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An skilled herbalist with many years of experience will correct the problem. They are usually trained the traditional way: master to apprentice. Finding one is a daunting task. I do wish the OP the best here. He screwed up completely his energetic system by learning wrong practices from books.

Go seek TCM treatment to resolve all the stagnation you have. There are very effective HERBAL formulas available to clear damp-heat. Use only herbs not PILLS as they aren't effective. The TCM doctor will give you instructions about how to decoct the fresh herbs. DO NOT SELF-MEDICATE or you'll further aggravate the problem.

Relax as much as you possibly can. I'm no Xingyi practitioner but my teacher is (Xingyi and Ba Gua). I learnt the latter from him. When I asked him about how he trained Santi Shi he said: I had to ride my bike for 90 min to get to the park facing the ocean in Perth, Australia to learn Xingyi with my uncle; I was tired and tense but the practice helped me relaxed a lot. At one point I was able to stand and have no feeling of the body at all, that's how much relaxation and practice facing the ocean helped me to progress.

This is the only place I found online: http://www.istanbultaichi.com/index.php?l=en Sure you can try Facebook for more teachers and internal systems but I can't help you here since I'm not a member of that social network. Anyway, best of luck!

Anything that is gentle really as bones are related to the Kidneys (Water in Wu Xing). Tai Chi Chuan is a good practice. For example: https://www.onlinetaichilessons.com/ This is a streaming program. Intro:

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

Final section released by the Mu Shin Martial Culture video series about Ba Gua Zhang: A Kung Fu Master's Tomb - The Legacy of Ba Gua Zhang The rest of rhe videos are the following: 1. Last Master of a Generation - Li Zi Ming ep. 1 2. The Prince & The Kung Fu Master 3. Last Master of a Generation - Li Zi Ming ep. 2 4. Last Master of a Generation - Li Zi Ming ep. 3 5. Last Master of a Generation - Li Zi Ming ep. 4 6. Ba Gua Zhang Weapons Enjoy!

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!

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/ ....................................................... 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.

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.

I forgot: -Find a good real life teacher. https://rumsoakedfist.org/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=01928906b876eb79d501e7d6e0835248 -Supplement your practice with HJH's foundation work. When you become more advanced you'll understand his teachings better. Give me some time and I'll link some videos of him that will be easy for you to do and understand. You can start with the "tree squat" exercise I linked above. Do it every day, several times a day. It's all you ever need.

Keep doing the body cultivation and watch and observe that sense of euphoria...and let them go. It's only one small aspect of the greater picture. The problem starts when people start clinging to them. You are smart about being only interested in the body cultivation. That's the spirit of a true warrior!

The Story of Ba Gua Zhang - Dong Haichuan part 1 It is a four-part series released by the Chinese Mu Shin Martial Culture in 2020. They are broken down in six videos with the following content: -Parts 1 & 2. The official founder of the Internal Art, Dong Haichuan. -Part 3. Yin Fu. One of Dong's main students. -Part 4. Cheng Tinghua. The second main student of Dong. -Part 5. Sun Lutang. -Part 6. Li Cunyi & Guo Zhenya. I have only linked the first video of the series. The rest are available on YT.

Five toes is correct. Please refer to the azure dragon of the Qing dynasty: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Dragon

I have stated in my last post to start right from the beginning (2005 he posted his first video). He Jinghan ran also a blog which is no longer active. It contained very good videos for total beginners, something like this which is in essence the same exercise: However this exercise must be performed very slowly, using the kua and waist area rather than the legs. Stay in the squat position as long as you like and then go up again very slowly. There was another video that involved performing Pu Bu in the squat position while holding the tree. Brilliant exercise!

Kundalini is shit. Stay away from that eastern ungrounded crap.

it means little, I mean the formula. As a TCM practitioner you should well know that the organs have an specific function and if (as most humans) you reverse that function, herbs and acupuncture will do little to nothing, I'm afraid. It's like patching an old road. The problem keeps coming back. To really repair the road you need to build a new foundation. For role of the Spleen is ascending. If it descends all the organs will collapse and WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM HERE. Damn serious. How to make sure Spleen Qi ascends and the Stomach and Liver Qi are descending? A: gong fu. Hard work. Ba Gua and Xingyi are top kung fu practices that enable the natural flow of the creative cycle of the Five Forces/Spirits. One needs to break bad habits to re-enable the correct flow of the internal organs and they are usually caused by incorrect lifestyle choices; eg. stress, poor eating habits like playing with the computer or the phone while eating food or right after a meal, etc.

Thanks Trunk. Lovely design. Just please be careful with choosing the colour as that one looks like a Golden Dragon (Metal). It has to be Green (Wood).

Hi Mark, Sure here:

You cure nothing like that with herbs. You actually prevent that by doing this: And before you are able to do that start by practising all the countless exercises He Jinghan has skilfully designed after 50 years of Ba Gua and Tai Chi practice. All readily available on his YouTube channel. The name of this 'cure' is called: GROUNDING. On a daily basis as if you brush your teeth.

Happy to help. From my personal experience, from someone who was so ungrounded that almost became psychotic after 3 decades of living the chair-academic lifestyle: child to adult. HJH has hundreds of videos. Better start from the bottom (around 2005). His material is invaluable.

Knowing how much humans are attached to their PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE and the deep state of FEAR most humans live: Total collapse of society.

Some samples of the heaps of FOUNDATION work you ought to be doing: He Jinghan is a specialist of this type of work. His channel hosts hundreds of highly useful videos. Enjoy the grounding journey that lies ahead of you!

I can't answer that as my practice really started here even though I'm originally from Europe. Moved to Australia in the late 90s. The one thing I can remember is that in 2008 I attended Vipassana retreat in Thailand but before starting the LT went nuts the first night I slept in the hotel. I guess my energetic body was trying to adapt to the moving above the Equator. It would definitively warrant a serious study but the practitioner needs to live back and forth between hemispheres in order to write down all the changes one will experience as a result of living in the opposite directions of the sphere. In the southern hemisphere vibration is higher in the lower centres: lower Hun, lower Jiao plus the fact of Australia being in the SE (wood-fire). Less activity in the upper dantien.