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Thai travel diary 20

it’s been a while since the last diary episode, may I have your forgiveness, please? here the month of rain was declared, they open the tap every day and the water runs …;

otherwise, everything is fine, my trainings with Mr. Poo is going well and my understanding of this art is deeper

last time I mentioned the pain; it is present, unfortunately, everywhere in the body, as a sign of the accumulation of tensions, in time; in the teen-age, the energetic channels begin, little by little, to obstruct and to function at law capacity; obviously, a normal person, relatively healthy, can leave without any problems with this kind of obstructions; the body has an unbelievable capacity of adaptation and survival, so …; after about 50 years, the health problems become visible for almost all of us; it’s the moment when the channels are blocked and the body has difficulties in transporting the energy, there is no other alternative

as long as the body has its own resources, the pains are absorbed at a very deep level and it’s hard to be detected, so you have to “dig” a little bit more to find them; but this is also a good moment for the pains to be “helped” to disappear from the body and to free the blocked lines

I won’t go in further details now, I’ll come back with a special chapter for this – energetic lines, blockings, signs, etc

the point is that an art like Nuad ensures deep and long-term unblockings; the well executed technique can eliminate almost completely these obstructions, and, in the case of a person who knows how to take care of its own body, it can guarantee that they won’t appear again; of course, there are alternatives for curing this, but the effects are local (usually) ; Nuad ensures the effects at the level of the whole ecosystem of the human being

and, on another hand, I started to get used to the Japanese food; the people here are very fond of it; not my case, I’m not a fan, but it is good and if you find a good restaurant, it’s worth trying

and, to boast a little, now I can handle the sticks and eat the rice with them; sometimes it falls through the sticks, but it’s not bad, isn’t it?

ok, see you soon …

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Thai travel diary 19

at first sight, I could complain I have quite a monotonous schedule – trainings and trainings and nothing else more …

I saw on my computer a movie made by a Romanian director, but with Russian actors, and also French, I think, “The Concert”, nice one; it was on our cinemas as well but I didn’t have time to go; at least it has an optimistic ending and it doesn’t rise impossible to solve philosophical problems to the spectator; all in all, no matter how things seem to go on, all ends well, doesn’t it?

some days ago I went to a kind of fair of clothes, food products …, naturally manufactured, and some of them organic; the people from here definitely have a gene that makes them sensitive to beauty; I noticed in the past years how skilful they are about flower arranging or decorative art etc; at this fair I had the chance to see the equivalent of how our traditional peasants were in the past, common people who did their things manually, and with passion; they merely liked what they were doing and the results were accordingly.

now going back to my basic job, “testing the human body for pain” through massage techniques, I’m sure that many of you wonder whether I’m a button short that I keep on “mutilating myself” when I could take care of me and my things and do something else; it’s true nobody forced me to do this

what’s the reason why then? a few years ago, I discovered I had quite an exhausted body, with enough interrupted energetic connections and organs that were not functioning properly; definitely refusing to be treated by the doctors in white coats, I started searching and trying different techniques from the alternative medicine – plants from our traditional medicine, sound therapy, chromotherapy, magnetotherapy, diets, crystals, different devices, water, pyramids, etc; by the time, I could see the results and I was happy to feel on my own skin that the respective therapies are very fruitful

step by step, I started to correlate effects and reactions after treatments, in order to see connections and complementarities; on the other hand there was an element I couldn’t fully understand – pain; while palpating or pressing, even slightly, the pains suddenly appeared in different parts of the bodies

so I passed to studying a technique that was to be quite an enemy for the pain – the massage; of course, the first step was the Swedish massage, pretty nice, but the effects were quite limited and short in terms of duration, and then I got to the main subject – Nuad, the Thai massage; and from there on, many things happened ….

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Thai travel diary 18

otherwise, today I can say I’m better after I was hit by a strong cold for about four days, that fascinating cold on a hot weather – there were about 40 degrees when I caught it; that’s it, it was also a kind of purification following the lecture, or who knows what else it could have been ….

yes, I was mentioning about the Chinese needles; I said a couple of weeks ago that it would be interesting to try some traditional Chinese therapy, to see how it works; I went to a sort of mini clinic and I was seen by a nice doctor who listened to my heart beats from the hand; I watched him, it seemed simple, but there is a whole science to be able to identify them correctly; that was not big deal and he recommended some herbs; but, as I am kind of curious person, I asked him a few things and we set to have a few meetings for acupuncture.

