Raise from below the rib cage. This method is the best one if your chest is sitting on your diaphragm, and you have difficulties in breathing smoothly. (Also the others might work, but this works always!) From the middle open up and down at the same time. It is mainly used for pulsing, more than on standing. Keeping the midrift still drop the ass This can be confusing, because from the thumb out is not the same as pinky in By twisting the whole body eventually you let the plates get loosen. "If there is an up there is a down!" Either use the full neck technique or the empty neck technique NOTE! I AM NOT SURE OF THE DETAILS! Dissolve the space between the last bone of the spine and the skull. This in time will make the next distend, while giving a sense of emptiness. Like tai Ji hands are empty. Haven't learned it! Essentially it is a technique to actively push the neck up and back. Giving a sense of fullness, like the irno hands in Ba Gua and Hsing I. The energy is risen through the front of the spine. It is tricky! Because you need to clearly distinguish between the front of the spine and the center or back of the spine. It is the same line that is involved when you rise from the lower Kwa, in single whip (and many other tai Ji postures). This balances the drop at the midrift. Raise from below the rib cage. This method is the best one if your chest is sitting on your diaphragm, and you have difficulties in breathing smoothly. (Also the others might work, but this works always!) From the upper kwa, rising. This is NOT the same line of the "lower kwa-front of the spine" one. But (I think!) slightly in front of it. It balances the tailbone drop , and let you go to 0 point gravity. From the lower kwa, rising. This IS the same line of the front of the spine. Thus if you activate this you does not have to worry about the spine. Does not balances balances the tailbone drop , but the spine rise balances the midrift drop. From K1 the energy rises through the ankle to the knee. The anckle need to be open on the back. Not properly a joint through here the energy rises. It works most when the tailbone fucks the foot pointing here Very important for people who work a lot with the mind and with computers. Drop everthing down, in the face. Drop from the space on the back of the eyes. Every muscle gets relaxed! No smile. Not even the buddha smile that you see sometimes on statues. That smile is P.R. Drop everything down! Drop through the neck to the chest. Keeping the space in front of the neck open. Without pressing the two veins that let the blood go back to the heart. Good to do also when you dissolve, and you let the dissolved chi drop down through them. Raise from below the rib cage. This method is the best one if your chest is sitting on your diaphragm, and you have difficulties in breathing smoothly. (Also the others might work, but this works always!) From the middle open up and down at the same time. It is mainly used for pulsing, more than on standing. Keeping the midrift still drop the ass Flushes the meridians Flushes the yin and yang meridians. This is more about the weight than about where does the fuck the foot point to. Flushes the energy up and down the channels STimulates K1 and with that the raising of the energy Stimulates equally K1 and the Heel. As such it is considered a balanced position. NOTE: This does not mean to collapse the foot, but to stand on both K1 and the Heel! Stimulates the downward movement. Good if you are going to be pushed. Healing Tao mainly uses this. Drop through the front of the knee to the front of the anckle. Drop throught the front of the anckle. Keep the place soft (all the time... if possible!) More than a dropping what you want is a 'Sung'. This is a chinese word that means disperse, untangled. What you have if you take a bag of coins and cut it open with a knife. "If there is a right there is a left!" "If there is a front there is a back!" "If there is an inside there is an outside!" Identify the crown, hands and feet. Note how arts that has a full head has also full hands. Connect energy gat to energy gate. The inside of the joint links with the inside of the joint. The point on the center of the hand links to BOTH K1 and the heel point By slightly moving the fingers connect to the spine. So that each part of the spine is connected to the hands, and so that the sensation of pressure is even on the whole spine. Places where the pressure is not present are the ones that will first require attention. This part is a birds eye view of the 200 positions, while the rest is mainly the bases. It was presented in half a day, mainly to give an idea of what still needs to be done. There might be many errors, and imprecisions. According to Bruce he would need AT LEAST a 3 months workshop to teach it all. Opens Right and Left Channel DO not rise the hands, but as the energy drops and bounces, it will rise. The energy that is rising it will eventually rise the hands. Only rise the hands as much as the energy can sustein them. It might take months or years before having them in front of the chest Similarly do NOT drop the hands but increase the dropping flow of energy through your body, without letting the energy bounce back. Dropping the hands will shock the channels. Lateral teaching Bruce also gave us Students get only very little teaching. The teacher does not feel responsible for them. If the teacher does not like you, you need to ask to the disciple of the teacher and onward down until someone takes you in sympathy. But eventually the teachings you get gets worse and worse. It is hard to be accepted as a disciple. You might need to bang your head on the floor until blood came out, and still need to prove that you are worth being teached to. Still unless you are going to be the next lineage master you might not get it all. Also you are going to be tied on what then you can teach yourself. Anybody can teach to their son what they want and you don't have to impose on your son not to teach himself. This is why Liu adopted Bruce as part of his family. This made of Bruce a person who knew as a lineage master but was also not tied in ways that prevented him from teaching openly. If you go to a University would you expect the math that you learn there to be different from the math you learn somwhere else? No! In this way on each generation western knowledge increases. On the east instead by not sharing their knowledge the knowledge diminises at each generation. As a lineage master and a bridge, I have the responsability that taoist art be well represented in the west. The way in which information is spread in this generation will set the foundations that determine the level at which those arts are going to be practiced in the future. There are peoplein this group who could look at me in the face and say: yes I stand one our a day. With others groups I shared less, or sometimes I just walk away. I don't have to teach, I do it only for people who deserves it. And I could make 10 times this money if I went into business We are during interesting time, and there is the serious risk that our sons will not live the full extent of their life. We need more and more people to know. It is not normal to get so much teachings. If I day on my next plane you might not find another willing to teach you so much and you might have to use those notes for quite some time. There are people in this group who have been standing for more than a decade and they never 'naturally' got it. How much more do you think they should stand. They might stand for another century and still not get it. SOme of those teachings are subtle and just practicing is just not enough. Can you hear your internal scream and just let it go? Can you hear your internal prrrrr. and just let it go? Pleasure can create as much as a blockage as pain. This branch comes from the workshop Tai Ji and Breathing from Darmstadt After do only half of the time that you can stand.