#empty-armpits

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Opening the Chest 2

In the first post I talked about opening the chest. To reiterate :- The first thing you do is to touch your neck to the collar. Once the collar thing is done, you next imagine a stone sitting at the top of your chest. The weight of the stone causes the swing doors supporting it to open downwards. As the swing doors open, your shoulders will relax and open up sidewards. This also causes your…

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Empty Armpits

In Yang-22 we relax the shoulders and sink the elbows. However, we need to be aware of over-sinking the elbows and end up looking like a Southern Shaolin practitioner. Similarly, we want to avoid under-sinking the elbows and end up with stiff, resisting arms as a result of opening the elbows too widely. This can cause us to have a propensity to resist. To achieve the correct elbow placement we…