Winter Qigong for Longevity in Okinawa Japan | Medical Qigong for the Kidneys & the Lower Dantian
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video, we're going to be practising winter solstice qigong in Okinawa Japan. This qigong is specifically designed to increase longevity and health.
This is a special qigong class designed to help you stay healthy and refreshed during the winter season. We'll be practising qigong in the cold weather to improve our circulation and promote better kidney and lower dantian health. This is a great class for people of all ages, whether you're looking to stay healthy and energized in the cold weather or simply to enjoy some beautiful qigong in a special location.
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The five seasons, in eastern medicine, correspond to the 5 elements.
Water = Winter
Wood = Spring
Fire = Summer
Earth = Late Summer
Metal = Autumn
Each element represents a phase of life energy, and thus a part our physical, emotional, and spiritual well being. In winter, we have a tendency to draw inwards; Into our homes, our family's, and ourselves. This drawing inwards is a quality symbolized by Water in Qigong.
The ancient masters mapped regions of the body that seemed to channel these different phases of energy. In the case of this "water" type Chi, they saw that the lower back, knees, pelvis, ball of the foot, kidneys, adrenal glands, ears, and bladder, are all connected by a synchronicity of energy. The Kidneys in particular are used to summarize this organic grouping of traits. When we help this energy to accumulate and flow properly, it restores health to all these areas of the body, as well as giving us the psychological gifts of Water as well: Inner peace, stillness, willpower, and wisdom.
You can practice this routine throughout the wintertime to warm the body through igniting the Kidney Yang, or you can do it anytime you feel you would benefit from cultivating this element.
As a bonus, the Water Phase is relevant to our longevity, so I hope you enjoy the scenery of the tropical Japanese island of longevity, Okinawa :)
Beautiful calming and restorative practice. I especially enjoyed the soft lapping of the water adding nourishment to the kidneys. Thank you.
Happy to help your kidneys 😄🙏🏼
Those standing postures were powerful! Thank you for this beautiful practice.
Nick, what a beautiful practice and wonderful way to enter winter. The setting is gorgeous, and I appreciate how the sound of the gently lapping waves of water enhanced your gentle instruction. Hope the leg is feeling better, and thank you!
Thank you very much!
I'm feeling energized with this routine after having spent half the day in the kitchen preparing Christmas dinner. Thank you, Nick!
Beautiful session Nick and what a super setting. The movement combined with breath control and visualisation was super good and calming!
Awesome, thanks!
One of the things I appreciate so much about your channel is the variety of nature locations: earth, air, water, rocks, trees, even Fire energy! Nature itself is so healing and variety is the spice of life! Love It :))
Thank you Nick. That was an excellent practice. So much gratitude for sharing your wisdom.
👍Fantastic! Thank you, Nick!🙏😍
My pleasure!
This is such a beautiful practice. Thank you, thank you. Feeling the soft, cool, healing energy with my hands.
I’m dovetailing on the comments below-this is an excellent video to practice for the winter months. Thank you for the thorough explanations of the how the water element affects the kidneys and bladder and especially incorporating the bear qigong for winter. I will continue to watch and refine these postures; after almost a year of total knee replacement surgery this is further helping my recovery! I’d also like to share a couple of the simpler postures with my students.
Love this routine! And, as always, i appreciate your teaching style and beautiful surroundings. Thank you for sharing!
So glad you are keeping the sounds of nature 🌊🏞 in your videos!
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 sending all the love and blessings.
Once gain, Seding loads of gratitude and blessings for another fantastic class in beautiful scenery. Your classes are all pretty amazing even the ones without any nature background. Thanks for all these feel good classes you keep posting on youtube. They're the highlight of my days. Sending gratitude, happiness and health to family.
Thank you!
this was lovely. I had pain when I started in my shoulders and right lower back and it was gone by the time we finished. I do your sessions daily and they help me tremendously. Thank you so very much Nick!!!❤
Thankyou thankyou thank you. THANK YOU!!!! Gets better and smoother everytime.
You one fine teacher..
Thank you!
The scenery + the waves sounds made it perfect thank you i really missed regular qi flows and this one reminded me of its magic
I just want to endorse all the wonderful comments below.
Just sheer beauty for all the senses & in the flow of movement.
A joy.
Thank you 😊
Mandy, Belfast
Wonderful exercise. Thank you Nick! Now that I found you, I’ll never leave you!!! 😂
Fabulous practise. Just what I needed on a grim rainy day. Thank you
Wonderful!
