Hello,
I am doing the Qi Gong exercises in Dr. Yang's book XingYiQuan. However, I do not completely understand the first exercise "Pick up the moon from the sea bottom" / "Hai Di Lao Yue".
The steps are the following:
1. Mabu
2. Breath twenty times
3. Bring your palms close to the floor, circle hands
4. go up with arms high, as lifting sth heavy
5. take arms down and up to the breast
6. circle your arms.
After step six, the text says "Repeat twenty times". Does this mean that I need to circle my arms 20 times, or that I need to do the full exercise 20 times? Doing the full exercise 20 times means that it would take about 30 minutes...
Can anoyne help me here? What I also would love to know is, how often I should circle my hands in step 3.
Thanks very much for any help
Hank