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Benefits: This exercise will train the muscles in your waist, buttocks, hips, thighs, and legs.

Note: Relax the chest and rotate the pelvis while keeping the upper body straight.

1.    Stand with your feet apart and knees slightly bent, making sure that your hips don’t slip backwards.

2.    Spread the legs as wide as possible and assume the horse stance so that the ligaments in the hip joint can be stretched.

3.    Rotate the pelvis and hip 10 times from left to right. Concentrate on the sensation of the pelvic movement and on exhalation. Keep the knees and chest stationary.

4.    Reverse, rotating 10 times from right to left.

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Jung is a Korean word meaning vital energy, while Choong refers to fulfillment. Ideally, the process of breathing creates life energy, which is then accumulated in the Dahn-jon. However, this doesn’t happen all the time. Why? Because the body is not properly positioned to gather the energy.

To gather energy, the outflow valve of the energy has to be closed. The hip joint, in conjunction with the tailbone, works as the valve for energy flow in the human body. Curling up the tailbone is very important because it helps to form a proper angle for gathering energy while causing a light tension in the Dahn-jon. Once the appropriate body position is taken, Ki generated by breathing is naturally gathered at the Dahn-jon. This gathered energy creates natural pressure around the abdomen, allowing proper energy circulation to happen naturally.

For deep and natural breathing, the blockage around the chest caused by stress has to be opened. Breathe naturally, focusing on the exhalation. Relaxing your chest and upper body will help you. To open up the blockages, exhale with the mouth open slightly at the beginning stage, making a “ha-ah” sound through the throat to deeply release stagnant energy from the inside of the chest. After a certain time of exhaling this way, you may breathe with the mouth closed. As for the principles, Jung-Choong Breathing is not very different from the traditional breathing techniques. The distinction of Jung-Choong Breathing lies in its focus on natural breathing in a proper position instead of concentration on and intentional control of breathing.

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Benefits: This exercise will help you reduce tension and stagnant energy from your whole body. It enhances blood and Ki circulation and relaxes the body.

Note: Breathe naturally and comfortably while rhythmically bouncing the entire body up and down.

1.    Stand with the legs shoulder-width apart.

2.    Bend the knees slightly and begin to bounce gently.

3.    Rhythmically bounce the entire body up and down. Sweep the sides of your body with your fingertips as you bounce.

4.    Turn the body 45 degrees to the left and rhythmically bounce the entire body up and down.

5.    Turn the body 45 degrees to the right side and rhythmically bounce the entire body up and down.

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There is a close correlation between depth of respiration and health. Our breathing is deeper when we are younger and becomes shallower with age. We observe that newborn children breathe with their abdomen, their lower belly rising and falling. The center of breathing gradually rises as children grow older. This change proceeds from what is called “abdominal breathing” to “chest breathing,” and then to “shoulder breath-ing.”

If you watch people of advanced age, or patients who are seriously ill, you will see that their shoulders rise and fall as they breathe. This indicates how shallow their respiration has become. In Korean, the shallowest respiration is called Mok-sum, or “throat breathing.” When respiration becomes shal­lower than this, a person dies. His or her Mok-sum, or “throat breathing,” is cut off.

Breath-work is a simple discipline that allows us to train our­selves to breathe in a certain way, essentially to keep our breath­ing naturally deep. As a basic principle, respiration should be deep, light, and natural. Breathing that is natural, and yet deep and light, is healthy. It may seem that breathing both deeply and lightly is contradictory}’. We associate deepness with heavi­ness, and connect lightness with shallowness. This principle of deepness and lightness might seem at odds with itself. How is such breathing possible?

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