Jeremiah

Hey Ya'll, Just puting something cool out there for you... Joyce Gayheart is hosting a Fusion of the Five Elements 1 workshop this weekend here in Asheville, NC. Sept. 16 & 17 Sat. and Sunday. Joyce is a great teacher and has a gentle, nurturing non-forcefull way about her and her teaching. I really enjoy Joyce's methods of "inviting" things to happen. If interested you should contact Joyce thru her website at : http://www.joycegayheart.com/ hope to see you there...sorry ive been off the boards for a while, ill try and check in a bit again, lots of new stuff to share... In our Light Mike Teeters :-) ->>>------->

There is a DVD for the Wu's Fire Dragon form. It was made here in Asheville a couple of years ago and at the same time the Shamanic Orbit was taped. I would not attempt to learn the Fire Dragon from DVD though. It's rather complicated and you want the direct live transmittion. I did put the Shamainc Orbit booklet together for Wu a couple of years ago. It was his first publication in English. We stayed up for 3 days doing it then played music for a couple of days before the NQA conference. I just mixed down the music sessions, still deciding what to do with it. Yea Craig, i too aspire to move like Wu. He carries himself with a certain inspiring grace and fluidity. qi :-)

Bottom's Up!!! Happy b-day bro, hope you've had a good one! :-)

Wu will be in Asheville teaching the Shamanic Orbit and Tiger forms April 1-5. Contact: Cosmic Chi Center Michael Malone & Teresa Gibbs visit artsofliving.com 828-299-7865

I have trailguide to the human body from one of Genie Hardie's bodywork classes. It's quite a piece of work and has incredible detail and a lot of techniques. It does not go into organs or bones but has great stuff on the muscles and tendons. I'd guess any bodyworker could use it at some point. If you are into this stuff i doubt you would be dissapointed. qi :-)

yea like i said i've meditated on one for several hours at a time and i'm even much more of a recliner type. No not tiring, but you do need good posture to sit on it, that's not a bad thing. Nancy tells me today that there are two sizes, a lower and taller. Both have height adjustment. Not trying to sell ya'll anything, dono even how much it cost. just giving my experince with it. The yoga ball is good, i've meditated on those a bunch too. qi :-)

I've used Michael's many times working on his computer and it's fun for those times. But for my own use i like slouching in a bamboo lounger for a computer chair so the ball thing leaves me wanted to recline again. Nancy (the new Healing Tao office manager) has it right now in her office next door and she absolutley loves it. She is on the computer some 12+ hours a day and the thing really keeps her moving and bouncing all day. I noticed a big difference in here energy thru the day with that chair. She informed Michael that he is not getting it back. The thing about it is that it is impossible to have poor computer posture with the thing. Either you sit up and move or you fall off. I'd say it would be a great daoist sitting position meditation chair as it would be very comfortable for long sitting meditations. (& now just remembering that i have spent evening 5 hour sitting meditations there at their house on the chair and was very comfortable.) The one that Nancy has is too tall in my opinion (though she likes it that way) There is a lower version so be sure to check on that. I'm 6'1" so you know, she's 5'8". You can call Nancy directly at 888-999-0555 and ask her opinion as she has a few months on it already. At any rate you would not find it a waste to own one of these, just my small opinion i know michael's hype is over the top and quite comical. qi :-)

Ron Diana was fond of this one. He would have us do it for quite a while, & yea, maybe 300 reps is a good start. He would said that you could chase out every frozen pattern in you body with just this form. Another very simple but very powerfull movement. qi :

how true yoda. whatever you resonate with the stongest will come to pass. if you resonate strongly with a fear, that is what will come into your life, if you resonate with something really good, that is what will come to pass. this maybe one of the few absolutes i've noticed so far in life.... qi :-)

i went thru the TM system in the late 80's and eventually got pretty disallusioned with it. i was a teenager, yeaning for that inner conncetion that had got lost in a haze of drugs. there were several things that happened that crushed my trust in the system but it was good at the time and i had some amazing experinces. it certainly broke of the paradiem that i was stuck in opening the door for something new. but i mean i still have some of those pictures you know where all the guys are flying & man who does not wanna fly! oh gee you mean that flying is really just hopping painfully on your butt instead..... a couple years later when i found Mantak Chia via one of Juan Li's drawings i was like "thank god, this is it". but then i discovered Chia was impossible to learn from and his methods were way to heady and manipulative for me. quite a dissapointment. but i believed and still do believe in his core teachings. he's far from evil though i don't get the impression that he is a guru type other than the people that want to make him that and that is thier own problem. pretty typical to put someone on a pedestal then decide that they can't live up to the admiration.... we do the same thing with doctors. it's doctor this doctor that....doctor so and so said.... qi :-)

"FOODS TO AVOID: Chocolate, sugary sweets, coffee, caffeine in general, alcohol, anything refined or processed. All the good things in life, lol" Oh my this sound's like a recipe for a nervous breakdown!!! I use cold water quite a bit though it's in the form of very cold or rather "numbing" mountian stream water. i get in several times a week, even in the winter. it's amazing how putting your feet in seems cold but just plain jumping in is fine, or strangley satisfying. funny i would never had done this years ago but now have enough qi freed up in the extremeties to be comfortable. theres a deep calm after the cold water... qi :-)

Wu will have you jumping and shaking for at least 20 minutes to start any qigong. You'll also be using sound at the same time directed thru different parts of the body. :-)

You should look into what you are doing to your blood sugar levels thru the day by skipping breakfast. If you skip breakfast you are relying on lunch to raise the blood sugar. One you do finally raise it, it drops back much more quickly than if you had breakfast earlier. qi :-)

I'm glad you are keeping up on this yoda. I was in our food co-op today and the distributer for Peter Gilliam's Natural Calm, magnesium supplement was there so i asked him a bunch about it. this product is magnesium citrate powder. www.petergillham.com He takes the product also and gave a few pointers... 1. you have to boil the magnesium powder in water to break it down before taking it. he said you could boil up extra and keep it in the fridge for several days. 2. he reccomened starting with 1 tsp a day and going up to 3 tsp eventually but that he started dirctly with 3 tsp. with 1 oz of water. 3. if you take too much too quick it may "loosen things up a bit" so work your way up to avoid some unpleasent times on the pot. 4. calcium needs magnesium in order to assemilate in the body and that everyone wants calcium supplements but calcium is already in almost everything we eat the problem is that there is no magnesium for the assemilation. if magnesium is not present when you engest calcium it will pull it strait from your body. 5. he said if you have trouble sleeping it is great to take right before bed. (i don't have trouble sleeping) qi :-0

that sounds great like eight extraordinary vessel or the eight govenors, of course the microscomic orbit is two of them, & yea once the orbit is really open the light awareness will flow out into the limbs, then evenually the tube taurus, both dircetions at once or no direction at all, or infinity......oh gee it's gets pretty wild by then. i look at the orbit as balancing the yin yang swing. that's a also good point (no punn intended) about not focusing on points too much. it's kinda the same with the 5 phases, as soon as you look at them as "elements" they are single parts stuck rather than just movement on the whole. but i have learned a lot from accupucture and accuperessure about focus on a certain point that is stuck. it's like if you can just get into that space and pay attention right there, you don't even have to smile or manipulate just be present, sometimes that's all some "point" needs to open and be free. both have a place and time. qi :-)