Comments on: Longevity Breathing: A Wise Man Breathes from the Heels

By: richard

richard — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:11:22 +0000

bruce
thanks for another extremely useful and practical blog. I love how you are really teaching things with the blog, not just giving your opinion on stuff.
I find a lot of use for the LB when I do bodywork.
generally, people don’t breathe well.
teaching just one or 2 of the basic elements of the breathing within a bodywork session really improves the outcome of the session, and it gives people more tools to manage their own health as well.
I also have used the songs of the tao CD, playing it during a session. (the breathing and alignments, songs only)
I see clients breathing better at the end of the session, whether or not I coached them on the breathing.
the first time I tried it, I just played the cd, no coaching, and I hadn’t taught the client breathing at all, and at the end, she commented on how well she was breathing, and you could see it; she was so much more energetically in balance and her breathing was really great, compared to before the session.
so thanks for doing so much for putting this stuff out there.
it’s making a big difference in my personal life, and my skills as a healer.

“HOPE ROCKS
FEAR SUCKS!”

By: Ricardo Hercules de Azevedo Ursulino

Ricardo Hercules de Azevedo Ursulino — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:17:02 +0000

The aspect A wise man Breathes from the Heels, mentioned by master Bruce Frantzis in this article is felt by me , when I practiced with other master, that oriented me that you have to do breathing from your feet fingernails to the body to receive the energy; The difference is that master Bruce focus this subject with more details then others masters, That’s why I like now his method then others masters. I hope go to Crete but anyway I will make a propaganda to others people about the serminar. The problem is that Brasil is far away.
Ricardo Hercules de Azevedo Ursulino.

By: Katie Keane

Katie Keane — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:55:53 +0000

Dear Bruce,

Thank you for these posts ! Am finding them very helpful and passing them along to friends who have enthusiastic responses (many have no prior experience with Taosit arts).

I have a couple of friends who are long-distance runners, one in particular playing with some basic Longevity Breathing exercises during his runs and is finding them very helpful – better run times. I’m used to working with this while still, or moving slowly, so I thought this was really interesting and it got me thinking. Was curious how the Taoists worked with these arts in vigorous exercise in past times (is this more in the martial or ba gua terrain?) and how it plays out now with modern extra-curricular cardio-vascular exercise, on the physical level, esp as there are lots of runners these days with warmer weather and marathon season here. As I read in this post, greater oxygenation & waste removal happens with LB – is it accurate to say LB create a smoother nervous system that will stay “smooth” as heart-rate increases ? or would it slow the heart rate in vigorous activity? or both? or something else? – curious about any additional info in this area.

Thank you again !

Katie

By: Dino Madrid

Dino Madrid — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:46:53 +0000

Something good being shared from Bruce Frantzis on the secrets of Taoist Longevity Breathing. It is explained in a simple language and would be really a great challenge to practice and experience.

Have a nice weekend!

By: Aimo Javier

Aimo Javier — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:41:53 +0000

Love the duck joke! Will remember that in my class. Looking forward to Crete also.

By: Bob Hughes

Bob Hughes — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:31:55 +0000

Awesome Master Bruce Frantzis.

Whole-body-breathing is also palpable
(although not at the bottom of the heel).

There are some acupuncture points where a pulse is palpable.
Some are huge, for example: Liver-12 “Urgent Pulse” and Spleen-12 “Rushing Gate” straddle the femorial artery at the kwa (groin).
Others are more difficult to feel, for example: Kidney-3 “Supreme Stream” and Bladder-60 “Kunlun Mountains” which are just above the heel.
See Ellis, “Grasping the Wind, An exploration into the meaning of Chinese acupuncture point names.”

Of course, acupuncturists use the pulses at both wrists to diagnose your health and the balance of Qi in your body. (It’s a complex art which pulpates 6 points at 3 levels each and 28 qualities.)
Dang, my Western Doctor now only uses one electronic cuff over the tip of a finger to measure blood pressure and pulse rate.
See Maciocia, “The Foundations of Chinese Mediciine.”

Practicing taiji I’m finding a correlation between these acupressure pulsation points and my breathing.
If you hold your breath the pulse hides.
Breathing has to be “just right” (the Goldilocks principle) to get one pulse point to resonant throughout your whole body. When everything is on the same frequency, the whole body joins to pulsate sympathetically. But the pulse can be obliterated by too much pressure. Too little pressure and you can’t find it. If you extend beyond the 70% rule, you get sucked in to a vortex which draws you away from your pulse.
“Tai Xi (Kidney-3, “Supreme Stream”) has the great strength and energy of a mountain stream stream flowing with force.” See Kaatz, “Characters of Wisdom, Taoist tales of the acupuncture points.”
This then becomes my pace and quality when doing taiji.

I sure wish I could join Bruce in Crete to study breathing further.

Thanks for sharing your cirruculum with us on the Internet.

bob
Post Falls, Idaho