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Dry Washing: A Guided Dao Yin Practice
Begin with breath, warm the hands, and follow a complete self-massage sequence from the head down to the feet.
Stand Still, Move Better
A self-paced qigong and standing-pillar practice for rebuilding how your body actually works, from the ground up — steadier structure, calmer breath, strength you can feel, one lesson at a time.
Taught by Yurii and Viacheslav — identical twins, initiated as monks on Wudang Mountain, with 30+ years testing Daoist and Chinese martial arts against real practice, not performing it for a camera. What you'll learn here is what actually held up.
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The China Expedition. Autumn 2026
The month that divides your life into "before" and "after". This is a month of raw, immersive practice at its birthplace, guided by masters who have walked this path themselves.
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What You Actually Need to Practise: Space, Clothing, Surface, and Time of Day
Less than you think. A short, honest checklist before your first lesson — not a gear list.
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Why Watching Isn't the Same as Doing (And What Closes the Gap)
If you've been watching this practice in Reels for a while and never tried it with your own body, this is for you specifically.
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How to Practise at Home
The useful question is not how much discipline you have. It is how small a practice you can repeat without losing its form.
How the course is built
Module 1
Qigong
Four qigong forms for different moments of your day — wake the body up, move through the day, work with the chest and breath, close the day down. By the end, you can run any of the four from memory.
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- Dry Washing: A Guided Dao Yin Practice Begin with breath, warm the hands, and follow a complete self-massage sequence from the head down to the feet.
- Opening the Three Gates Qigong The first lesson of Module 1: a route through three regions of the body, with hands, gaze, and breath changing together at each stop.
- Silk-Reeling Qigong (Tian Ding Chou Si) One task, repeated until it holds: the elbows and knees bend together, so the body lowers and rises as a single connected action.
- Qigong Open Heart The sequence alternates between two qualities — opening and isometric pressure — and asks you to notice exactly where one ends and the other begins.
- Pin An Qigong The quietest of the four sequences, performed seated at the end of the day — and the one that ends in stillness rather than in a final movement.
Module 2
Pillars
Thirteen standing pillars, one lesson at a time — where your weight goes, what stays relaxed, why this position and not just "hold still." By the end, you can hold any of the thirteen without the video.
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- Pillar 1: Bao Yuan Shou Yi The first pillar in the module isn't about effort — it's about what the body can release before it holds anything at all.
- Pillar 2: Wu Ji Zhuang Three directions of effort happen in the arms at once — and the stance changes the moment one of them quietly takes over.
- Pillar 3: Yin Yang Shou Dan The same principles carried into a spiral turn — feet, pelvis, and arms organise the stance to one side, without losing the lower back or crown.
- Pillar 4: San Cai Zhuang The feet stand on a narrow line while the hands take on different tasks — and the shared foundations have to hold anyway.
- Pillar 5: Han Ji Zhuang A closed leg position and two different hand positions, coordinated without lifting the shoulder or pressing the elbow into the torso.
- Pillar 6: Da Zi Zhuang A wider stance with the arms out to the sides — and a lesson in sending pressure into the elbows instead of the shoulders.
- Pillar 7: Qi Xing Zhuang One leg steps forward, the arms curve toward each other, and five directions of effort have to hold together without bracing.
- Pillar 8: Long Teng Zhuang One hand pushes forward, the other draws inward — a stance held on one leg, organised around the image of giving and receiving.
- Pillar 9: Zhi Tian Hua Di Zhuang One arm releases downward under an imagined weight, the other lengthens upward — while most of the support stays in the back leg.
- Pillar 10: Hun Yuan Zhuang Arms held as if around a ball, while the tailbone, lower back, crown, and elbows each keep a different direction at once.
- Pillar 11: She Chan Zhuang Built directly on the previous pillar, this stance turns the same support into a spiral — one arm travels behind the back, the other stays in front of the face.
- Pillar 12: Xiang Long Zhuang The legs cross into an X-shaped base, the body leans toward the front leg, and the arms hold a diagonal stretch through the torso.
- Pillar 13: Fu Hu Zhuang The final form in the module shifts a wide horse stance onto one leg, with the front elbow held very low and the other hand pressed to the lower abdomen.
Module 3
Wooden Pillar Work
The standing structure goes into motion — applied work against a trunk: turning, grabbing, elbow strikes, footwork and short combinations. By the end, the stance becomes a real technique.
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- Wooden Pillar Work – Why We Train with the Wooden Pillar Before any tree work begins: why this practice exists, a first elbow movement without the tree at all, and how to protect your skin once you start.
- Wooden Pillar Work 1: Spiral Wrapping The first tree-work movement: a turning of the hand and body around the trunk, with the palm never leaving the wood.
- Wooden Pillar Work 2: Outward Spiral Wrapping A refinement of the first turn: the elbow drops, the hand draws back rather than forward, and the elbow keeps pressing the trunk.
- Wooden Pillar Work 3: Changing Sides The elbow stops staying on one side of the trunk and starts crossing to the other, grabbing the wood after each turn.
- Wooden Pillar Work 4: Reverse Side Change Grabbing from both sides, raising the elbow as a block, and letting the free hand cover the neck — the first clearly applied movement of the module.
- Wooden Pillar Work 5: Elbow Strike to Spiral Control The grab becomes a strike: the elbow lands with the turn of the hips and shoulders, so grabbing and striking happen as one action.
- Wooden Pillar Work 6: Double Wrapping and Control The elbow strike grows a second half: after the grab, the elbow rises again on the other side, tracing a spiral through the shoulder.
- Wooden Pillar Work 7: Spiral Wrapping with Steps The feet finally move: a slow bagua step circles the trunk, the hips turning as the body walks around the wood without leaning on it.
- Wooden Pillar Work 8: Rotational Elbow Strike The bagua step meets the elbow strike: while circling the trunk, the elbow drops, the body turns, and the strike lands mid-step.
- Wooden Pillar Work 9: Five-Strikes Sequence Five strikes strung together into one continuous sequence, each one carried by the same turn of the shoulder — worked slowly, then both sides.
- Wooden Pillar Work 10: Single and Double Strikes A new fist-and-push combination, drilled on both sides by count, then merged with the five-strike sequence from the previous lesson.
- Wooden Pillar Work 11: Nine Alternating Strikes The module's longest combination yet: nine strikes built in three groups of three, worked open-handed, then repeated with a closed fist.
- Wooden Pillar Work 12: Grip and Striking Combination A complete short combination: grab, draw back, strike the elbow behind you, then two back-fist strikes — assembled slowly into one run.
- Wooden Pillar Work 13: Tiger Claws One more technique, done the traditional way with an open tiger-style hand: grab, pull down, step back, and strike with both hands.