Fusion 1 Practice

Hi,
I learned Fusion from two M.W. students and both thought the controlling cycle first and then in fusion 2&3 creative cycle…

I recently bought M.W. dvd-s and have to say, I like them very much and they helped me to improve and understand my practice better…

M.W. explains that he changed sequence because, if you go directly into control cycle and there is a lot of negative stuff, you get jumed… So, despite the organs havent cleared yet, we nourish virtues in creative cycle and then we put one “negative” stuff into… so we have four white end one black “sheep” and no vice versa…

The other thing are collection points only five and not 16 or 17… much easier to deal with five… 🙂

I would recommend to practice the fusion sequence in beginning as thought by M.W. and letter on, you find your own way and do it as you like and feel is better for you…

Peace, Jox

neither has much to do with organ charging

Hi Jeff,

Just a few brief comments below, as it would take me
a book to answer all of your questions in any kind of depth.

>>>Chia says to use the controlling cycle,
>>>which is the correct order (kidneys,
>>>heart, liver, lungs, spleen), although
>>>the way they are collected is not
>>>necessarily this cycle
>>>(kidney-heart together,
>>>liver-lung together, spleen last).
>>>In which manner is this collection process
>>>changed to incorporate the creation cycle?

The Control Cycle is kidneys, heart, LUNGS, LIVER, spleen.
However, as you’ve accurately pointed out, the collection sequence
in Fusion is not the control cycle.

The Creation Cycle process in Fusion is a completely different setup,
the mandala of the pearls is in a different arrangement. The mandala
is circular with the Earth pearl in between the Fire and Metal pearls.
There are a number of different exercises that use this mandala
and use the virtue qualities of each element. See Michael Winn’s
Fusion 1 AUDIO homestudy course for comprehensive training in this.

>>>I discovered that Marie Favorito has a guided Fusion 1 and 2 CD
>>>that is only $15, which I am planning to purchase.
>>>I know that she had been the primary Fusion 1/2 instructor
>>>at the HT USA summer retreats and am wondering
>>>if anyone has tried this CD, and if
>>>her style of teaching is similar to
>>>Michael’s or closer to Chia’s?

Marie’s meditation CDs, namely Inner Smile, MO, and Fusion 1/2,
are handy references for the ORIGINAL transmission of these
meditations from Master Chia. Michael greatly changed these,
to incorporate his own new insights.

In particular, Marie’s Microcosmic Orbit CD is the original
transmission of spiraling and smiling at the points of the orbit,
whereas now MW teaches primarily the Wudang orbit, or even
Spinning Dragon orbit.

Similarly, Marie’s Fusion 1/2 CD is the original transmission,
most closely in line with what you have listed as “Formula 4”,
with a little bit of material from Fusion 2 (some Thrusting
channel, Belt channel stuff). Michael has greatly modified
the original transmission to incorporate getting more into the
emotional and feeling aspect of the 5 elements, and spend time
doing work in the Creation Cycle first. To be honest, I like
the modifications that Michael has made and do think they make
the practice much more effective, although I also appreciate
Marie’s documentation of the original transmission which is
also helpful to see the forest through the trees. So both
are good, and I recommend both.

>>>Also, how has Chia’s method changed from the book?

Master Chia, like Michael, is constantly changing things,
and modifying his practices. Consequently, what he is doing
now is nothing like either Michael or Marie. As a general rule,
what he does is he keeps the original practice and just keeps
making it more and more complicated, and also starts bringing in
all kinds of Kan and Li material to make it all even more complex.
Everything is now “cosmic”. While all this is great for
seasoned practitioners, it is not so great for beginners in my view.
It just makes things more complicated than they need to be.
One thing that Master Chia does now in Fusion is that he chants verbally the 8
cosmic forces of the bagua. So while you are doing Fusion, you
are chanting vocally: Kan, Li, Gen, Tui . . . etc. Expect to
not only do chanting, but to pull in planets, stars, shamanic
spirits, and all kinds of things into the basic Fusion practice,
if you want to do Master Chia’s modern approach.

Personally, I say stick with Michael’s presentation, using
Marie’s CD as a skeleton, but that’s just my recommendation.

>>>I also recently discovered that the
>>>”Nourish the 5 Shen” qigong is a
>>>part of the Deep Healing Qigong set.
>>>That was going to be my next dvd purchase
>>>for qigong sets I learn, and am wondering
>>>if the way it is taught on the DHQ dvd
>>>is the same as on the Fusion dvd.

