How GiCheon is different?  

Refining GiCheon training for enhanced benefit

  With the remarkable advances in modern science and technology, most of us seem to have developed much trust in scientific techniques and machines (e.g. medical equipment) rather than heeding the voices of our bodies. My teaching experience as well as personal training in GiCheon has made me believe that the human body is the most advanced instrument. With focused descriptions of the characteristics of NaeGa ShinJang, this chapter may better explain the uniqueness of GiCheon. I’m combining my teaching experience together with my Grandmaster Lee, Sang Won’s writings and sayings, which were composed in Korean years ago.

 Maybe you have already learned of or trained in some GiCheon poses. No matter how much you have heard about or studied GiCheon,I would like you to read very carefully, trying to figure out how you might train in a more correct way.  If you don’t experience all or at least some of the following characteristics, you are probably practicing incorrectly. Accordingly, you would experience less of the benefits of GiCheon training described in this article.

  Further, I would like to say that training in GiCheon means undergoing development of many aspects (Gi, physique, spirituality, meditation, mental ability, self-healing and revitalization, etc). These developments take place regardless of how well a practitioner understands and realizes their nature and effect.

Key topics in GiCheon training

1. YeokGeun 

2.  Ascetic training

3. Sweat and Sway (the phenomena of Wind, Fire, and Water: SuSeung HwaGang or immune system)

4. Natural abdominal breathing