Core Transformation Melting and Unraveling
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Notice to those who have purchased the Core Transformation DVD Set: The attendance at a live Core Transformation Workshop is required in order to receive course credit from Quantum-Touch. THE BODY AS A MATRIX
The body is a structure that can be liquid or crystalline. It is made up of innumerable little tubules that run throughout the body. Tubules are micro-filaments that are seen at the subcellular level and are part of a new emerging view of body function in molecular biology. There should always be a flow through these tubules. Blockages are created by inhibiting this flow. Tension is one of the major factors inhibiting this flow. Through the act of "diaphragm breathing" and elongations we bring this flow back into harmony. The in-breath and the out-breath are of equal importance. During the majority of this practice we will focus on the out-breath and a particular point behind the eyes. In a crystalline form, when you try to get something to change, it causes a ripping of the structure. By learning to turn the body into a liquid, you are "melting" the form; now it is transformed into a new matrix that is healthy. Ideally, the body is in a constant stat e of melting and reorganizing, which maintains health. MORE ABOUT MICROFILAMENTS
Imagine a microscopic highway made up of microtubules and microfilaments in each of your cells - trafficking proteins to specific destinations, moving organelles throughout the cell in an orderly manner, and even transporting the mRNA molecules from the nucleus to specific areas for translation. In cells, the microscopic highway of microtubules and microfilaments are collectively known as the cytoskeleton. It was traditionally thought that the cytoskeleton only played a role in maintaining cell integrity, cell division and cytoplasmic streaming. Recently the cytoskeleton has been implicated in cell signaling, metabolism, and molecular transport. The size of a microfilament is 4 to 6 nanometers.
THE CORE POINT The Core Point, or "the space behind the eyes," is at the intersection of two lines. To find one fine, first place your fingers on your temples. Then slide your fingers about an inch back and drop them down against the zygomatic arch. The first line runs through your head connecting your two fingers (just like a rod through your head). The second line runs in from between your eyes (where your eyebrows come together), intersecting the first line. This point of intersection is just above the pituitary gland inside your head. It is actually an area approximately th e size of a walnut. This is where you breathe from and where your focus lies.
THE EXERCISES:
Each exercise is to be approached with a sense of possibility. The object is not to "achieve" a particular result, but rather to see what can be sensed or learned from the experience. A constantly evolving beginner's mind is what you are after. As your structure changes, do not look for the limits that these changes have created within you. Instead notice and practice for an even deeper understanding of where all this can take you. All the elongations or extensions are done through the bones and joints. All the breathing is done through the nose if possible and all movements are initiated on the exhale. The focus while doing the breath is behind the eyes. As you practice you will gain greater and greater awareness of what you are made up of. Bit by bit you will be able to discern more and more of your structure and what binds it and what sets it free. Each of the exercises are designed to test where your body is at. Can you rearrange your structure to accommodate the movement you want to make? We start with simple exercises but it is possible to do very complex exercises and use the same principles. Each exercise you do can be thought of as a kind of 'speed bump' to your system. It makes you ask questions like "can I do this movement and still maintain the elongation through my body?" As you gain in ability and awareness of your inner terrain, you will be able to relax and release just about any part of your body. When this becomes more commonplace for you, then you will find that you have become quieter and quieter inside. This helps in your own healing as well as helping others to heal. THE FIVE DIAPHRAGMS
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The first is at the perineum, the area between the genitals and the anus, which affects the whole pelvic floor. It feels like a dome - rising and elongating. The second is the peritoneum, the body cavity encompassing the area from the perineum up to and including the area just below the lungs, which affects the entire torso all the way to the top of the rib cage. It feels as if liquid is melting out through the kidneys, in which the melting feeling can continue all the way up through the rib cage. The third is on either side of the throat, the area that affects the neck. It feels as i f the whole neck is expanding and melting. The fourth is the palatine that can be thought of as the roof of the mouth all the way back to the throat. It affects the entire skull, but particularly the sinus cavities. It feels as if the sinuses are opening and that there is actually more space in the roof of the mouth and jaw. There is even a flexing of the sphenoid bones creating more space for the brain. The fifth is the top of the head, which affects the entire scalp, as well as the cranial sutures. It feels as if the top of the head is opening up.
