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That may be so, but I am not sure wether you're talking about standing like a tree or about Yiquan at this point. In any case, I am very much sure that very little standing practice actually gives you benefit because of my personal experience, since I come from a very bad case of energy exhaustion of which I'm kinda recovering.

Quite debateable, according to the authors I've read, beginners start with 5 minutes and apparently that's enough to reap the initial benefits, 20 minutes is the next mark and the benefits multiply. Perhaps if you are in excellent health, 40 minutes of standing is the bare minimum you need to actually experience benefits, but other, less fortunate people will improve quickly with less standing time.

The martial art? Yes, I have the notion it's very good for health, though I normally don't use visualizations, I could do with a very simple system, but the exercise posted by Shadow looks real simple aswell. As far as I know Yiquan is a formless martial art, that gets branched into two different trainings, either health or martial, at a certain point, and most of what you would do is standing post meditation, is this correct? I already do some Zhan Zhuang, so I do not see if it would be worth my while to get instructed into Yiquan just to be told to stand like a tree like I'm already doing. Thanks everyone for your replies.

I think 8 brocades looks simple enough as a first routine, I'll go for that one.

Hello, everyone, I just got started not long ago into taoist esoteric practices, and I was wondering about some issues. For instance, I have both read the meditation book by Bruce Kumar Frantzis on the water tradition of meditation and the little booklet on Mo Pai. Both seem to involve LDT breathing in, but only the Mo Pai booklet warns that somehow you can damage your LDT. Is it really dangerous to perform this technique? Also, I would like a suggestion on a decent set of qigong movements that is not very hard to learn, at the current moment I'm merely doing zhan zhuang, but I would perhaps rather another practice, Ba Duan Jin, Five Animals.... I'd like a recommendation. Thanks in advance.