Qigong For Burnout

Recovery, Re-train, Re-engage

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Lesson Four - Wu Wei

What you will learn?

Recovery Phase
Lesson One - The Foundation Free class!

Thank you for joining this course!

Starting with this class, we learn Qigong practices to help recover from burnout. The first six lessons are short seated Qigong routines. These are meant to provide a moment that helps the body pause and recharge; and help calm thoughts and emotions.

No matter how brief, we are capable of capturing these moments and use them to stablize ourselves, creating a foundation for recovery.

Take this first lesson and then practice the postures when you can (with the video or on your own). There is no set schedule for when to move onto the second lesson, but I recommend staying with this first lesson for at least a couple of sessions.

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Lesson Two - Yin, Yang, Qi & Blood Free class!

Lesson Two

This session builds on the previous class by introducing two additional postures at the end:

1: Raising & Lowering Palms

2: Microcosmic Orbit

This class introduces the idea of trusting in the potential within ourselves. This is part of Qigong's ideas of Qi & Blood, Yin & Yang. By allowing the body to actively rest, we create an opportunity for this potential to be nurtured.

The Microcosmic Orbit is a very old Qigong practice practiced for health cultivation and as a foundation for many other traditions.

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Lesson Three - Open & Close & Fixing the Center Free class!

This class continues the restorative Qigong practice and introduces Open and Close of the Lower Dan Tian.

The Lower Dan Tian is considered the area that stores the Yin, Yang and Original Qi of the body. And therefore acts as a foundation. But this area is a place of activity and transformation. Open and Close of the Lower Dan Tian is a posture to help regulate & coordinate this movement.

This lesson also introduces the idea of starting from where you are rather than from where you feel you ought to be.

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Lesson Four - Wu Wei Free class!

Lesson Four

With this lesson we lengthen the practice just slightly, bringing back channel massage into the routine. I also introduce the idea of Wu Wei. This translates into English as "without action" and means making the shift from doing to sensing. Our minds are very skilled in both thinking/analyzing and sensing/reflecting. But we tend to only focus on the active thinking/analzying activities. Qigong is an opportunity to rebalance this dynamic

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Lesson Five - Don't Rush Free class!

Lesson Five

With the lesson we re-introduce Raise & Lower Palms as a preparation for the Microcosmic Orbit.

At this point it is good to remember that one of the key benefits of the Qigong practice is to pause and engage fully. When we shift from doing to sensing (Wu Wei) we take away internal pressure and have the opportunity to find reassurance in ourselves and the Qigong practice.

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Lesson Six - Stillness in Movement, Movement in Stillness Free class!

Lesson Six

This is the last lesson in this Recovery Phase. In this class we practice a new posture: Integrate the Qi as a preparation for the Microcosmic Orbit.

Qigong is a process that uses movement to create space and stillness to culitvate health. As a process it has its own rhythm and timing that can't be rushed.

Congratulations on completing Phase One of the course! This material provides you with a foundation for recovery from burnout.

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Retraining Phase
Lesson One - Building on the Foundation
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Thank you for joining this class!

The next six lessons are the re-training phase of the course. The goal of this phase is to remove stiffness from your movements and build an understanding of how there are different ways to initiate movement and intent.

By replacing negative habits and ways of motivating ourselves with more positive ones we can recover from burnout and avoid future burnout.

This lesson introduces Qigong practices that will form the core of this phase:

Mountain Standing and Open & Close of the Lower Dan Tian;

Elbow Rotation;

Natural Respiration; and

Balance the Heart Standing

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Lesson Two - Retraining the Lung Channel
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Lesson Two

This class includes the classical Qigong posture, Draw the Bow to the Left & Right. This posture in part of the Eight Silk Brocades (Ba Duan Jin) routine and helps to regulate and strenthen the Lung Channel and Organ.

The Lung Channe and Organ is said to function like the Prime Minster within the Body (the Heart is the Monarch). Through the respiration, it sets the rhythm for the rest of the organs and channels to follow. 

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Lesson Three - Retraining the Heart Channel
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Lesson Three

This class includes the posture Phoenix Spreads Its Wings, which helps to regulate the Heart channel. The Heart Channel is said to open and close and requires a stable pivot at the center for this dynamic to be balanced.

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Lesson Four - Retraining the Liver Channel
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Lesson Four

This lesson includes the posture Open & Close with Coiling Palms. The rotation and twisiting of this mve helps to regulate the Liver channel.

The Liver Channel is involved with take action when required and to be patient when required. It is trained and is manifest in smooth and responsive movements like Open & Close with Coiling Palms.

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Lesson Five - Retraining the Spleen Channel
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This lesson's routine brings back the posture Raising and Lowering  Palms as a method to regulate the channels involved with digestion.

We also dicuss the link between digestion of food and digestion of ideas.

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Lesson Six - Retraining the Kidney Channel
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Re-Engagement Phase
Lesson 1 - Re-engagement Phase
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This class covers the four exercises that will form the core postures of this phase:

Hun Yuan Zhan (Primordial Qigong Standing)

Natural Respiration

Raise & Lower the Palms

Regulate and Integrate the Qi

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Lesson 2 - Engaging the Lung Channel
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This lesson incorporates two postures for the Lung Channel:

Draw the Bow, Left & Right

Silk Reeling

Draw the Bow comes from the classical Qigong routine, The Eight Silk Brocades. Silk Reeling is a training exercise from Chen style Tai Chi.

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Lesson 3 - Engaging the Kidney Channel
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This lesson includes two posture for the kidney channel:

Deer Bending Posture

Xingyi Travelling Hands

The Deer Bending Posture comes from the classic Qigong routine, The Five Animals Play (Wuqinxi). Travelling Hands is an advanced training practice from the internal martial art Xingyi.

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Lesson 4 - Engaging the Liver Channel
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This class includes two postures to traing the Liver Channel:

Punching with Left & Right Fists

Tiger Pounces

Punching with Left & Right Fists is a posture from the Eight Silk Brocades (Baduanjin). Tiger Pounces is a movement from the Five Animals Play (Wuqinxi).

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Lesson 5 - Engaging the Heart Channel
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In this class we introduce two postures for the Heart Channel:

Wind Blows the Lotus Leaf

Chen Tai Chi's Louxi Aobu

Wind Blows the Lotus Leaf is a posture from the Double Nine Yang Qigong routine. This version of Louxi Aobu is from a special branch of Chen style Tai Chi. This version includes the posture described the classic text, Chen Xin's Illustrated Canon which standarized forms have altered.

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Lesson 6 - Engaging the Spleen Channel
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Congratulations on completing this course!

In this final class we look at postures to support the channels of digestion (Spleen channel):

Hold Knee & Support Heavens

Outward Bracing

Hold Knee & Support Heavens is a posture from the modern Qigong routine: 18 Postures for Daily Practice (Lian Gong Shi Ba Fa),

Outward Bracing is a fundamentals training drill from the internal martial art Baguazhang.

This final class also includes a short discussion on how to continue your practice beyond this lessons.

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