some musings on static positions

they are not static

postures were keys of connecting chi movement to body

any flow is possible in any posture
a system would connect certain postures with certain intent
it would be a teacher’s way to transmitt knoledge/chi to a embodied heart

but without vision posture practice is a hurtfull learning
but without knowing the intent posture is empty

example india:
hatha yoga postures are hard core
but texts were disseminated widely
texts had just a clue on one level, on all others one had to grok it by practice

the side product of dullness in society

example bujinkan:
kata is not practiced by itself, what is practiced is its conection to other movements (moving from a kata to a techinque and back to kata untill flow is internalized)

example energyarts:
stretching is very misunderstood
more proper is principle of opening and closing

one can open a joint by hold the adjecent bones and pulling them apart
that is dead stretching

other is that the joint opens itself.
the joint pushes the bones apart
the adjecent tissue pushes the bones apart
that is live breathing

this shows in sitting crosslegged
if one cannot open the hips by opening the kwa and can only do it by working of the thigh tissue, such practice will hurt knees and ankles
if one can open the hips by opening the kwa then this is ok

but such act is master demonstration
this is not the way to achieve it

the way to achieve this attanement is by gentle shifting the weight between (later also on) the feet, soles not changing their position, various tai chi (example) leg positions and waist movements

same goes for standing
without thorough ability to open the hips by opening the kwa
(reaching the horse stance by opening the kwa, not thigh tissue work)
such position hurts the knee

same position, but with strenght of the kwa,
the kwa opens
is very healing to the knees

same: standing the pole(hands crossed on the chest, in the pockets, or down) is master demonstration, not master practice
even with such mastery of kwa it is still the challenge of heart strain

of all frank allen stance, it is only the last that is openly revealing kwa