Welcome to the Long White Cloud Qigong for the Wrists and Hands course!

Who This Course Is For?

Lots of people experience issues with their hands at some point or another in their lives. Whether it comes from the strenuous exertion of certain types of work, or activities such as manual labour, rock climbing, martial arts, playing musical instruments, or just typing on a keyboard, or these issues can come from specific injuries, or degenerative diseases such as arthritis, or even from emotional challenges that affect the way we direct our energy within our body. The pain, discomfort, and limitations on our ability to use our hands the way we would like that come from these issues can range from minor inconvenience to seriously debilitating.

Qigong practice can really help to remedy these issues so that our energy can flow more freely through our hands and through our lives. So whether you are suffering from any of these challenges, or simply want to maintain and develop the healthy flow of energy you already have through your hands even further, you will find some great practices to help you with this in the course.

Our Hands

Our hands play such an integral role in the way our energy flows through life. Our hands are rich with nerve endings and have strong neural pathways running to them to receive important information from our environment through our sense of touch. Not only do we sense with our hands, but we also use them to interact with the world around us and to implement our intentions through our actions. So much so that one of the important acupuncture points in the middle of our hands is call “Lao gong” or “the palace of work”.

We are constantly both sending and receiving energy through our hands, in our work, our play, and our relationships with loved ones. When this energy flow through our hands becomes blocked, it manifests as stiffness, pain, weakness, and clumsiness with our hands. When we open up that flow, we are more able to connect and express ourselves freely and fully within our life activities.

Inside the Course

This course is divided into short sections to make it easy for you to become familiar with the practices in convenient pieces. To begin with I recommend going through all of the sections one at a time and trying out the practices as you go. Start by doing each of the practices gently to get a feel for it, and then you can gradually increase the intensity of the practices as you become more comfortable with them.

There are four short qigong sequences for you to try:

Qigong massage to bring energy to your wrists and hands
Qigong to stretch and open your wrists and hands
Qigong for strength and dexterity of your wrists and hands
Qigong for energy flow through your wrists and hands

The first sequence uses Massage as a way to begin to release tensions and to open up the energy flow to your wrists and hands. There are then sequences to Stretch and Open, develop Strength and Dexterity, and finally to experience the Energy Flow through your hands.

All of these sequences can be combined together into one comprehensive qigong practice for your wrists and hands. Or you may find that there is one particular practice that really appeals to you and feels like it is giving you what you need for your wrists and hands right now. If this is the case, it is fine to just focus on that one practice for awhile, becoming really familiar with it and using those particular methods to open up the energy flow through your wrists and hands. We get the most benefit from our qigong practice when we do it regularly, so even if you only choose one sequence, or even just one or two movements to do regularly, you will be able to fit them into your daily routine easily and get a lot of benefit from them.

Additional Practices

The course also contains some additional practices that you might find interesting and useful to further develop the strength, sensitivity, and energy flow through your hands. These practices include a fascinating qigong finger bending practice for balancing the five elements throughout our whole body, and how you can use some additional practice tools such as bean bags, massage rings, and Baoding balls for keeping your hands and energy flow healthy. Details of each of these tools can be found in the relevant section within the course.

Note on Using the Course Platform

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Also, you will notice that many aspects of the practices we will look at in this course are discussed in both written and video content within the course. This is to make it easier for you to take in and retain the information within the course, as well as making it easier to refer back to and find different details you wish to refresh your memory on in the future.

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