Hello Sifu and Kung Fu Brothers and Sisters!

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For those who opt in there will be a part two. There is a lot to share.

Housekeeping: No class for the next 2 Saturdays. Happy Holidays and New Year!

On to the notes!

The next galaxy away is Andromeda. It Is the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way. The Milky Way is existing in space, billions of miles away. How did it come into existence?

Connect to the vastness of space.

Meta forming—
There is snow! Where does it come from? Sifu sits outside and wonders how many snows he’ll see. He’s seen two so far this winter. How do we become conscious in the universe? There are even greater universes.

The patterns we have in Wing Chun.

We’re all in the process of change. Every morning we wake up with 500,000 new cells! Everyday we begin with young, little baby cells, waiting to be instructed what to do. If I wake up anxious, I’m giving them a BIG job. Instead keep it simple, let’s have wonderful day! Envision (without conceptualizing) the vastness of space of which we are apart. “Physician, heal thyself.” We all have a terminal disease—it’s called life! (Sifu asks himself) But will I live life as I die and in the process heal?

Sifu thinks of himself as a Borg cube, that is able to reconstruct itself.

There is a fish, born as a female, has eggs then transforms into a male and can then fertilize those eggs. Are we not more evolved than a fish?

Embrace change, allow transformation to occur, to live life with kindness.

The small, infantile and infinite life forms, where did it come from, how did we evolve, in 1.6 billions years become conscious?

A Zen master, accused of many things, he would say “Is that so?” It’s just how things are.

Tools to alter patterns:
recognize how things are
devise interventions

The ability to be aware, cognizant, conscious, is amazing.

If lost in the wilderness, surrounded by a pack of wolves, what would you do? Even if you killed one of them, the others would still attack.

Program cells to be kind. Be creative in the ways of changing.

Homework for today, when interfacing with others, use the concept of pause. Listen by being still. Be like the speech impaired, as in, say nothing. Let your mind be like the vastness of space.

Orators use the ploy when someone asks a question by restating the same question. This creates a pause.

Sitting
Breathe in and out, connect to space, connect in your home, then you might want more space and go outside, connect. Connect to the people in your home as space congealed and you have the ability to put your hand into space.

Be kind, fill 500,000 cells with kindness. Make the thought, healed within. Dis-ease, may be incurable but can be healed.

Sifu Lu Yang (yours truly) is learning how to heal by bringing energies into balance.

Anxiety is poison. For now let go of anxiety, let the stillness of the mountain arise within.

Open portals, gates, channels. The eyes, one is the sun, the other is the moon and the head is the stars. Bring into balance.

Legs out, bounce up and down, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle (the legs).

The exercises we do are to create a linkage. Focus on them until they become our foundation.

We want to be like the self-righting toy, coming back to center.

Knees up and down and then bring the legs back into center.

Pulsing, heels fixed 8xs twice

Point and flex toes 8xs twice

Circle ankles outward 4x and inward 4x

Point right foot, alternate pointing left and right 6x

Turn feet out then back in at ankles 6 x 2

bounce legs up and down

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I’ll add more in the next email!

Until then, take good care, happy holidays and New Year!
Sifu D’Arcy/Sifu Lu Yang