impulses: general #550

In a bodymind practice, when you do movements, stops are not simple stops. I am particularly thinking of the first three Wing Chun forms here, 小念頭 the Siu Nim Tau, 尋橋 Chum Kiu and 標指 Biu Jee, and 少林易筋經 the Shaolin method for transforming the tendons and all their (standing) positions in between movements. There is the simultaneousness of movement and stillness (動中有靜 靜中有動), of inside and outside, of 陰 the Yin and 陽 Yang.

You need to be careful not to become rigid in a position and harden those areas that are already too tense. These phases of tranquility, however short or long they may be, are there to connect and to broaden our conscious and subconscious knowledge. In these stops, we also reach out to those frozen and rigid parts inside of us, gently support them to become alive again, and get constructively reintegrated into the wider networks we are a part of.