Yes I agree, this one is a keeper. Feel so calm now. Thanks again, Nick. Love these especially with the sound of the lapping water. Wishing you and yours a happy, merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and prosperous new year!
Danke!
Wow thank you!!
Lovely practice, thanks Nick 💖
What a great practice, and the sounds of the waves helped make it really easy to drop in. I especially loved the addition of the standing postures, as they always make you feel amazing 😊 Hope you're healing up well and able to get some good rest.
Thank you! I thought this was a pretty good one too 😄
Wow, this is a powerful practice! Thank you for all of the wonderful content you share. I love your style of teaching!
Another great practice , love the setting especially the water sound through my headphones , adds to my relaxation , this is my new daily practice thank you 🙏
Thank you Nick. Beautiful cueing; perfect content for appreciating winter, nature and ourselves. Mesmerizing yet focusing at once.
Wow.. another beautiful class.. I feel so calm and renewed.. thank you 💗 all classes are wonderful till now ✨ thank you so much 😌
Been saving this one for the perfect time, which is now. That was so lovely and I love when I recognize certain parts from your excellent QiGong Teacher Training. Beautiful setting and the light was gorgeous coming through the cave stone. Thank you Nick, you have amazing Teacher-Qi.
Thank you!😊
Thank you so much, really helped to calm and warm my energy. Loved the sound of the waves too ❤
Thank you Nick. Stunning background. Wonderful end to the practice.
Many thanks!
a great wnter solstice practice in an awsomw location
Glad you like it! :)
May our life journeys benefit all beings
Yes 🙏🏼💫
thank you sensei for this excellent video ! nice and effective! plus enjoyable landscape ! good qi from middle of nowhere france
Such a beautiful practice, Nick! Thank you so much. (And those waves rushing softly…)
Great! Beautiful and complete practice! Thank you very much for sharing!. I really appreciate your practices combining strength and flexibility with tai chi movement and meditation! It really has everything you need! Thanks again and keep it up! 👍💚
The best thumbs up symbol on youtube there in the cave background. (I see it when my screen was turned slightly to the right) I'm going to repeat this wonderful practice. Thank you for sharing it
Thank you! I have really enjoyed this practice 💗
Yet another splendid practice, Nick san. Great back drop and those gentle waves are a fine complement to the routine. A keeper, for sure!
Thank you! I thought so too :)
A marvelous routine in a rather special location. The music of the ocean is an extra bit of blessing. I do hope you'll be able to return to send more healing qi out to the universe from this magical place. Mind you, the Qi makes every place magic. May your qi heal your leg and Charity's qi flow all around. Thank you, Nick ! Happy Solstice ! And may we all notice the lengthening of the light........................
A wonderful way to begin a New Year! Thank you so much
Wonderful!!! Beautiful practice in an equally beautiful and peaceful setting.Thank you Nick, will be repeating this frequently throughout winter. All the best to you and Charity, health and every blessing in 2023!
Thank you! Same to you ✨
thank you so much! This will definitely help with the winter blues!
I'm so glad!
What a lovely practice. My body loved this one
Absolutely beautiful location, and the sound of the waves made me feel so relaxed as I was doing this practice. Love it! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this beautiful practice! This one and your other practices have become a heartwarming part of my daily routines. It helps me with guiding all the energy that my shiatsu therapist makes me feel in my body.
Great work!
That was phenomenal. Deep gratitude to you.
That was great, thank you.
What an incredible practice, thank you so much for this gift, for the beautiful presentation and your wonderful teaching. It brings such peace and harmony. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏💫💫💫
Lovely, thank you!
Great video Nick...nice to float away to sounds and visuals of another place that is less snowy and windy than here in Ottawa at the moment. Best wishes to you and Charity
Wishing you a great 2023 🙏
Nick! Beautiful practice! The sound of the water lapping was golden! Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Thanks for sharing.. excellent.
Thanks for watching/practicing!
Very nice , appreciated the water sounds . Thank you 🌈☮️🦋
I return to your practices most days and I love each and every one of them. Your voice is so soothing and I appreciate your commitment to this wonderful art form. It helps me immensely. Thank you.
Thank you! Get well soon and happy Christmas season!
Thank you! You too!
Thank you Nick! I loved the waves and beautiful scenery....it is -30C where I live so it was nice to imagine warmth! What an amazing way to celebrate the solstice. ❤
Wow that is cold!
Great practice for Solstice! Thank you. So interesting to see you in that cave. My prior association with the caves of Okinawa was as the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific in WW2. Nice to have a different way of thinking about them!
