Waitankung-Movement 1 : Respiration in Tortoise Style
Movement 1 : Respiration in Tortoise Style, Waitankung, collected from Chinese Waitankung Illustrated in 1983. (Chinese Edition)
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Movement 1 : Respiration in Tortoise Style
A: Title
The Movement of Respiration toward the East in Tortoise Style, in the short title as The Movement of Respiration in Tortoise Style, or Respiration in Tortoise Style.
B: Abstract
This movement harmonizes your lower abdomen respiration to ease your internal organs and makes your Chi well and smooth.
C: Commands
- Let your left hand hold the stomach and put the right hand on the left hand.
- The two thumbs are crossed with a little hole.
- To inhale and then exhale that compose of a breath. You should take nine breaths.
D: Methods
- Stand still in their original position.
- The left hand holds your lower abdomen and puts your right hand on the left hand.
- Stretch your ten fingers loosely.
- Make your legs straight up and lean back your head upward slightly.
- To inhale into your lower abdomen, which is called the bottom of Chi Ocean, ie. Qihai. You should make your lower abdomen expand into a drum state. You should inhale one time without any pause. To inhale while lasting a long period of time without in a hurry.
- Bend your body forward and down 15 or 25 degrees when you can not inhale anymore.
- Then you start to exhale from your lower abdomen.
- Your two hands push on your lower abdomen to expel air out.
- To exhale while lasting a long period of time without in a hurry.
- Then you turn back to lean back your head upward slightly and inhale again.
- To exhale again after finishing inhaling.
- A breath is composed of an exhale and an inhale. It is enough to make nine breaths.
E: Remarks
- To inhale the alive air, ie. oxygen, and to exhale the deadly air, ie. the carbon air.
- Make your lower abdomen upward and downward and you can get peace of body and longevity of ages by then.
F: Photos
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Picture 02: Respiration in Tortoise Style |