Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks
72 Arts of Shaolin: (49) Method of drawing in YIN
XI YIN GONG
Method of drawing in YIN | Brief Description
Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
The method of drawing in YIN is the “soft” Shaolin GONG FU, it deals with the “internal” training and belongs to the YIN category. The purport of the method is to learn to draw in the left and right testicles into the lower part of the abdomen with a direct flow of QI to avoid their damage by the enemy. During the first stage of training it is necessary to be quiet and serene, eliminate all extraneous thoughts and move QI through the whole torso up to the lower part of the abdomen. Then, raise QI up. Move QI up and down in cycles in such a way...
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...During the first sessions of training you will not have any unusual feelings. But over some time, when you descend QI into DANTIEN, the scrotum will become inflated like a ball. When you direct QI up, the testicles follow it and finally come to the lower part of the abdomen. Outside is only the scrotum. Therefore, enemies will not be able to damage them. In that case you have gained the complete success. Thus, when raising QI up, the testicles are drawn into the abdomen, and when descending QI, the scrotum becomes hard, which also protects the testicles.
72 ARTS OF SHAOLIN | Brief Descriptions
(1) Diamond Finger - (2) Twin Lock - (3) Striking with Foot (4) Pulling out Nails - (5) Ringing Round a Tree - (6 ) Four-Part Exercise - (7) One Finger of Chan Meditation - (8) Iron Head - (9) Iron Shirt - (10) A Series of Blows - (11) Sweeping with an Iron Broom - (12) Hand - a Bamboo Leaf (13) Jumping Centipede - (14) Raising a Weight of 1000 JINs - (15) Celestial’s Palm - (16) Method of Hardness and Softness - (17) Cinnabar Palm - (18) Lying Tiger - (19) Swimming and Diving Skill - (20) Sluice Shutter weighing 1000 JINs - (21) Covering with a Gold Bell - (22) Finger Lock - (23) Luohan’s Exercise - (24) Lizard Climbs the Wall - (25) The Art of Lash - (26) PIPA - (27) The Pole of a Falling Star - (28) Poles of Plum Bloom - (29) The Art of Stone Padlock - (30) Skill of the Iron Arm - (31) Fist like a Bullet - (32) Soft Bones - (33) Frog - (34) Piercing the Curtain - (35) The Force of Eagle’s Claws - (36) Iron Bull - (37) Skill of Eagle Wings - (38) Hand of Sun Rays - (39) Exercise for Groin - (40) Iron Bag - (41) Method that Reveals the Truth - (42) Skill of Tortoise Back - (43) Skill of Deft Jumps - (44) Skill of Light Body - (45) Iron Knees - (46) Technique of Jumps - (47) Palm of Iron Sand - (48) Pulling a Silk Thread - (49) Method of drawing in YIN - (50) Rubbing and Thrusts - (51) Stone Pile - (52) Neither Lances nor Broadswords Can Wound - (53) Gong Fu Flight - (54) Hand of Five Poisons - (55) Skill of Water Separation - (56) To Fly Up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall - (57) Skill of Somersaulting - (58) Pole of Cypress - (59) Ba Wang’s Elbow - (60) Pinching a Flower - (61) Pushing a Mountain with Palm - (62) Technique of Horse Saddle - (63) Skill of Nephrite Belt - (64) YIN Fist Method - (65) Skill of Sand Bags - (66) Piercing Through Stones - (67) Pulling Out a Mountain - (68) Claws of Mantis - (69) Gong Fu Bag - (70) Palm of Guan Yin - (71) Raising a Pot - (72) Rubbing Palms
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