Back Pain Exercise | Part 1 Western Qi Gong - The Fundamental Movements | Ed Paget

Описание: I’m not a traditional Chinese medical practitioner. I don’t really get it. I’ve tried to understand meridians, 5 elements, organ clocks etc but each time I think I’m understanding it I realize that all I’m doing is grasping a bit that sounds familiar and saying something like, “Oh, we do that too.”…(over here in the West).

I don’t think that is doing it justice. I don’t have the language, skill, time or patience’s to do that but what I can do is explore one aspect and see how it fits with movement and osteopathy (two things I do understand).

With that in mind I’m looking at some of the movements in Qi Gong, and seeing how ‘energy’ from a more physiological sense can actually be moved around the body. The Chinese talk about Qi being the universal energy source that is all around us. Qi Gong helps move that energy and restore health in the process.

Most of my clients develop a rash when I start talking about energy outside the body, so I’m trying not to use this word that most of the western world is allergic to. Instead I’m looking at how we can stretch and move the blood vessels and nerves to stimulate them and prime them to be more efficient. This will help move the stuff of life around our bodies and increase our vitality.

This video is a rough edit of where I’m going with this work but I wanted to share it with you and get your feedback on what you think.

The figure 8 or infinity movement does some pretty special things to the joints (mainly because it moves them in a 3D fluid motion which nicely stimulates the proprioceptors (the nervous system) and starts to increase the brain body connection to the lesser used recesses of the joint which helps lubricate them and wake them up.

We also know from modern anatomy that there is a continuum of tissue right from the deep periosteum (the covering of the bone) to the skin, so moving the joints stimulates everything from the bones to the skin. Impressive when you think how gentle these movements are. Maybe those old Chinese peeps in the park are onto something, after all they have been taking about this stuff for 1000s of years.