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• The body has an innate wisdom if we listen. There’s an old saying in Chinese Medicine, “The body wants to heal itself.” This means that the main part of our job in each session is just to show up! If we ‘do our time’ each day, we will look back after 90 days of daily practice and see, feel and know positive changes that have taken place.
• Once recognized, the next step is to relax and try to empty the suspect area and then continue to relax the relative muscle channel(s) all the way down under the bottom of the foot. Again, the goal here is equal pressure, no place too much or too little.
• wherever on the bottoms of the feet you feel uncomfortable, this is a reflection of tension elsewhere in the body. In other words, it indicates our body and/or our mind’s inability to relax that line of gravity completely, throughout our entire structure.
• I shall endeavor now to illustrate the efficacy of a modified approach called the Circumscribed Method and the many benefits that accumulate as a result. But before we can start standing in this way, we must make some minor adjustments to the arms and shoulder-girdle. Adjusting Posture Technique (See photo sequence) In the first photo we see the tr...
• Two of the main goals in Zhan Zhuang training are integration and unity. The Circumscribed Method allows us to engage and integrate the greatest amount of tissue from the start, while at the same time, bringing to our conscious awareness the locations that are not cooperating due to blockage.