The Huainanzi uses the term yangxing (養性, "nourishing one's inner nature") to denote mind-body techniques such as dietary regimens, breathing meditation, and macrobiotic yoga. This is particularly important at the end of each day when we should be unwinding and preparing for a good nights’ sleep.

In common with all the various European Dao Yin Associations, the Honorary President is Professor Zhang Guangde himself. While Taiji was originally a secret method of the Chen family, starting in the 1800s it was taught to outsiders (the first being Yang Luchan) who helped spread Taiji first throughout China and then the world. Daoist waidan alchemists frequently compounded elixirs of "immortality", some of which contained lethal ingredients such as mercury and arsenic that could cause elixir poisoning or death.From Acne, to Anxiety, Shingles to Sleep, explore my free guides as the first step in your self-healing journey. In accord with the natural grain [依乎天理], I slice at the great crevices, lead the blade through the great cavities. We also offer intensive seminars for both the general public and as continuing medical education for professional acupuncturists and Asian medicine practitioners. The exercises of yang sheng are considered to be nourishing to qi and jing, as they are breathing exercises (absorption of qi) designed to activate and nourish the meridians and the associated organs and limbs. When you find the low-level niggle isn’t shifting, you still have low energy and wake up feeling exhausted, or you just can’t shift those last few pounds.

Even if medicines [神藥] are not attainable and only breath circulation is practiced, a few hundred years will be attained provided the scheme is carried out fuIly, but one must also know the art of sexual intercourse [房中之術] to achieve such extra years. Methods of neixiu (內修, "inner cultivation") include tuna (吐納, "breathing techniques"), taixi (胎息, "embryonic breathing"), daoyin (導引, "gymnastics"), and xingqi (行氣, "circulation of breath/energy"), which are all old forms of what is today known as qigong (氣功).And so, Yang Sheng encourages you to have the green juice and the glass of wine, a full-on day at work and a night out dancing.

Admitting that while some medicines could improve one's health, Wang Chong denied that any could transform one into a xian transcendent.Methods of waiyang (外養, "outer nourishment") include xianyao (仙藥, "herbs of immortality"), bigu (辟穀, "avoiding grains"), fangzhongshu (房中術, "bedchamber arts"), jinzhou (禁咒, "curses and incantations"), and fulu (符籙, "talismanic registers") (Theobald 2010). Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Shouyang congshu (壽養叢書, "Collectanea on Longevity and Nourishment [of Life]"), which includes the Yangsheng shiji (養生食忌, "Prohibitions on Food for Nourishing Life") and the Yangsheng daoyin fa (養生導引法, " Daoyin Methods for Nourishing Life").