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The Memory of Breath(Taoist energy work) Its creator, Marie-Claude Rodrigue, has developed over the past ten years a teaching method based on action through letting go, offering concrete, subtle and powerful tools to restore freedom and harmony to the body and the spirit. |
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The « Memory of Breath » is a holistic approach for harmonizing the inner forces that will lead us to an intimate relationship with our physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual bodies, in order to cultivate the art of self healing.
The practices are carefully chosen among various teachings and come from Masters Mantak Chia (Universal Tao System) and Yves Requena (Institut Européen de Qi Gong), among others. The Memory of Breath includes the following practices :Iron Shirt Chi Kung, Tai Chi Chi Kung, Meditation (six healing sounds, microcosmic orbit…), Tao Yin (Taoist yoga),Self massage, Stretching of the meridians, Wu Dang Qi Gong.
The exercises bring about relaxation, vitality and concentration. They help reduce stress, reinforce the immune system and balance the functions of the organs and glands.
The spiralling, undulating and twisting motions of the spine are made in synchronisation with breathing patterns in order to improve the efficiency of the nervous and cardio-vascular systems. The slow, fluid and conscious movements induc an opening of the joints and the strengthening of tendons and ligaments.
The work with breathing opens up new fields of perception. It sharpens our sensory acuity and gradually leads to the release of chronic physical, emotional and mental tensions which prevent the free circulation of vital energy (chi).
The breathing, sounds, meditations along with explanatory reading prepare the body and spirit to receive the energy of each season. This allows us to better tune ourselves to the rhythms and cycles of Nature in accordance with the laws of the cosmos. Emphasis is put on the alignment of the bone and organ structure around the centre of gravity (Tan Tien) to recover a natural verticality that promotes the free circulation of the telluric, cosmic and universal energies within. When intent and breath are poised along the sky-earth axis, the heart opens, the spirit stills and wisdom emerges.
In the midst of this constant search for equilibrium arises the interior ‘letting go’ that grants space to the breath and gradually frees us from grief, from old physical and psychic patterns of reactivity, from postures and attitudes of escapism caused by inner struggles. By fully assuming this new awakened state of alert stillness, the quality of our presence improves, our vibrational frequencies increase, our power for self healing grows and our spiritual potential becomes rooted in the present moment.
The Memory of Breath takes us along a gentle process of purification that promotes balance between Yin and Yang and supports the Self through the successive transformations that are intrinsic to any expansion of consciousness.
It is by being profoundly rooted in the body that we are ready for complete openness, receptive to all energies.
It is through a direct sensation of the inner energy field that a profound and durable transformation can happen.
To find inner silence, to land, to breathe, to feel, to become centered and transformed.
The Memory of Breath includes the following practices :
Iron Shirt Chi Kung
Tai Chi Chi Kung
Meditation (six healing sounds, microcosmic orbit…)
Tao Yin (Taoist yoga)
Self massage
Stretching of the meridians
Wu Dang Qi Gong
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