Tag: Shibashi
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The Extraordinary Microcosmic Orbit in Practice
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The Microcosmic Orbit is a specific and fundamental energy circuit that can be cultivated in order to clear blockages, promote free-flowing Qi and thereby minimise and even prevent diseases.
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The Five Spiritual Aspects
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The Five Spiritual Aspects of Shen, Hun, Po, Chen and Yi represent five expressions of spirituality; five resources that give quality to life. Spiritual in this context refers to the art of refining our thoughts, feelings and self.
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Thoughts on Wuji
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We start and end our Shibashi in Wuji, which can be translated as “utter formlessness.” It is likened to the moment before the Big Bang. In that moment nothing existed, there was just emptiness, but that emptiness was filled to the brim with potentiality.
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The Yin and Yang of Intent
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The many benefits of Qigong practice are enhanced when the mind is part of the process because Qigong is an exercise for mind and body together. When explaining the role of the mind, teachers talk about the power of intent. Intent means to intentionally orientate the mind in a direction.
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San Jiao/Triple Burner in Theory and Practice
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San Jiao (Triple Warmer, Triple Heater, Triple Burner) is extraordinary in that it does not correspond to a specific organ. Rather it helps to regulate all the organs and energy in the body by opening passageways and facilitating free and proper flow.
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Standing in Awareness
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When practising our Shibashi, we are seeking to get to a place where we are present in awareness. Awareness is beyond space, time and duality. It is a place of no thought where we simply observe.