Taoist Yoga Eight Brocades
(3 DVDs, Handbook, CD, and Book Set)
Produced by the Phoenix Taoist Center
The Very Best At-Home Eight Brocades Taoist Yoga Learning Package
Regular Prices:
$108.00 for the DVD set, Handbook and Guided CD
$19.95 for the book Qigong Teachings of a Taoist Immortal
Regular Price: $127.95
The following products are produced and made available by Valley Spirit Arts.
Eight Brocades DVD1
Running Time: 1:56:12
Eight Brocades DVD2
Running Time: 1:55:17
Eight Brocades DVD3
Running Time: 1:55:12
Eight Brocades Handbook
42 pages with photographs
Eight Brocades Guided Practice CD
Running Time: 53:00
Qigong Teachings of a Taoist Immortal: The Eight Essential Exercises of Master Li Ching-Yun
By Stuart Alve Olson. Healing Arts Press, 2002
180 pages, fully illustrated with photographs
What You Get in this Learning Package!
- Eight Brocades DVDs
The DVD portion of this set was filmed during a workshop held by Stuart Alve Olson (author of Qigong Teachings of a Taoist Immortal: The Eight Essential Exercises of Master Li Ching-Yun) in August 2006. The DVD-set includes lectures on Taoism, Taoist meditation, and the Six Healing Sounds, as well as complete teaching and practice sessions on the Eight Brocades Seated Taoist Yoga exercises. The DVD-set provides over 7 hours of instruction and is a superb guide for those who wish to study and practice these traditional and effective Taoist methods.
- Eight Brocades Taoist Yoga Handbook
The DVD set also comes with a 25-page quick reference guide for the practice of Eight Brocades Taoist Yoga and detailed contents guide to the DVD set.
- The Eight Brocades Guided Practice CD
This CD guides you though the entire practice. Just play the CD and it will guide you perfectly through the entire regime.
- Qigong Teachings of a Taoist Immortal
This book provides information on the much deeper levels of Eight Brocades practice, along with the history, development, and translations from Master Li Ching-Yun lectures on Eight Brocades (250-year old man, who passed away in 1936).
About the Eight Brocades
Eight Brocades is an internal and external yogic exercise regime that aids in the development of the Three Treasures of ching, qi, and shen. The first four exercises are performed directly prior to the meditation period and the second four right afterward.
Eight distinct therapies function within the exercises for developing optimal health, increasing longevity, and achieving immortality:
- The first therapy involves the use of massage—such as the patting and pressing aspect of Beat the Heavenly Drum, the pressing activity within Shake the Heavenly Pillar, the rubbing of the kidneys and heating of the hands in Rub the Court of the Kidneys, and the massaging of the bubbling well cavities in Grasping with Hooks.
- The second therapy uses sound, as in the tapping of the Heavenly Drum, listening to the breath, hearing the sound of ku ku, and using the five half coughs.
- The third is the aspect of visualization, as in imagining a fire burning in the lower stomach and producing light in the yu chen cavity, and imagining the qi circulating in the body.
- The fourth is the method of twisting and stretching, as seen in Shake the Heavenly Pillar, The Single Pass and Double Pass Windlass, Supporting Heaven, and Grasping with Hooks.
- The fifth is the method of breath control, of which four main types are used: Cleansing Breath (Ching Hsi), Natural Breathing (Tzu Hsi), Tortoise Breathing (Kuei Hsi), and Closing the Breath (Pi Qi).
- The sixth therapy is that of swallowing, which begins with the saliva and later on the breath itself.
- The seventh therapy is the use of meditative (ching tso) techniques.
- The eighth therapy is the circulation of qi through the jen mo and tu mo meridians (hsiao chou t’ien, or the Lesser Heavenly Circuit). The Lesser Heavenly Circuit is the actual goal for Eight Brocades practice.
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