IQ gong

IQ gong is the work of the breath , a Chinese traditional practice attached to the medicine. In practice, they are movements accompanied by external breathing and intern; in theory, this energy Art enracine in metaphysics Taoist. The IQ gong teaches in Occident for the personal Développement.

The term can be known under other transcriptions, chi kung (Anglo-Saxon school Wade), ki kong (French school EFFEO), kiko (adaptation phonetic of Japanese), but IQ gong is the official version from now on in the European languages (Pinyin, the national pronunciation ). Both Sinogramme S 气功 (Chinese simplified) 氣功 (Chinese traditional) associate Chinese concepts with a vast direction: IQ (vapor, breath, energy, spirit) and gong (to attack, work, exercise, discipline).

Origins

The IQ gong comes from the gymnastics taoists of longevity. One finds there the Chinese intuition of the wei wu wei “to act without acting”, presents in particular in CAD De Jing of Lao Zi. The practice grew rich in contact with the Buddhism, it forms integral part of the Chinese Médecine.

By a whole of body exercises and mental visualizations (static or dynamic movements, respiratory exercises, mental relieving, sounds, acupressions, percussions, etc), it aims at helping the people to maintain or repair balance between “energies” of the various bodies of the body. The bases of this energetics are those of the Chinese Médecine and the Acupuncture in particular.

The practices of IQ gong prohibited and were repressed like “feudal” and “superstitious” practices during the Cultural revolution. It is in an economic context of relaxation, shortly after the first liberal reforms and the first appearance of the unemployment which the IQ gong in China reappears. The authorities there see a good way of proposing the Chinese culture and take part in its promotion through the “Living rooms of the health” which are devoted to him to beginning of the year 90. A school of IQ gong is detached clearly by its religious doctrines: the movement Shelly sand gong. In the seven years space, it counts approximately 80 million practitioners. In 1999, starts the great repression of this movement as well as majority of the other methods of IQ gong with the Chinese authorities.

Practical

To arrive at the harmony of the gesture and the breath, the attention goes simultaneously on the various parts of the body implied in the movement and perceived overall like a unit, so that the movement is never “mechanical”, but becomes “organic”. Being based neither on the physical force nor on the performance, the IQ gong is accessible to all (young people or less young people, or not sporting sportsmen).

The IQ gong is a whole of energy exercises based on an association between:

soft, natural, very slow and slackened movements;
breathing (abdominal, regular and major breathing) synchronous with the movements;
concentration which directs the IQ - the “breath” - inside the body;
of the Massage S by Acupression, or muscular general massage.

Certain forms use also the song (like the Kotodama) or the cry, near to very famous the Kiai Japanese, ironically called “cry which kills” by the Britanniques 19th century.

It combines mental relieving, the body easing and the pleasure of being driven in harmony in space, with a major energy work of revitalization of the internal bodies.

According to its followers, the IQ gong is a way of personal blooming, a source of wellbeing and youth. At the end of a regular practice, the IQ gong brings:

more tonicity and less nervous tensions;
more flexibility and of balance;
a calm interior;
a greater capacity of concentration and self-confidence;
a better body conscience;
the development of the memory of the gestures.

Styles

There exist various alternatives or schools today:

the IQ gong of influence taoist (sequences or series of exercises varied based on repetitions of movements using breathings and great movements fluid and flexible of which the goal is to improve health while progressing on the spiritual level);
the IQ Buddhist gong of influence (old forms of IQ gong, as practiced by the buddhist monks of the monastery of Shaolin);
the IQ martial gong (to reinforce the body and its resistance to the external aggressions);
the therapeutic IQ gong (training of certain techniques of cure, on oneself or partner) which belongs to Chinese traditional medicine.

All the exercises of IQ gong require patience and a regular practice. Certain practitioners of martial arts practice their arts without practicing the IQ gong in China. However, its practice is necessary to a complete control of martial arts.

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