Month: April 2020

one of the ways of maintaining your Freedom is maintaining your Health

there are many factors involved

but lets start with one of the physical ones: Lymph

Lymph is a fluid system of the body

it moves through all of your internal tissues

and it doesn’t have a heart to pump it

it moves entirely because the body moves

it has pathways it gathers in

it collects white blood cells that have neutralized pathogens

as well as other toxins that have been gathered in ways other than the blood

and it moves around your body

sorting out ways of expressing itself through your breathing or waste excretions

in this wonderful world we live in now a days

most of us don’t NEED to move

not very much

we can get out of bed, sit at the table, get in the car, sit in a chair all day, sit in the car, sit on a couch, go to bed.

all these toxic substances just stagnate

instead of being excreted

and not only does this give infections time to grow

it gives toxic chemicals time to do more damage

so

while we are well

it is important that we keep moving

even when we are sick

it is important that we keep moving

the more fully the body moves

the more fully the lymph is moved

the more fully the tissues are cleaned

the healthier the body can be

simple: if you like dancing

make sure you put on a song every day

and keep yourself dancing to it

better

do that a few times a day

if you’re not that into dancing

or want something more focused

i recommend starting with this:

Simple Daily Movements

i’ve got a lot of feedback from friends and friends-of-friends telling me that they do this regularly and love how it makes them feel

it’s a set of simple movements i cobbled together from something someone taught me

he came from a body-centered psychology modality

and he used four movements to get people into their body if they were too stuck in their heads

(yes, many people’s bodies are just life support systems for their heads. . .)

i’ve been practicing yoga since i was 18

and formally practicing qigong for the last 7 years

so i adapted these movements he showed me

adding aspects i enjoyed from qigong

and made this 8 minute video

teaching how to do these movements

a simple little practice you can do in your own home with little space

nothing too complicated

although

the first time i made an instsruction video for these was last summer

and by the time i made one with clothes on

i had been practicing these every day

and they had grown and changed

this video was made in December of 2019

since then

i have modified a few of the movements even further

working more with the spiral concept

which is a great way to move the lymph through the body

but also helps unbind fascia

if you’ve already seen this video

this is what i’ve added in the last few months:

the movement where the body is vertical

and the arms are going up and down, twisting the wrists and fingers to wring out the arms as the neck and spine are getting wrung out

i am now also twisting the pointed foot

rotating the heel out as i turn

paying more attention to rotating more fully on the grounded leg

keeping those toes pointing forward

feeling the spiral in the fascia all the way up to the hip

the sand helped me do this

but any smooth surface will also work with not too much pressure on the pointed toes

also

the arm chan suu chin spirals i’ve now made more 3D

where as i used to just wring the arm out horizontally from he mid line latterally out

now i feel i can make circles with the hands on a horizontal plane

and/or more spherical.

i still do the lateral movements, swaying the hips, dancing from pointed toes on one side to the other

in the horizontal position, i keep the feet grounded and do a full spine rotation, the hand movements: i aim the hand towards the arm pit and send it directly back behind me before wringing it out. the momentum feels great.

in the spherical movements, i just play and get the whole body into it

perhaps i wil make another video.

or facebook live. . .

would you like more videos or more written description?

or both?

also

if you want a more full body version of spiral moving lymph pumping

another practice i do every day

is Chan Suu Chin (silk reeling) taught from Master Jo by David Chandler

i haven’t made an instruction video for it yet

but i have a demonstration of me doing it when i was first learning it

the set you can see me doing here

was from when i was doing this about seven times a day

so really got it in my system

as my practice has progressed

instead of doing it like this

i do each of the movements, alternating from one side to the other, about 9 times each

sometime more, sometimes less

sometimes i’m tired, sometimes i just lose count

there are many factors in play

in this video you see me doing it once

in the description there is a link to buy the teaching video from David Chandler

he’s beautiful and a great teacher

still i would be happy to make an instruction video and written description if you would like

just let me know

also

there is this video

which is more familiar exercises. i made this for a guy to show him how i work out: he was complaining he couldn’t go to his gym and didn’t know how to work out at home.

something short and simple you can do on the floor of your apartment.

may you be healthy

may you be free