What is the detailed explanation and the essentials of the eight duanjin movements?

I. Essentials of practice:

a. Breathe evenly, be natural, balanced, abdominal breathing.

b, intention to guard the dantian, mental relaxation, focus on the navel.

c. Combine softness and rigidity, relax the whole body, exert oneself gently, and do not use rigid force.

Second, eight brocade is including eight sections of coherent fitness method, the specific content is as follows:

Hands on the sky reason Sanjiao; left and right bow like shooting eagle;

The regulation of the spleen and stomach need to be a single lift; the five labors and seven injuries to the back to see;

Shake your head to the tail to the heart of the fire; behind the back of the seven upside down all the diseases:

Save the fist and angry eyes to increase the strength; two hands climb the foot solid kidney waist;

In addition, there is a sitting "eight brocade", for the Ming Dynasty Leng Qian compiled, the specific content is:

Knocking thirty-six teeth, two hands hold Kunlun.

The left and right sounding heavenly drums, twenty-four degrees heard.

Slightly swinging to shake the pillarless, the red dragon stirs up the water and the Jin.

Close your breath and rub your hands together.

The left and right reels are turned, the feet are stretched out.

Cross your arms and hold your hands in the air, and lower your head and climb your feet.

The river car carries the whirlwind, and the fire burns all over the body.

Eight Duan Jin gong method basic *** knowledge

(1) the traditional eight Duan Jin circulation should be earlier than the Song Dynasty, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has a greater development;

(2) the traditional eight Duan Jin creation of the person is not yet conclusive, it can be said that the eight Duan Jin is the successive generations of health practitioners and practitioners*** with the creation of the wealth of knowledge;

(3) before the end of the Qing Dynasty, the eight brocade is mainly a body movement based on the guiding art;

(4) eight brocade, whether it is the southern school, the northern school or the civil and military practice, are the same source, in the transmission of mutual penetration, and gradually converge.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Eight-Duanjin Technique