SKETCH OF THE FIVE DIAPHRAGMS 4 The Dynamics of Inspiration and Expiration (Taken from Emotional Anatomy, Keleman; illustrated by V. Perez)
Becoming aware of these diaphragms is accomplished with a slow exhalation and light touch. Your exhalation should be through the nose and should also be slow so that if a candle was placed in its path it would barely flicker. Lightly touching the different diaphragms as you breathe out will help you experience each one. After you've learned to feel them, the physical touch will no longer be needed. In addition, this awareness travels like a wave throughout the body. It doesn't actually happen one diaphragm at a time; they all happen at once, but it is easier to be aware of them one at a time. QIGONG EXERCISE
Stand or sit with the feet shoulder width apart. Hold the palms just below navel height in the position of hugging a tree. You should feel as if a tennis ball would fit under your armpits. Breathe naturally and focus on an exchange of energy coming through your hands into the area three fingers below the na\'el approximately half way into the body. This is done to increase sensitivity to energy and to gather Qi into the body. GROUND SCAN
This is done before and after each King down exercise. It gi\'es you a baseline before you start and allows you to see what changes have occurred afterwards. Lie on your back, arms relaxed at your sides, legs outstretched with the feet about hip width apart. Feel where each part of your body is touching the ground. Notice the areas that do not touch the earth. How big are they? What size creature could fit through? GROUNDING EXERCISE (Feeling and Absorbing the Power of the Earth)
Stand with your feet hip width apart. The outside edges of the feet are parallel. Feel the weight of your feet pressing on the earth. The heel is the tap root; the three arches of the foot (the medial, transverse and lateral) are the support roots. Allow the roots to grow about three feet into the earth, until you can sense a flow coming into your feet. Do your Yin breath and invite the f low to continue through your legs. body, and out the top of your head. As you find this flow and call it in. bring the na\"el gently toward the spine with your exhalation. This will cause the lumbar \ertebrae and sacrum to separate, with the sacrum extending down and the lumbar expanding up. The lo\\er half of the physical form will now be in the ground. The upper half will become light and free, like the branches of a tree. ELONGATIONS
This involves an awareness of the fne diaphragms and the spine. Let the sacrum drop, as if there were a 100 lb. weight pulling it down. This acti on is the beginning of a wave that continues down all the way through the legs, and down and out through the feet . This action also goes upward out the top of the body. The act of "diaphragm breathing" magnifies the sensation leading this wave-like action all the way up and out the top of the head. This wave extends not only vertically through the body, but it also travels horizontally. This exercise can be varied in a variety of positions.
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ELONGATIONS (continued)
Elongation with bent knees lying down Elongation standing Elongation sitting Elongation standing knee bend Elongation with towel: under head, under neck, under upper back,(at level of nipples or just below), or under sacrum. Always rest a bit after each exercise and drink plenty of water, effort and then see what happens if you do less.
Start with a slight muscular
MICRO-MOVEMENTS
Around the clock. These motions are meant to be done in conjunction with awareness of the five diaphragms. This movement is accomplished by doing very small motions with the pelvis. Start with a back and forth rocking motion on your seat bones. Now try it side to side, from s eat bone to seat bone. Try it in a circular motion, going to each number on the "clock," first clockwise and then counter-clockwise. These movements are quite small and are meant to be done as elongations, so that you are actually "growing" the side you are rocking toward. FEELING THE EARTH THROUGH OTHERS or THE REVERSE FLOW OF GRAVITY
This is the first of several exercises that allow us to be aware of subtle energies, and differentiating between them. Think of the person you are working with as an extension of yourself- not as a foreign object. Place your palm on their thigh, and notice that you can feel the earth through this person, just as you can feel the earth through yourself when you do the grounding exercise. This is a very subtle sensation, usually noticed on the ver y surface level of the skin of your palm. FEELING THE RIVER
Begin by touching the client in the manner of "feeling the earth through others." This time follow the flow of the energy through the entire body of the client starting from the feet and work your way up all the way through their body. You can think of the energy coming through the client 's body as lines offeree, or simply "the flow." As this flow moves through, it gets bent or slowed or even stopped in places. You will begin to be able to feel where this is occurring. These out of balance areas are really areas of tension or injury
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THE STEAM RELEASE TECHNIQUE
This causes any tissues that you are interacting with to release tension and rearrange their structure. Touch the client with your two hands; 1 like to use my fingertips. Now, just as before when we gathered the lines of force, feel for the flow through the clients system and then mentally keep the two hands independent from each other. This will cause a drawing action from the tissue. Keep your focus on your diaphragm breathing, and let your hands melt into the area continuing with the independent view of your hands. Notice how this affects the tissue that you are interacting with. The degree to which you can affect them is dependent upon how nervous or noisy their system is and how quiet you can make your system. Allow the energy that you are feeling to travel through your arms, body and out your feet and back into the earth. This s hows their body flow and now they can mimic it. Keep breathing. Allowing this flow through you (and out into the earth again) and your breathing will keep you from picking up anything from the client. Another way to think of it is that you have an area of tension. Keep the energy of each hand separate (do not allow either hand's field to interact with the other), connect to what you are touching and think of any tension in the area as being released as steam. It wil l come out the back of your hands, or the top of your head and the bottom of your feet. By being an open flow, the release of your personal tension releas es the tension from the area that you are touching. WOMBING
