Our awakening exercises are an exercise program thousands of years old. They release muscles and joints softly through motions such as shaking, tapping, rubbing, extending or pulling. They also stimulate acupoints of the body and make the circulation of blood and energy smooth.
While Western styles of physical exercises have developed focusing on the movements of muscles and joints, energy exercises have developed with an emphasis on how to establish control, and accumulate invisible vital energy.
The principles of energy exercises are based on the understanding of the human body in the field of traditional oriental medicine. In traditional oriental medicine, there are 12 meridians channels in the body, and human organs interact with one another organically through these channels.
For example, the stomach is connected to the thighs and knees through the meridian channel. So to improve the functions of the stomach one should do energy exercises which strengthen the thighs and knees. The heart is linked to the forearms and elbows through the energy channels, thus exercises that make the forearms and elbows strong will strengthen the heart. And the effects are immediate!
However these movements are not aimed at muscular strength but at vital energy. That is why these exercises are composed of slow movements of parts of the body. Slow movements are helpful to strengthening and smoothing the flow of internal energy.
The effects of the awakening exercises double when you exercise these them together with Seon breathing. When you practice Seon breathing, vital energy is accumulated in the body. The accumulated energy makes each movement powerful, and thus slow dynamic exercises will bring much more desirable results when properly combined with breathing.
