5 Element Qigong Practice - full version 

Every morning I meditate for 30 mins, then I practice the 8 Brocades and 5 Element gigong!!! AFTERWARD I FEEL ON TOP OF THE WORLD, thank you very much Mimi Kuo- Deemer, great videos and practices!!!

I just wanted to thank you so much for this video. I'm currently a third-year student at Southwest Acupuncture College in New Mexico and I was initially looking for a qi gong practice that I could do daily to build my qi for when I treat in our student clinic. I've been practicing daily for about three weeks now and I feel my qi flowing more freely and with less constraint. I especially love how you incorporate information about the channels, elements, nature of each organ and their emotions rather than just showing us the moves. I've shared your videos with my friends, as well. Thank you so much and after I really master this one and become more present during it, I'm going to explore the other videos. Thank you so much for these- what a gift!

Coming back to Qigong after many years of depression and anxiety I know I can do it Just step at a time again and again Thank you so much for your gift 💕🎄

This is amazing. I was drawn to Qigong during one of my Reiki sessions. And I found this video to fit what Im suppose to be doing. Thank you Mimi for posting this video. I will make this part of my daily practice.

I had car sickness for the first 39 1/2 years of my life. The last 6 months, I can read books (as a passenger in any vehicle without nausea) cuz of your videos!

@Mimi Kou-Deemer, I have been doing this practice for ... 2 years now? I also started learning Chen Taiji. In the past year, my life came to a juncture where everything seemed to crash all around me. There were a few days where I felt completely alone, and even contemplated self harm. This practice helped me get through that time. I kept growing, and recently, came to another juncture. Today, this morning, the qigong helped me see the cycle of life more fully and give context and wisdom to what I am going throw. Thank you for this.

Dear Mimi, I always enjoy your routines, but today I really felt the need to thank you for sharing them. Your teaching style is so elegant and easy to follow. Once again, thank you!

This is excellent. In gratitude for your offering.

Thanks mam mimi, its best learn excercise every 30min routine a day, from Philippines!

Much gratitude Mimi, am 60ish & very bad physical condition. Your video was delivered with exact explanation of method, theory, movement explanation in relation to all of creation. Love it! Going to commit daily a.m. time for this. Increase time as I progress, again this old Native American Lady gives much thanks to your work!

6 months steady...... still getting stronger.....Chi is discovered......Breath makes huge difference......a remarkable journey that has given me range-of-motion...... knocked out 100 consecutive push-ups a few months ago.....after a great session of Gi Gong. ...;-)

Hi @SocksInTheDrawer, yes - qigong is good for mental and physical health. In Chinese medicine the organs and their meridians all have associated characteristics such as colour, sounds, and emotions. When the organs are in or out of balance the emotions can therefore also be affected. Glad you like the movements!

Beautiful 5 Elements qigong practice. I enjoyed so much doing it! I love how you mention the explanation for each element when we practice. I learned recently about the 5 Elements from Andrew Kenneth Fretwell's book - Emotional Alchemy: The Love And Freedom Hidden Between Painful Feelings. And now I stumbled across your qigong practice. 🤩 It is the most comprehensive and easy to understand book about the elements inside each one of us, in my opinion. I was fascinated by his view on the Earth Element. ''Do you ever find yourself saying "yes" to things you don't really want to do, or feeling guilty about saying "no" to others? This can be a sign of an Earth imbalance within you. The Earth Phase also has a lot to do with our sense of boundaries - our ability to confidently say "no" and "yes" in a balanced way. When we can calmly decline things that don't serve us, or embrace things that do, we're embodying the qualities of a strong Earth. When boundaries are not clear it is easy to experience disappointment and manipulation.''

I have come back to this practice many times. I find the movements so soothing and graceful and I really do feel the balance.

Thank you for posting this truly beautiful set. I especially appreciated the explanations of the organs and emotions in balance and out of balance associated with each element.

Thanks Mimi for these great videos, Qigong is universal! Bonjour from Paris ☯️

This felt absolutely fantastic. It was a little difficult even thought I‘m not a beginner at qigong but I will repeat this practice until I can do it on my own. Absolutely wonderful!

Beautiful Mimi. I just love this sequence. Thank you very much.

