Trunk

I've updated edited my little zhan zhuang primer to include relevant external video links of both Damo Mitchell and Sifu Matsuo, to address the circulation~stagnation (and tissue development & energetic refinement) issues, re: zhan zhuang. And edited my own text a bit. Damo's video short made me chew on this. Good.

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@steve Love and light to you, your father and family.

My current view is that the primal motif for core nourishment is the umbilicus, in the prenatal ('pre-heaven') phase when the extraordinary vessels were more predominant. There are remnants of that dynamic currently: 1. a resonant + - polarity can be felt between the front point and corresponding back point ... if done *gently*. You can look at this in terms of ch. medicine, & re: the nerve plexuses that go all the way through front ~ back. 2. this engaged polar resonance effortlessly initiates a pulsing front ~ back which: - nourishes core - engages du, ren, dai, chong etc all in one swoop 3. This is a motif that is repeated, not only at the belly button, but at major acupoints (nerve plexuses) all up & down the center-line. This more n' more efficiently and integrally drives the whole extraordinary vessel foundational nourishment layer. I talk about this line of exploration (last yr 1/2 +) in this public thread and this in my PPD. cheers, Keith