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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 :-)

o-p-e-n, vibrant, struggle-free.

In my case it's from a tight back as a result of poor posture like slouching shoulders and chest. Most likley this is a result of short breath not supporting the mid section. This little piece of wood help roll the tight spots out. I'd guess that it would be good for anyone though really depending on how you used it. Good for you that your back does not get tight. Keep breathing. I also have a vibrator that has two little round heads spaced like the roller. It's great along the spine too which is what it was designed for. I use it all over the body as well before bone breathing with the wire hitter. If you do these two thing before standing practice you'll find a whole new way to experince the practice. Then do the orbit. :-)

Funny i just used one of those this morning. Had not thought of it as an orbit helper but you are right. Have not looked at your instructions but the best way I've found to use it is to lay it under your back on the floor and use your body weight. This is very intense, it took me quite a while to be able to do it all the way up and down without being skiddish with it. Powerful & simple device. Mine is simmilar, my dad made it for me on a lathe after i saw one and wanted it. qi :-)

Dirk's methods are really just being present and working in the moment without any notion of what "should" happen or what a "treatment" might look like. It's often like a ballet when he works with someone, very gracefull and fluid. Sometimes very gently, sometimes, well he goes with what the moment is asking... There's nothing complicated with what he does and that simplicty is very powerful. I'm not a bodyworker per say either but no one seems to complain when i work with them. If you feel called to this i'd highly reccomend you take even a small workshop with Dirk, there is not any good way to describe it, but maybe ill try sometime. He does a week a Dao Mtn. in the summer too. qi :-)

I've had a lot of orbit points needled. The one that seems most used is the Sea of Chi. In fact almost every treatment i've ever had used this point. Also I've had the 3rd eye needled several times, it is indeed wild. Also the crown needled too. Several 8 extra points and patterns, an extension of the orbit. It's pretty standard for Michael Winn to teach using accupressure on yourself for orbit practice. Use two points on the orbit, press on each one and breath between them. Also kinda leap froging along the orbit. It's a nice way to move thru blockages. My first live microcosmic orbit teacher was Richard Leirer (former NQA Pres.). He had me chant the points in chinese on the orbit for the circulation. The notes rose up the spine, fell down the front. Very powerfull. I was in a daze for hours. He is a practicing Qigong healer in the Cleveland area on staff at the VA hospital. He has the "master" title for any of you that require that. He's quite a force with old school priciples and techniques. I would reccomend anyone to study with him. He's someone with a huge heart and boundless energy. http://www.pghc.net/richard_leirer.htm Dono if he has an actual website. I still love doing the orbit in this manner but most often us Wu's 3 Sources Shamanic form becaues it is fun and Wu is just plain cool. qi :-0

what makes you think dragons are a thing of the past???? :-)

the guy is a freak... remembering his shorter words last week as he had me very roughly twisted and crushed on the floor. i was gaging for breath, caughing, gasping with his elbow trying to visit the center of the earth via back of my chest. only said then "you're gonna have to breathe sometime". no doubt. :-)

I've been taking 800mg Magnesium a day since the summer. Cools overly hot liver? Often a suggestion for migraines is to take a lot but im not sure how much is a lot. good info yoda thanks surfing the site you posted & found another interesting board... http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/index.php

I've been rounds with a standing practice. To answer this question would be that i don't do a standing practice with my arms out unless they float up, supported by my deep inner earth qi. Most of my standing practice is in the company of trees as i have amazing new and old growth trees in my yard. i don't embrace the tree but rather BE the tree. do you hear a tree complaining about holding thier limbs out for hundreds of years? NOOOO! even a newer tree complain about those limbs hanging strait out?? NOOOO! i learned this directly from them. they allow the deep earth dark star conciousness to flow thur them and shower the planet. wow cool job. we are not much different and if you open your being to the deep earth qi, it will flood you with a nurturing lifeforce and allow you to do things like hold your arms out effortlessly or a plethora of other things that you can think of... even better yet they will tell you to tap into your own inner earth and allow that qi to support your endevors, like holding your arms out....... but really it can be used for anything in life. also, I'm remebering a iron shirt session with ron diana.... we were 30 minutes or so into 50 minute standing session, most of us were struggling. i was next to a guy that was a life long marial artist. (kung fu) he was obviously into weight lifting with impressive toned muscles and had extremely fast reflexes, (not to mention cool tatoos). he was not a "body builder" so to say but showed the result of some serious iron pushing. ron burst out how he usually did laughing and said, "why is the stongest person in the room having the hardest time with this?" why was this guy struggling so much? he was fit, strong muscles, amazing reflexes and cat like fluid movement but he could not stand comfortably, even with his arms down for any length of time. another note ron mentioned that the people that think the standing practice is about breath are also going to suffer a lot. his point, driven home by making us hold our arms out for 50 minutes at a time was that STRUCTURE was the key to a strong body. i think creating that structure has a lot to do with OPENING yourself to the deep inner earth as well as this physical earth. happy standing, :-)

I studied qigong healing here in asheville with genie hardee and she would have us charge our hands by "pulling silk". she has a lengthly form for it that is very powerfull. don't know where she got it. wow, my hands get charged here even thinking of it.... :-)