Thank you! I have used this video and love it. It is a great way for me to start my day.

I stumbled across your 8 brocades demonstration last week, Mimi, and my boyfriend and I have found it a valuable addition to our daily lockdown routine. Your presence is exquisite and beatific, and your presentation style gentle, simple and clear. We’re looking forward to trying out this 5 Elements practice at our next session. Thank you so much.

your voice is so encouraging yet calm. There's no doubt that you are a very positive and well balanced human.

Thank you so much for making this video! It feels good to be doing qi gong again after a 10 year hiatus. I like your teaching style. I look forward to viewing your other videos.

Hi Paulo, the benefits are healthy qi flow through the meridians of the main five organs, or viscera, as well as gentle circulation and benefit to the joints. In general it's to encourage more balance among the five phases/elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Hope you enjoy it!

This was exactly what I needed! I had a workshop about 5 elements qi gong a few months ago, but it wasn't long enough for my muscle memory to memorise everything. this is precisely what I have been looking for to learn the movements, and practice regularly on my own. Thank you so much. Lovely channel!

Merci beaucoup Mimi. J'adore! Je pratique avec vous tous les matins.

Mimi, your videos and instruction are now my favorite online! Your knowledge of psychological, spiritual, energetic and five elements realities and effects flow naturally and organically along with your exemplifying these protocols. I find them focused, clear, not distracting, entirely organic and natural to follow. Many many thanks! I am starting this practice late in life, which is not ideal, but after a lifetime of chronic illness I am hoping to increase my mental health, physical health and longevity. I have already sent your video to a friend and will send it to everyone I know who is interested in practicing Qigong!

Wonderful, graceful morning practice. Thank you!

You are the best qiging I have found on RU-vid!!!!! I just wish you had more!!!!! I am listening to your book on audible. Thanks for everything you do!

Thank you for this video. This helped me a lot during my depression 2 years ago. I find myself coming back to it whenever I need to clear my mind and get in tone with my body.

Love this movements and it helped me trough a tough time. It brings quitness in my head and give me good energy. Thanks and love for everything.

love it ! you explain excellently! THANKYOU FOR DOING THIS!

I have been practicing for over a year and I find that each teacher does the same move a little differently. I like you, Mimi, because you have a flow. You make the movement graceful. Like when you are lifting and moving and turning the hands. It just flows!

This is such a balancing and beautiful inner work practice! I do this a couple times a week, and feel so rejuvenated & refreshed. Thanks for sharing!😌

Beautiful person, beautiful practice, beautiful instructions, especially including the proper breath work and the visualizations and the effects...the world thanks you for this gift, Mimi!!!

Your moves are so elegant and graceful , accompanied with your soothing voice - thank you

Thank you for your very clear and informative videos on the 5 elements. i have memorized your awesome videos re the 8 brocades and am in the process of now memorizing the 5 Elements. My wife and I teach a Tai Chi/Qi Gong class in Athens, GA and it is always nice to pull out these moves and to have more moves for our personal practice. Thank you so much for all you do!

Te ćwiczenie jest cudowne. Piekna sceneria, kojąca muzyka,poprostu cudownie się cwiczy. Poza tym nauczyciel jest cudowny przyjemnie się ogląda. Dziekuje bardzo. Dzięki wam cwicze codziennie qigong😘💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

This is a wonderful practice, it is quick, easy to follow and effective. I work up last night and decided to perform this practice to help me get back to sleep and calm my body mind and spirit. I did the practice two times in a row then went back to sleep I woke up very well rested and feeling balanced! Thank you so much Mimi!

Every day brings new changes to my body & mind.....I can feel subtle changes happening within.....but my biggest obstacle seems to be concentrating on form and not how many reps.... Thank you Mimi.

Hi Mimi , I just want to say THANK YOU because I've been doing my home Qigong practice with your videos for 2 months everyday . I love the way you explain each movement and the movements are easy to follow. Thank you for sharing your qigong knowledge to everyone .

Tried this for the first time this morning... I've been practicing daily for just over 10 years, but this set made my temperature rise and I came out in a sweat. I now intend to break it down and learn it properly, one exercise at a time. Thanks for sharing this...

watching you allready gives peace, thankyou for sharing this practice

This is the one!! It has changed my morning!!!

