THANKS so so much I totally enjoyed the movements and what an amazing way you guide softly smooth and one can folow you so easily without getting lost. I admire and respect Sifu Bruce Frantzis for almost 8 years and follow him

@stevencardoza6521

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comments, Ahmed. I'm so glad you found this helpful!

Thank you so much for an illuminating video . I have been practicing different 'styles' of qi Gong for several years now. Your video helps to clarify and verify some of the aspects of my practice.

@stevencardoza6521

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome, I'm glad you found it helpful!

Thank you, Steven! This is very helpful. I am finding that this seemingly simple practice - like many of the Taoist energy art “fundamentals” - has a lot of depth. Thank you for bringing your understanding to the table

@stevencardoza6521

5 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome, Eric. As one of my teachers said many years ago about acupuncture--and it applies equally well to qigong--"Mastery really means mastering the fundamentals." Best of luck in your practice!

Thank you for creating this great video! I found it so helpful and it will really enhance my practice.

@stevencardoza6521

5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, Sharon! Looking forward to watching your continuing growth!

Super explanasion, and I love your calm warm voice. Thank you!

@stevencardoza6521

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Carita, and thanks for your kind words. So glad you enjoyed it!

Lovely stave well done in presenting with stile and so easy to follow fabulous thanks a lot sending you straight and gentle guidance in your practice. 😊🙏♋

@stevencardoza6521

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, John. Thanks for your thoughtful comment!

Another very interesting and useful video.! Thank you so much Steven .

@stevencardoza6521

Жыл бұрын

You're most welcome, Cesarina!

Excellent video. The visualizations superimposed on the postures were really helpful.

@stevencardoza6521

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, docbobster! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you. This is the second video ive watched of yours. I hope your audience becomes much bigger as your knowledge seems deep and I wish to know more.

@stevencardoza6521

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, Rob! I'm planning to have another qigong video up before the fall, and in case you're interested, I'll be offering some online classes soon. Keep an eye out for a short video about those, coming soon.

❤🙏thank you for sharing this video, so helpful in many different ways 🙏❤

@stevencardoza6521

Жыл бұрын

You're most welcome, Shanti! Glad you found it helpful. I have a number of other related videos on my channel, so you might want to give those a look if you haven't yet. All the best!

great explanation will add depth too the primordial qigong as it has circling hands in it also

@stevencardoza6521

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, Rob. Thanks for the comment!

Great video!!

@stevencardoza6521

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Greg. Glad you liked it!

@greg6509

Жыл бұрын

@@stevencardoza6521 Any advantage to actually doing this with the wooden Tai Chi ruler versus without one like you had done in the video?

@stevencardoza6521

Жыл бұрын

In my opinion and experience, not really. The physical ruler is a good tool to help you initially keep track of where your side channels are, and for some people who may take a very long time to develop body and energetic awareness, it can be useful for a longer time. But it’s more like using training wheels on a bike. You really want to cultivate the feeling of what you’re trying to accomplish, and in this case, that’s both sensitivity to the qi between laogong points in the center of your palms, and a felt sense of the side channels in your body. Those things will greatly amplify what you can do with your qi, beyond what’s possible using the physical ruler. Proper training will help you progress faster than you might on your own. This video doesn’t really teach you how to do that, it’s just a demonstration of what’s possible, with some informational background. Check out the other videos on my youtube channel for various qigong insights and demonstrations, and please visit my website, www.healingdragon.org, for more about what I do. I have some new online classes coming up that may interest you. I should have them up on the site in a week or two.

@greg6509

Жыл бұрын

@@stevencardoza6521 I just didn't know why Tai Chi ruler was mentioned in the video and then it didn't have a ruler used in it. I'm studying online with an inner door discipline of the Gu Lüping/ Lisheng lineage from Yang Shaohou and Yang Cheng Fu, so I have enough neigong on my plate already including all the original Old Yang Style Neigong and forms including Yang Family Ba Duan Jin and much more that I'll be learning soon. Very grateful. Also studying Chen style and Yang Style with a local instructor. And soon I'll be joining another online school studying the Tian Zhaolin lineage. As you may know, Tian Zhaolin was the training partner of Yang Shaohou and son of Yang Jianhou. So I'm kind of a purist getting back to all the original Old Yang style forms and neigong as close as we can get today. Also studied with Bruce Kumar Francis too with his Old Yang Style program and practice Marriage of Heaven and Earth. Your video just popped up in my feed and I just had that question after I gave you the compliment on your video and you responded. Thank you for taking time to answer. One note on this video is that several of the energy centers were in the wrong location and were off by about 2-4 inches from their center on the person's body. But for this videos purposes it doesn't affect the training. Your edit skills and adding in the special effects are a nice touch and something more instructors could use. Bravo for the quality work 👏 Keep training real stuff and sharing, we need more of that in the Tai Chi Chuan community! I'll try and check out your videos from time to time. Blessings brother 🙏

thats what i need, thank you so much!

@stevencardoza6521

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Alfons. If you'd like to learn how to do any of the practices I have on my youtube channel (and many more), you can go to my website, www.healingdragon.org, and ask to be put on my mailing list for future online classes and workshops. No obligation of course, but that way you'll at least know what's available as it happens. Best wishes.

Very Wonderful!

@stevencardoza6521

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Andrew. So glad you liked it!

Hey thanks for this it was a really helpful refresher 🙏 I would love the same for the horizontal and coronal variations.

