Swimming is an excellent complement to any martial artists training regime. Our movement in space reminds us of our common evolution, a return to this ‘watery environment’ provides that key opportunity to contemplate our internal being.
You might try this: whilst floating on your back, making sure your core is afloat or buoyant, the legs glide in the hipcage & stretch through the toes; the hands fan & the spine lifts through the top of the head or crown point… and you “listen to the joints”.
Having trouble hearing? Too much noise in your life? Check in with the root joints.
Hips & shoulders, these caverns or chambers of energy play an integral role in the surfacing of our internal energy, they are the root; allow the joint to announce it’s ‘state of Chi’. Understanding the exchange of energy in the joints & how the flow of Chi is an absolute essential for Life, will surely help the practitioner comprehend how the Chi moves through us ~ but does not belong to us!
“Be gentle
express the virtue
of Life!”