This qigong practice was meant to be shorter, but I really got into the flow and ended up rolling for 30 minutes. This is a great one to return to weekly to build more qi and deepen the benefits of your practice.

We move through 14 minutes of stretching to open the body, then settle into a 5-minute hold in Wuji, the foundational standing posture in Qigong. Wuji is where a lot of the deeper work happens. The longer you hold it, the more you start to feel qi building in the body. It’s subtle at first, but over time it becomes something you can actually sense — a kind of aliveness or suppleness, especially in the hands and fingers.

We’ll move through:

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:12 Knocking on the Door of Life
• 2:45 Spinal Cord Breathing
• 4:15 Picking Cherries (and a story about how qigong helped me heal from frozen shoulder)
• 5:31 Quad stretch, Phoenix Spreads Its Feathers
• 10:23 Owl Turns Its Head + Shaking
• 14:35 Wuji Instructions
• 15:55 ~5 minutes in Wuji
• 20:56 Cloudy Hands + Bamboo in the Wind to close

This one is a good practice to return to when you’re feeling tight, scattered, or just need to come back to your body.

Filmed in San Angelo, TX in May 2026. (Mom’s garden!)

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