GrahamB wrote:Have you read it?
GrahamB wrote:Patrick wrote:Please, find a real master Graham. Stop thinking for yourself.
I was not born to follow. It seems to keep getting me into hot water
wushutiger wrote:He called this Tai Chi dance "Tiao Wu", I didn't know what this meant but more recently I have become more interested in the Chinese language so I looked it up.
Chuangzu, Tiao wu in chinese means dancing. Thats all.
Pandrews1982 wrote:...
For those interested in Shamanism my student Josef Sykora somehow managed to get my mentor and Xing Yi teacher Damon Smith to talk about his shamanic training and understanding in a series of podcasts. Damon does occasionally touch upon aspects of martial arts and Xing Yi training in the series but it is mainly focused on his understanding of shamanism. He was lucky enough to encounter a number of mentors that taught him various traditions with shamanic aspects. His first Xing Yi teacher was a Malaysian of Chinese decent (apparently his grandfather was taught Xing Yi by Guo Yun Shen) and he was heavily animistic. He was also taught Mongolian wrestling and fighting arts by a Mongol who was his supervisor at university including further understanding of Mongolian shamanic traditions. He studied shamanism at university academically. He was taught by a Japanese guy Japanese martial arts including some really interesting Japanese traditions with shamanic aspects. And he has another Japanese teacher (that is also another mentor of my own) from a Japanese tradition which was based on shamanic methods (though today has become more ritual than real practice). So all in all he's got a shed load of experience with esoteric and shamanic traditions and the podcast is worth listening to. He's a really private guy and listening to the first episode or two he's a little reluctant to talk freely but as the series goes on he gets into it and can't stop talking, telling people stuff that took me years to weed out of him, things like Daoist Yuan Cheng teachings which he explains in one episode but wouldn't tell me about until years into my Xing Yi training!! Anyway link is here https://wovenenergy.com/
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