DRAGON AND TIGER CHI GUNG (QIGONG0: MOVING TIGER METHOD
A SYSTEM OF SEVEN EXERCISES
Dragon & Tiger chi gung consists of seven exercises with names like Dragon Soars and Tiger Pounces.
In ancient Chinese culture the Dragon and the Tiger were often paired. The Dragon usually represented the “yang” or “male” forces of nature, and the Tiger the “yin” or “female” forces.
When you are learning the exercises, the Dragon and Tiger imagery can be very useful. Each exercise's name provides you with a sense of how it should look and feel when you do it.
From the prespective of Chinese medicine each exercise provides particular physical and life energy benefits, as described below. The real power of the seven exercises, however, comes from the way that they are combined as a systematic and synergistic progression in accord with the principles of Chinese medicine. The sophisticated design is what enables Moving Tiger to deliver all-day energy and many other benefits to you.
The seven exercises and some of their key features and benefits are:
Movement 1. Dragon and Tiger Meet: Rhythmical pacing in place and up and down hand movements warm up your muscles, loosen your joints, and stimulate and balance the ascending and descending energy currents in your right and left sides, particularly benefiting your liver and lungs.
Movement 2. Dragon Looks to the Horizon: Turning, reaching, and “flicking” movements with your hands and feet further loosen your muscles, stimulate your joints, transfer energy between your right and left sides, and “flick” stagnant energy from your whole body.
Movement3. Tiger Crouches: Up and down crouching movements strongly stretch and work your legs and lower, increase your blood circulation, and transfer energy around your body from front to back and from back to front.
Movement 4. Tiger Separates Her Cubs: Side to side reaching and pulling movements stretch your arms and neck, release muscular tension across your shoulder blades and chest, and move energy right and left through your heart.
Movement 5: Tiger Pounces: Slow rising movements followed by quick drops improve the spring of your legs and powerfully release stagnant energy from your kidneys.
Movement 6: Dragon and Tiger Pierce Heaven and Earth: Up and down “piercing” movements of your arms and hands stretch and release your neck and chest muscles and open the energy pathways of your neck and head, thereby improving blood circulation to and from your brain.
Movement 7: Dragon Soars to Heaven and Brings Back the Pearl: Repeated turning and diagonal arm and legs movements in and out release tension throughout your body and unite all major energy currents through the center of your body.
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