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01: Immune Support Boost

Tap into the power of qigong to enhance your vitality and life force energy, thereby boosting the strength of your immune system. This routine focuses on supporting your immune system. Techniques you’ll practice here include smiling energy, drawing water to nourish the essence, gathering the spirit, and bone breathing.

40 min

02: Immune Defense Boost

In the second immune-related routine to boost your immune system using qigong flow, focus on ways to defend your immune system from various pathogens, including mold, as well as “external pathogens” like heat and dampness. Techniques you’ll practice here include knocking on the door of life, tapping your yin tang point in your mid-eye center, and more.

38 min

03: Body Patting

Develop the helpful skills to strengthen your guardian energy using a specific technique known as Body Patting. This ancient form of self-massage, which you can perform any time of day in a warm and comfortable place, improves blood circulation and strengthens your defense qi: a protective shield of energy that supports your muscles, tissue, fascia, and skin.

13 min

04: Embrace the Tree

Continue learning how to boost your guardian energy with help from another invigorating technique known as Embrace Tree. This ancient form of self-massage improves blood circulation. It’s a standing meditation that may actually be one of the most challenging practices—but through this exercise, you’ll be able to better develop your willpower and boost your protective energy.

20 min

05: Six Healing Sounds

The Six Healing Sounds method, a series of specific vibrations that help transform negative emotions into positive virtues, dates to the 4th century AD, and comes with many applications and interpretations. Here, explore the classic postures, sounds, and visualizations designed to regulate the qi flow through the five yin organs and triple warmer and to create long-lasting transformation.

33 min

06: Stress & Anxiety Relief

Empower yourself to transform stress and anxiety back into vitality when you need it the most. You’ll learn how to use special sound vibrations and breathing with tension-and-release exercises to clear pent-up emotional stress on both your physical and energetic levels. Conclude with gentle, flowing movements to reharmonize your nervous system to a state of relaxation and inner peace.

42 min

07: Happy Lungs

Inspired by the Chinese spirit animal of the lungs, the tiger, this flow uses invigorating warmups, healing sounds, and flows that target the lung meridian to access your internal power. With this routine, you can help increase your energy, prevent seasonal allergies, boost your immune system, transform sadness into courage, get inspired, and tune in to what matters most: the present moment.

38 min

08: Happy Kidneys

Here, learn how to best balance and nourish your kidneys and bladder. This routine uses the qigong principles of dynamic relaxation and effortless flow to embody the water element, thereby promoting deep relaxation and rejuvenation. Choose this routine to promote longevity, to charge your internal batteries; and to transform stress, fatigue, fear, or shock.

34 min

09: Happy Liver

Enjoy a complete qigong flow routine designed to support your liver and gallbladder. Employing a style of qigong called the Swimming Dragon, you’ll use joint spirals and twists to release tension, detoxify your liver, nourish your tendons, and get the qi flowing. This routine offers you new perspectives on how to support liver health, transform frustration, and put your creative vision into action.

38 min

10: Happy Heart

Looking to promote healthy blood circulation and healing energy? Look no further than this routine. Begin with movements that open the heart and ignite the fire element to detoxify emotions and excess heat, and to activate your internal love engine. Follow up with movements that focus on cultivating internal alchemy and ultimately invoking your sense of compassion and wisdom.

38 min

11: Happy Spleen & Stomach

Purge and fortify your spleen, pancreas, and stomach using specific qigong movements that cultivate centering and grounding. The flows in this routine focus on balancing yin and yang, connecting to the three forces (heaven, earth, and human), and using energy-ball techniques to fortify your lower energy center. With this routine, you can promote healthy digestion, clear your mind, and more.

37 min

12: Short Routine: Immune Support Boost

Short Routine: Immune Support Boost

28 min

13: Short Routine: Immune Defense Boost

Short Routine: Immune Defense Boost

28 min

14: Short Routine: Six Healing Sounds

Short Routine: Six Healing Sounds

23 min

15: Short Routine: Stress & Anxiety Relief

Short Routine: Stress & Anxiety Relief

27 min

16: Short Routine: Happy Lungs

Short Routine: Happy Lungs

19 min

17: Short Routine: Happy Kidneys

Short Routine: Happy Kidneys

16 min

18: Short Routine: Happy Liver

Short Routine: Happy Liver

23 min

19: Short Routine: Happy Heart

Short Routine: Happy Heart

17 min

20: Short Routine: Happy Spleen & Stomach

Short Routine: Happy Spleen & Stomach

16 min

Overview Course No. 80540

One route for optimal health and vitality, stemming from thousands of years of ancient Chinese medicine, is qigong, or meditation in motion. Combine it with the techniques of yoga, and you get YoQi: a way to cultivate your energy through a continuous stream of body-based awareness and movement punctuated by moments of stillness and meditation.

These 11 episodes guide you through the movements at the heart of this tradition. You’ll learn how to use YoQito release stress, pent-up tension, fear, and anxiety; gain awareness of the state of your stress level (and how to change it); use flowing movements and healing sounds to feel stress relief; clear negative beliefs and thoughts to tap into the present moment; and calm your emotions so you can make more balanced, rational decisions.

Each routine is designed to address many of the issues with those body parts and systems often impacted by stress, including the liver, the lungs, and the immune system. Each episode includes guided instructions, as well as calming music to put you in the right mood and mindset for your YoQi practice. Marisa herself delivers these routines in a host of breathtaking (and quite calming) environments, including California’s Redwood National Park and a natural reserve in Thailand.

So, get ready to start moving in a more meaningful way that helps you take better care of your body—and your mind.

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About

Marisa Cranfill

Through the training practice, you’re going to be able to develop your willpower, your stamina.

Marisa Cranfill is the founder and director of YOQI Yoga+Qigong. While living in China and Thailand for more than 15 years, she received direct transmission from qigong masters, nuns, and healers in the Buddhist, Daoist, and Thai shamanic traditions. Their guidance and blessings to teach became the catalyst for her to develop the YOQI method based on the Six Phases of Qi Flow. Marisa’s greatest joy is to help people cultivate their life-force energy to live long, healthy, and radiant lives. She is popularly known for her YOQI Yoga+Qigong YouTube channel and extensive yoqi.tv video-on-demand library, offering beautiful follow-along routines that are accessible to all ages.