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Una pratica cinese nata 4000 anni fa per curare armonizzando tre fattori: respiro, postura fisica e pensiero. Oggi è utilizzato anche dalle arti marziali per favorire e rinforzare la circolazione nella pratica delle discipline. Chi Kung (si pronuncia Ci Cun(g)) è un termine cinese costituito da due ideogrammi che tradotti alla lettera significano Respiro o Energia (Chi) e Lavoro o Esercizio (Kung). Quindi sotto tale nome si ritrovano tutte quelle pratiche, tecniche e allenamenti che utilizzando movimenti e posizioni del corpo, modalità respiratorie e concentrazione mentale agiscono sull'energia vitale che anima ogni essere e che pervade l'universo. Il Chi Kung è una disciplina psicofisica di ampiezza e contenuti enormi che affonda le sue origini nella millenaria tradizione Cinese ed è attualmente confortata da un gran numero di praticanti in Cina, ovviamente, ma anche negli Stati Uniti, in Europa e da una decina danni, anche in Italia come hanno testimoniato alcune puntate di diversi mesi fa nei programmi televisivi Turisti per caso dove è stato mostrato un gruppo molto eterogeneo di praticanti di Chi Kung e, all'opposto, Alle falde del Kilimangiaro con i funambolici Monaci di Shaolin. Il Chi Kung va ben al di là del semplice concetto di stare in forma o del fare ginnastica coinvolgendo l'individuo nella sua totalità fisica, mentale ed emotiva. Tutti indistintamente possono trarre giovamento da questa pratica particolarmente indicata nel nostro convulso mondo riportando benessere e serenità all'insieme corpo-psiche al di là del semplice momento della pratica. Il suo apprendimento si esplica attraverso tre elementi base o principi guida che sono molto compenetrati tra loro: la postura corretta, la normalizzazione del respiro e il controllo della mente. Il Chi Kung si compone di esercizi statici e dinamici che agiscono con questi principi guida e tali esercizi ben si adattano a chiunque: giovane o anziano, forte o debole, donna o uomo. Non vi sono controindicazioni né sono necessari attrezzature o abbigliamento particolari. La pratica del Chi Kung fin dal primo momento rilassa il corpo, calma la mente e regolarizza il respiro.  |
Even normal WingTsun has numerous effects which go well beyond the aspect of self-defence. Physical awareness, flexibility of movement, the ability to concentrate and physical and mental balance are just some of these. Good health is therefore an additional benefit for the self-defence student right from the start. The special forms in ChiKung, which are a series of stretching and strengthening movements, have such an enormously beneficial effect on the well-being and quality of life of students that it is more than worthwhile to give these principles a special status and spread them within their own system. With ChiKung all physical and mental functions are optimised to produce good health. Everything in the moving human body interacts and works together, with the muscles carrying out a key function. We can even reach all the internal organs and the brain via the muscles. All this is a precondition for success in sport, as well as professional and day-to-day life. Anybody who promotes these principles also lays the foundations for personal success. Development of ChiKungSome 15 years ago first contacts were made with a practically unknown but highly effective method of dealing with pain on a personal level. It had parallels with Yip Man's one-time research on the Dim-Mak points. Yip Man considered that using them to cause injury was unrealistic, however he described their pain-alleviating effect in combat. Some of these points were able to return injured combatants to the fight within minutes. In fact this method is practical WingTsun. Muscle-stretching exercises and pressure point massage are used to relax the muscles, which enables the imbalances which cause pain to be eliminated. Sifu Roland Liebscher-Bracht and a number of other senior instructors furthered their knowledge in this field, and eventually it was included in the training curriculum for instructors and assistant instructors. In 1992 Grand Master Leung Ting introduced the Health Siu-Nim-Tau after many years of research, which meant that the health aspect became part of WT training at the senior levels. A few years later initial contact was made with Master Chu. When Master Chu – one of the most renowned experts in Chinese ChiKung or Qui-Gong, who does not practice WT himself – publicly declared that he considered WT to be one of the best ChiKung systems he had seen, Dai-Sifu Kernspecht gave Sifu Roland Liebscher-Bracht the responsibility of organising a third department within the EWTO: ChiKung. Roland Liebscher-Bracht had already been studying the health aspects of WT for several years, had established a WT health class at his school in Frankfurt and was in charge of instructor training in anatomy and WT pain therapy. In China and Hong Kong, and during visits to Germany by Master Chu, he embarked on an intensive exchange of ideas with Great Grandmaster Leung Ting and his Si-Fu, Grand Master Kernspecht. He was one of the first to test the practical application of the then "new" but old nutritional principles which were also used by Dai-Sifu Kernspecht to reduce his weight by 25 kg while at the same time increasing his strength. Dr. Petra Bracht – the wife of Roland Liebscher-Bracht – is a specialist in this nutrition and the principles of natural health. She has developed the trailblazing concept of BioTUNING for easier living. This fortunate combination is the driving force for WT ChiKung instructor training. |
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