that last bit of the tailbone was fused and keeping things disconnected
That last bit..... It will be a big step forward once it is activated. But it takes years.
that last bit of the tailbone was fused and keeping things disconnected
origami_itto wrote:I am rambling about my practice. I just love this shit. The marvels are endless, right?
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掌握的理解
唐风驰 杨式望脉太极拳的主要特点是“点破”,所谓“学以点”
“段段锦才是真教”,段锦的核心是入门,如何真正上手,既困扰着学习者,又让大家无所适从。
understanding of mastery
Tang Fengchi The main feature of Yang-style Wangmai Taijiquan is "point and break", the so-called "learning through point
"Duan Duan Jin is the true teaching", the core of Dian Duan Jin is getting started, and how to really get used to it,
which both haunts the learners and makes everyone at a loss as to what to do.
我上面说的只是我自己的理解,不一定正确。 用朱老师的话来说,“太极拳的魅力在于学不会,学得快,就没人练了。” 初入境界,“不求不得,不求不得”,“不求不得” 修之,修之不得”,需要用心体会,所谓渐悟、悟道。 但也不是理解了就完全理解了。 不同的阶段有不同的理解,需要一点一点慢慢细化。 因此,入门应该是各位爱好者毕生的追求。 无尽的。
]In Master Zhu's words, "The charm of Tai Chi is that you can't learn it. If you learn it quickly, no one will practice it." The state of getting started, "you can't get it if you don't ask for it, you can't get it if you don't ask for it", "you can't get it if you don't practice it, and you can't get it after practicing it", you need to understand it with your heart, the so-called gradual enlightenment and enlightenment.
But it’s not that once you understand it, you will understand it completely.
Different stages have different understandings, which need to be gradually refined bit by bit.
Therefore, getting started should be the lifelong pursuit of fellow enthusiasts. endless.
Giles wrote:Sounds like a very nice progression, Origami. A pity there's no chance of a nice tuishou exchange.
With regard to heavy or light, to the question of either/or:
The way I'm developing is that I increasingly feel a heaviness inside me and also a lightness. In principle simultaneously, synergetically. The result is a kind of subjective ease of movement and, I think, increasingly less inner friction in joints and tissues.
When in physical contact with others, I can let them feel the heaviness, making me very hard to move and also putting a lot of felt mass and impetus behind issued force, or I can let them feel the lightness so that they can touch me but feel very little substance.
-- As always, this is my direction but not something I can always realise fully - also depends a little on the day and the direction of the wind...
origami_itto wrote:
OH AND ALSO, what Ray Hayward teaches as the "I Chuan Standing Meditation" ZZ has gotten deeper for me. It starts with arms at the sides, then fingers pointing at each other in front like carrying groceries, then holding the tree, then thumb and forefingers suggesting a triangle around brow height. Doing those postures "brings it up". It feels like the specific way the posture causes the energy of gravity pulling down, combined with relaxation, shifts the pieces into the right slots from the bottom up, leading to that feeling of solidity through the frame. Combined with the constant expansion, together, something is happening.
I feel like I had a good spine to tailbone stretch, good connection between the arms across the back into the spine, good legs, but that last bit of the tailbone was fused and keeping things disconnected. I had several better push hands players tell me to loosen it up so I've been working on it every way I can figure.
I am rambling about my practice. I just love this shit. The marvels are endless, right?
A decent osteopath and/or craniosacral practitioner would probably be able to free up and reintegrate your tailbone in 2 or 3 sessions
suckinlhbf wrote:A decent osteopath and/or craniosacral practitioner would probably be able to free up and reintegrate your tailbone in 2 or 3 sessions
They can mobilize the joints but getting the torque for the movements is necessary to develop the body into a big elastic band. CMA wants elasticity on stretching over relax on stretching.
A skilled and experienced osteopath or craniosacral practictioner, or indeed a practitioner of many other well-founded bodywork methods
suckinlhbf wrote:tied up in their connection to the ground they actually become detached from it
It is exactly what have happened. Trying to drop but can't and feel like stand on a bouncing ball.
Giles wrote:Maybe we're all pretty much on the same page. I'm certainly not claiming that any of the cited bodywork methods - which I think are excellent and potentially highly beneficial in many aspects - will in themselves lead to the kind of changes and development most of us aim for in CMA. That can only be achieved by long and targeted training (unless you happen to be a 1 in 10,000 natural talent). What I'm saying is that good bodywork sessions (you usually need at least 3, or maybe more) can help to free up many systems in the body, sometimes to dissolve blockages or 'wonky' structures that can be very hard to reach or change just by one's own training efforts. (Unless you can train for hours a day, for months and years, in which case you'll probably be fine anyway). By removing blockages etc, good bodywork can kind of create 'fresh, fertile soil' in the body, or more 'open space' to use another metaphor, that can then be taken more easily in the right direction by your own training.
Remember, my original remark was prompted by Origami's account of his apparently blocked or 'stuck' tailbone. This is a typical instance where one of these methods could quite possibly reconfigure the matrix of fascia directly around and also further away from the tailbone. The resulting increased mobility and responsiveness could then propagate up the spine and down the legs, and specific CMA training can then reintegrate and recruit this area in a way that supports good training results.
Actually I've trained and practiced in craniosacral bodywork/therapy, although it's been on the back burner since Covid-19. So my observations are based on experience both in my own body and with people I've treated or have been treated by others.
That's half the work, IMHO, getting off your tip toes inside. Then expanding from the dantien out is the other
My first teacher was an osteopath chiropractor and acupuncturist and I was his apprentice in the clinic
After that I apprenticed to the Dean of two Osteopathic colleges in Sydney
I have 3 students who are craneosacral practitioners
I had 3 osteopaths in my Sydney class who came to me for their adjustments
Alexander,Feldenkrase and so many other body work methods have been in my classes
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