Thank you Mimi ! I had a very high blood pressure but since I started Qigong with you I feel very healthy, no more body pain 👏🏼 thank you 🙏🏻 🌺💝

I become so relax and happly with your Qigong lessons. Thank you so much🙏

Soothing. restauring. Beautiful moves spiritually charged with kindness and gentleness towards self and others. Please water your bamboos. They look dry in their pots and make me sad. From Australia a big THANK YOU

Bless you for sharing your wisdom and technique,really enjoy your style of delivery,a natural teacher with a joyful enigmatic smile to brighten the start of my day . Many thanks x

This is so beautiful..these POSITIVE movements are vital to our innergy Chi flow ..giving thankhs 4 your time, energy & love..sharing this gem. Hetep 🙏🏾balancing these innergies is 🗝.

Thank you!! Really love these sequences in reverence to Gaia. 🌹💫🙏🏻

Hi Mimi...thank you for doing these wonderful and tough qi gong videos. They are helping me to keep my blood pressure and diabetes plus walking daily under control. Even though I have to stop midway...I get back into them again the next day. God bless you and your family!

An excellent Qi Gong Practice. Well executed, and very well presented. Thank you.

Thank you, Mimi Kuo-Deemer. That was wonderful!

Благодарю за фильм и Ваш энтузиазм делиться со знаниями с другими , живущими на планете )))

Thanks again Mimi. This is such a great new part of my life. Cheers.

Thanks for your video. I have been practicing this for 2 weeks now and feel an improvement in my health. Blessings!

Merci beaucoup Mimi je pratique tous les jours avec vous!

Thanks Mimi, we love you!

I am a Nei Gong practitioner. This managed to open my side channels after only 3 sessions! I can feel the electric vibration traveling from the hui jin up, up near the spleen into the crown of the head and down near the liver all the way back into the perineum. Very good set!

Thank you for this. It has really opened my mind and helped me to know myself better.

Beautiful! I love your very precise and accessible way of presenting this work. I look forward to adding the element of Water to my TaijiFit class tomorrow! The perfect antidote for a full day of teaching Yoga, Tai Chi, and Nia.

Beautiful forms. I've never seen these before. Thank you.

The best qigong practice, my opinion after hours of searching, well done!!

Thanks kindly for your reply Mimi, this helps a great deal! I love the idea of moving as a right does :) Will keep that in mind when doing this practice.

Good morning from Eugene Oregon. Life is better with your lessons in it.

You are such a beautiful spirit! Love you!

That was a beautiful and comforting 5 element qigong meditation practice. Thank you! I loved it 💗🙌🏼

I enjoy your soft comments and gentle approach. Thanks so much you have helped me get in a positive new groove which hopefully will ripple into every part of my life.

Beautiful demonstration and explanation of all the amazing Qi Gong elements. Thank you for all you do and give out🙏

Thank you for your video. I love it and your beautiful movements. I have just started Qigong. My work incorporates mime, masks and theater so I really appreciate and can identify with the mime- like movements. Thank you so much !

Thank you. I love these exercises and particularly the way you guide us through them. Many thanks

Wonderful. Thank you Mimi. You are a true delight. Sometimes in life its not easy to find something that you enjoy and that is good for you. Your qigong presentation and presence ticks both boxes. I really do enjoy doing qigong with you whilst watching your RU-vid presentation and over the last month or so am doing both the 5 Elements and the 8 Brocades each day, oftentimes twice in a day. Doing an hour of qigong each day feels so good and beneficial. Feel so grateful. Blessings. Keep up the good work.

thank you Mimi for sharing your knowledge . I'm grateful for your videos. They have given me inspiration to exercise daily in a healthy way with calming meditation.

Thank you Mimi for this wonderful video and lovely instruction

Thank you, Mimi. I will memorise these. :)

I Thank you, I stated Qigong for the first time 1week ago and already feel clarity, focus and the way my body is responding is incredable. I am healing my gallbladder/kidneys and liver. So this is a perfect practice for me. Any words of encouragement and/or advise is greatly appreciated.

