Trunk

Nice. Not many go as far. Welcome.

Kundalini Survival & Support (link) has articles, discussion forum, etc.

* a virtual brawl breaks out over the coveted mystical styrofoam chalice! * * chairs are swung, bottles are broken, and someone gets slip-n-slided down the bar *

It's inherent in how the human form integrates with the Big Light.

You found a nobbier nobber!!! The whole area just medial to the scapula (and digging under the edge of it) to lateral of the spine (not the spine itself) is full of really interesting acupoints that go deep deep into the upper torso, and deep into the solid organs. Super healthy area to massage.

I appreciate your posts, think you've been largely thoughtful and clear. And, like Smile said, this ain't but a nuthin'. And, fwiw, TTBs is a level playing field: the only authority anyone (and everyone) has is to log on under their own silly pseudonym and type what they want.

Sweet.

back-nobber?

Seems like the obvious and sensible position, to me. The Sun Do line on this area is "just be natural" plus "we are trying to build something, so don't be excessive". It's a really nifty way of saying something short, safe, and not getting too involved in a topic that would take volumes to address appropriately. Any advising toward the area of semen retention immediately gets into complicated territory, imo, with potentially heavy consequences for those of the percentage that get hurt.

There's been much more mixed results observed in this and the previous discussion forum. Over .. 8 or 9 years, many people from as varied as you might get (assuming internet connection). "Dangerous" and "risky" (yet "not without opportunity") are probably not far off from the middle-of-the-bell-curve view, here. Not to invalidate anyone's experience on your side. A mix of views is what makes the forum go 'round.

Uh, Chris?, heads up: Explore practices and share experience & views is what we do here, all of us. It's the whole purpose of TTB's existence.

* wow * Excellent post, whole thing.

Here's a pdf on the acupoint Kidney-1 (link removed) from A Manual of Acupuncture on CD (link). Should give you a good start. (I'll remove the link/pdf in a few days.)

Several feet & ankle suggestions that might not help at all. Lately I've been experimenting mostly with my foot roller, but I've done the same thing with ankle rotations. Bottom line: Occasionally do them for longer (at moderate pressure), until the whole foot / ankle is warm. I mean feeling physically warm. It'll feel supple at the point, too. Then maybe more regularly for shorter sets. I feel that these are good warm-ups (before/after/aside) to assist the earth part of the kunlun practice. (Also what I've said about relaxing~opening the sole during.)

Welcome, Carlo. Read the several Dangers & Warnings notes (link). best, Trunk

Pace yourself; it's possible to over-do it if you apply over-zealousness. Slower, faster, it's up to you. Use your own feel for your own body + a little "middle way" wisdom.

Agreed, and about the safety, too. Lots to like about this method.

Great bit of acting, poetry, from Rutger Hauer, Blade Runner. ZQcUS4chhc4 Got a clip?

How about physical warm-up before kunlun... hmmmm?

Good name, good attitude: you're in.

Another scene from Heat. (couldn't find it in english) vJ9NSWGJCJY

I've been doing AYP's Spinal Breathing (link) with kunlun.

A number I made up, to represent the hit-counter (or maybe number of unique visitors) at TTBs, and still counting at blurred speed. So, that's how many Tao bums it takes to screw in the light bulb.

My experience is that kunlun runs the orbit, better than "running the orbit" does. There was a topic that has occasionally come up, that Chinese medical texts show ren (the front channel) as running up, but the qi gong runs it down. At times we've toyed with running the orbit the opposite way on occasion. A friend of mine who is a student of Chinese medicine, and has some extra info sources, has heard that the orbit runs both ways. That's my experience, at least with the front channel, that it runs up and down... I'm not sure if it's different layers, always simultaneously both, or mostly emphasising one way or the other - whatever. I find that kunlun allows the front to run up and/or down - whatever it does - and energy harmonizes and then flips around up the back, and then the cycle starts over. That's not the only thing I've found the kunlun method to do, but some part of it anyhow. I find that my orbit is more naturally open during the day just being around, more than when I've tried other methods of "practicing the orbit". So there.

Agreed. My comment wasn't meant to be about eliminating focus on Max & the sensational, just adjust the mix some.