Dear Wing Chun Sifus, Brothers, and Sisters,

Happy New Year!

Housekeeping
Next class is Saturday, January 7, 2023

I have some stuff to take care of that will prevent me from being in class next Saturday. However, I have more notes from December 17 so there may be a part C and maybe even a part D!

On to part B of the December 17 notes.

This is the sitting routine so I’ve added the first section from the last email for continuity. It will need to be refined with further notes and drawings if I get my act together on that.

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 is 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

Heels out/in 6 x 2 ( I missed this last time)

Turn feet out then back in at ankles 6 x 2

Bounce legs up and down

Flex in hip rotators, lift up feet, (circling toes?) up and out (back down and point?)

Circle legs in air 4x, each way, both legs (drawing the capitol letter D with the toes in reverse with the left, and right reading on the right)

Maintain leg turnout, turn out joints, the little toe touches the floor, knees out at 45° then turn leg up, work up hip joint, holding leg up at the knee, shake knee back and forth, circle outside direction and inside out, draw legs out, shake loose

Legs up, legs out

Breath in reach (hands out towards toes) 4xs

Return legs to regular sitting position

Press down on knees, drop head, engage spine.

Massage the key points, knees, then thighs, then hip joints (5x each direction)

Place palms high on rib cage, press in and feel bones, expand, feel the rib cage expand and release/contract the breathe in and release @ end.

Circle belly 5x

Press in, rubbing lower tantien 5x left to right, 5x right to left

Tapping lower tantien with beak fist

Hands on lower tantien, contracting lower gate, breathe in/out contract

Open middle thoracic area: wrists together, up the center line, and down the pectoral channels.

Rub hands together, then fingers too

Massage face using fingers of both hands (counts of 6 normally or 3x one way and 3x the opposite way)
circle outward and inward on forehead
rub inside ear, make circles, squeeze (along top edge of ear and flick down?)
relax/slack jaw, press in with fingers and circle on joint, both directions
circle from jaw to chin along line of jaw
circle are the base of the teeth/chin area outward and inward
circle above the upper lip, outward and inward
circle outward along either side of nose and also check bone area
circle outward around the orbit of the eye
circling between the eyebrows, 3x counterclockwise (from the right eye brow towards the left and around and then 3x the other way)
press between the eyebrows, feel it melting to the back of the head, draw a line with the fingers to the top of the head:
for this series, start with the top of the head, then sides, back, behind the ears (mastoid protrusions) occipital area, and neck
start with fists to wrap on the head
then blade of the hand
then pats
cupped hands
tap all over head
make circle with thumbs and pointer fingers, place on the top of the head and squeeze, squeeze, squeeze
close the circle, lift up hands, breathing in move the hands up, out and breathing out and down, creating a protective circle, (iron shirt) all around you
rest hands on knees
Golden Elixer
tapping of the teeth to create the golden elixir (you’re own saliva!)
circle the tongue to the left then to the right to gather the saliva,
rinse back and forth,
close the lower sphincter gate, swallow directing the elixir down to the lower tantien.
keep the lower gate closed and
circle the belly 3x to the left and 3x to the right
3x up the back and down the front
3x pull up from the lower gate and the navel in towards the spine
2 breaths in
release, connect to the effect

Pelvic plate, circle 3x in both directions, counterclockwise first then clockwise

Place both hands on left knee, circle left hip back 3x then forward 3x, then switch and place hands on the right knee and do the same to the right hip

3x incline forward and at back and left to right from the pelvic area, keep the back straight

Lean forward and 3x pull naval in slightly, funnel circle first to the left, then to the right, straight back

Neck
Hands or Vadra fists on knees, breathing out, drop head, circle up and over to the left 3x, then to the right 3x
Come to a pause in the circle, release the shoulders.
Crane neck, move the head up and back then up, forward and down. On the last one, pull up to the top of the head
Rotate neck and look with the eyes 3x each direction
Circle neck down to the left, then to the right 3x each direction (ennalay sp?)
Pull up, release though the spine

Eyes
open eyes wide
look left and right 6x
then look up and down 6 x
circle to the left 3x and
circle to the right 3x
blink quickly
breathe in, release

To be continued!

May these be of benefit,
Sifu D’Arcy