TREE TIME chi kung

about TREE TIME CHI KUNG

Our bodies had evolved with it’s environment: the geography of the soil and rock, the water, the sun, seasons, stars, mountains, animals, plants and trees. Human bodies are meant to both be raised and reflect the outer world. To know it by heart. However, humans have grown too restless and detached from nature. Modern life calls, more than often, for speed and action.We have forgotten our familiarity with the stillness of a tree, plant or a lake. Nature turned into something outside ourselves. However this ancient belonging is food for the life force in our bodies. And we long for it.

With Tree Time chi kung we want to bond our bodies back into natural forces. By way of Taoist exercises, composed by still poses, slow movement and philosophy, we practice mirroring the changing processes of nature: in the physical and more-than-phyisical dimensions.

In Tree Time, trees and plants are our teachers. Recognition and connection with the Earth include also the differences between us and the surrounding green life. We practice to integrate principles such as of effortless action, the interplay between opposites, simplicity and emptiness.
With standing still we discover how to move without effort. With slowing down we cultivate more effective, supportive and resilient ways in responding to challenges.

Exercises are simple and accessible to everyone and everywhere. They consist mainly on zhan zhuang (still chi kung) and ba duan jin (8 pieces of the brocade)

When we experience uprightness, the aliveness in stillness and spontaneous processes, something fundamental happens. More vitality and sides of life are revealed. And the usual divide between us and nature begins to change.