Daoyin Baojian Gong, englsich – Gordon Faulkner

ca. 360 min 2 DVDs

Daoyin Baojian Gong (Daoyin Exercise for Keeping Fit) is part of the health system of Daoyin Yangsheng Gong created by Professor Zhang Guangde at the Beijing Sports University and now centred at the Daoyin Yangsheng Centre at that university.
It consists of eight elegant exercises crafted in such a way as to begin with easy movements, build to more challenging postures, and then calm the mind and body down to finish. Each one of the eight exercises is complete in itself and has its own health benefit, while combined they create a graceful, flowing health exercise.
The characteristic features and main points of Daoyin Baojian Gong are:
• combining thought with physical postures, stressing thought;
• co-ordinating movements with breathing, stressing breathing;
• guiding movements along the channels, paying special attention to rotation of arms;
• keeping relaxed throughout the exercise though combined with some stretched movements;
• keeping the whole body in motion with slow and soft actions.
Daoyin Baojian Gong is normally one of the first routines to be studied in the Daoyin Yangsheng Gong system.