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Bending with the cavities and stretch under the scapula

Submitted by pchou42 on 2021-12-05 21:58

Pretty much as the title says. I was practicing standing tall and trying to get all the slack out. Then I started practicing bending with the cavities. I felt like I was doing a pretty good job standing tall and getting the slack out and when I did the bending I felt some kind of stretch or release under the right scapula. When I would bend down I would feel this tissue stretch and the should blade just felt like it was hanging off the back.

Stress response and chronic hip/back pain

Submitted by wrenii on 2021-12-01 20:23

For maybe four or five years since middle school I have been searching for the cause of a constant pain in my hip/back/leg socket. On days when it is bad I can have a hard time walking, and bending my head down is very painful right on the tip of the tailbone. I considered injury or some type of uneven body parts putting strain on my hips, but

5 Elements stomach

Submitted by pchou42 on 2021-11-09 14:07

I know I've noticed this before I got busy with moving but I was doing the 5 elements some more and I noticed that after I do it when I sit down my stomach feels different, maybe larger or full? Is this just related to increased blood flow in that region or something from the different pressures on the organs? I know sometimes you've said if there is a full belly feeling it can mean that you are disconnected. Is this indicitive or something positive or negative? Or just what happens from doing the practice?

Achilles tightness

Submitted by pchou42 on 2021-11-04 06:53

After our class yesterday I had a lot of tightness in the Achilles area.
We were doing the weight on one leg bending with only half the cavities for the beginning of class. Wondering if this is related to the ankle flexibility that you have said I need to work on as it's inhibiting some movement. I only felt the tightness on the ankle that was in the rear, should I practice the same thing with the other foot in the rear?

STS Bending

Submitted by pchou42 on 2021-10-08 19:15

I was practicing the beginning of the san ti shi with the bend and coordinated arm movement. I was trying to not float from the crown point, not sure if I was doing it correctly or not but the thing I was noticing was that when I was unbend and the arms would go down I could feel a stretch or like a rubbing against the lower back/ribs along the side of the back. It was more pronounced on the right side but I could feel it faintly on the left side as well. Is this related to the transverse couple or is this just a passing sensation.

David Beckham Global TaiJi Ambassador

Submitted by imklg on 2021-09-15 12:12

Many don't like this sort of thing, to me, any additional awareness is good for TaiJi and Chinese Internal Arts in general.

San Ti Shi Elbows, Arm pit and Ribs

Submitted by pchou42 on 2021-09-10 19:37

Up until now when I've done the San Ti Shi I've felt a big stretch in the back like I was getting rid of some of those fascia crosslinks and getting more mobility. Today when I was doing San Ti Shi I noticed though that the out reached hand side of the body could feel a closing of the ribs sensation when I was thinking about the elbow rotating inwards and the hand going forward. I also could noticed a connection through the arm pit area with the out stretched arm.

Maintaining ease is not easy

Submitted by jaybird on 2021-09-05 09:42

Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, maintaining ease has been quite the transformational highlight during my UCB journey. On the one hand, shouldn't ease be easy? On the other, it seems clear why this should be the case. Afterall, striving and forcing have been my primary path to achievement in so many areas of my life. Frustration arises when these primary modes do not produce the desired results that only come through maintaining ease. I feel my capacity for ease is expanding but I notice my propensity for forcing and striving much more clearly when standing.

Authenticity

Submitted by michael young on 2021-08-31 19:53

Lately, I've been thinking about how compete UCB is. What I mean is that I can feel how there are aspects of my personality that are associated to my habitual posture. These have to released to allow my body to stretch in response to the foot couple. My whole feeling of my "self" is affected. I'm beginning to see that our collapsed structure is not the only thing that is has us mimicing Standing by doing a tall crouch. Often times, we smile and facially emote in a superficial way that is not connected to this deeper, primal, way of moving that is innate and not a cultural affectation.

Stretch in the legs from bend and unbend

Submitted by pchou42 on 2021-08-30 19:31

I was having some tingling sensations in my back which I've come to think means that there are just some parts of the fascia that are trying to slide that haven't really done that before and are maybe breaking those cross links. So I was doing a little bend and unbend repeatedly to try and help this part of the back work the connective tissue. After doing this for a little bit I realized that in the back of my legs the stretch was getting more and more tight with each bend and unbend.

Feeling lighter after 5 elements

Submitted by pchou42 on 2021-08-24 18:45

Last week after we did the 5 elements lesson I got very tired and fell asleep on the couch before going to bed. When I woke up and walked to my bedroom my body felt like it was floating a little bit or like there was less gravity weighing me down.

Is this something related to the 5 elements practice or was is just some random sensation because I took that nap after being exhausted from the 5 elements.

What Are the 6 Harmonies?

When force passes throught the body, there are 5 areas of the torso that respond. These responses each have specific and unique 'interoceptive' characteristics. This is the source of the 5 Elements phenomena. Based on this phenomena, principles have been codified and labeled 'Internal'. Movement that is 'harmonized' according to these internal principles means having clear inner mental expectations and their resultant outer physical manifestation. There is nothing exotic here, only a specific approach to training.

Big Toe / Stretch down the middle

Submitted by pchou42 on 2021-08-10 20:24

I'm not sure what I did but when doing t he standing I felt some kind of difference in the big toe. There was a feeling like something was pulling from the bottom of the big toe up and around back towards the foot as if the big toe was being lifted up a tiny bit inside. Then I felt a big stretch down the front of the U, when I would breath I could feel the big stretch. I took a quick break after not too long but then when I went back to the standing I didn't feel the toe or the big stretch again.

Walking out/Plankng and front of the U

Submitted by pchou42 on 2021-07-26 19:38

I did the walking out/planking exercise. I forget the correct term. After I went back to the standing meditation when I would do the pitcher breath it felt like the top front of the U was getting a big stretch even though I was trying to breathe and fill up the pitcher from the bottom. Is this part of what is supposed to happen as a result of the planking? I also noticed that the toes felt different. I didn't feel the pull underneath the feet like I felt the first time when we practiced this but maybe the toes feeling is related.

Breaking fascia crosslinks

Submitted by pchou42 on 2021-07-26 19:35

We have talked about this before where I have had some shoulder pain/discomfort/tension whatever. And it has sort of come and gone and come again. I'm noticing now that it's been moving each time going from the center outwards, now I feel some sensations near the outer part of the shoulder blade. The questions is, is this just the way it works when we are breaking these fascia cross links that have developed over time? Or is it not the fascia cross links but this is just how this type of practice works through fixing parts of the body?