This exercise can reduce depression by strengthening your lungs and heart
Movements
- Step your left food forward at an angle of 45 degrees.
- Transfer weight from left to right, as you spread your arms wide.
- As you lean forward, bend your front knee.
- As you lean back, bend the knee that is further back.
- Breathe in as you lean forward.
- Breathe out as you lean back.
Tip
There is no beginning and no end, as each movement just flows into the next. Movements are smooth, gentle, soft and relaxed.
![Flying dove. When practicing Qigong move as though you are entranced with the universe](http://www.naturehealth.com.au/wp-content/uploads/s3-13a_3039.jpg)
Benefits
Doing the flying dove exercise gives:
- a feeling of being free, as you let go of anger and fear
- increased flexibility
- calm and inner peace
- relief, as you let go of negative emotions.
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“Practicing Qigong is so simple and so powerful.
You cannot do it wrong. You can only do it
good, better or best”
Chunyi Lin