Thank you Mimi for this lovely practice. Peace and Love to you.

Yay! I remember watching this video when it first came out and just refound it today. Truly one of the best guided qigong videos imo

thank you! this made me feel incredible and it was really easy to follow along. much love xo

I love this group. keep up the awesome work. I share your videos with everyone I know

Well done! Thank you for sharing.

Love all your videos, Mimi, please keep posting more of them.

I finally get to do this practice in my daily routine not as perfect put feels very balancing and every day feels even more powerful Thank You Mimi❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾

Beautiful flow. I have been practicing yoga for years now and moving into Qigong to add to my practice. Excellent instruction. Thank you

Thanks Mini! I must have used your video 101 times. Heal on!

Thank you for this post. It is a wonderful practice that I do everyday. It is clearly demonstrated and insightful.

Dear Mimi, I absolutely LOVE your videos. They are so well explained and executed! Love your smile too, it is really contagious. Please do more! :-) Liz from Quebec

Amazing video, amazing voice, just all amazing. Congratulations! Thanks for sharing

I love these exercises. Thank you so much Mimi

thank you so much for this video; my body is vibrating/tingling all over and I'm feeling so balanced :)

Hi Mimi, I have been practicing the 8 brocades for almost a month and I have observed my first positive evolution in my digestive problems (reflux coming from anxiety and nervousness). I love your voice, I love the simplicity of the explanations, I love the demonstrations,. Thousands of thanks for sharing!!!

How inspiring to see this quiet, understated and yet powerful practice that incorporates healing body, mind and spirit. What if everyone practiced this every day? Maybe the world would lose some of its anger and allow space for kindness. I know it has that effect on me.

Thank you so much for this video and sharing your wisdom! Namaste XXX

Hi Mimi! Just wanted to say you're perhaps my favorite Qigong instructor on RU-vid. Keep it up!

I'm gratitude for precise explanation of the meridians within each posture. I'm practicing similar chi-kung in the beginning of each chen taichi session but our master haven't (yet) explained us proper meaning of various postures so this is really helpfull... This video inspired me quite a bit to do a summary of all things... List of postures and their elements and organs, as presented in video: 0:15 - wood (liver+galbladder) 2:40 - fire (heart+small intestine/pericardium+triple warmer(hormonal system)) 4:45 - earth (pancreas/spleen+stomach) 7:00 - metal (lungs+large intestine) 8:55 - water (kidneys+bladder) Associated qualities within each element, in the order of their nourishing cycle: wood, symbol Azure Dragon, green or greenblue color, *growing* *expansion* *optimism* , tendons/ligaments and eyes (most yang) -> fire, Red Phoenix, red *prosperity* *enthusiasm* *creativity* , blood circulation and pulse (yang) -> earth, Yellow Dragon, yellow, *balance* *stability* *empathy* , muscles (center, yin yang in perfect balance) -> metal, White Tiger, white *refinement* *strength* *control* *courage* , nerves/will (yin) -> water, Black Tortoise, darkblue or black *perseverence* *_wisdom_* *flexibility* , bones and ears (most yin). Of course each element and organ can have bad qualities or emotions when there's blockage or unbalance e.g. for wood it's mainly *anger* or *idealism* , for water *indecision* *anxiety* , for metal *pomposity* *grief* *rigidity* and so on based on whether there is general weakness or surplus of chi or there's imbalance between yang/yin in the element (such as anger when the galbladder prevails over liver).

Please always keep this classic (as well as the 8 Brocades) available. They are my two “go to” videos, I do them both if I can! I am looking forward to do some of your hour-long classes as well. Thank you so much. 🙏

Thank you so much, Mimi!

I am very new to these kinds of exercises. I've mostly been reading books. Today is the first I've sought out videos to see how it's done. I am really enjoying and learning much from your videos. Your explanations are easy to understand. And it's easy to follow your movements. I hope to utilize these video more as I integrate these exercises into my life. Thank you for sharing these videos and your insight.

Well done, love the descriptions. Very playful!!

Thank you Mimi - I enjoy this practice again and again.

Thank you for this. I feel like my body's been craving the water element with dry skin, eyes, and a sense of being stuck. I did this flow just once and I already feel more loose and open.