Qi Gong for the Spine

Using traditional qigong concepts, these exercises will increase circulation in and awareness of your spine, leaving it full and mobile.

Decompressing and releasing tension

Learn how to float the head and sink the pelvis to create a decompression effect in the spine, untangling old tension and injuries in the back.

Weekly Follow Along Videos

New videos are released every week with progressively more detail, ensuring steady progress and letting you dive deeper into your spine.

Decompressing the Center: About the Course

While many people do a quick warm up for the spine, rarely is it given the attention it deserves. Being a critical part of the central nervous system, and the literal backbone of the entire body, having a compressed, tight, warped spine can lead to many issues elsewhere in the system. This comprehensive 8 week course aims to begin reversing it all. Instead of trying to solve these issues one by one with a laser pointer, this program instead invites you to explore the process of decompressing the spine: drawing one end away from the other, gently, until the tension is teased out of it and the spine is freed. Along the way you will learn how to release away from center, back towards it, qualities of floating and sinking, and a number of other processes that are critical for deepening your qigong practice. By soaking awareness more thoroughly through the spine, you will learn to feel and articulate many parts of your body that you might have thought impossible to access.

Meet Your Instructor: Craig Mallett

Having had a serious back injury in my early teens, and wrestling with a lifetime scoliosis, I was always interested in back exercises. Stretching and strengthening exercises had their efficacy, but I did not make serious inroads on my back tension until I began approaching it with the internal cultivation principles I use now: opening and releasing. As I went deeper with these qualities, I found that the spine was at the center of all of my other issues; shoulders, knees, old niggles in the wrist from handstands - all of them stemmed from a compensation needed to bypass the excessive tension in the spine. As I kept pulling on the thread I found more and more layers of gold, and the more I resolved the spinal problems, the more it seemed like all the other issues started to dissolve. This course is the accumulation of a lifetime of investigation, practice and study on this topic - I hope you enjoy it!

Curriculum

10 Chapters · 34 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction

    1. Prerequisites Free preview
    2. How to Use This Program Free preview
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      Introduction

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      Wuji Alignment Refresher

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    Week 1 - Float and Sink

    1. 1.1 Rising and Falling Free preview
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      1.2 Simultaneous Expression

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      1.3 Unsheathing the Spine from the Ribs

    4. 1.4 Follow Along - Floating and Sinking Free preview
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    Week 2 - Releasing Back to Center

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      2.1 Keeping the Spine Open

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      2.2 Using the Deep Hip (Kua)

    3. 2.3 Rotating Around the Central Axis Free preview
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      2.4 Top Down or Bottom Up

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      2.5 Releasing Rotation Back to Centre

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      2.6 Follow Along - Releasing to Centre

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    Week 3 - Releasing to the Extremities

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      3.1 Releasing in Both Directions

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      3.2 Follow Along - Releasing Away From Centre

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    Week 4 - Spinal Waves

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      4.1 Opening Up the Back and Front

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      4.2 Opening Up the Sides

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      4.3 Follow Along - Spinal Waves

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    Week 5 - Letting the Spine Hang Forward

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      5.1 Releasing the Spine Forward and Down

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      5.2 Adding in the Arms

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      5.3 Follow Along - Letting the Spine Fall Forward

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    Week 6 - Working the Spine with the Arms

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      6.1 Arms Overhead

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      6.2 Hanging From Bent Arms

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      6.3 Hanging From Straight Arms

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      6.4 Hanging From One Arm (Lateral Bend)

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      6.5 Follow Along - Working the Back With the Arms

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    Week 7 - Sinking Awareness Into the Spine

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      7.1 Ren and Du Meridians

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      7.2 Leaving the Command Centre of the Mind

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      7.3 Follow Along - Releasing Awareness Into the Spine

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    Week 8 - Spine Rolling

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      8.1 Spine Rolling Details

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      8.2 Follow Along - Spine Rolling

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    Continuing Training

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      Integrating these concepts

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      Continuing Training

8 Week Online Course: Decompressing the Spine

Stabilize, revitalize and free your spine from tension using traditional internal cultivation principles and simple but effective practices.

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