I was not completely acknowledged about acupuncture, but there was no time for that; at least I have a clearer idea about it; first of all, yes, it is efficient, you can feel how quick it acts at the level of the energy blockings and how it opens the channels in the body; the needles used by the doctor were semi-elastic and in a kind of small tube – only the end to be introduced in the body was left out; at the other end, there was a little sphere that the doctor filliped, and the needle penetrates the skin a few millimetres with a slight discomfort (in the happy cases) or little/great pain (in the cases of high blockings); normally I had to stay like this for about 20-30 minutes; that doctor also used modern tricks like electrodes he put on the needles and a device to send low current impulses in the respective points; he added that, normally, the recommended number of meetings is 10, but of course this can vary.

as for my adventure with Mr. Poo, maybe you remember my “delightful” exclamations in the classes I attended last year – the toughest style I experienced until then; well, things can change, in a good way; I still think it is the “deepest” style I have learnt by far, but as far as pain is concerned, this is proportional with the problems gathered in the body and left there to grow up, without trying to solve them

so, the point is: by the time, the body accumulates lots of tensions and blockings; first they “gather” in the deepest layers, and that’s why they can pass unnoticed; as time goes by, if there’s anything done to take them away, they keep on growing to the superficial layers; as a rule, for a very healthy body (which is quite rare these days!!), the visible pains appear after 40 years, randomly and after 50 years, persistently …

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Thai travel diary 16

as I was saying, this is a new series …

so I’m here again, in the warm country (not to say hot) for a couple of weeks and I deal, as you can imagine, with the same things as in the past – I study the secrets of the Thai massage. I started getting used to the local area; it’s such a pity the city is very polluted and when you are taking the “tuk-tuk” thing in the street you can, sometimes, hardly breathe; the funny thing is that the mountains are at the outskirts but the city is somehow in a valley …

I don’t know what’s going on with young men here, but it seems they all want to be women; I was telling you in a previous part of the diary about the “lady-boy” phenomenon, very frequent in the Thai society. You can see them everywhere, even at the dentistry clinic I met one; what can I say, I’m not entitled to comment on this, there might be something that attracts them in the direction of the femininity; what is interesting is that they are (or want to be) more feminine even than women – manners, make-up, clothes, etc.

the social climate is very quiet; the echoes of the events in the capital, with the “red shirts” were hardly heard in this area; maybe in the underground there are still tensions, but at the surface everything looks fine.

so, I attended some classes at a small and nice school, LoiKroh. Their style is quite a well done mixture of styles from other schools. It was a good training, with a huge advantage, the teaching process is 1-to-1, instructor-student; so it is easy to assimilate, you have a lot of time for practicing with the instructor; I repeated the movements, I remembered other styles from last year, and obviously I learnt some new tricks

well I’ll be back with some more news …

Preview of the next part: Chinese needles in my head, Mr. Poo is back…; do not miss these, watch the blog (smile!!!)

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Thai travel diary 14

it’s been a long time since the last episode of the diary, those who enjoyed reading my adventure please forgive me…

meanwhile I had some difficult and demanding trainings with Mr. Poo; his method supposes a great physical force, both on the client’s side and the one who gives the massage;

I started to like Buddhist hymns I read in the morning and at the end of the classes; the most difficult part was the position, after finishing the singing, I had to move the sole with my hand, that terrible the pain was in the toes

at this time, I believe that this is the best method to get an efficient initial unlocking, at physical and energetic level; I say initial because at a first stage, the body of a client with many tensions is almost like a stone and a more appropriate approach is necessary…; later on, the treatment can be continued with other easier and more gentle methodsessent ially, the work on energetic lines

Mr. Poo teaches about 17 such lines, the movements being very similar to those in the classic Nuad; in his conception (perfectly checked in reality, on me for example), along the life, in the body, there appear all kinds of displacements of the tendons and nerves from their ideal, initial positions; these displacements generate tensions, pains, spasms etc in the body; moreover, above them, the fasces with their protective role get more rigid, becoming very tough.

you simply act intensively on the fasces for “breaking” them and making them flexible again, and after that you pass to replacing the tendons and the nerves in their initial positions; in reality, this means a pain which many time is beyond the limits of endurance …

I didn’t manage to finish the whole lecture with Mr. Poo because of lack of time, but I’m looking forward to continuing it as soon as possible; it’s the style which convinced me most in terms of effectiveness and I’ll go deeper into it till the end…

meanwhile, I got home, in Iasi, for a couple of weeks…lot of work, a cold determined by the sudden change of the climate ….

