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  • Description: This standing, or sitting moving meditation is a great technique to help reduce side effects and symptoms of breast cancer and its treatment on a mental, physical, and energetic level. The gentle movements of your arms, or wings, help stretch, strengthen, and massage the upper body. Together with the deep breathing, the abdominal and back muscles moving in and out, as well as the visualization of the lower energy center, or the Sun, two inches below the navel in the center of the body. This series of medical and martial arts qigong movement is based on the crane, a symbol of longevity in eastern philosophies. 
    May help with: 
    Frozen shoulders and Arthritis 

    Preparing and recovering from surgery 

    Anxiety and lack of energy 

    Strengthening your core 

    Bringing oxygen into your body 

    Emptying the mind from any negative thoughts and evoking the Spirit 

    Aches, pain, and inflammations 

    Releasing happy hormones 
    Practice 1 to 5 tim...
  • Description: This standing, or sitting moving meditation is a great technique to help reduce side effects and symptoms of breast cancer and its treatment on a mental, physical, and energetic level. The gentle movements of your arms, or wings, help stretch, strengthen, and massage the upper body. Together with the deep breathing, the abdominal and back muscles moving in and out, as well as the visualization of the lower energy center, or the Sun, two inches below the navel in the center of the body. This series of medical and martial arts qigong movement is based on the crane, a symbol of longevity in eastern philosophies.
    May help with: 
    Frozen shoulders and Arthritis 

    Preparing and recovering from surgery 

    Anxiety and lack of energy 

    Strengthening your core 

    Bringing oxygen into your body 

    Emptying the mind from any negative thoughts and evoking the Spirit 

    Aches, pain, and inflammations 

    Releasing happy hormones 
    Practice 1 to 5 time...
  • Description: This dissolving meditation taps into the power of the mind to release stress and restore you on a mental, physical, and energetic level. First scan your body from the top-down plateau by plateau then find impurities and finally dissolve them using the metaphor solid to Liquid and Liquid to Gas. Maintain an aligned posture and breathe deep. 
    This dissolving meditation may help: 
    Reduce physical and mental stress and anxiety 

    Aches, pains, inflammation 

    Cleanse and nourish both the physical and energetic body 

    Strengthen your core and increase energy 

    Increase oxygen intake Improve energy 

    Sleep disturbances 

    Release traumas that are stored on a physical level 

    Reduce stagnation and increase circulation 
    This meditation can be done standing, sitting, or laying down. Practice 1 to 5 times a day for 3 to 30 minutes each time. Backtrack: Weightlessness by SergeQuadrado -- https://freesound.org/s/740609/ -- License: Attribution N...
  • Description: This standing, or sitting moving meditation is a great technique to help reduce side effects and symptoms of breast cancer and its treatment on a mental, physical, and energetic level. The gentle movements of your arms, or wings, help stretch, strengthen, and massage the upper body. Together with the deep breathing, the abdominal and back muscles moving in and out, as well as the visualization of the lower energy center, or the Sun, two inches below the navel in the center of the body. This series of medical and martial arts qigong movement is based on the crane, a symbol of longevity in eastern philosophies. 
    May help with: 
    Frozen shoulders and Arthritis 

    Preparing and recovering from surgery 

    Anxiety and lack of energy 

    Strengthening your core 

    Bringing oxygen into your body 

    Emptying the mind from any negative thoughts and evoking the Spirit 

    Aches, pain, and inflammations 

    Releasing happy hormones 
    Practice 1 to 5 tim...
  • Description: This standing, or sitting moving meditation is a great technique to help reduce side effects and symptoms of breast cancer and its treatment on a mental, physical, and energetic level. The gentle movements of your arms, or wings, help stretch, strengthen, and massage the upper body. Together with the deep breathing, the abdominal and back muscles moving in and out, as well as the visualization of the lower energy center, or the Sun, two inches below the navel in the center of the body. This series of medical and martial arts qigong movement is based on the crane, a symbol of longevity in eastern philosophies. 
    May help with: 
    Frozen shoulders and Arthritis 

    Preparing and recovering from surgery 

    Anxiety and lack of energy 

    Strengthening your core 

    Bringing oxygen into your body 

    Emptying the mind from any negative thoughts and evoking the Spirit 

    Aches, pain, and inflammations 

    Releasing happy hormones 
    Practice 1 to 5 tim...