@stevencardoza6521

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Mary! Glad you enjoyed the video. It's unlikely I'll do one for horizontal and coronal circles--these videos are pretty time-intensive, and there are more things taking up my time these days--but let me know if you'd like to be on my mailing list for upcoming online classes. You can also ask to be put on the wait list for a Taiji Ruler/Circling Hands class, where I would teach those variations. You can do that through my website, www.healingdragon.org

@marylewis3311

Жыл бұрын

@@stevencardoza6521 I will check your website out. Thanks for the reply online classes sound great.

Excellent, xiexie. A lot of missing pieces, a few corrections, thank you again.

@stevencardoza6521

5 жыл бұрын

Bu ke qi, William. Glad to know I could fill in a few missing pieces and offer some corrections for you. All the best with your practice.

Nice explanation. Could be more beneficial if u could tell us how to incorporate it with breathing.

@stevencardoza6521

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Vinay! I appreciate the comment. This is intended more as a demonstration than detailed instruction on how to do the practice, so there's really a lot left out. To learn the basic practice would take about 14 hours during a full weekend training, and you could take it much deeper than that. I do offer online trainings in this and a variety of other qigongs. If you'd like more information, please visit my website, www.healingdragon.org, and feel free to contact me there! Best wishes.

Great vid Steven, thank you! Very detailed and well explained points here. Any chance you might do the same for horizontal and coronal movements as well? :)

@stevencardoza6521

5 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the comment, Nemo, thanks. While I do have other videos planned with raw footage already done, the horizontal and coronal circles are not among them. Maybe "some day", but until then, I hope you can find a teacher near you to help!

tenga cuidado las ultimas orbitas microcosmicas tiene que ser en el sentido correcto si fuera en el sentido incorrrecto pueden llegar aumnetar la presion arterial si es una persona hipertensa, y no avisa, riezgo

@stevencardoza6521

11 ай бұрын

I appreciate your concern, Jorge. First, while there are at least 11 microcosmic orbits, the one in this demonstration is the most common, and the trajectory down the front of the body drops qi to the lower dantian, eliminating any possibility of engendering hypertension when performed properly. (The two physical variations both use the same MCO trajectory.) Second, this is a demonstration only, and not instruction on how to actually do the practice. This is stated in the description of the video, along with an invitation to contact me if one actually want to learn how to do this practice. Anyone attempting to do this practice just from watching the video does so at their own risk.

Dear Sifu Steven. Your instructions are very simple and beauteful. Q- during this practice where to look? Straight ahead, or to follow the chi ball between the hands? Many thanks

@stevencardoza6521

2 жыл бұрын

Do not look at the qi ball, keep your eyes pointed in the same direction as your nose. When your spine is curved, your head will face slightly towards the ground, so your eyes go there too. When your spine is more erect, you face straight forward, so your eyes go there, out to the horizon. Use soft eyes only, no hard stare or active looking. I will be teaching this as an online workshop series early this year, so if you'd like to learn it in detail, you can contact me through the contact form on my website, www.healingdragon.org. Best wishes and Happy New Year!

@mrzee6033

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevencardoza6521 HAPPY NEW YEAR SIFU STEVEN... ALL THE BEST WISHES

@mrzee6033

2 жыл бұрын

Dear Sifu Steven at which point (clock) in the circle should Iinhake and exhale

@stevencardoza6521

2 жыл бұрын

If you notice, I did not mention anything about breathing in this video. That, and all the proper ways to perform the movements, are things you need to study under guidance. The video is meant to be more of a demonstration than a lesson on how to do Circling Hands. To learn how to do Circling Hands reasonably correctly, you should expect to get 14-16 hours of training. There's more to learn beyond that, but that's a good start. While I prefer to teach all qigongs and taiji in a live setting so I can provide immediate and tactile feedback, right now I'm only offering those classes online. Please feel free to contact me if you'd like to learn this richly rewarding qigong.

Hello Steven. Thank you for the video. A question on this practise.so you make either kua squat or c-curve. You can make both?

@stevencardoza6521

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Dimitri. Yes, you can make both. If you review the video, you'll see that when emphasizing the kua squat, the C curve is still present, just smaller. In the C -curve variation, the kua squat is still present, but the outer movement of the squat is less, while the internal open and close of the kua is just as strong as it is in the kua squat variation. When you are first learning to put both into practice, you may initially make the outer, more visible part of the kua squat bigger, but over time you learn to make that smaller while keeping the internal content strong.

@dimitrilee5996

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevencardoza6521 Thank you for your answear

is there really microcosmic orbit related energies?

@stevencardoza6521

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Takeshi, The microcosmic orbit (shao zhou tian) is an energy pathway, like an acupuncture meridian. There are actually several microcosmic orbits-no need to go into those here-but the one most commonly referred to follows the Du Meridian (Governing Vessel) up the center of the back, and the Ren Meridian (Conception Vessel) down the center of the front of the body, relatively superficially. Qi is the energy that is circulated through the microcosmic orbit, so it’s not a separate type of energy. When qi moves through any particular pathway, it can generate many different types of effects, but it’s still all one energy. This is similar to how electricity is one thing, but it can generate many different effects (heat, cold, light, motion, sound, etc.) depending upon the circuit it is run through. One simple, basic purpose of the microcosmic orbit is to harmonize the yin and yang energies of the body. (The Du meridian governs all the yang qi of the body; the Ren meridian governs all the yin qi of the body). This balance promotes stability and a high degree of functionality physically, emotionally, and mentally, and lays a solid foundation for spiritual cultivation. I hope this answers your question. Best Wishes, Steven

GREAT Vid

@stevencardoza6521

9 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thanks for letting me know.