PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: Exercise • Vitality • Breathing • Health & Wellness
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Generate Vitality and Strength

This exercise series of movements and breathing has the same purpose of energy generation and circulation as oriental martial arts, but it uses basic calisthenics exercises and combines each movement with a specific breathing pattern. With this focus, body awareness is increased and vital energy generated. Once learned it takes 20 minutes to do, increasing flexibility and balance, and supplying a surge of vitality.

P–Cals (Psychocalisthenics®) are 23 movement and breathing exercises to awaken the core, enlighten the body and mind, and maximize vitality. The exercises are simple, straightforward and take around 20 minutes to complete. A wall chart, music CD, and DVD are available.

Oscar Ichazo found exercising our body in a specific series of exercises that they could move our entire spine. This awakens all the organs that are connected and related to our spine, producing a rejuvenating flash of vital energy, or chi, through all the organs, glands and tissues.

"We can promote the generation and circulation of our vital energy every day in the same way that we tend to our daily need for nourishment." —Oscar Ichazo

Breathing Patterns

P–Cals use breath control to produce a uniform and constant breathing pattern for a rhythmical flow of vital energy (chi) throughout the body. By using the breathing pattern for each exercise, P–Cals integrate mind, body and emotions to reach our best possible physical condition.

Chi–Generating Exercises

After P–Cals are presented in this book, the last section has more chi–generating exercises, called "More Kath–generating Exercises," for you to practice and develop more ways to revitalize our body and mind.

As part of a daily routine, P-Cals offer clarity and strength of body and mind in order to open a positive force in your life.

CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Kath Relaxation Chapter 2 Standing Exercise for Generating Kath Energy Chapter 3 Energy Breathing Chapter 4 Serenity Breathing Chapter 5 Walking with Kath Energy Chapter 6 P–Cals during Pregnancy EXCERPTS

"In our routine exercise, we should practice what promotes life and health in us."

Revitalization
"I developed the series of P–Cals (Psychocalisthenics) in 1958, as a simple and straightforward set of exercises that could easily be learned to produce an immediate awakening of our organism. For this purpose, I found that if we could exercise the muscles of our organism in a systematic sequence, we could actually move our spine thoroughly. Consequently, this moves all the organs that are connected to and related to our spine, producing a substantial increase of vital energy, or chi, though all the organs, glands and tissues. With this, we obtain the main purpose of physical exercise for a living organism: revitalization."

Body's Center of Equalibrium
"If we look into the history of meditation, we find that all classical meditations of ancient Western and Eastern traditions recognized the existence of the Kath point, referred to as the tan t'ien in China. These old and well established traditions discovered that by concentrating on this point you substantially increased your awareness, vital energy, and the depth or your breathing pattern. The vital energy that arises from this awareness that we call Kath energy, is known by the Chinese as chi (pronounced "chee") and by the Japanese as ki (pronounced "kee"). Even though the Kath is not an anatomical point like the navel, it is the body’s center of equilibrium and awareness, located in the lower belly, where the body's vital energy or chi is concentrated."

Breathing Exercises
"A precise breathing pattern is given for each exercise. This supports the expansion and contraction of the lungs when you move, integrating your entire body with the exercise across your Kath point."

"By making available the technique of using the breath to awaken the vitality of body and mind, our fundamental energy then becomes a positive force in your life."

Chi–generating Exercises
"In the book, the last section offers more chi–generating exercises, called 'Kath–generating Exercises' for you to practice and develop more ways to use your Kath energy to revitalize your body and mind. They have clear and concise instructions to follow to awaken Kath awareness in your everyday life. The more you concentrate and breathe into the Kath, the more alive the Kath point will become, pulsating a subtle yet noticeable energy or heat."

Concentration
"With P–Cals, the results you get are proportional to how precisely and consciously you practice the exercises. Important points of attention are the positions of the feet, the patterns of breathing, the unlocked knees, concentration in the Kath, and a state of relaxation, allowing the energy to flow through your body."