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The Importance of Warm up and Stretching in Qigong

December 9, 2016 Smiljana Golja 4 - QIGONG PRACTICE, Warm up and stretching

Is it necessary to do warm up, loosening and stretching exercises if you practice a qigong? I know there are many different opinions about this topic. In this blog I would like only to explain why I regularly practice these exercises and why I think they are beneficial. My intent is not a detailed explanation about different kinds of exercises and their different purposes. Anchor I consider warm up, loosening and stretching exercises as[…]

Medical Qigong for Maintaining Health

November 4, 2016 Smiljana Golja 2 - QIGONG HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY, 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Qigong sets and exercises

Qigong Categories The oldest today known evidence about the existence of Qigong skill (working with energy) is from the period about five thousand years B.C. Through the time many qigong styles and schools were developed. In order to understand qigong better it could be divided into four main categories based on their primary goal (Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming). The first category is Medical Qigong and the main goal of this group is maintaining health and[…]