Master Gin Foon Mark and the Six Healing Sounds Qigong
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“CAW!” comes the long, airy sound following the slow movements of the Six Healing Sounds Qigong heart exercise performed by a group of qigong devotees in the studio of Master Gin Foon Mark. Chinese music playing in the background weaves through their exhalation. Under their skin, hearts are stimulated by the combination of sound and movement. They are being deflected, turned slightly, to squeeze out excess heat and toxins.
“This is Hapku,” says Master Mark, connecting his hands in the space between thumb and first finger, massaging them. Putting pressure on the Hapku points helps improve circulation and breathing. It also reduces the pain of headaches and relaxes the nerves.
The class proceeds through the sounds and movements of the simple but effective Six Healing Sounds Qigong designed specifically to bring healing to the organs of the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, stomach and the Triple Heater (the three energy centers in qigong, the upper, middle and lower Dan Tiens). The teacher, Master Gin Foon Mark, is a virile man in his 80s, a master of Gongfu from a family of martial artists, who began his studies when he was 9 years old at the Shaolin Temple at Chun San, under the tutelage of the Buddhist monk, Moot Ki Fut Sai. He is the fifth generation master of the Southern Praying Mantis Gongfu system, an accomplished Chinese ink brush artist and calligrapher, and has been included in the State of Minnesota’s State Cultural Treasure Program. To his many accomplishments, Master Mark added Six Healing Sounds Qigong, which he learned through a series of visits to the “Old Master of China,” Ma Laitong, on trips to Beijing beginning in 1979.
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