A short guided QiGong exercise instructing a horse stance sequence with coordinated breathing and arm movements (cloud hands). Emphasis is on grounding to the earth, shifting weight between left and right, deep belly breathing, and a visualization connecting the body to the universe (mountain behind, tree ahead).
Chapters
Alright, settle into the horse stance and grip the earth with your toes. And we're going to breathe our arms up like there's two strings pulling your wrists. Hold your breath, flip your hands up and extend up over the head, almost touching tippy toes. Flip your hands down, Breathe out and relax down into that horse stance. Shoulders your leg shoulder width apart. Breathe your left hand up and exhale down. Inhale up, exhale down. Alternating your weight from left side to right side. Is that right arm goes up, you shift over to the right. As the left arm goes up, you shift over to the left all the time feeling your connection to the earth. Breathing and exhaling nice deep belly breath in and exhale that out nice and slow and gentle. Feel your weight shift from left to right as your cloud hands are going up and down. Nice long stretch to up and down at the same time. There again, just slowly, gently shifting, feeling your weight change balance from left to right. Now settle down into that horse stance. The statement is, you are in the universe. The universe is in you. Your head is above the clouds, your thighs are in the earth. You have a mountain behind you and a tree in front of you.