What is Taoist Yoga
Like Indian meditational Yoga, esoteric Chinese Taoist Yoga cultivates and stimulates the chi or body’s subtle energy, like Prana, its Indian counterpart. Taoist Yoga teaches you to recognize, distinguish and differentiate the different kinds and levels of the body’s subtle energy. The goals of Chinese Taoist Yoga are spiritual growth, just like Indian meditational Yoga, and eventually enlightenment. However, in many ways Taoist Yoga differs from the Indian system, inasmuch as Taoists don’t see the body and its pleasures as Maya or illusion as in the Indian Yogic way. Rather, they consider it a valuable repository of energy and impulses. Physical pleasure, in Taoist Yoga, is thus not something to be transcended right away; rather, it first has to be cultivated and utilized, and transcended only slowly in the last stages of spiritual evolvement.
Chinese Taoist Yoga is also known as “Kaimen”, a wonderful practice for the young and old alike, who wish to maintain and improve their physical, mental and emotional health and longevity. This is achieved through a series of passive and dynamic exercises for this unique body / mind / spirit system. Practicing Taoist Yoga can enhance your performance in other related arts, as well as maintain and improve good health and longevity. The ancient practice of Chinese Taoist Yoga is also called Qigong (cultivation of life-force) and carries with it numerous benefits. Many centuries of Taoist Yoga practitioners have directly experienced these benefits, which have, more recently, been documented by numerous scientific studies.
According to Taoist Yoga, the health of mind and body depends upon a clear, strong and unbroken flow of chi (subtle energy) through our meridian system. Since Qigong (also spelled “Chi Kung”) practice achieves this end, it is hardly any surprise that the benefits of Taoist Yoga extend to all physical systems of the body, as well as to the emotional, mental and spiritual aspects.
Benefits Of Taoist Yoga
Qigong practice helps cultivate and develop a strong and supple physique. It develops a better sense of balance, more stamina and flexibility in the body. Taoist Yoga has positive effects on the body’s respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, digestive, central nervous and immune systems. It helps produce smooth skin, and a lovely feeling of deep warmth within your body. Furthermore, its practice is known to increase sexual vitality, and give you better, deeper and more restorative sleep. Over time, the practice of Taoist Yoga helps reduce and even eliminate chronic illnesses, aches and pains. Finally, it is said that Taoist Yoga also has the power of retarding and reversing the aging process.
