Thank you. I'm happy that you find these videos helpful.

Thank you Sparky.

Thanks, I haven't been very active on my channel lately because coming up with unique practices isn't really in the spirit of the practice itself. I've already presented the exercises that I have found most helpful in adapting the body to practice.

@@danceofthedragonbydavidlee hey, that's ok, i don't mind watching old videos - i just discovered this one as a KZfaq recommendation having watched a lot of Eero Westerberg's work with Jiang Yu Shan the monkey kung fu guy in Tainan (Vahva Fitness). What i felt when i followed your guidance from just this video for the first time, I felt just like Eero when he filmed himself immediately after learning the standing meditations from Jiang, which they now charge thousands of dollars for. My whole body felt it and i was ecstatic. If you did a new video adding in the string to the heavens with the shoulders dropping, and of course the tongue to the roof of the mouth to complete the circuit, chi flowing up the front body and down the back .. breaths to relax the body bit by bit once standing from top to bottom, then the 3 breaths to relax the lower, middle and upper dantiens... And remind people to explore the stance - rock gently forward and back with the breath, try side to side, remember just tiny movements no leaning... Etc. Well. I would gladly watch it daily, and where there is one who speaks up there are many more who remain silent. What power you have generously given in this video though, this is rare to find and I'm eternally grateful to you for providing it here for free on KZfaq. I find you don't need to post regularly, but if everything you post is a complete (comparatively) guide of how to something, with proportionately little introduction, those are videos/channels that get many hits (KZfaq is the biggest how to search engine in the world) - and people are excited to see the next one no matter when it comes. Even just the one section about rooting using L3 was a powerful gift from one free video, and newcomers would appreciate such small nuggets in exchange for their little investment of time into your free video :) It is not my intention to tell you what to do! I am but one person, one part of a whole. My preferences may not match what your ideal audience want - of course. But I do hope to offer some of the insights i have learned in exchange for those you generously gave here. Thank you again.

@@djdisasterjames This is high praise and it really belongs to my teacher, Master Liu Deming. Anything I've learned has come through him. It's all based on the idea that the body knows how to do the practice, we just need to follow a few simple landmarks and practice. You may have inspired me to make regular videos again, I just have so little time at the moment. I just want to pass this on in the same spirit that it was given to me and it's impossible to travel now. Aside from which I am currently embroiled in some personal obligations at the moment and it's cut into my ability to even take new students, until I get it under control. So thanks for your very kind words.

@@danceofthedragonbydavidlee ah, yes. I recognise many things about your writing here my friend, if it's not too strong a word for this, for they are strong in me also. Yes, your learnings and the content are certainly transmitted via your teacher. But it was you who decided to craft this video, donate it to the world free of charge, investing your time and energy to do so and honouring your teachers past and present by allowing 'students' like me to truly inherit that understanding through guidance and the landmarks you have chosen to link it to. It is that with which i chose to praise in that moment - though of course i am also grateful for every generation prior who crafted these techniques of unity of being in body, mind, spirit. In terms of what's happening in your life, the language you use is very interesting. Cut into. Embroiled. Obligations. Those words flowed from your fingers and from your very being in the moment you wrote them, much as my words for through me. And they give such a rich understanding of your inner world if you choose to look and see. Where is your power, your focus, right now? Yi Dao, chi Dao as my teacher told me. The subconscious mind does not understand negatives - so when you think of all of the things in your life, and you take out all the words not, can't, don't etc. What messages is your subconscious receiving? Those are to ponder, but i would love to help if i can and if you would like. This is my passion, but I'm new at sharing it. All the best to you, for now i will keep watching and practicing.

Wonderful!

Hey Joshua, thanks for commenting. I wish I could tell you that you could learn this from books, but having gone down that road without truly getting it for literally years, until I was corrected by a live teacher, it's hard for me to recommend books. I think you need to just keep standing and use points that I described, until you feel things starting to happen. Our understanding is limited and we frame what we think we are supposed to be doing through our experience. I like to give guidelines and then the serious student will explore and figure out how to relax the body. It involves standing and letting go. When you can get to a live teacher, who can watch you, that works better. Some things you can't learn from books and qigong is one of them. Now that my body understands a bit, I find that reading Lao Tze and some of the other classics help me to understand them better, from experiencing the material in your own body. Find a live teacher, even online, who can watch you. I 'm not trying to sell you online classes with me necessarily, but we can talk about it if your interested, and then it depends on chemistry. You're better off doing it in person.

You are right. I have severe scoliosis that I talk about in other videos. It used to be much worse and has relaxed quite a bit since I made this video.

That is good to hear! Whish you the best of relaxing it even more now. I don't know if this is helpful for you, but I recently learned that jaw/teeth allignment can effect the spine. Misallignment of the jaw can promote scoliosis because it seems to be part of how the body checks if it is balanced correctly or not. So maybe something to check. If there is something to be corrected then that could help improve it even further. @@danceofthedragonbydavidlee

The scoliosis has left me with a few fused vertebrae. For me the journey is to get as much movement as possible in what I have to work with. I understand that the relaxation of the moth and face effects the hips and I work with that. My master has been teaching that for a long time. Probably if I had been comfortable in my body I wouldn’t have practiced as long and hard as I’ve been practicing. I appreciate your insight.

Actually I use the point 肝脏三分, which is the wood 木 element, and send a root into the earth from there. 湧泉穴 foot is the water element, and the action is downward. This is the way my teacher, Master Liu teaches it.

You're very kind.