Siberian Qigong

Introduction

Siberia holds a particular place within the geographical sphere of the countries of the East bound by a strong energy tradition. Its localization and its characteristics geographical, climatic and environmental, the history of its settlement and its geopolitical and cultural development supported the emergence and the development of an organized whole of practices and techniques gathered today under the term: Siberian Energy Arts or Siberian Qigong .

Historical and geographical context

To include/understand current specificities known Siberian Qigong or of Siberian Energy Arts two important concepts must initially be considered:

the multicultural settlement of Siberia with its multiplicity of expressions of energy work
localization and the vastness of this area and in particular its extent North-South

1. Settlement :

a. The first known settlement of Siberia gave place to the constitution of more than 60 nations of chamanic culture, a large variety of traditions, energy practices and techniques of cure characterizing each one of them. These traditions and techniques contributed to directly work specificities of Siberian Energy Arts either or by influencing or integrating the techniques imported thereafter, at the time of the various migratory flux. b. This initial settlement, indeed came to be added to the wire of time, several contributions of colonists (Russian), migrants or deportees of Russia, China but also India, Tibet, Persia…

the Chinese brought techniques such as various the IQ Gong;
the colonists and especially off-set Russian developed specific techniques of survival and cure: " IQ Gong" of breathing of the minors of Kuzbass: very hard and technical physical exercises rudimentary to reinforce vitality;
Technical exits of the adaptation of the practices of the Russian healers to work with Siberian medicinal herbs and to the local chamanic practices.

the Chinese brought to techniques such as various the IQ Gong
the colonists and especially off-set Russian specific techniques of survival and cure developed:
IQ Gong” of breathing of the minors of Kuzbass: very hard and technical physical exercises rudimentary to reinforce vitality
Technical exits of the adaptation of the practices of the Russian healers to work with Siberian medicinal herbs and to the local chamanic practices

2. Geography:

The geographical and in particular climatic conditions have, as for them, brought to the historical evolution of the additional distinctions: a. The colder climate of the North of Siberia caused the development of internal energy techniques: méditatives practices, concentration on interior energy. b. In the South the hunters, the local chamanes then the immigrants developed techniques fallen in disuse in China but always known and used by the yogis of India: work with the external energy body, cocoons and energy envelopes of the human body.

Siberian Energy Arts, in addition to the aspects and characteristics common in the majority of Eastern energy arts (India, Tibet, Indo-China, China, Japan, Eastern Russia…) thus present the important ones and significant specificities which their contemporary practice in Russia and in the world attests.

Contemporary practice

1. Type, intensity and use of the physical movements (difference with the IQ Chinese Gong, analogy with Yoga Tibetan)

The Siberian tradition recognizes an important place with the maintenance of a constant bond between physical work and energy work. Any physical work or series of physical movements is accompanied by an energy work with the implied parts of the body. The energy processes, like the feelings, are facilitated by a balanced physical work.

This phase of physical activation is often preceded by a preparation and is followed of a physiological and energy balance, even of a specific energy work: our attention, our intention, the analysis of our feelings accompany and can precede or follow the work of the body.

It is in addition possible to find within the physical and energy practices Siberian certain movements or postures present in the ayurvedic traditions and Tibetans. These traditions, indeed, also use they, at the same time the physical and energy processes. It is thus in particular that for the Tibetans, there cannot be energy work before physical work. These preliminary physical exercises, because of their energy component of balance and protection, are extremely important for them.

Siberian Energy Arts, as for them use the physical exercises to relax the body, and thus to give each other the possibility of better feeling and of handling energy. In a body relaxed energy circulates better and is easier to identify, use, work.

This Siberian form of energy work does not exist nowhere elsewhere. It exists in its rudimentary part in Tibet but is developed much in Siberia, in particular around central themes such as:

the spinal column and its flexibility:

Movements of the body, arms are created specifically to activate each segment of the spinal column or the scapulas.

balance:

A great importance is given to balance with the use of positions which require a particular concentration of the attention and thus get a complete energy activation of the cerebellum.

articulations, their flexibility, work with the “doors” yin and yang of each articulation:

A kind of “energy ventilation” is created with techniques of closing and opening of the doors of the articulations.

flexibility of the membranes:

To avoid the usual tensions of the membranes of the body, of the envelope of the cells to the skin, to preserve flexibility and elasticity to them, the IQ Siberian Gong supports, develops, creates, research of the unusual movements and the unexpected techniques for the body.

In the Siberian tradition, work thus proceeds generally as follows:

physical exercises with energy influence, i.e. the attention paid on the energy processes,
energy processes facilities by physiological activation
meditation which allows the synthesis of the energy and physiological processes

Note:

If the organization of the practices (and generally of a course of IQ Siberian Gong) in general respects the physical/left left sequence energy/meditation, this structure coexists with the following classification (nonexclusive of the first) whose characteristic is to stress respective “proportionings” between physiological processes and énergo-informational processes:

" IQ Gong dynamique" : prevalence of physical work
" IQ Gong statique" : prevalence of énergo-informational work (energy work, meditation…)
" IQ Gong synthétique" : balance, stronger between physics parts and énergo-informational interaction, combination of the various processes

2. Extent of energy work/work on the interior and external energy bodies (difference with the IQ current Chinese Gong, analogies with Yoga Tibetan and ayurvedic)

has - In the close energy traditions, work is based on a certain number of energy centers (dantian, will chakkra) and channels (meridian, nadi), for example for the majority of the IQ Chinese Gong, the 3 dantian (of the belly, the chest and the head) and the basic meridian lines. Certain traditions yoggists, as for them, consider the existence of 7 will chakkras etc…

Siberian energy arts also work with these energy centers and these channels with however for final objective joining together all the matters of the body in the same energy unit. Siberian Energy Arts work with the energy of all the matters of the body, including that which circulates in the energy channels of the Chinese tradition but not only.

