Winter Qigong: How to Ignite your Inner Fire

Welcome to the longer 35 minute version of my cold weather series! Keep warm in these chilly temperatures by using our internal energy, our Qi to generate heat from the inside out.

First we try some breathing exercises to help magnify our inner fire and move it up and around the body.

Then we push this energy out into the body, circulate it and refine it with some dynamic Iron Shirt practices.

You should feel nice and warm after this, but it's also great for strength, body conditioning, resilience immunity, and breath capacity.

Then we invigorate the spine to allow our Qi to move freely up the spine and use breath and movement to build heat in the centre of the body and push it out through the system.

We try kidney packing to nourish energy in our internal battery and water element.

We touch on some Wood element practice with Tiger bends then move into Fire with Dragon play, open the chest and massage the heart and pericardium and generate our internal heat.

We close with a cooling sequence to help soothe the energy after raising the heat.

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