now I am on my way to Nepal ………

Thai travel diary 13

so, nobody wants to ask me about my smiling declaration of love …; that’s fine, I keep on saying it early in the morning, with excellent results – peace of mind, good mood, trust in life and in the destiny’s decisions …

on the other hand, one more school I went to, the class for beginners at Sunshine massage school, the only school managed by a Westerner. It is here that one of the few Westerners (maybe the only one) considered to be a master in Nuad, known on his Buddhist name Asokananda, taught. Unfortunately, a few years ago he passed in another dimensions.

the school is nice, more appropriate for Westerners, with a 10 days schedule for beginners. Concerning the movements, these are very close to ITM, with a few characteristics. My instructor was brought up in Bangkok, in an official school, under the patronage of the government. At an official level, according to my instructor’s sayings, they try a synthesizing of knowledge in the field of Nuad and its harmonization with the accomplishments in the Western world. It’s hard to say if it’s good or not, time will decide.

and, not to waste time, today I started to train with Mr. Poo, the guy who “tortured” me most during a massage class. As the saying goes, you have to know the movements of the “enemy” to be able to win… The first day was fine, I sat on my knees directly on the wooden floor, half an hour in the morning and another half in the afternoon, sang Buddhist hymns, learnt how to prepare the lotus flowers for the homage devoted to the Master and other divinities; the thing with the flowers is very scrupulous and takes more than half an hour to fold the lotus petals circularly, in three movements until you get in the middle of the flower…

the idea is that, by analyzing the conformation of the fingers and the toes, you can say quite precisely, what are the problems the respective person is suffering with and how old they are – pains in the back, legs, neck, head, etc.

in the near future I’ll try to summarize some of my conclusions and the feelings related to Nuad, resulted from my experience until now……

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Thai travel diary 12

One more week is gone and with it another lecture; I have an impressing collection of diplomas and soon I’ll have a real pile. Now I am a little bit experienced in a kind of special massage. the effects on the health, as I said, are remarkable.

A delicate experience and really hard to accept at the beginning was to serve as model for the practical demonstration during the class. I blushed as fire of course, but I finally had to climb on the table and to expose the sensitive areas to the audience – an extremely hard to bear experience for my own ego. But this is how people calm down their pride and learn to be more humble. it is true that all my colleagues had to do the same, both sexes being represented on the table.

Here I met a Russian instructor, Iuryi, who teaches different techniques in the Tao system. And as my passion for everything which is connected to the Russian space preserved as intense as some years ago, I started intensively speaking Russian with him and also took some Chi Kung and Tai Chi classes. Today I finish a Chi Kung technique, “The iron shirt”, which is quite difficult (my feet are shaking after the class) but very efficient. Tomorrow I start a Tai Chi lecture with him, in the system promoted by master Chia.
I forgot to tell you some things about another expert in Nuad, master Poo. I was given some massage by him as well, and except for the inherent catastrophic pains, I had no regret. Master Poo is able to diagnostic energetic problems after the structure of the fingers and toes, after the manner you raise your hands or move your feet. He can see the energetic lines in the body and identifies the areas where energy is blocked. He acts profoundly upon these areas, especially upon the fasces, linking tissues which often become rigid because of the blockings and do not allow energies to run freely. Moreover he moves back the muscles and the nerves (and even the bones) which changed their place. In my case he moved:

- a muscle with a complicate name from the right haunch;

- a nerve which was moving freely in the area of the cervical spine, as it was out of its place; he put this nerve back at its place with his finger, and especially with his nail.

- the cervical vertebrae 7 and 6 with a few millimeters;  he did this only by working on muscles and tendons, with minimum direct interventions upon the spine

well, this is all for now, see you in a while …

Thai travel diary 11

otherwise, everything is fine and interesting, a lot of work here, pain with every step, but the progress can be felt, both as practice and as improvement of my own physical and spiritual condition.

I’ve been here at Tao Garden for 2 weeks now, a beautiful place full of energy. I already studied 2 levels from the abdominal massage, Chi Nei Tsang, with Mantak Chia, the creator of the Universal Tao system. He is a special man and I think he had a great courage when he broke down the wall of the secret around the Taoist system, which had been transmitted until him from master to disciple, in small groups or individually. He made this information public for the occidental world and thus I had access to it. The two weeks confirmed to me what I already understood, that working around the abdominal area is special and the effects, both at the psychic and physical level, are often fascinating. You know our expression about the navel as “the hub of the universe”…; in this case the hub is considered the centre of the whole organism, from it radiate physical and energetic links towards all the parts of our body. Thus, by working in the umbilical area, effects are transmitted wherever necessary; moreover an impressing quantity of emotional stress accumulated in the abdominal area is released; I saw with my eyes people who started crying or laughing hysterically only after a few movements in that area …

 a funny confession, but extremely serious – one of the most important things I learnt here is belching; it sounds rude and embarrassing, maybe, but it is very healthy. The practical explanation is that very often, our intestines are overpopulated with intestinal gas which cannot be eliminated; after massaging the abdomen, the respective movements manage to stimulate the gases which start moving throughout the intestines; after this, with some help from the masseur or even by yourself, you can eliminate them on the mouth or on the other end. the result? soft intestines, with plenty of space for the food and more suitable for digestion, less constipation, some signs on the body and on the face (acne, etc) disappear.

