2008 Men's Fall Intensive
October 3,4,5
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Tuition: $325.00

Schedule:
Friday, 7:00 PM to 9:15 PM Regular men's class and Orientation
Saturday, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM (two hour lunch/rest break)
Sunday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (two hour lunch/rest break)

Curriculum Description:
The fourth of four northern California intensives to be offered in 2008, this will be dedicated to ba gua quan's fall lung-back trigram pairing.

Forms: eight standing meditations, lung palace fist, embracing palm, back body palm

Techniques borrowed from: lung palace fist, eight palm fist, eight mother palms, pao chui

Mystery teaching: the lung soul temperament, Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine psychology, Anthroposophy, challenges of opening the intelligence of the lung and back related to personal growth, character, and relationships.

Trust in the power of relationships and community is necessary to release repressive forces in the organs and neuromuscular body. Formlessness, and the activation of ba gua quan's famed "natural strength," is a function of correct physical method that invokes expansion of the three-fold (thinking- feeling-willing) human being. Hence, the original system of ba gua quan this lineage contends, was a whole life spiritual inquiry that led one to the doorway of the Mysteries. The art of fighting is both a means and a tool to actualization.

Contacts:
Program information: Michael Guen, Ph.D. 707-815-4014
Transportation and lodging: George Bernard 707-694-9323

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