Dancing Crane
This is a great breathing sequence to enhance the chi in the lung and large intestine meridians. It is a very graceful movement and very calming. Strengthening the lung meridian helps to ward off sickness.
1. Stand with your feet shoulder width apart, your knees slightly bent and soft and your arms raised out to the side at shoulder height, with palms facing down.
2. Inhale and draw the backs of the wrists towards the ears.
3. Exhale and drop your elbows down to your sides and slowly push your hands through the air in flexed position arriving back at starting position. (Visualize the air to be very thick like oil)
4. Inhale: In starting position
5. Exhale slowly rotate to the right move left hand to rest on right shoulder and the back of the right hand resting on top of left kidney. Moving head to look over right shoulder.
6. Repeat sequence from #1 on the other side.