 today I started a new class, Karsai Nei Tsang, massage of the sexual area; I think for some readers questions will be raised, but I will get back with details in the following diary…; and it is today also that I found out that the state of California, the richest American state, just officially legislated this type of massage, considering it useful for health and not only …

 and a couple of photos with myself...

 

 

Thai travel diary 10

all of a sudden, I was hit by a great appetite for oven baked potatoes …

I’m sooo fed up with their spicy rice and noodles!

some time ago I said I never had such terrible pains like in my first Chi Nei Tsang (abdominal massage) meeting; I struggled on that man’s table for almost an hour; the treatment is not very complicated -  he only presses with the fingers and the palm on different points in the abdomen, every point corresponds to an organ, especially glands; the bad thing is that for a man who accumulated lots of tensions in his life (which is my case) the respective points have the hardness of the stone and they are very painfuuuul. The ideal situation would be that of a soft and relaxed abdomen of a baby.

as for effects, I mention from my own experience that they are really remarkable; after the first meeting the energies seemed to flow in my body with the light speed, I felt pulsations and movement in the whole body till the tiptoes; moreover after such a meeting, apart from pains, I was very hungry; pains go very quickly in an hour at most after the massage, in more complicated cases, next day.

this kind of massage is mainly used for “clearing” the energetic lines of the body and for the detoxification of the organs.

among other things, this week I attended several Chi Nei Tsang classes and I’ll go on in the near future with something more complex; I intend to integrate this kind of massage in the Nuad, because in Nuad the positions for the abdomen are only a few.

I also attended the classes of that Nuad school where they were teaching especially about nerves and tendons - Nerve touch massage or Jap Sen ; it’s a combination of classical Nuad movements other specific movements for activating some nerves and detensioning of the tendons; as I told you, it’s an unique sensation to feel somebody tickling your nerves in the knees, elbows, ankles, etc.

Thai travel diary 9

I have quite an unusual schedule for these times, I go to sleep around 10 in the evening and I wake up at around 4 in the morning

 I start the day with my favourite meditation – The smiling declaration of love …

 what? didn’t I mention anything about it? if you wish, I’ll give you more details about!

 this is followed by other tricks done in the dark, then the light comes and I go to study; tomorrow for example is my last day at Tai Chi school, a lecture for the basic movements..., didn't I tell you about Tai Chi either? well, I start forgetting things …

indeed there is something special in this art from our Chinese brothers; it’s not easy, but the movements, when they start to be fluent, you have the impression they turn in an extremely harmonious dance; my intention is to find out something about Qi Gong as well and to integrate it in the Nuad flow, which is still my main passion

 as we are talking about Nuad now, I think destiny has been kind with me and sent me to a new master; this is at the other end comparing to Pichest. Firstly because he doesn’t see, he is blind since his birth. Secondly, his method is mostly based on the same principles as the Pichest’s method, but in another style. I could define it as the method of the small and methodical steps – gradually and slowly. I was very happy because I prefer this method.

 otherwise, after almost 3 months of intensive practice, I sadly admit that the therapeutic side of Nuad supposes hard physical pains. It’s true that the movements done correctly cause pains which go off very quickly, between a couple of hours and 1-2 days

 except for the “tortures” I am put to by my colleagues, I went willingly to a professional “butcher”. The style he practices is a style which focuses a lot on tendons and nerves, similar to the other 2 masters. For almost one hour I’ve been struggling on his table, while he was “caressing” my tendons and he was pinching my nerves (properly speaking). Who’s willing to try it, he can put his name down on my list for when I come back. Do it in advance as it might be busy afterwards. I intend to come back to him the day after tomorrow, maybe I get rid of a pain at a tendon in the sole which has been bothering me for about 3 years

 well, the above mentioned pain is nothing comparing to the one I went through during my first Chi Nei Tsang meeting with the same “butcher”. I honestly tell you that never in my life I have been through this kind of physical pains…