Certainly! We went on a tour of the underground Japanese navel bunkers there. Definitely a horrific battle. Wild to see all the US bases there now and people generally getting along, despite many of the Okinawan survivors still being alive!
Thanks!
The practice and environment are so lovely. Thank you so much for your excellent instruction and guidance!
great, just great! thank you!
Glad you like it!
A lovely practice Nick, peaceful and fulfilling thank you so much for sharing your Chi
Very grateful for this! Since following your work, this is the first time I have not had SAD this time of year!
Happy to hear that! I was thinking of making a SAD routine while I was in Okinawa, but ran out of time. Glad my current offerings worked anyways :)
I was smiling constantly throughout this practice. Thanks so much! ❤
Thank you very much for this wonderful practice. From Gozo Europe
You are welcome!
Thank you
Dear Nick, thank you so very much for this insatiably stunningly beautiful and fulfilling routine! 🥹💫🤍
You're different, Nick. There's something very powerful about your routines! I have followed many monks and teachers thus far and at first I doubted your abilities just because you're a white man and I am a descendant of Taoist High Priests in China. But I have to tell you that of all the routines I have done, yours truly contains a tangible, mystical power that should not be underestimated!
I can also see entities in every video that you post! You're always accompanied by entities, I can see them, and I don't see them in other videos of other teachers!
You're more than a Qi Gong teacher; you're a Shaman! 💫🪽🤍
Thank you so much for this magnificent and glorious work that you are doing in this world right now, I am happy to share this planet with you!
And now I have a watery blue marble filled with Moon Cream in my Tan Tien thanks to you! 😄🫧💧🪸
Wow thank you, the best compliments my videos have ever gotten!
@@TheNickLoffree 🙏🏼🤍🪽
Thank you Nick, loved this routine, Get well soon !
Thank you! Will do!
What a wonderful practice. I got so much out of it. Similar moves to what I do on a regular basis. Thank you so much.
You're so welcome!
That was really lovely! You always find the most beautiful locations to film! That was so nice with the Ocean singing in the background.
Thank you so much 😀 It helped to have a local photographer show me the spot when she took me and Charity’s baby announcement photos 😅😂
Loved the bear exercises.
The best! 🐻
I will be back! Love the setting and water waves!
Loved it! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much Nick! Blessings for you 🙏
Just found you on the TH-cam and I am totally impressed with your directions. When I put your video on, I will most likely get up and follow. Thank you for all.
1st time ever and I loved it. Thank you.
Can't wait to do this wonderful routine, though summer here in Australia. Okinawa is a magic place-a retreat there in the future could be fun! Thank you Nick san:)
Haha great, maybe u can turn up the AC and make some hot chocolate 🙃😂
Fantastic! Another great practice. Much obliged.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video
Thank you so much. That was really powerful
Awesome 😎
Vary grateful to you . Happy new year
Awesome lovely practice thank you Nick .
This one rocks ❤
Thank you so much Nick, it is a wonderful practice. Loving all your classes ♡
Thanks for you support! :)
Thanks a lot ❤
thanks again nick
Having digestive issues. The colon etc. looking forward to more of your videos .then take further Thankyou
Thank you so much. Hope you are enjoying your new island home.
Thank you! Had to move back to the states for my wife’s pregnancy last week, but I enjoyed our 3 months there!
Thank you 🙏
Thank you Nick! Happy winter. Hope you both feel well soon!
Superb - thank you for sharing this. Love it. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful!
Thank you!
Beautiful exercise! Thank you so much ❤
Thank you!
Hii Nick your practices are just so invigorating and so are your settings
Here I take the opportunity to invite you to Kenya the land of beauty n beasts.. We have awesome settings here too.. You can have 1 with the flamingoes on the lake..😍
Sounds great!
Muy bien, I've done it atleast 5 times now.
THANK YOU!!!DETROIT 12-24-2022
No doubt you are Big in Japan.
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Hi dear Nick, will you have specific exercise for kidney dylyasis patient for recovery?
Hmm I don’t think they had dialysis in ancient China, but in general kidney routines might be helpful. This one might be a bit intense for serious illness so you might consider some of my more gentle routines, even if they aren’t specifically for the kidneys.
Thanks Nick, I really like this practice. What is the name of the form at 16 mins in, with the scooping of the water and circling across face? I am one of your current TT students (diff surname than this name here) and I am collecting notes of as many forms as I can. Many thanks🙏