{"id":803,"date":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/the-techniques-of-pranayama-1778-en\/the-ki\/"},"modified":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","slug":"the-ki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/the-ki\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><I>Ki<\/I> is the Japanese term equivalent to the Chinese qi notion. The Chinese metaphysical principle (qi) was introduced to Japan in the Nara period (710-794 AD) and the Heian period (794-1185 AD). The <I>ki<\/I> concept was rapidly assimilated into the Shintoist beliefs regarding the nature. On this basis many works show the connection between&nbsp;nature and the spirit.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The <I>ki<\/I> energy idea underwent dramatic changes at the end of the Heian period, when the samurai class appeared,&nbsp;flourishing in the middle of the 19th century.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Ki became an integral part of&nbsp;warrior discipline,&nbsp;courage,&nbsp;willpower and&nbsp;physical power. It was also crucial in&nbsp;the conservation of&nbsp;energy and even of the prolongation of&nbsp;breath; essential elements on which the life and death of the samurai depended. In nature, the <I>ki<\/I> energy is regarded as being both a principle of unification between the individual and the universe and an expression of the power of the respiratory breath. Obtaining&nbsp;any victory&nbsp;depended on the harmonious and rapid manipulation of the <I>ki<\/I> energy. These samurai principles have been transposed today into the martial arts.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ki is the Japanese term equivalent to the Chinese qi notion. The Chinese metaphysical principle (qi) was introduced to Japan in the Nara period (710-794 AD) and the Heian period (794-1185 AD). The ki concept was rapidly assimilated into the Shintoist beliefs regarding the nature. On this basis many works show the connection between&nbsp;nature and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[898],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-techniques-of-pranayama-1778-en-pranayama-1734-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}