The Integral Chuan Health Dance

Description

From my perspective after 40 years of practicing the Integral Chuan the culmination of the tradition is at times practicing to music. It’s been said that the Torah, the old testament was meant to be sung not just said. And  in many cross cultural traditions of integrating healing with activating altered states, sound and music were key to healing and psychophysiological transformation. Hans Jenny a scientist of sound crated a tonoscope, which when vibrated the sand on it would form words, even the Sanskrit symbol of OM. So it’s said that sounds can create form and healing. Sacred music enhances discovering how the Integral Chuan is a tradition of “postural initiation.”

In this class what you’’ll learn and experience:

• Some history of how I developed the Integral Chuan Health Dance from combining my sacred music library collection with the Yi Chuan Health Dance and the Integral Chuan tradition of Tai chi Xing Yi, Bagua and Yi Chuan. An anecdote about The Yi Chuan Health Dance.
• The importance of stillness before and during dance with Standing Meditation Qigong. Activating wuji, the mother of chi. Reeling silk practice: Weaving stillness like a thread through the movements to music.
• Using music to enhance healing through shamanic shape-shifting.
• The Jazz of Integral Chuan Healing Dance. Spontaneously allowing movements from Tai Chi, Xing Yi, Bagua and Yi Chuan to arise from your bodymind.
• Sacralizing Tai Chi’s Roll back, press, and push: Making a prayer to the four directions.
• Practicing the Tai chi Movement of Lifting Hands/Playing the Guitar to Vangelis. Yi Chuan Walking Meditation is enhanced with music.
• Sacralizing movement through music. The Dance of the Elements (of healing): Dancing to cultivate and rebalance, fire, earth, metal ,water, and wood.
• Activating your primordial self and shape shifting with animal movements i.e. Yi Chuan Wrapping snakes, Tiger, Lion, snake, monkey, crane, dragon.
• Using music to enhance movements to the four directions. The importance of practicing at various speeds, slow and fast.
• Using music and the Integral Chuan dance stemming from a bodily symptom in need of healing, The dance of the internal organs, ie kidneys, heart
• Bagua Circle Dance: Embodying the archetypes of the circle of the Zodiac, i.e.   healing your imbalances with the lion, bear and dragon.
• Cross Cultural Bagua: Jewish mysticisms circle dance for healing. Parallels to Bagua Lion circle walking
• Cloud Hands to music to clear the heart.
• Music and movement to activate your eternal self in life and in preparation for death.

Gratitude for the following artists and musicians:

• Vangelis:  MainTheme from Missing
• Joanne Shenandoah: Deer Dance
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn: Soar Free from Nowhere
• Lost at Last: Hinowayo
• Nomad: Trading Ground
• Otaku Attack: The Inner Light Captain Picard’s Theme
• Gary Malin’s Graceful Passages: Walk on-Joti