Ocean Breath, Body Resistance Work With Internal Chi Gong

This chi gong practice explores the powerful relationship between breath, movement, and internal strength. Through mindful resistance, intentional positioning, and flowing Chi Gong movements, you'll learn new ways to engage the body from the inside out. This practice develops resilience, stability, and whole-body integration while awakening the natural flow of Chi. Move with the rhythm of your breath, cultivate inner power, and discover a stronger, more connected body.

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Good. So, One aspect of Qigong that people don't speak a lot is that it's actually introduces space that you make different connection with your body. You get to know your body from, This is how I feel when I'm on my tippy-toe. This is how I feel when I'm squatting. Like, You get to know what your body can do. So, I'm going to introduce another way to play with your body. Okay, We're going to start with ocean breath and we're going to move into breathing with the pelvic floor. And we're going to start with essentially link your movement with your breath a little deeper. And we're going to use that breath to move your internal organ in a different way, Hopefully. Okay? Hopefully. Okay, So wu qi stan, Right? As good as you can get it. It's okay. In the beginning, It doesn't never have to be perfect. It does get better with time, Too. So good. Good. Forget everything I just said. Forget about the Ouji stand. Empty yourself. Be brand new again. Empty yourself. Good. Just, Yes. So I bring my awareness into my belly. My dantian, Which is about two inch underneath my belly button. Right here. This is the seed of my awareness and the seed of my breath and my movement. So everything comes out of here. Okay? You want to feel this. I use my hand to exaggerate so you see the motion. Inhale, I expand. Excel, I contract. Make sense? Yeah. Feel that. So make it exaggerating it. Inhale, I expand. So when I expand, Right, First thing you learn is I expand. The next thing is you try to expand in an even speed. So I'm now inhale, Exhale. Inhale, Exhale. I am inhale, Exhale. And then I make as smooth turn as I can, Exhale, Even speed going down. Right? So I make this just a little bit of more work. So inhale, Expand at even speed. Contract at even speed. Good job. That's it, Yes, Good job. Good job. Michelle. See if you can just overall let it relax just a little bit. That's the final thing. Nothing stress you out. It's very easy. It's so easy, We're freaking out about it. You know what I mean? Allow it to be easy. You're doing so great. OK. Inhale, Expand, Even speed. Exhale, Contract, Even speed. So easy, Nothing is stressed. Oh, Good. Really work on even speed inhale. Even speed exhale. Because it's so easy. Good. Good. Yeah. So it's naturally starting to push your hands, Allow your hands, Your entire being getting involved into this breathing. Right, Inhale, Expand. My shoulder maybe come up because my ball is thicker and bigger. And exhale, Contract. I use my entire body to squeeze in, To facilitate, To emphasize the movement. Inhale coming up. I open and close like a flower. And exhale. And maybe I involve my knees. And I go down even speed. I go really low into my space. And exhale slowly coming up, As slow as I can. Play. You got it. You can't do no wrong. Play. Yeah, Think of yourself as a kelp in the slow way. The slow is the key. Yeah, Slow, Slow. Play with your space, Play with your body. And expand. You just. . . You just expand. A new contract. And you use your space in any way and form that you like to explore. So maybe you're really starting to twist and turn. And then you check in, Is my breath, My movement. Coming from the center of me. Right? Keep checking. Maybe I involve my voice, My throat, My neck. My fingers. My entire being. Is breathing. Thank you. Good. If certain position is interesting, Stay there longer. Another minute. Have fun! See if you can engage your wrist, Your finger a little bit, Your shoulders. Maybe drop your neck if it's holding itself. Free. Good job. Slowly come into more central position, Whatever it takes. For you to settle down. I really like this movement. It helps me to settle down. And lean backwards just a little bit, Open your throat. Hold your belly. Drop into your in state. Sarodha. Feel the opening of the joints. And Happy fascia? Good. Good job. Again, Feel your energy even more. Activate it. And when it's activated. . . It's living. So it's. It's bringing fresh blood, It's pushing toxin out, It's doing whatever it does. Just feel it. Good job. Beautiful. Good job. We're going to move into the second piece and see if we can add one and two together later. So get into a Wuji stand. Do you feel that? You don't feel like you did a lot but it's quite a bit of a workout, Especially if you lean into it, Right? It's a lot of opening up the joints and twisting like all that stuff and recognize the space around you. Because we don't know. Okay. So again, We're moving along this line of. . . How can my body play with itself in a way, Okay? So let's play with the first game. Hands together, Okay? So I'm just gonna pull really hard on each side. And I tighten my, You feel that? As hard as you can. Yeah! And let go. It actually works out your muscle. Okay, Good. Can you do it again? This time you push. Push as hard as you can. And you let go. You feel that? You can push it pretty hard. You can really, And you will never hurt yourself. You can really, This is how we build muscle in this work. You obviously take it the next step, But this is the concept of it. You can do a lot to yourself. Now we're going to do it in a very smart moment of our breath. Which is the in, The most in. So we