften or temper:

Metal/Lungs: SSSSSSSSS (like a snake) grief/sadness

Water/Kidneys: CHOOOOOO (like a choo choo train) fear

Wood/Liver: SHHHHHH (quiet please sound) anger

Fire/Heart: HAAAAAAA (sigh of relief) excess joy (think about it)

Earth/Spleen: HOE (Long O, ho ho ho) Worry, anxiety

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