Wombing is done the same way, except when your hands touch the person you create a field between the two hands. This field encompasses the area you want to work on. The area may be where there is an injury or some sort of illness, but it will be felt as an area of tension or poor energy movement. You can then begin to dissolve it from the inside out. Continue to dissolve everything within the field until it has no twists or tension within it. The whole "wombed" or "cocooned" area will disappear. At this point the healing is complete. The purpose of this work is to put the area you want to work on inside a space of new potential. If we use the cocoon metaphor, we have a caterpillar that puts itself inside a space that is open to transformation. We are doing the same thing. We are creating a space within which transformation can occur, and for us it liquefies or melts; when it reforms, it is healed. This sometimes takes multiple treatments, depending on the severity of the problem and how many systems are impacted. Often it feels as if you are gathering "threads" and drawing them out of an area until nothing remains but wholeness. Another way to think of this: allow your hands to melt into the area, and feel the disharmony. Draw the disharmony out of the area, using it to creat e a boundary around the area - a cocoon. This frees the area to allow transformation to occur. The desire is to continuously find space within the wombed area. You can think of this wombed area as a cosmos. By thinking of it in this way it becomes easier to find space within it. The less you think of the part that you are working on as an object, the more it has the potential to become what ever it needs to be.
A third way is to think of the area between your hands as a place of infinite potential. This "space" is a place where anything can happen and as you let your imagination play look for interesting "things" inside this space. Then think of making space within those interesting things. Making space can be thought of as using a high powered microscope to look at these interesting things. The magnification can make molecules look like boulders with massive amounts of space between them, or make muscle fibers look like cables etc. We do not define what the interesting things are; this only limits their potential. Let them return to their primordial soup if you will, and re-form in the healthy balanced state that their original template produced. POURING FORWARD
Begin by standing and establishing the extension of the sacrum, letting the "100 lb. weight" hang from it and extending your awareness through your heels and opening to the flow. From the top of the cervical vertebrae (the neck), slowly let the spine begin to pour forward one vertebrae at a ti me. Keep the awareness of the sacral weight and the heels throughout. At each section of pouring, before moving down to the next vertebra, see if more pouring is available where you were. Do not worry about where you are going, or about getti ng to the end. Just experience each place you as you are in it. As you move into the thoracic vertebrae, begin to imagine a pole across the front of your waist. With each out-breath, send the sacrum down through the heels and allow the area of the spine you are pouring to lengthen "up" and over the other side of the pole. This is especiall y helpful when you get to the lower spine or areas where you are blocked and tight. There is a tendency to let the sacrum come up and elongate from the wrong spot, losing your grounding. Everything is an extension with a division between the sacrum and L5. Everything from the sacrum roots down, and everything from L5 and up lengthens, creating space between the bones throughout the physical structure.
Here It is Step by Step as if You Were Showing Someone Else How to Do It: 1. The client must know Yin (diaphragm) breath. 2. The client must know Grounding Exercise and be able to feel return flow from the Earth. 3. Explain that there is always a connection between the sacrum and the heels and that this connection should exist at all times as they begin to pour forward. 4. The client stands with their feet parallel, hip width apart. 5. When the client does the "grounding exercise," there should also be a sense of "the grounding flow from the Earth" whenever they look for it as they begin to pour forward. If they lose this sense of flow they have gone as far forward as they should and it is time to come back up. Remember, the point of the exercise is to see what you can learn, not to achieve a certain distance toward the ground. You can help them find the sense of flow by grasping their heel and doing a "tractor beam" technique to the heel. The other hand should 10
