Staying Home and Building Physique & Strengthening the Body 2: Northern Pai Eight Brocades Exercises - Style 2
As a widely acclaimed guiding art, Eight Brocades Exercises are a treasure of traditional Chinese health culture, with significant fitness effects and broad circulation. This set of Eight Brocades Exercises differs slightly from the commonly circulated versions, both in terms of song lyrics and movements. Before each exercise, there are three preparatory sections, which are omitted here to simplify the description.
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Can be done at home to build physique and strengthen the body 1: Northern Pai Eight Brocades Exercises - First Style
Second Style: Like a large eagle shooting an arrow left and right.
Starting Position: Legs are separated, approximately shoulder-width apart, arms are naturally lowered.
1. Hands descend, pick up, and simultaneously squat in a horse-stepping stance, with arms embraced, fingers touching.
2. Maintain the uprightness of the torso, turn the waist to shift the upper body to the left side, keeping the lower body in a horse-stepping stance motionless.
3. Both hands turn outwards, palms facing outwards, fingers touching, forming a posture of embracing outwards, expanding the rib cage.
4. The left hand and the left half of the body remain stationary, watching the right hand with the back of the hand, using the midline of the body as an axis, and the right arm slowly opens to the right, expanding the rib cage to its extreme.
5. Simultaneously extend the arms as you rise, turn the head to the midline, palms down, relax the body, and return to the original position.
6. Repeat on the right side as on the left, with one left and one right forming a set, totaling 8 sets.
Action Points:
1. After turning the body, when forming the embracing posture with hands outwards, the main purpose is to open the rib cage, pulling the front chest to the sides, making the back rounded.
2. When one hand opens, using the body’s midline as an axis, and moving the rib cage with the arm slowly opens to the other side, the action is similar to a large eagle flying in the sky, exhibiting a posture of spreading its wings.
Benefits Explanation:
Unlike the commonly circulated ‘shooting eagle like long eagle’ (referring to shooting eagle like long eagle), this set of actions is ‘large eagle flying in the sky’ (referring to large eagle flying in the sky), aiming to exercise the midline, namely the Ren Mai and the Du Mai. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the Ren Mai is ‘the sea of yin’, closely related to the reproductive function, particularly linked to women’s menstruation and pregnancy. The Du Mai is known as ‘the sea of yang’, which governs the overall yang energy in the body. This set of exercises can communicate the Ren and Du meridians, harmonizing yin and yang in the body, and has excellent effects in treating insomnia, headaches, chest tightness, cold pain in the abdomen, back chills, and waist and knee soreness.
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