Your body and mind back to youth

Vitality health gymnastics, Arirang Hwallyoukmu

In the past, Koreans cared for mind and body through Pungryudo and continued to share it. Pungryudo has a number of practices such as breath training , brain training, mind control, and meditation, and through these people pursued a healthy life.

The Hwallyoukmu is a fabricated exercise suitable for modern life based on Doin regimen, Qigong training, and mind control and it has the goal of helping people bring their health back and to continue the tradition. It is performed according to the Korea’s inherent Arirang melody. It activates self-healing mechanism embedded in our body by incurring autonomous vibration. The motions are comprised of relatively easy motions that anyone can paticipate in regardless of age and gender, which families can enjoy together. This helps ease your body and mind, and helps psychological health. An official of the association said, “Hwallyoukmu is a vitality health gymnastics with five elements of yin and yang that helps us turn unbalanced and unhealthy state of our body to a balanced and healthy state.” It is said that Hwallyoukmu can help correct body posture, strengthen muscles, ease joints and smooth blood, energy and lymph circulations, and allow concentration, and the stability of mind and body. Especially as recently , it turned out to be an aging society with a hundred-year lifespan, we give significance to our joints that become more vulnerable as we get old.

Arirang Hwallyoukmu prevents one of the reason joints get more vulnerable : the stiffening of our body. It helps smoothen the stiff body. “Arirang Hwallyoukmu helps the body back to youth. When the body gets stiffed the mind follows to get stiffed . Through Hwallyoukmu, the body finds back its flexibility and brings back the desire to live which will intrigue curiosity about the world . It will help you to think yourself younger.”

Various activities spread Hwallyoukmu From demonstration team to educational curriculums

Arirang Hwallyoukmu started in 2015 when the association’s president Park Chun-su spread Hwallyoukmu to people. The first group of trainees officially completed a course in 2017 and trained around 500 instructors so far.  In 2020, around 200 instructors consisted of visiting and research professors also completed the course. Aside from these, the association is also expanding its braches in different region by involving in social welfare services for elderly , creating qualified instructors. We are in a process of getting acknowledge of curriculums in preshool, elementary, middle, and high school and even in university. August 2021, the association started a number of demonstration teams named Sangrok and Neulbom. In March 2022, a training center at Sehan University was opened. The Arirang Hwallyoukmu curriculum of training experts, has been established at the university.

Arirang Hwallyoukmu national competition and global promotion

The association holds national competition twice a year. The 3rd competition was held at Sehan University in 2022 and around 10,000 people from 16 cities and provinces participated. The 4th competition invited around 300 residents of Yeongam, and Cho Won-hwan, the governor of the Arirang Hwallyoukmu World Federation. 

Currently, the association is running office in China, Mongolia, Laos, Peru and the Philippines. In particular, the the association is working on signing a mutual agreement with the University of Science and Technology in the Philippines. The association was awarded in the 2022 Global Power Brand Awards by the National Assembly Standing

Committee Chairman. The official said, “It is our goal to promote Korean Hwallyoukmu to the world.”