Five Flows Qigong Set

Basic Principle: Gentle Movement Fosters Health

The Five Flows Qigong set is a health-promotion practice that is accessible, doable, and useful for people of all levels of health. Anybody with a desire for greater health and longevity can practice it and harvest its many fruits. High level athletes can benefit as much as an older person because the set teaches internal relaxation and coordination of body, mind, breath, and energy.

In the Five Flows Qigong set, I offer you a sensible, easy-to-understand series of foundational Qigong moves. It is designed to be approachable and to give definite results right away. This set is not technical, confusingly philosophical, scientifically complex, or super-serious. The exercises of the Five Flows Qigong set teach important health principles that you can use for all of your life’s activities. The exercises also bring benefits just from performing them.

A Qigong System of Practicing

There are many ways to practice Qigong. The Five Flows is one effective pattern you can follow to get the most out of your training. Five Flows Qigong will teach you how to distinguish what the purposes of different exercises are so you can use them to greater, more focused advantage.

Five Parts, Twelve Exercises

I chose to have Five sections and twelve exercises because they give an organized structure to the set that makes it easier to remember. Five and twelve are common numbers used in Chinese Medicine and Chinese culture. For instance, with the Five Element Theory and twelve pairs of meridians. Not that you need to know anything about the Five Elements or meridians. For me, I like the mental and aesthetic container that 5 and 12 create for this set.

Overview of the Five Qi Flows

Five Flows Qigong is an outline structure to follow; once you understand how to sequentially use the Five Flows you can insert other Qigong exercises into its slots.
Five flows is accessible and doable by people of all levels of health, and of people of all but the youngest of ages. From school age children to centenarians, the Five Flows Qigong set can bring greater joy and vibrancy to their life.

Five Flows Qigong Teaches Principles

The Five Flows Qigong set teaches principles you can apply to all of your life, principles of movement, posture, breath, and being. These essential principles are taught so you can practice with, simplicity, physical ease, fun. This is not to say that the exercises are simplistic; for they are actually many-layered and contain much wisdom not immediately apparent. These lessons and deepenings are to be learned, uncovered, And embraced later.

The Five Flows Are:

1.  Warm-ups
2.  Clearing
3.  Charging
4.  Balancing
5.  Centering