Junior needs guidance

[Gerard]

Maddie & You Dare?!

 

 

This reading will provide a good background info about what is really going on:

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/g5phfbrb8jz8979/Bagua%2C_life_and_the_mind.pdf/file

 

It's all about the BODY-MIND connection; in order to fully grasp/understand the mind one must master the body first. The Yin & Yang and the 5E are the infinite and ever changing layer between the two.

 

Body mastery = gongfu/daily hard work. 

Edited January 17 by Gerard

[Gerard]

All I could find after some time skimming through all the video content:

 

BACKGROUND

 

Start by reviewing and practicing the following Shaolin Kung Fu stances:

https://shaolinsticksandstones.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/the-five-basic-wushu-stances-in-no-particular-order/

 

 

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He Jinghan's material:

 

 

 

 

Kua stretch

 

 

 

Loosening kua and crotch exercise in Ma Bu

 

 

 

Kua and crotch opening exercise

 

 

 

 

Tree squat (assisted)

 

 

 

Ma Bu squat - squeeze shoulder blades together towards the spine, use crotch and kua force rather than knee force in order to go down

 

 

 

 

Gong Bu stance

 

 

 

Xie Bu stance

 

 

 

Tree Pu Bu exercise (assisted)

 

 

 

 

Pu Bu exercise

 

 

 

Pu Bu-Gong Bu mixed drill (good for kua and entire opening of the hip joint)

 

 

 

https://baguaquanlessons.com/2020/04/25/20200425-twist-the-body-and-keep-the-hands-on-it/

 

Several spine twisting videos

https://baguaquanlessons.com/2011/05/09/walking-down-piercing-palm-下穿掌動式/

 

Similar exercise as spine twisting but incorporating Pu Bu (ADVANCED ONLY)

 

 

 

 

 

Great exercise either to warm up or wind down

Note: Go as low as you can taking into account to your own postural limitations and work gradually over time. Breaking bad posture takes time and the older one gets the harder it is. Don't force yourself into any of the linked exercises. Take it easy. Tedious repetitive work yields the desired results.

 

[Gerard]

Opening and strengthening the Kua

 

 

I'll finish here. I couldn't go down past 2021 on YT, so either HJH has removed all the old content which is very unfortunate or YT has in place limitations that won't allow to display older content. 
 

Hope this is all helpful to you junior student.

 

Happy training!  
 

 

[CityHermit!]

So this is how you share information.

[You Dare?!]

On 1/16/2024 at 8:23 PM, Gerard said:

Opening and strengthening the Kua

 

 

I'll finish here. I couldn't go down past 2021 on YT, so either HJH has removed all the old content which is very unfortunate or YT has in place limitations that won't allow to display older content. 
 

Hope this is all helpful to you junior student.

 

Happy training!  
 

 

 

You are very generous. Thanks for all the insights and knowledge you have given us here!

[Gerard]

Not a problem at all. More than happy to help.  

[Mark Foote]

On 1/12/2024 at 3:30 PM, Gerard said:

 

 

He Jinghan is a specialist of this type of work. His channel hosts hundreds of highly useful videos.

 

 

Really like that last one.

Gautama's description of the feeling of the third of the initial concentrations:

 

… free from the fervor of zest, (one) enters and abides in the third musing; (one) steeps and drenches and fills and suffuses this body with a zestless ease so that there is not one particle of the body that is not pervaded by this zestless ease. … just as in a pond of blue, white, and red water-lillies, the plants are born in water, grow in water, come not out of the water, but, sunk in the depths, find nourishment, and from tip to root are steeped, drenched, filled and suffused with cold water so that not a part of them is not pervaded by cold water; even so, (one) steeps (one’s) body in zestless ease. 

(AN III 25-28, Pali Text Society Vol. III pg 18-19, see also MN III 92-93, PTS pg 132-134)
 

 

My experience:

 

… the center of balance can shift to a location that reflects involuntary activity in the limbs and in the jaw and skull. The feeling for activity in the legs, the arms, and the skull is indeed like an awareness of three varieties of one plant grown entirely below a waterline. 

(Common Ground)

 

 

That depends on finding ligaments that control reciprocal innervation in the lower body and along the spine, through relaxation and calming the stretch of ligaments.  

Pulling the legs up, the arms in, and the jaw down (while the teeth are touching).  Pushing them back out--where are they, relative to center?

 

A description of “reciprocal innervation” from the writings of Dr. John Upledger--basically his experience while lying on salt water in an isolation tank:

 

At some point my body began to make fish-like movements, as though my pelvis and legs were the lower part of a fish moving its tail from side to side. This movement was nice and easy. The neurophysiologist in me related these movements to an expression of what we call ‘reciprocal innervation’. The principle here is that, when your trunk is bent to the side in one direction past a certain threshold, the muscles on the other side of the trunk contract. In doing so, the nerve impulses are diverted from the side to which you are bent, and those muscles relax. Your trunk now bends in the opposite direction until that side-bending threshold is passed. The nerve impulses are then diverted again to the opposite side, causing muscle contraction and side bending in that direction.

(“Your Inner Physician and You: Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release”, John E. Upledger, p. 165)
 

 

Edited January 19 by Mark Foote

[liminal_luke]

I think how a practice feels can change over time, and that's not a bad thing.  Sometimes more is going on underneath the surface than we realize and it's best just to stay the course.  Agree with silent thunder that talking about this with your teacher is a good idea.