They are the same within 90%, just a few subtle differences.
To be honest, this qigong on the Deep Healing Qigong DVD is
covered more comprehensively in my view than on the Fusion DVD,
but this is just my take. In fact, in the Fusion 1 Audio course,
there is usually a handout on this qigong in there and the
handout mentions that it comes from the Deep Healing Qigong DVD.
Consequently, I usually recommend people get the DHQ DVD when
they get the Fusion set. As you know, I’ve written glowing reviews
about this form repeated on this site, so it is good to get.

>>>I also discovered that Winn’s YouTube channel
>>>has the Pangu Mystical qigong set from the Fusion dvd.

This qigong used to be covered in Fusion 2, but Michael has been
doing it during the Fusion 1 class instead in recent years. The
other qigong on the Fusion DVD, namely the Eight Extras form,
is not covered until his Fusion 2,3 workshop. It is not part of
the Fusion 1 course and is really a different topic.

>>>My last point of discussion relates to formulas 5 through 9.
>>>I understand most of them are fragments from Kan & Li.
>>>Where do the virgin children and their animal offspring,
>>>the 5 planets, etc. come from?

The animals, to some degree, are really part of Greater Kan and Li,
and the 5 planets have to do with Greatest Kan and Li.
Each of these are week-long courses with a lot of content in themselves.

>>>Michael states that shooting the pearl
>>>out of the crown is a Tibetan “powa” practice
>>>that is not recommended, so how did this end up in there
>>>and does he still teach this?

Master Chia had MANY teachers, not just One Cloud. To my
understanding, Master Chia added it in to Fusion after learning
this practice from a Tibetan teacher. Whether Master Chia
still teaches this or not, I have no idea. Michael however
does not teach this.

>>>I would have thought of it as sending awareness
>>>of an energy body, not necessarily your essence
>>>shooting out that you need to suck back in.

No, because it is not just your awareness/consciousness
ala the Yang/External Inner Smile. It is sending out
a pearl, which is concentrated piece of awareness. Michael
does let you play with this a little bit in his LKL course
where he does a meditation called “Cracking the Crown”,
but the pearl remains attached to you through an energetic
cord . . . it is never disconnected.

Qi,
Steven

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There is much in these Golden Dawn rituals and ceremonies that is of the greatest value; but from the first grade to the last it is all vitiated by these dangerous elements taken from Dee and Kelly. Furthermore, in many places, the practical working is not provided with adequate safeguards, so that, to the present writer’s personal knowledge, an operator working with the Golden Dawn [Enochian] rituals runs very grave risks of breaking down his physical organism, or of obsession by evil entities.”
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The Shaolin priests will was strong and he did not want to re-enter the business of the world, so he followed the holy monk preaching and traveling on the sea and mountains. I do not know where he has gone. The guest Xu Hong met him off shore and obtained the secret meaning. He gave it to the guest Qiu Ran, and the guest Qiu Ran again gave it to me. I tried it and experienced the verification, then I believed that the sayings inside were true. Unfortunately I did not obtain the secret of Xi Sui and so that I could travel to the domain of Buddha. Again it is unfortunate that my will is not strong and I cannot be like the priest, forgetting the business of the world. I am only able to use the small branches and flowers and use it to extend my life. I feel guilty inside.
-Dr. YANG, JWING-MING, Qigong-The Secret of Youth

Gloire et louange à toi, Satan, dans les hauteurs
Du Ciel, où tu régnas, et dans les profondeurs
De l’Enfer, où, vaincu, tu rêves en silence!
Fais que mon âme un jour, sous l’Arbre de Science,
Près de toi se repose, à l’heure où sur ton front
Comme un Temple nouveau ses rameaux s’épandront!
-CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Prière

So bad guys are as needed as good guys or maybe it’s something more complicated.

I would suggest for example to check Bihar School of Yoga materia as an alternative.

Here important are their kriya yoga and prana vidya practices and of course various other practices for each chakra and nadi.

Alternative to develop so called emotional intelligence is to mine one’s personal memory storage and learn to extract what ever is needed.

Both tranquil abiding (samatha) and special insight (vipassana) are to be used.

HOWDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czMfh9Ixb_o (nonamewalk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrxTjKvwy54 (bansenshukai)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNmc97Sv0yo (blackdawn)

really, what about all these oscillations?

it’s not rocket science

A former student has sued Bikram Choudhury, the millionaire founder of a wildly popular yoga franchise, accusing him of sexual harassment, discrimination and defamation.

Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times

Mr. Choudhury, who is 67, at an event last year. A former student said he harassed her at a training course when she was 20.
According to legal documents filed this month in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Sarah Baughn, 28, a Bikram student, teacher and international competitor who lives in San Francisco, said she considered Mr. Choudhury her hero until he made advances toward her during a 2005 teacher training course in Los Angeles.

Ms. Baughn, who was 20 at the time, said she was uncomfortable when she first noticed how other female students would brush his hair, wash his feet and give him massages, but she chalked it up to cultural differences. Then, she says, he offered her his diamond Rolex watch, which she did not accept, and told her he had known her in a past life.

“What should we do about this?” the lawsuit claims Mr. Choudhury said. “I have never felt this way about anyone,” he continued, adding, “Should we make this a relationship?”

Mr. Choudhury opened his first yoga studio in the early 1970s in the basement of a bank building in Beverly Hills, Calif. A national yoga champion from Calcutta, Mr. Choudhury was said to sleep on the studio floor, spurn the advances of women and offer classes by donation only. Then Shirley MacLaine, an early student, gave him some advice.

“She said no American respects anything that’s free,” Mr. Choudhury recalled at the 2012 Bishnu Charan Ghosh Cup, the yoga asana competition named after his guru.

Now, Mr. Choudhury, 67, charges $25 per class, oversees hundreds of studios on six continents, owns several Rolls-Royces and is called “Yoga’s Bad Boy” by Yoga Journal. His copyrighted yoga sequence is practiced in a 105-degree room often nicknamed the torture chamber.

“Sarah dropped out of college to study with Bikram, and every penny she had went to him,” said Mary Shea Hagebols, Ms. Baughn’s lawyer. “She was a true believer and student.”

Ms. Baughn says she rebuffed Mr. Choudhury’s repeated advances and at times tried to redirect his attention to his wife, also a teacher and the founder of USA Yoga, a yoga sports federation with Olympic ambitions. The legal document claims that his advances continued; he is accused of pressing his body against hers while adjusting her posture, whispering sexually charged comments into her ear, ordering her to kiss him in front of other trainees, and assaulting her in a hotel room in Acapulco, Mexico, during a teacher training.

Her lawyer declined to say whether Ms. Baughn ever reported any of these accusations to the police, but she did speak with senior teachers at his Los Angeles-based Yoga College of India. “Sarah wants whatever justice the jury decides so that this never happens again — that’s her primary goal,” Ms. Hagebols said.

Neither Mr. Choudhury nor his wife, Rajashree, who is also being sued for her role in running the business and the teacher training program, could be reached for comment. But a spokeswoman for USA Yoga said the group was confident that the court would determine the truth.

“In the interim,” said the spokeswoman, Rachel Golden, “we believe it is vitally important to continue to support the millions of devoted yoga practitioners around the world in reaping the benefits of their practice.”

Reporting Mr. Choudhury’s behavior to the senior teachers did little good, Ms. Baughn says in the suit. They promised that he was harmless and “innocent, like a child,” she said. Ms. Baughn said she was told that she needed to “separate the man from the teacher” and understand that powerful men were often flirtatious.

“Vulnerability and devotion are big parts of the practice,” said Benjamin Lorr, the author of the memoir “Hellbent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga.” “Bikram creates this mentality that the outside is phony. There is no path but this path, and everything that happens in this path is just a part of your yoga, that you have to learn to be strong and get past it.”

Considered a guru to celebrities like Madonna, George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston, Mr. Choudhury wears a Speedo while presiding over teacher trainings that cost $11,000. Over 300 would-be teachers practice three hours of yoga per day in a sweltering hotel conference room. They also study anatomy, Hindu philosophy and Bikram’s views on life, love and ethics.

Ms. Baughn says her financial investment was one reason she continued to study, practice and teach the series despite her accusations that Mr. Choudhury attempted to sabotage her career and competition results when she repeatedly refused his advances.

“There was a culture of fear,” Mr. Lorr said of the Bikram teacher trainings he experienced, where he tried to interview other students. “No one really wanted to go on the record with me. They thought they would lose their certificates, that all the hard work and money they put into it would be taken away.”

Some Bikram studio owners are wondering how to confront the accusations.

Tricia Donegan, the owner of Bikram Yoga on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, explained that some students did not even know that Bikram was an actual person.

“Bikram’s name may be on the door,” she said, “but my particular space is a safe haven.”

HOWDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHRgBoq8UKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifNHrrlRxIM