Funny how things connect sometimes. While working with my Physiotherapist Karen, we were chatting about posture, breathing and low and behold, centering. Stop the presses, I need to hear her view on this. Now she was approaching it from a Pilates point of view but the similarities were remarkable. We talked compression and expansion, breathing to your core/center, and muscle interaction between quadrants of your body and so on. Sounds pretty familiar to me I think 😀. So I countered her Pilates with our six harmonies. So many concepts were the same but just slightly different that we were both grinning as we compared notes.
One exercise she has me doing has to do with engaging the vertebra one at a time starting at the base of the scull and slowly rolling/engaging all the way down to my pelvis. Shoulder, arms, diaphragm, hips, all engaging separately but together (sound familiar?). Took a bit to get this Pilates move down (very beginner understanding by me so far) but once I vaguely got the basics it felt really good. There are so many steps to make this work, so many separate parts that need to work together to make this effective. Cool!
This was just like learning a new form. Learn the steps, apply intent to the steps, allow the steps to write their own vocabulary, enjoy. As I write this I realize I am behind on my reps (Whoops - sorry Karen ).
So as it tends to happen, the connections between Kung Fu and the vast universe appear everywhere if I just allow these gems to show themselves to me. Western medicine and eastern healing are intertwined whether they like it or not. Foundations of healing thousands of years old are slowly revealing themselves, silently sometimes, to the resistance of the "established" doctrine of western healing. Anyways....
So to sum it up, Kung Fu is everywhere, and I love it when it unexpectedly peeks around a corner at me and smiles saying "got ya".
Push Ups 24378
Sit Ups 22321
Sparring 595
1609KM 1330.55km
Acts of Kindness Recorded 1300
Hand Form 421
Weapon Form 401
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