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WHAT IS YIQUAN?
Yiquan is a Chinese way
of practise in order to develop our body and mind.
Yiquan uses the power of mind and imagination. The process which is started
by inner pictures and intention is immediately transfered to the corporal
sphere, by which body and mind integrate automatically. This process of
integration reacts upon and encloses on the other hand all spheres of human
being.
Martial Art - Meditation - Health Care - Inner Art of Healing
Yiquan as Martial Art
Yiquan is from the
tradition of the inner styles and means „mind boxing“. Yiquan
does, to a large extent,
without exercises and forms, but concentrates on the
ESSENCE of traditional Chinese martial arts: training of mind and building
up Inner Strength. The central aspect
is working with the power of imagination. This
activates our natural abilities and enables martial artists to perform in a direct,
spontaneous and energetic way. Yiquan exercises are clearly structured and
easily comprehensible.
This explains why they are so effective, or as Wang Xianzhai, the founder of
Yiquan, puts it,
“What is most ordinary is the most extraordinary“.
(Wang Xiangzhai,
founder of YIQUAN)
Yiquan as Meditation
The main exercise of YIQUAN is
Zhanzhuanggong (Link mit den Fotos auf der Seite Yiquan/Fotos/Zhanzhuang-Training)
which is also called “standing like a tree”.
By practising Zhanzhuanggong we attain a clear state of mind, physical
strength and inner peace, or “Hunyuan“.
In this state of balanced mind and strength we experience an intrinsic
process of absolute purification and healing of both body and the mind. What
we ultimately aspire is to realize the initial nature of all being.
“Returning
to one's origin
means attaining silence“.
(Daodejing)
Since good
health forms the basis of success and contentment in martial arts and any
other activities, physical and mental health care is an essential element of
Yiquan.
The exercises enable you to work on physical,
mental and emotional blockades in an active way and to solve them little by
little.
YIQUAN helps you to return from permanent activity to silence, from thinking
to feeling, from tension to relaxation and it is an excellent method to
strengthen the immune system as well as to slow down processes of nerval and
physical wear. Therefore it is extremely suitable for burn-out prevention.
Because of the great healing effect
of Zhanzhuanggong on body and mind, YIQUAN can be applied for recovering
after serious illness – as an ideal support and promotion of orthodox
medical and psychotherapeutical treatment. It can be practised for
inpatients and outpatients alike.
YIQUAN enables patients to take responsibility for their own and to
contribute to the process of healing in an active and responsible way.