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Awaken
Vitality
The Wisdom Healing Qigong Practices
of
Spinal Bone Marrow
Hip Rotations
Cranes Neck
Bending Spine
Chen Chi
Standing Meditation
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Welcome to the Wisdom Healing Qigong Family!
We are blessed to have your participation in our community. Each of us inquiring into this profound path
of healing and personal and collective transformation adds, in a cumulative way, to the deepening and
expanding of our collective chi feld. When you add your initiative in applying the principles and activating
the practices taught in this booklet, our DVDs and CDs, we all beneft from your engagement. As you
practice, visualize yourself surrounded by others practicing the same form, together amplifying our deep
desire to optimize our potential for health, happiness and harmony for both ourselves and our world.
You are never alone in the chi feld. The energetic spirit and healing results of everyone who has ever
practiced these forms, as well as the inspiration that brought them forth through Dr. Pang, is available for
you, too.
Relax into the knowing that we are all on this journey of life together, and that your practice supports
everyone elses practice and vice versa. Be inspired by all the healing benefts that have come to others by
their practice and enjoy the transformation of your own body, mind and spirit! Haola! See you in the chi
feld.
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Awakening our Energetic Wholeness
Our deeper purpose in teaching you these Preliminary Practices, is to awaken your energetic
wholeness. We will be using these physical postures and movements as a portal to the discovery
of the deeper dimensions of who we are beyond our physical nature and our stories.
For years our bodies have been accumulating energetic imprints of both happiness and sadness.
How do we alleviate the imprints that continue to create tension, tightness, contraction, pain
and excessive stress? Together, through these practices, we will be learning to release and let
go, thus reducing the stress and pain and their effects on our bodies. As we progress, we will
continue to go deeper, uncovering new layers in need of release.
Keep practicing. Practicing is the key to releasing and transforming these old patterns and
bringing our physical and energetic bodies into alignment. Practicing also enables us to sense
our vibrant aliveness fully integrating with the world around us.
Our Mantra: Open, Penetrate
This set of practices focuses on opening all of our joints and deep tissues, so that a fow of fresh,
harmonized energy can penetrate deep inside the body. The more deeply the energy penetrates
into the body, the more the mind relaxes and rests in the depths of who you really are. Go inside
to discover yourself by opening both internally and externally and connecting to the life energy
around you. When you connect deeply with the energy of the planet and life everywhere, you
learn to receive much more deeply.
As we practice, we become more conscious of how we relate to our bodies and all of life. When
we do anything new and different with our bodies, its natural to feel sore and tired, and to need
more rest. Keep practicing and you will begin to access more and more energy. Soon, practicing
will result in having more, rather than less, energy fowing through your life.
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Why focus on the spine?
A healthy spine relates directly to the health of our nervous system, our organs, and to the bodys
communication system. The communication fowing through our spinal cord that keeps us alive and
functioning is astounding. Each vertebra offers a pathway to a unique portion of the nervous system.
The healthy functioning of our spinal column is essential to our overall health and well-being. From the
perspective of Traditional Chinese medicine, the spinal area holds meridian or energetic pathways that are
vital to the fow of energy.
Key points to opening the internal spinal energetics.
1. Recognize that you have a physical spine and become aware of the communication between the brain
and the rest of the body. Energy follows thought, so observing and sensing the motion within your spine
will bring about both a deeper awareness and a deeper energy fow.
2. Recognize the energetic level beyond the physical. Acknowledge the energetic pathway connecting the
brain with the kidney energy. Opening the spine connects this upper spiritual energy feld with the primal
creative energy in the lower part of the body.
3. Add visualizations to your practice. After you gain profciency with the actual movements of these
Preliminary Practices, you can begin focusing on the transparency of the spinal column, of each vertebra,
and each joint. Then broaden your visualizations to include the transparency of the entire nervous system.
Another level of practice is to visualize the energy of the light penetrating and spiraling as you turn.
4. Energy follows thought, so bringing your mind to your spine, the inner core, the most physically
condensed energy in the body will anchor the entire energy body during practice. Later as you sit or stand
still and integrate after practice, let your mind rest in an awareness of your skeleton, spine and even the
marrow of the bones. This will stabilize the healing energy you have cultivated deep within your being.
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What is the most effective practice?
We have dedicated this booklet to teaching six powerful Wisdom Healing Qigong practices.* The most
effective practice is the one that you choose to do on a consistent basis. The most valuable practice can
be the practice you enjoy the most or the practice that challenges you the most.
We hope you will discover the gifts encoded in each of these profound practices. Get acquainted with
them all by using the DVD, CD, or written and visual material provided. Then dive deep into each one,
practicing for longer and longer periods of time and discover the gifts each practice holds for you.
Dedication to the practice is key, and the key to dedication is repetition. Within each practice we
repeat the movements over and over again, allowing you to go deeper and deeper continuously takeing
you deeper.
For example, with Spinal Bone Marrow, sometimes there is pain and it is diffcult at frst. When you
go deeper and become more relaxed, the practice becomes less physical and more energetic. You get to
this level just by repeating the movement over and over. Because of this repetition, towards the end of
the practice you start to feel very different than you did at the beginning. Repetition is very important.
It is also important to take our practice beyond just exercise or movement. You can simply turn to
the left and then to your right to open your spine for a long timeand there will be benefts. But it will
be different when you close your eyes, relax into the practice, visualize the ocean of energy, visualize
energy penetrating into your spine, your heart, and your cells. During every practice invite a deeper
commitment, a deeper energetic connection. Then it will be Qigong, which is quite a different process
than just turning and twisting as an exercise.
This deeper level of practice is a direct result of your mind connecting with your body and connecting
with the energy. It takes practice and repetition. Its a gradual process that begins by learning the
patterns and opening the body with the physical movements.
Then you cultivate the merging of the mind with the body by adding visualizations and sound to the
practice. As you go deeper, you discover and amplify the profound interconnection of your physical
body, energy body, and the entire energy feld, all connected and amplifying your own deeper purpose
as an ongoing creative process.
What all of these practices have in common is their focus on awakening the energy of the spine. As
your awaken the spinal energy, you release tension and as you release tension, you release stress.
When you release these old blockages, youre also inviting more energy into your spine, and your
entire body.
Each movement opens us differently. For example when doing the Hip Rotations, we focus on opening
up the energy of the pelvic area, the hip joints, and the reproductive system. Bending Spine Movement
awakens the spinal energy. Chen Chi opens the chest.
Practice is key to transformation; repetition is key to practice; and dedication is the key to
repetition. Whatever has happened with our bodies in the past, in terms of health, stress, and any
limited energetic condition weve experienced, it all accumulates as repetitive habits and repetitive
conditioning. Now, were ready to undo these limitations. Through the same process of repetition,
were creating a new thing, a new movement, a new mind-body connection, a new energy pattern. By
repeating these movements over and over, were undoing the old limitations and releasing the old
patterns, the old habits, in order to melt and transform frozen energy and bring forth optimum health,
vitality and happiness.