Giraffe Language – Non Violent Communication
The Language of Nonviolence interview with Marshall Rosenberg yesmagazine.org
Marshall Rosenberg wikipedia.org

Reference:
Moonlight in the Dark Night
by Hua-Ching Ni
ISBN 0937064440

Origins of Watsu

Watsu® (Water Shiatsu) began in 1980 in the warm pool at Harbin Hot Springs when Harold Dull started floating people while applying the stretches and principles of the Zen Shiatsu he had studied in Japan. In the Orient, stretching as a way to open channels through which our Chi energy flows is even older than acupuncture. Stretching strengthens muscle and increases flexibility. Warm water, which many associate with the body’s deepest states of waking relaxation, is the ideal medium. The support of water takes weight off the vertebrae and allows the spine to be moved in ways impossible on land. Gentle, gradual twists and pulls relieve the pressure a rigid spine places on nerves and helps undo any dysfunctioning this pressure can cause to the organs serviced by those nerves. The Watsu receiver experiences greater flexibility and freedom. During Watsu a range of emotions can come up and be released into the process of continuous flow. This reprograms receivers to face life out of the water with greater equanimity and flexibility.

Another principle of Zen Shiatsu, that of connecting with the breath, takes on a new dimension in Watsu. On land, the breathing is coordinated with leaning into points. In water, our most basic move is the Water Breath Dance, in which we float someone in our arms and let them sink a little as they breathe out and let the water lift us as we both breathe in. Repeated over and over at the beginning of a Watsu, this creates a connection that can be carried into all the stretches and moves. This Water Breath Dance, and its stillness, is returned to throughout the session.

Experiencing both giving and receiving this most nurturing form of bodywork can help heal whatever wounds of separation we carry and renew in us our sense of connection and oneness with others. For this reason Watsu is Rebonding Therapy. Watsu is used around the world by professional bodyworkers, physical therapists, psychologists, as well as the general public.

Watsu, and the way it is taught, has evolved over the years. In the beginning the focus was primarily on stretching. With the Waterbreath Dance and the greater connection of moves to the breath, a more meditative stillness entered in. The use of flotation devices on legs that would otherwise sink has widened the possibilities and the ease of a Watsu.

Once a practitioner has reached the level of presence and connection that the carefully evolved Watsu Forms instill, they are taught and encouraged to explore the creative potential in Watsu Free Flow.

Reference: www.watsu.com

When others act, I am still; When others talk I listen. If you know your nature, you’ll have few troubles; if you know your destiny, you won’t worry.

Reference:
Alchemists, Mediums, and Magicians: Stories of Taoist Mystics
by Thomas Cleary
ISBN: 9781590306598

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Hatha Yoga: The Report of a Personnal Experience
by Theos Bernard
ISBN 0955241227

The Gheranda Samhita: A Treatise on Hatha Yoga
Sris Chandra Vasu
ISBN 1436690420

Raja Yoga
by Swami Vivekananda
ISBN 8180900363

Sacred Texts: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
by Swami Vivekananda
ISBN 1905857039

A Search in Secret India
by Paul Brunton
ISBN 1844130436

The Morning of the Magicians (Mysteries of the Universe)
by Louis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier
ISBN 0285635832

The Serpent Power: Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga
by Arthur Avalon
ISBN 0486230589

Tantrik Texts
by Arthur Avalon
ISBN 8177557254

Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (Works of Mircea Eliade)
Mircea Eliade
ISBN 0691017646

Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa
by W.Y. Evans-Wentz
ISBN 8178222523

The Gheranda Samhita: A Treatise on Hatha Yoga
by Sris Chandra Vasu
ISBN 1436690420

Links:
Raja Yoga wikipedia.org

Links:
Guolin Qigong neigong.net

I do not know why there is a profound smile on my lips,
neither do I care to find out.

Lighting up me entire body,
filling it to the brim with nothing.

I die to my self.

Not knowing who I am,
or where I am.

Lost to the world,
entering Heaven.

Walking the earth,
returning from bliss.

The spark of tipsiness has lit my life.
How can anything be the same.

Learning how to die moment by moment. In an instant a real human being.

Reference:
Entering the Tao: Master Ni’s Teachings on Self-cultivation
by Hua-Ching Ni
ISBN 9781570621611