do it. You wanted to take an inhale? And exhale. Everything out. At the bottom of. Yeah. So for you, I catch you. I get it. So when I exhale, You want to remember to drop your shoulder because It's not this. Yeah, Drop it. Yeah. For you, It's in the shoulder which is very common because we do all this stuff. So let's get this piece right. You want to action. At the end of exhale, You hold your breath. You squeeze everything tight. So that squeeze is the important part. You want to squeeze from your entire diaphragm, Especially your perineum. But the key is I don't want you to squeeze as hard as you can. I want you to bring that ocean breath awareness into it. It's very crucial because when you squeeze very, Very hard, It might hurt yourself. You want to do that ocean breath. It's a very gradual and conscious like a flower. Yeah? Okay, So I'm going to add it together. So let's do the breath first. Okay, Inhale. On the XL, Remember, Everything contracts. So I'm going to contract my perineum, Pulling it up, But in a very aware. . . Controlled fashion. Ocean breath, Right, Squeeze, Good. And I hold. I just hold the state and I let it go. We'll do it one more time. Exhale, Conscious. Squeezing softly. And conscious squeezing of the pelvic floor. Collapse and I hold, Even when I'm holding, I never just go. In later practice, You can with enough awareness, Not right now. Because we do too much too hard, We need to learn how to bring softness into it. Good. Hold, And then you let go. Now we're going to add the push and pull. Into the arms. We'll just do this. That's enough for today. Okay so get into a position. We're going to do pull first. Inhale, On the exhale, Soft squeeze. Of the belly and I push my. . . Push my hands into each other or pull, I don't know, Whichever way. Yeah, I'm pushing actually. As hard as you can. In the arms, Keep pushing it. Just have a little bit of awareness in your pelvic floor. You never fully just lock it dead. And let go. Oh, Feel your body. It's yes, That's it. So there's deep pocket of stagnation gets blasted out. There's this like opening. First time I've been, It's my first time teaching here. We've taught things around it but added together, This is the first time. It's good stuff. You got it, Yeah? You got the gist of it. Good. Let's do one more time. Let's see if we can push it a little more. So I was actually pushing. So you can do whatever you want, Push or pull, Just by the time we switch. Soften into your uji, Good. Let go, Empty all the things that came out. Right? Forget about what I said. Just get, Feel your body. And we'll get into our nice Wuji, Deeper Wuji. We'll hold hands with each other, With self. I start exhale, Take a big inhale first. And I start squeezing. Everything. My arms. I'm pushing right now. And you can close your eyes. How much can you push into yourself? You can do it to the point of shakes. And let go. Yeah. It's good, It's good, It's good. This whole principle is a whole sector of Qigong. It's called Dantian Qigong, This whole principle of doing a lot of pushing. We can do something like this sometimes. You push yourself out. So you hold yourself like there's many application of it. But the principle is that's it. You do a lot of like a tension in your own body at the bottom of the breath. It really builds a lot of body. So we get into it more but this is the first time we're doing it. So let's build it up. So the next one. Let's play, So were you guys pulling or pushing just now? You are pulling. You are pulling. So, If you're all going to do push, Try a different way. So, You were doing this, Now try this. This one only works with push. So that's another way to play with yourself, Right, In a way. So I was actually pushing, So I have to pull. So I have to do this. But if you're pushing, Try this one, Okay? So get into a position. Big inhale, Relax your shoulders. And think about how easy and fun this is. We're just having fun. We're just poking ourselves, Right? So it's very relaxed. Ah, Big inhale. On the Excel, Do your thing. I let go. So you're all doing a very good job. Which is keep your face soft. Nobody is actually really, Like, Making a squeezed face, Which happens a lot. I forgot to mention and I was looking around, You all very intuitively catch that part. So keep the softness. You always, You never lose yourself completely to the yang or to the yin. You always have a little bit of the opposites in the whole thing. Right face. Good job. We'll do it again, Whatever you just did. Okay, So I was pulling. So if you can push, You can try this if you want. Good. Settle down. Inhale, On the exhale, Do your thing. See if you can even add a little smile to your face, Because it's so easy. Yeah, Like just pull as hard as you can, Push as hard as you can with a smile. And let go. Good. Yeah, Do a little check-in of the body. Yeah, You can start into actually do some collection of the body, Chi. You can circle your belly, Whichever direction, From inside to out. Let's do about nine times. From inside to out. Yeah. Once you reach the edge, You reverse and send it back in from outside to in. Yeah. Good. Just rub it back and forth. Few rounds Give it a little walking. Ah good and feel it depends on what's happening. Where you are in the practice, Sometimes you will feel certain channels starting to open up. Maybe in the back of your, I don't know, Maybe your shoulders, Things start to open because you are actually working on your internal channel to open them up, Right? You can feel it. It's like you create tension and something kind of just almost like creates a little explosion, Like opens. Does it make sense? Yeah, It's a very smart way of interacting with. . . Body was body itself. It's quite brilliant. Let's take a break.