For example, inside the body, the Chinese techniques preferably concentrate energy in the dantian bottom (belly) without working with the dantian of the head. A very important specificity of the IQ Siberian gong, lies in the fact that he works with this dantian and generally with all the energy of the head and the brain. Only Yoga touches also some aspects of this type of work. Neither the techniques taoists, nor the Buddhist techniques work concretely with the brain.

B - The most significant distinction of the Siberian energy tradition relates to work on the interior and external energy bodies, including the constant research and the development of the connections between these two bodies.

Work on the external energy body and in particular that on the cocoons in Siberian energy arts comes from Indian traditions and Tibetans who, they, speak about astral body, karmic. It has car also its origin of techniques now abandoned in China of the South, brought in Siberia, accepted and integrated into the traditions in place.

3. Connections between external and interior energy, the channel top, the channel of bottom and the fast channel (difference with all the other traditions)

If the Siberian ones work with the channel top and the channel of bottom, evolutions of the chamanic concept of “energy wells” of the Sky and the Earth, it is not at all the case of the close energy traditions (in particular Chinese and Tibetans)

In these traditions does not exist either the concept of “fast channel”. This interior energy channel crosses the body of the top of the head (not Bai today) to périnée (not Hui yin) and connects the channel top to the channel of bottom by not taking the path of the column of vertebral (“Jade Column” of Chinese, “Sushumna” of the ayurvedic tradition) but of the column ligaments which accompanies its way with the front one more. This concept reflects the energy approach Sibérienne well, in what it privileges the most direct possible connections between the energy of the Sky and the Earth. Thus she seeks the possibility of causing the activation of each cell of the body, thus increasing her capacity to lead energy. It would be then possible, with the assistance of the IQ Siberian Gong, to create a large energy channel and finally a great energy center which would include all the body. The question about the manners of making circulate energy through the body would be then without object.

4. Place and role of the meditation in music (difference with all the other traditions)

Siberian Energy Arts make an important place with méditatif work: synthesis of the energy processes, themselves prepared by physical work, the meditation uses the biomechanical and energy effect acoustic vibrations to reinforce and specify energy activations within the membranes of the body, intercellular spaces and physiological and energy subsystems specific.

Two characteristics reinforce the typically Siberian specificity of the whole of these méditatives techniques:

It is not a question of spontaneous and passive meditations but of an informational work énergo- equipped with a concrete and defined goal, for example during a physical and energy work preliminary.
These techniques use the vibrations of the music most of the time. They are generally sufficiently strong vibrations for not only being heard but also making enter in resonance all the membranes of the body. They are also sufficiently rich vibrations or on the contrary specifically selected (stamps, frequencies…) to activate the systems energy and/or left the bodies concerned. The influence of these vibrations is then used in a way active and conscious on precise zones of the body with a definite objective related to the processes of relaxation, cure, reinforcement of the implied parts.

5. Place explanation of energy work (difference with all the other energy traditions)

In many traditions, energy work is transmitted like emanating from a knowledge “crowned” to apply such as it is, in connection with a esoteric or mystical base incomprehensible for the uninitiated persons even for anyone, the bases of these traditions being often lost.

The phenomenon is opposite in Siberia. Thus at all times, the Siberian Masters as foreign come to Siberia were held all to explain of their work and their practices, under penalty of seeing their discredited teaching.

For reasons undoubtedly as much cultural, than historical or geopolitical the Siberian people always kept this pragmatic tradition of reception of the teaching suggested by outside, of opening to the foreign contributions for little which they are adaptable to the Siberian practices of survival, thanks to the explanation. Thus, “to explain” constitutes still nowadays, in Siberia, an quasi-obligatory aspect of teaching for all the professors of IQ gong or other energy arts and not only for the Masters from China or besides.

6. Importance of informational work (analogy with the spiritual component of certain traditions: ayurvedic, Buddhist…)

It is important to mention here the importance which Siberian energy arts attach to informational work: work with the Centers and the Channel Top, cleanings and activations informational, extra-homeopathy…

This work, present in the traditions rather directed towards spirituality (ayurvedic, Buddhist…), is also in the Siberian tradition as well as the energy work of which it is the essential and antagonistic complement.

Being energy work to the Siberian direction, one will thus be able, to more often use the more suitable term of énergo-informational work.

7. The Siberian esoteric tradition: a humanistic tradition nondeterministic (difference with all the other traditions, in particular ayurvedic)

The Siberian esotericism seeks to highlight a nondeterministic vision of the relationship between the man and his environment. This one with the possibility of giving up a passive and dependant attitude to become actor and recipient of all the énergo-informational sets of influences. It can then create its own dynamics of interaction with potentially, any type of external influence and in particular its “body karmic” (with the direction ayurvedic of the term).

This esoteric tradition developed very quickly in Siberia, in particular with the favor of the stays in Russia d' Helena P. Blavatsky. Many people also nourished this tradition of which the Russian writer Alice A. Bailey and painters Nicolai and Helena Rerich which passed their life to travel to India, in Tibet, and China in the search of esoteric knowledge.

This shutter esoteric makes it possible Siberian energy arts to leave the way open to the development of the person without limits fixed a priori.

Appendices

External bonds

''' International federation of Siberian Energy Arts '''

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