09/11/2025
☯️ Qi Gong - Wheel Breathing Methods. (Part 2 - Reverse Wheel Breathing) ☯️
There are many breathing methods and techniques. Normally we rely on chest breathing, expanding our chest as we inhale.
On this topic we will discuss about Reverse Wheel Breathing.
☯️🌀 Reverse Wheel Breathing Method.
Reverse Wheel Breathing works in the opposite way of Forward Wheel Breathing:
🌀 See the right picture of diagram 1:
(– Reverse Wheel Breathing helps you experience conscious sensation of the flow of the inner energy turning into unconscious awareness of the presence of a force that holds everything together in you.)
During in-breath your consciousness rises from the tailbone area (refer to the Reverse Wheel Breathing diagram) (1) the sacrum, traveling vertically (2) through the back of the head arriving in the middle of the eyes (3), the third eye; during out-breath your consciousness (or imaginary mental energy) flows downward to the lower energy center (5) in the belly.
Just like the rear two wheels push a car forward, Reverse Wheel Breathing drives the inner energy upward in the back toward the upper energy center between the eyes.
The flow of inner energy during the practice of Reverse Wheel Breathing Method involves rising rearward during inhalation and sinking down forward during exhalation. As you inhale your belly expands and the diaphragm sinks; as you exhale your belly muscles contract and the diaphragm rises.
More precisely, when you inhale, the lower energy center relaxes and is filled with fresh energy and in no time the energy rises upward along the spinal cord (2, Governing Meridian) arriving at the third eye (3) between the eyes. When you exhale, the flow of energy begins to move downward along the front line of the torso (4, Conception Meridian).
🌀 See the left picture of Reverse Wheel Breathing Diagram 2:
(– Reverse Wheel Breathing allows the inner energy to rise backward during inhalation and to sink forward during exhalation. When the inner energy rises upward to the third eye between the eyes, your consciousness heightens.)
As you progress, you will experience the conscious sensation of the flow of the inner energy turning into unconscious awareness of the presence of a force that holds everything together
