By stretching various parts of the body, it serves as a warm-up exercise before training, but some misogi (purification ceremony) gyoho (method of ascetic practice) of Shinto such as 'torifune' (bird rowing misogi exercise) and 'furutama' (soul shaking) are included, and it's believed that this alone is effective for the "discipline of qi" and the "discipline of breath power."
身体各部の柔軟など稽古前の準備運動としての性格もあるが、「鳥船」「振魂」など神道の禊の行法の一部も取り入れられており、これ単独で“気の鍛錬”・“呼吸力の鍛錬”に効果があるとされる。