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FIRE and WATER - High Summer-time
Fire ignites, passions grow, Water soothes a calming flow.
With the Fire element season of summer, the year is at its zenith and as part of nature so are we. The height of yang activity, relating to the middle of the day, joy and expansion, pleasure, desire, love and divinity. Heart energy entices us to follow our intuition, play outside, meet friends, go on adventures - harking back to the heady days of summer holidays reaching out over an age to the brightest times of our childhood.
Us Brits need the sun to be so beamy at this time of year, it bolsters us to endure the depths of winter and engages us wholeheartedly with life in the here and very now... Many of us also enjoy being at the beach, where the Water helps to balance the dry heat of the Sun-fire. So it is in TCM, the Water and Fire have an enduring relationship of inspiration and control. In class this term we have been exploring the two, setting up the buoyant support and ease of flow from Water as a foundation for the Fire to safely express. These elements are in an eternal yin yang dance with one another, and so when we work consciously with them, balance can be restored to our systems.
Harmonising Exercise
'Stirring the Fire and Water'
From your WuChi standing structure place your hands in the classic 'holding the sphere' position, with one hand palm up at the level of the lower
Dantien - Water- and the other palm down at the middle Dantien - Fire. The palms have a chi connection and as the shoulders and wrists soften the chi
becomes clearer. Focus on the space between your hands and after several breaths change position on the out breath by letting the top hand face in
and travel down close to the body, landing in the lower position, with the bottom hand sweeping up around the sphere to place itself at the top.
Repeat this several times with the intention of restoring harmony.
More investigations on this theme will be taking place in all the scheduled classes for this half of term. See listings for days and times.
