Series: Central Pillar II

None of the lesson in this series have been reviewed.

Below are the descriptions for each of the lessons included in the series:

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -10/10/11- Throat Chakra

  Today Sang covered the Qi-Gong warm-up exercise in great detail, and then focused on the Throat Chakra, using techniques to feeling it externally which leads to feeling it internally. He taught about exploring what you didn't remember when doing the practice on your own, and maintaining the sensation of the Throat Chakra through the whole day

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -10/12/11- Clearing Blockages

  Sang covered the rubbing portion of the Qi-Gong warm-up exercise in great detail and then guided an practice to use the throat Chakra to explore the rest of the body so that you can release all the blockages related to your throat Chakra throughout your entire system

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -10/14/11- Body Adjustment, Sound

  In the Qi-Gong warm-up Sang covered in significant detail the progression of the shaking and the relaxation from head to the toe . He reviewed the experiences of the people of the blockage clearing practice from the previous class, and showed how to adjust the physical body and utilize sound to open the Throat Chakra.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -10/17/11- Solar Plexus Chakra

  In this class Sang explored the Solar Plexus Chakra, which is the source of power, manifests the heart to action, and mediates the Dan-Tian and heart. He showed how to connect externally with energy and through creating an external the astral body, and how to stay connected while doing other activities.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -10/19/11- Opening with Alignment

  Sang covered how to use postural alignment to align with the energy, so that the Solar Plexus Chakra can open. He shared some of the experiences from when he was sick and how to warm the skin with the Qi-Gong warm-up exercise. Also discussed: whether you need to open the back side of the Chakra as well.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -10/21/11- Turning on Systems

  Today Sang covered the warm up exercises in full, demonstrating how the warm up exercises can affect energy flow. Continued demonstration of postural alignment and energy work on class members to open up Solar Plexus Chakra.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -10/31/11- Being Held

  * How to receive energy just by holding and being held
  * Adjusting the neck so that we can open up all the way to the Solar Plexus
  * Using Alignment to open and connect Solar Plexus and heart
  * The secret to the rubbing warm-p exercise. How to rub your skin or your muscle, between the muscle where the muscles meet and where the muscles meets the bone

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -11/02/11- Alignment=Mental State

  * How to make postural adjustments from the perspective of the Solar Plexus Chakra to open it and increase awareness
  * How the physical pressure from your alignment dictates how much pressure you will feel in life, so that as physical pressure decreases, your actual psychological pressure decreases
  * There is no such thing as disadvantage
  * The practical application of the tapping warm-up
  * How to deal with injuries
  * Insomnia
  * The difference between holding chest to open Chakras and doing the form
  * Using injuries to train

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -11/04/11- Primordial Sound

  * Immortality
  * Guided practice using 'AH', the primordial sound, to open the Throat Chakra while doing the Qi-Gong warm-up
  * How postural alignment will open up all the different Chakras, and how everything else that you learn helps you reinforce that structure. Once that structure is held, you learn how that fills you up with energy and eventually holds you up
  * Hard vs soft
  * Pressure points for relieving stomachaches

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -11/07/11- Receiving Energy

  * Using the Qi-Gong warm-up to prepare for the winter
  * Opening up the diaphragm with breathing to open energy
  * Changing who you are through the diet
  * Secret to receiving energy
  * The point of the tapping and rubbing

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -11/09/11- Heart Breathing

  * Heart breathing to open Chakras
  * Extending instantaneously in capacity breathing
  * Remedy to cure boredom
  * Extending outward with the fingertips

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -11/11/11- Breathing and Emotions

  * Heart Breathing practice
  * Breathing and emotions
  * What to do when depleted
  * Difference between capacity breathing and heart breathing

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -11/14/11- Self Diagnosis

  * Drawing the breath up through the perineum
  * Self diagnosis and what to do when you’re stuck and feel tension

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -11/16/11- What To Do When Tired

  * One our Students, Kier, led the warm-up exercises and talked about the origin of OM
  * How to do the practice and move the energy when tired
  * Whether the perineum should be down or up
  * How to do what's appropriate in the moment

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

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