Chi Gung Unlike most sports, you don't have to be in shape to start learning Chi Gung and Tai Chi Chuan. Chi Gung exercises, such as Dragon and Tiger Chi Gung, are taught to patients in Chinese hospitals to heal chronic degenerative diseases such as chronic fatigue and high blood pressure. In fact, these gentle, health promoting exercises can be practiced by bedridden patients, while seated in a chair or soon after open heart surgery.
China has a long tradition of preventative health care.
Self-care exercises, like Chi Gung, enable people to heal illnesses, injuries, back problems, relieve stress and general malaise as well as prevent disease for very low cost in the comfort of their own home. How much vitality a person has is directly related to how healthy they are. Chi Gung increases the vital energy in the body and restores the flow of energy in pathways, called meridians, to all the organs and tissues in the body so that they can function better. Chi Gung exercises open and strengthen the meridian pathways, enabling them to carry more vital energy to areas such as the heart, liver and lower back. Having more energy charging the body with energy allows organs that are sick or weak to get stronger and clears tension out of areas that are stressed.