The Way of Qigong
Friday, 8.15 - 8.45am
This morning’s Qigong practice explored three simple movements as a way of returning to ourselves.
Opening loosens what has become tightened.
Focus gathers what has become scattered.
Integration returns what has become divided.
Using Lifting the Sky, Shooting Arrows, and Plucking Stars, we were not trying to perfect the forms, but to let the forms become a vehicle for awareness.
Sometimes the body tightens.
Sometimes the mind scatters.
Sometimes the heart, mind, and centre feel divided.
Qigong gives us a way to meet this gently.
Not by forcing change, but by listening, moving, feeling, and returning.
A few minutes of practice can become a reminder that we do not always need to add more. Sometimes we simply need to open, gather, integrate, and rest again in being.
May 1st - Wuji to Lifting the Sky - From stretching to opening into space.
May 8th - Wuji to Lifting the Sky to Shooting Arrows.
Today we returned to Wuji, perhaps one of the most important parts of our Qigong practice because it is so easily missed. Wuji is the place before effort, before unnecessary tension, before the Watcher tightens and before we add something extra to what is already happening. Through sitting, standing, energy flow, and Lifting the Sky, we explored how movement arises from stillness, how form comes from formlessness, and how the body can return to openness when interference reduces. The practice was not about doing nothing, but about discovering the quiet presence beneath the noise, so that action, response, and movement can arise from a clearer place.
May 15th - Wuji to Shooting Arrows.
May 22nd - Deepening Wuji and Shooting Arrows.
May 29th - Opening, Focusing, Integrating.