Daisy Lee – The Art Of Wuji Hundun Qigong 2022

Daisy Lee’s 107-12 months previous instructor, Grasp Duan Zhi Liang, was the household lineage holder of Wuji Hundun, an historic self-therapeutic Qigong system. This technique was initially taught solely to the elite and people who guarded them… and Grasp Duan was born right into a household of protectors and healers of royal households in China.

Daisy will share a few of the key ideas from Grasp Duan’s Qigong, together with an introduction to the philosophy and actions from the Duan household lineage.

This would be the first time Daisy will share Grasp Duan’s Wuji Hundun Qigong on The Shift Community. Her intention is to proceed the legacy of her late instructor’s knowledge and for the apply to dwell on in perpetuity.

The position of gravity in chaos is to help steadiness and belief within the physique. When the physique is secure and regular, the thoughts is calm and feelings settle.

You might be the silent eye of the storm when all the things round chances are you’ll be whirling in a frenzy.

We can’t keep in a perpetual state of chaos or we’d both implode, explode, or collapse. That’s why we harvest power from the earth to help steadiness, alignment, and dignity. And but, the physique — the joints, the tissues, the backbone, the eyes — should stay supple, cell, conscious.

We dwell in a world through which contrasts are vital — one factor can’t exist with out its reverse. A seed of darkish stays in gentle, and a spark of sunshine lives throughout the darkish. To understand true steadiness, we should typically expertise being off-steadiness. To grasp effortlessness, we should put in effort. The identical actions executed with a distinct intention is usually a weapon or an agent of therapeutic.

Each day you’re alive, you’ve got selections to make that have an effect on you, your family members, your group, and the Earth. What are the seeds you wish to nurture and develop?

The Taijitu — the traditional Yin Yang image — represents the regulation of opposing forces. You’ll be taught the artwork of steadiness via opposition. In Western therapeutic understanding, they’re isometric workouts that assist open the physique’s joints and sinews on a physiological degree.

We’re the microcosm throughout the large circle of life, the spot of sunshine at nighttime and silent void earlier than life erupts into being.

The humble bamboo is understood for its multitude of makes use of inside one plant.

Bamboo is robust sufficient to carry up buildings, but versatile and malleable sufficient to bend and form into furnishings, flooring, chopsticks, and clothes.

It grows nicely in water, but can survive dry durations by retaining the water inside every joint.

Bamboo is the last word instructor, exhibiting us tips on how to be versatile but sturdy. As a result of it’s nature is to serve, will probably be handled like a good friend wherever it lives.

Bamboo teaches us tips on how to gracefully and eloquently transfer via chaos whereas sustaining our connection to the secure earth drive, and the sunshine of alternatives that await the discerning warrior. Bamboo expresses the multi-dimensional nature of life.

Like bamboo, you’ll be able to flex, open, and spiral to keep away from pointless confrontation. But, when it’s unavoidable, you’ll be able to meet it with energy and resilience. That is studying and adapting to Hundun, or chaos.

Connecting the realms — as a human evolving on the planet — we search to know our nature within the macrocosm. Nonetheless, in these fashionable occasions, we’ve come to depend on velocity and comfort, with out slowing down typically sufficient to reconnect with the larger image.

We stroll on the sidewalk as a substitute of discovering a brand new path via the woods. We overlook we’re surrounded by highly effective oceans and rivers, even because the water inside us seeks to be reconstituted and refreshed. We overlook to honor the forests, the mountains, and the knowledge of the elders as a result of we’re blinded by streetlights, satellites, and the veneer of energy.

The value of forgetting is excessive as we danger our well being and spend our wealth paying for its restoration. But all will not be misplaced. Wuji Hundun is a path towards remembering by reconnecting with the higher forces round us for inspiration.

Now that you just’ve realized all 18 “notes” of the Wuji Hundun “scale”, what songs will you create with what you’ve realized — in order that your physique, thoughts, and spirit keep in mind the limitless potential inside and round you? How does it really feel to tune in to what your physique wants and discover new and completely different sequences to the actions that can serve you finest?