Bamboo Stick Exercises

June Mitchell demonstrates and explains the 16 Qi Gong exercises often practiced in the Plum Village Tradition.

This Qi Kong method, also known as “Life Sustaining Way of the Heart”, consists of four sets of four exercises based around the use of a long light stick.

Origin The movements in this Qi Kong method were created by the Vietnamese pracitioner Mai Bac Dau, and revised by Zen master Thich Tinh Tu, of Kim Son Monastery in California, where many monks and nuns have mastered this form.

Filmed and edited by Mike Bell, with thanks.