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Daoyin Scotland
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Daoyin Scotland Training Academy
Qigong
is
the
modern
umbrella
term
for
the
numerous
health
and
self-cultivation
systems
originating
from
China
and
Daoyin
is
the
oldest
and
most
diverse
category of these systems.
The
Daoyin
Scotland
Training
Academy
incorporates
exercises
from
three
different
but related systems.
The
largest
group
of
these
three
systems
is
from
Daoyin
Yangsheng
Gong,
created
by
Professor
Zhang
Guangde
at
the
Beijing
University
of
Physical
Education
in
the
mid-1970s.
Prof.
Zhang
took
the
ancient
health
exercises
and
updated
them
by
incorporating
modern
scientific
concepts
of
anatomical
and
physiological
knowledge
from
Western medicine into traditional Chinese medicinal theories and cultural beliefs.
Daoyin
Yangsheng
Gong
takes
as
its
core
dialectical
treatment
and
practice
according
to
particular
illness.
It
adopts
the
practice
of
yi
(attention),
qi
(breath/energy)
and
xing
(movement)
as
its
method
and
aims
at
disease
prevention and maintaining health and longevity.
The second group is the Daoist Xuanwu Pai Daoyin from Wudang mountain.
Wudang
has
been
a
sacred
Daoist
mountain
for
over
a
thousand
years.
The
priests there developed many martial and health systems over that time.
Although
Five
Animal
Daoyin
are
common
throughout
China,
the
Xuanwu
Pai
version
of
the
animals
is
very
different
because
it
is
based
on
Daoist
iconic
imagery.
The
last
group
is
the
Faulkner
Stress
Management
system.
This
is
a
branch
of
Daoyin
Yangsheng
Gong.
Gordon
Faulkner,
a
disciple
of
Prof.
Zhang,
was
tasked
with
creating
Daoyin
routines
to
deal
specifically
with
what
was
deemed
required
from a Western perspective. Stress was top of the list.