When I do stand I can find the tendon connection more easily.…[Read more]

I spent 5 months practicing in Thailand. I did have netting around my bed and that was essential for any well being so I could also keep windows and doors all open.

I found, and this is me and my sleep rhythms, that going to sleep when the buggers are just up and about, under the netting, and then rising after midnight to…[Read more]

I have one thing to add that works for me and that is the use of the spiral- maybe what you mean by diffuse waves- and not so much the straight energies.

Breathing in the testicles AND the penis too is something Barry Spendlove taught me.

There is something about the spiral that matches…[Read more]

What is missing for me right away is your picture. You are in the Chinese ones but there is no focal point of a person to relate too, who these words are rising from and somehow it is the look in the eyes that…[Read more]

It seems to me since this is both an external breathing method and an internal intentional energetic process the rib cage has to lift for the diaphragm to rop and the breath to come in!

Though as the process sinks in I do find the focus going more into the tan tien that Dog suggests so it isnt just an external willful doing. Barry

It seems with…[Read more]

Since practice is the only way to sustain the formulas I appreciate your taking the time for retreat.

Reading your accounts I have the sudden recognition how you made it a bit easier for me and in extension for all of us.

As if no matter what the obstacles we encounter that appear to be so personal and subjective…[Read more]

Since practice is the only way to sustain the formulas I appreciate your taking the time for retreat.

Reading your accounts I have the sudden recognition how you made it a bit easier for me and in extension for all of us.

As if no matter what the obstacles we encounter that appear to be so personal and subjective…[Read more]

Yeah what a year…whew… it continues as I go to Thailand to support a Yoga Teacher training this winter/spring. There for 6 months. Then back to Heavenly mountain. Perhaps I will meet you this year.

How are you doing with the kan and li? Have you been practicing? Perhaps better over e-mail but I am interested in how you…[Read more]

I saw this in London. You will like it. It is about a dying order. What young man wants to go here anymore?

The part I recall the most was the sound. Against the backdrop it was an avalanche and a constant accompaniment to the Great silence.

Personally I would have liked to watch Taoist monks in the mountains but…[Read more]

Another way is this. Witness/guide the heat as heat- not story- through channels that release it as in the arms and legs, fingers toes and sense organs. Stick tongue out, stare at a flame, steam out your ears. Usually it will want to rise.And watch what comes in its place.

I suggest this because I read some fear/worry in your…[Read more]

How was the rest of your summer? I am blogging a bit here but much less.

I love that about this poem. Its vulgarity and an edge of the mundane as ecstatic…but embodied. I feel like this sometime…so fertile with all and the courage and grace she writes it with just made me laugh and read it over and over for the sensitivity that…[Read more]

Greatest sings to me. It is more about sound. More about music. The matrix underneath the feelings which are so transient whereas the bone vibrating sounds seem constant in comparison.Like the…[Read more]

Thanks for the patience you are taking. I will keep up as reading writings from various perspectives with different language makes one realize the terrain is never the map- its just some maps are more suited to the times one is going through. The culture, history, one’s…[Read more]

Not being from the school of chaos magic I felt a bit on the sidelines. I want to see if I got it.

First let me say your voice and fluid expressive style is perfect for just such a blog. I read it through just to be entertained by the ease you peck the keys with.

SO, the idea you cracked open was the very act of imagining…[Read more]

Some of your concern is for an image out of our control. No one involved in a spiritual practice is in it to feel good. The peaceful reflection on the pond that…[Read more]

Wendy, this took a few days to sink in not as memories for me as much as what I do when I am with children and others now and how quickly…[Read more]

yes…this resonates to some degree. Maybe not vehicle as much as more accessible place to explore with. I am not sure what upsets you. It seems your sense of beingness is different or your approach.

There’s room- I’m listening.

Are any of us in this day and age born…[Read more]

There are times in life when breakdown is important and appropriate- I am finding this out. Perhaps your friend didn’t know when to ease out of that intensity or have a method skillful enough so his present was enhanced.

To learn how that mechanism of being in breakdown works…[Read more]

It reminds me of my first child’s term. My wife and I were very careful about food and environment studying with Michio Kushi at the time who had a very practical taoist viewpoint.

However no matter how much we tried my wife couldn’t stop herself from reading one of the most bloody and tragic books about…[Read more]

Yeah Steven I loved the way you described your response to this force entering inside of you after sending the smiling out.

I was…[Read more]

But I prefer being called out as the Calimero.

These past days I have this incredible lightness of being. I leave in 4 days and already feel the power that comes…[Read more]

Interesting take on this feeling of abuse. With a lot of the public secrecy removing around this (and creating weird public boundaries of adults and children-ultra fear)many people do seem to imagine abuse…[Read more]

The Third Body

A man and a woman sit near each other, and they do not long
at this moment to be older, or younger, nor…[Read more]

If chi kung is about cultivating energy and not relegated to the forms of movement what better place to pay attention than at the kitchen table?

There are so many ways to bring this awareness to food from…[Read more]

This doesn’t sound as much a secret system as one customized for each student. I respect that and in some ways envy that relationship and in other ways don’t.

As the Healing Tao is the only taoist system I have applied myself too my response was an aha based on the formulas of this approach according to what you are being…[Read more]

QI cultivation….micro orbit and deeper channels?

Shen cultivation… Fusion and alchemy?

I was very impatient as the practice brought up energies stimulating anger. I watched this and the only thing later that soothed was the Microcosmic orbit. This is how I learn/make these skills my own- by necessity.

The orbit even for a brief moment spread…[Read more]

I did it barefoot in the grass which makes a lot of difference for my connectivity.

I explored the various strategies you suggested and my own ideas and some worked and some were a bit off.

Essentially after a half hour I found entering a structured pose- a moving…[Read more]

I trust your experiences as the best guide and it seems you are allowing yourself to be the vessel.

While out and about today I did explore this form again and had some of my own aha’s stimulated by your questions. Hope they…[Read more]

But isn’t this more a letter to her ‘period’? Do women distinguish their uterus from their periods? Maybe this is the only communication she has with her uterus and it is one of pain?

So much tied to…[Read more]

I like the approach you are being led to. I find it difficult to articulate what it is I do but it is true I need to sleep a few hours before I can do any ‘work’. I remember M mentioning this.

At that latter more yin point of the…[Read more]

I know you are open to opinions though you haven’t asked and all opinions are subjective.

It seems to me based on your recent lifestyle shift and recent connections with others you are on a path of ‘great medicine’. Not great because it will be well known but so because the ‘poisons’ you are ingesting are big.

As such…[Read more]

I would like to

hear more about this…Barry

You must have had a good lake experience, eh? Barry

In your literal analogy I was struck by the container. It is paradoxical that we are held in perfection and filtering/growing at the same time. It isn’t the province of the ordinary mind.

But without that ‘container’ which…[Read more]