Excellent website. Most people charge money for ebooks or websites about this info. Here it is for free:
http://www.night-thunder.com/fivesecret.html
yeah i tried these for a while from the book by chris kilham. I did them at night and could really feel the difference the next morning. I guess its coz they focus completely on the spine..
i think the first spinning one is to tune you into your energy body, the second really makes you feel where your spine begins and ends, so in the 3,4,5th postures you really know what you should be stretching.
i want to start doing them again now lol
Thanks for the link. Anyway all those exercises are but a subgroup of what yoga teaches.
thanks for the website, it look interesting. I give it a try.
Yay for the 5 Tibetans!
I have been doing these exercises on and off for about a year and a half.
When I am doing them, I have much more energy throughout the day, and when I do not, I notice the difference after one day. Right now, I am doing them every morning, and I have much more energy, and I tend to move directly to my meditation practice, feeling much more relaxed.
I would not discount them as merely a subgroup of Yoga; they seem to be a powerful set of extremely practical and effective practices in their own right. I have tried more 'relaxed' methods of physical energy work, like the Pal Dan Gum, 8 Qi Gong exercises, and Tai Chi. But these 5 Tibetans really get me up and going, and I have access to more energy throughout the day.
When I got up to 21 repetitions, I had trouble focusing on counting, and I would lose my place. I tried visualizing the numbers and imagining I was climbing little peaks of 3's--but then I decided to count to seven 3 times. The only difference is that, on the exhale of the breath, I use the first letter/sound of the number to start the exhale. So, #1= Whaaaaah..., #2= Taaaaaah..., #3= Thaaaaaah...#4 & 5= Faaaaaaah... #6 & 7 = Saaaaah. Since I'm only repeating the Fa and Sa sounds once, and rather loudly, it's easier for me to focus. Also, I make sure I'm breathing in and out at the right time. It reminds me of a yoga position I read about called the Lion's Pose, which features a long, audibly exhaled Haaah sound.
I am thinking about picking up Tai Chi again, to do in the evenings, because I tend to have trouble focusing after a full day at work or school, and the 5 Tibetans seem like a good way to wake up, but a bit much for the middle of the evening.
lol @ marlinya
i tried the 3 sets of 7 but found i was still too lazy :P
now im comfortable with doing all 5 eleven times, then doing them again 10 times...
but yeah i agree theyre a lot more potent than simple yoga asanas, i think tibetan#4 is the most powerful..
as for the tai chi you should go back to it!!! atleast learn the form if you havent already.. once you learn it, its always going to be with you if you need it.. learning tai chi was one of the things im most greatful for coming across in life..
:grin: @ Greenrat
I just got a Tai Chi DVD, I'll post a review on it when I've gone all the way through it. I'm hoping I will remember the forms from when I took it about 7 years ago, but we'll see!
jy, but ofcourse, good metods, ancient, but you soon became dependant on them- :cool: