1. Sit in a half-lotus position and straighten your back.

2. Place your hands on your knees with your palms facing up and close your eyes. Relax your body, especially your neck and shoulders. Relax your mind. Inhale deeply and let go of any remaining tension while exhaling.

3. Raise your hands slowly to chest level, with your palms facing each other but not touching. First concentrate on any sensation you may feel between your palms. You may feel warmth, tingling, or even your own pulse.

4. Now, part your hands about two to four inches and concentrate on the space between them. Imagine that your shoulders, arms, wrists, and hands are floating in a vacuum, weightless.

5. Pull your hands apart and push them closer in again as you maintain your concentration. Feel the energy flow between your palms.

6. When the sensation becomes more real, pull your hands farther apart and push them closer together. Feel the sensation expand and become stronger.

7. Breathe in and out, slowly and deeply, three times. Rub your hands together briskly and gently sweep your face, neck, and chest.

This gentle dancing is an effective method to control and utilize Ki. Practitioners usually experience Ki as a gentle vibration inside the body. The Ki usually begins in the hands and then quickly moves through the whole body until the entire body is responding in dance-like movements called Dahn-mu.

Ilchi Lee advice that enlightenment is not far away. It could not be closer. Stop putting your own enlightenment off and choose to acknowledge it – this is the first step. This choice will bring you clear-sightedness to see the world as it really is, and to honestly judge what you have done so far. It will show you where you want to go in the future.

Education develops character in humans. Thus, the educational system should be the first thing that is changed. Parents must once again take on the role of educators, enlightened educators who can communicate their Earth-Human awareness to their children. An Earth-Human parent is a teacher, healer, and an activist at home. They are healers skillful enough to care for their family’s mental and spiritual health, and activists who live what they teach. When parents fulfill their roles as teachers, healers, and activists, homes will compel society to recover its lost role as a living, vibrant community. Change at home will translate to change other parts of society. Home will be a rich and fertile field from which the seeds of Earth-wide change will sprout.

The eight sets of Ilchi Ki-gong express the philosophy and principles of creation, education, and civilization. The principles of creation, education, and civilization gave birth to a philosophy and spirit of enlightenment and became the founding ideology of a nation in Korean antiquity. The principle of creation involves the concept that there are three intrinsic elements of harmony, rather than a dichotomous structure of competition and confrontation. It is a universal principle of life and enlightenment, in which humanity, nature, and the cosmos blend together. The principle of education involves sharing with the world and educating people in this philosophy and principle of enlightenment. According to the principle of civilization, this philosophy of enlightenment forms the basis of a social system in which all members live to perfect their lives as human beings. Each and every movement of Ilchi Ki-gong contains such profound philosophical principles.

A trap into which Ki-gong practitioners readily fall is remaining at the level of Ki once they learn to feel and harness it, as if Ki were everything. This is only the beginning of genuine practice, however. As our practice deepens, we come to experience a great number of miraculous, spiritual phenomena. When this happens we encounter great confusion, like a person looking for a needle in a haystack, unless we are armed with the right mindset and correct principles.

Exhaling, open your right fist and press forward with the center of the palm of your hand. At the same time, form your left hand into a r^   fist and bring it to your left hip. Repeat this two more times.

With this closing posture, we return to the breathing we use in everyday life by exhaling the last 20 percent of the air in our lungs, which remained in our bodies during Dahn-gong by Ilchi lee.

Simultaneously relax your hands and shoulders, drop your head, and exhale the remaining 20 percent of the air in your lungs. With your head dropped toward your chest, feel the sensation being transmitted to your spine. Repeat these movements three times.

Breathe out, lowering your hands as if pushing the air out of a bag, and stop when you have exhaled 80 percent of the air in your lungs.

It is easy to understand the system of meridians and acupressure points if you imagine the body as representing land. The meridians would be the main roads while the acupressure points are the bus stops. Just as goods and merchandise are transported across a highway system, our body can supply energy to the organs and different parts of the body through meridians. If energy flows well through the meridians, it is distributed evenly throughout the body, helping the body and brain to maintain their optimal conditions.

Our body consists of twelve main meridians and eight secondary meridians. The twelve main meridians are each associated with a principle internal organ and are named accordingly. These twelve meridians run on both sides, symmetrically on either side of the body. Energy flows constantly through them.

I want suggest starting a practice like Dahn yoga. Consistent practice is the best way to take care of our body and mind. I’m sure Ilchi Lee knew that when he created the practice.