Today i wanna share someting with you, because it had such a tremendous impact on my well-being, my health, my strength, my mind, my relationship and my soul.
I want to tell you about Zhan Zhuang, a ancient chinese form of exercice which could be translated as „stand like a tree“ 🌳.
Today marks the 💯th day of my daily exercice. Right after i get up, i drink a glas of water, take a spoon of honey and go outside to start training.
There are a handful of basic positions but the first one is the most basic, simple and important: you just stand, with your spine erect, your legs and feet, from your knees onward, reaching like roots into the ground below. Imagine that there is a string, coming from heaven, connected to the tip of your head above your ears. Hanging on this string you let your shoulders and arms come down and relax.
So you stand, as the connecting being between heaven and earth.
You start with 5 minutes daily, which you extend by another 5 after three weeks and so on till you reach 20 minutes in the first position. After that you start to integrate the second position. There are five basic positions. If you can hold them each for 20 minutes you start to do a full cycle of all five, for 5 minutes each.
Thats it. I hope you liked this short #introduction to #ZhanZhuang which after many years in search for a combination of #exercice and #meditation helped me build my inner strength and energy in a healthy way.
If i got you interested in this ancient form of exercice, make sure to check out these resources, which helped me on my way:
~ Awesome video introduction by master Lam Kam Chuen. Great for beginners!
https://invidious.fdn.fr/playlist?list=PL5AC656794EE191C1
~ If you want to dig deeper, check out his book „Way of the Energy“, which will provide you with more details alongside beautiful hand drawings.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/f9a734d36c9955f458f950f6919246dc
Thanks for reading!
Bye
