Sinking Qi / Washing the Internal Organs

The gathering qi movements gather pre-natal qi into the body. Fresh, vibrant qi
displaces stale, stagnant, impure qi. These movements help to cleanse the
three warmers (TMC Triple Warmer meridian) and the ve internal or yin organs
(Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung, Kidney).
The original (pre-natal) qi of the environment and heaven combine with the
original qi in the body.

❖ This movement starts in Wuji Stance. The feet are shoulder width apart,
knees are slightly bent, with the hips slightly exed (as if getting ready to sit).
Stand erect with your whole body relaxed. Look forward.
❖ Start by slowly raising your hands from the sides of your hips out and up to
the top of your head. Look up slightly with your eyes.

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 ❖ From the top of your head, your hands travel down along the front of your
body along the centerline. Your palms face inward. Move them downward till
you reach the front of your knees.
❖ Relax your body and return slowly to Wuji stance. Repeat the movements.

The Three Warmers (Triple Burner)

The San Jiao or Triple Energizer/Warmer is one of the acupuncture meridians
in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
The triple warmer assists in the transportation and transformation of uids and
solids so they could be used or eliminated by the body. The meridian also
plays an important role in the circulation of qi throughout the body.

Mind-Intent and Mental Imagery

Relax your body and calm your mind; develop tranquility. Practice Keeping the
Mind on the middle dantian. Use Mental Imagery to focus your inner vision on
the middle dantian, focus inner hearing and inner sense of touch on your
middle dantian. Focus on your middle dantian as your body and mind become
light and tranquil. Stand in Wuji stance and feel your connection to the natural
world and the cosmos. Enjoy the moment.
Xingqi pattern: use mental imagery to raise qi up to the top of
the head. With your hands, guide qi in through the
top of your head (Xinggong/Bai Hui point -
Governing Meridian/Du Mai 20). Guide the fresh
and vibrant qi down through your tissues and
organs, cleansing them of stale and stagnant qi. Stale, stagnant,
deleterious qi is ushed down the legs to the Yongquan points on the
soles of the feet where it is ushed out into the earth.

Key Points
While standing in the Wuji stance:
• Relax your neck and raise the qi to the top of your head.
• With your head erect and neck upright, tuck in your chin.
• Lift your tongue to the roof of your mouth and upper teeth. Close your
mouth and jaw.

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 • Relax your chest and strengthen your stomach. Loosen your waist and tuck
in your buttocks.
• Straighten your spine as you relax and lower your shoulders. Lower your
elbows. Relax your wrists and open your ngers.
• Loosen your Kua (hips and thighs) and round your Dang (hips, waist, and
crotch). Keep your knees over your toes.
• Relax your whole body and center your balance. Enter a tranquil state.
Breath in an unconscious fashion.
• Your movements should be relaxed, rhythmic, slow, and comfortable. Use
mind-intent to move, not force.

• Let your stance rise as you use mind-intent to raise qi; let your stance sink
slightly as you use mind-intent to lower qi. The upper and lower parts of
your body follow each other. The whole body moves as a single unit.

• The practice of lowering qi is primarily internal, the outer body movement

augments the internal movement of qi. The movement of the two hands
assists in maintaining mindfulness of the qi movement. The internal
movement and external movement are synchronized.
• As the qi gradually and slowly descends, the body relaxes into a state of
looseness. Sink the qi all the way to the Yongquan points on the soles of the
feet.
• Breathe naturally.

Hints
• While lowering the qi, use mental imagery and imagine the internal pre-
natal qi and the pre-natal qi from nature and heaven combining into one.
• "It is like frost and dew dripping down the body slowly. It is like steam
bathing through the body from the inside to the outside. It is like the whole
body is crystal clear. The body feels relaxed and comfortable." Master Feng
• If you have areas of the body that need healing, when the qi reaches that
area pause and then direct the deleterious qi out of the body.

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 Function
• Cleanse the internal organs.
• Opening up the meridians.
• Stretch the tendons and bones.
• Separate the tendons from bones.
• Loosen the joints.
• Loosen the skin and muscles.
• Strengthens and loosens the body.
• Rid of impurities and bring about clarity.
• Nurtures and harmonizes the organs.
• Toning the three warmers (triple warmer).
• Nurtures and loosen the qi.

• Nurtures the ability to loosen into heaviness (relaxation response).

• Strengthen the standing post.

• Train the "AN" strength and "Central Equilibrium" strength in the 13
postures.

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 Lower Qi - Closing movement

Start with your hands at your sides.

Draw the hands up at the side of the body till heart hight.
Draw the hands to the center of the body at the level of the heart.
Lower the hands along the center line to the middle dantian (Baoyuan Guiyi
stance).
The xingqi pattern of this movement is similar to Sinking Qi Washing the
Internal Organs. Instead of guiding pre-natal qi down to the yongquan points
on the bottom of the feet, the qi is guided to the middle dantian.
Perform three repetitions at the end of each of the Hunyuan Qigong
movements.

Reference:
Hunyuan Qigong, Master Feng Zhiqaing (Translator:Chen), ZhonghuaPriority
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