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Relax and Heal Lower Back (5 minutes)|Qigong Exercise

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    Open your palms, breathe in, deep.
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    Breathe out, slow.
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    You bring your mind back to the body.
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    One more time, open your palm, relax.
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    Breathe in.
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    Breathe out.
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    You feel your your ancestors,
    Thầy, practice with you.
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    Okay, so we can do warming up.
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    Um, move your body
    to the left and to the right.
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    You can bend your knees a little bit.
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    One hand touch shoulders
    and then other hand touch your lower back,
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    okay, like that.
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    Relax your waist and your hips.
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    Make a circle.
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    And we do reverse.
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    Remember when you move your body
    you're aware your breathing,
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    but also to pay attention to the
    action of your moving with mindfulness,
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    and feel happy right away,
    because you can move your body, right.
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    Someday you cannot move your back.
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    That's good.
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    Inhale, relax and exhale.
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    Invite my mind
    back to the body in the present moment.
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    And slowly when you practice like that
    you relax the whole body.
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    And you feel your two palms.
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    Okay the third movement, number three,
    we call the— our hand folded, body curving.
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    Hand folded, you holding together, and
    two thumbs you cross together, hand folded.
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    So when I breathe in
    I bend my head backward this way,
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    and then I leave my hands
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    until the middle finger touch the
    centre of the my, uh, eyebrows, right here.
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    Okay, like that,
    inhale, look up, and exhale,
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    I move forward, two knees straight,
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    and then I reach the ground,
    fingers will touch the ground.
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    Can you do it?
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    Mmhmm.
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    If you cannot do it, it's okay.
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    You touch, uh,
    stretch as far as you can, okay,
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    but you keep
    your knees straight, your legs straight.
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    So, inhale, up.
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    Bend in the back.
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    And exhale, move forward.
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    Slowly, breathe in, up.
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    You can bend back further your neck.
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    And slowly breathe out,
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    you can bend further
    and you can touch the ground.
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    So this movement can help you to
    relax your lower back, you knees.
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    Inhale.
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    Exhale.
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    In.
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    Out.
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    Slower.
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    Inhale.
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    Exhale.
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    In.
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    Out.
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    One more time, inhale.
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    Exhale.
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    That's good.
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    Put your left palm inside
    and right palm outside for the male,
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    and for the female you just do opposite.
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    For female you can put
    the right palm inside, okay.
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    So you can massage your lower abdomen.
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    So every day
    at the end of the Qigong session
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    I do at least few minutes
    to do massage my body,
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    so that I feel
    the love and the care to my body,
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    but also to, er, help to increase the
    flow of the blood, the circulation, okay.
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    Do this often to, er,
    make the digestive system stronger, okay.
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    Make your fist with two hands
    and you can massage your lower back.
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    Go down two legs.
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    And go to front.
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    That's good.
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    Breathe in.
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    Out.
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    You put the right hand on your heart,
    left hand on the lower abdomen.
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    Feel grateful to have body to practice.
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    Feel your heart, feel your lower abdomen.
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    Breathe in.
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    Breathe out.
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    Feel grateful to the body.
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    Feel grateful to the all internal organs.
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    So everyday I send love and care to them,
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    and I feel grateful to the body,
    always have positive feelings,
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    positive thinkings,
    positive energy to your body.
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    And your body will react
    that kind of great energy.
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    Feel grateful to your legs,
    Mother Earth,
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    feel ancestors in the body,
    Thầy in the body.
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    And you can bring this kind of body,
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    body knows how to practice,
    how to taking care, right.
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    And you bring Thầy and ancestors
    in to the future, in beautiful way.
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    Breathe in.
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    Breathe out.
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    Smile.
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    Thank you. Thank you to your body, yeah.
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    Thank you dear friends.
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Relax and Heal Lower Back (5 minutes)|Qigong Exercise
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