be at the sacrum so that the client can sense where the connection begins and goes to. This will cause the client to be aware of this area and connect from the s acrum to the heel. If they are not feeling a sense of flow from the Earth, then the practitioner thinks into the Earth for the client and finds the flow and then connects the client to it. This is accomplished with intent. 6. All movements are done only on the exhale. During the inhale you rest. On the next exhale you can continue the elongation. 7. There are two pulleys to pay attention to as the y pour forward: A. The point between shoulder blades is the pulley that controls head and neck. B. The point at sacrum is the pulley that controls the back. 8. Begin pouring forward from the head and neck. The first pulley to come into play is the one between the shoulders. Allow the head and neck to "pour" forward until they have reached their natural extension. When this occurs stay in this position for a few breaths and see if you can find any more length by breathing here for several more breaths. When this feels complete, go on to the next pulley. 9. Now they can bring into play the pulley at the sacrum. This is when a practitioner has to be sure that the client maintains their connection between their sacrum and heels, as well as the flow of energy coming from the earth. . 10. Pay close attention to the clients legs staying straight - not hyper extending or bending. To help the client maintain a sense of awareness of their spine all the way through their head, occasionally stroke the spine gently to help vivify the area. Whenever the client feels that they have reached a natural extension, this vivifying helps to demarcate where they are, as well as help them realize where they might be able to find more length through their spine. 11. Once the chent is ready to come back up, make sure they understand that it is still a pouring process. They are simply pouring everything back into the Earth. Help them be aware of r their sacrum by putting your hand there and vibrating it a time or two as they come up. This helps them realize the proper pivot point. 12. When their back is fully erect, then the point between the shoulder blades becomes the new • pivot point. When the head is fiiUy erect, make sure they do not over -raise their head and neck. They should end with the eyes level so make sure they stop in time. 13. Throughout the exercise ensure the client's arms stay relaxed, especially on the way back up. The client has a tendency to look a little like Frankenstein. 14. After the client is fully erect, they should do some "aware" walking. They should take just 2 or 3 steps at a slow rate, and then they can increase their walking speed until they are up to a normal walking pace. Emphasize that they are letting their body integrate the changes
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produced by the exercise. Regular walking helps to further integrate the changes they have experienced. Make sure you and the client drink water after t he exercise. THE BIG FOUR
If you teach your clients these four exercises with the variations, they will maintain the changes you have helped them create and actually continue, to some extent, improve on their own. Diaphragm breathing Standing elongation (legs straight and knee bend) Lying elongation (knees bent and straight) Pouring forward TRACTOR BEAM TECHNIQUE
Imagine that the energy field of your hand(s) joins with and holds immobile any structure in your system that you desire. Then with intent, draw out on this structure as if removing it from the body. This causes everything around it to reorganize and release tensions. This is a good technique for releasing musculature around bones as well as anything else. EXTENDING THE PRESENCE or POKING WITH A STICK or THE CHASER
Begin by doing "wombing." Areas within the wombed field may have areas that resist dissolving. By extending your presence and feeding some of the energy you are drawing off back into the stuck portion of the womb, release occurs more rapidly. A way to think of extending the presence is to use it much the same as in cranial-sacral therapy, but with a bit more activity. When you think of a vertebrae that is out of place (lets say it is pushed out to the left), if you add more pressure to it pushing it even farther left - it will begin to resist and even push back against your force. When this occurs, let it push you out of the way and the vertebrae will actually move back into greater alignment. Another way to say this is that you aid something to move in the direction of greatest allowance. In using this approach with energy, you can unwind or dissolve stuck patterns within the cocoon. Continue to work with everything within the cocoon until you dissolve everything including the cocoon itself HEALING THROUGH MAKING SPACE or LEVERING OPEN A JOINT
Through extending your presence, you can also create space between bones. Womb the joint involved. With your intent, create space between the bones, as if you were inserting a lever or crowbar. You can also lead the motion ever so slightly with your physical fingers.
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MELTING AROUND A TENNIS BALL and TOWEL ELONGATIONS
Lie on your back with your knees up. Place a tennis ball between your spine and scapula on one side. Melt around it. This shows you how your body adapts to areas of impingement as well as how to melt around that impingement. Do the other side. Roll up a towel to about 4-6 inches diameter. Place it in each of four positions (the occiput, the neck, the bottom half of scapulae, and the sacrum) as you lie on your back and melt. When the towel is above the shoulders, your arms are at your sides; when the towel is below the shoulders, your arms are up. Knees are up. SELF HEALING AND CHECK IN:
While lying down, go through the whole body part by part. Start with the legs. With knees bent, let your left hand hold your left knee. With your right fingers, extend your presence to your seat bones. Next, make contact with the bones of the pelvis and head of the femur (greater trochanter joint). Release tensions by "tractor-beaming" the appropriate bones. Now do the other side. Continue the extending of your presence and "tractor-beaming" the following areas of the body. Do both heads of the femurs at the same time with both hands, one on each side acting as markers Do the pubic bone with hands Do the duodenum with the fingertips just below stemum, slightly to right, intent several inches deep. Do the rib cages with the fingers touching each rib, one at a time, relaxing/releasing each rib Do the collar bone with opposite hand touching either side of the bone while the arm is extended. Do the neck placing one hand at a time, on the side you are turning the head to, elongating through top of head. Do the jaw both the upper and lower bones. Hold with one hand or two and release each jaw. Do the upper and lower orbit of eye Do the top of head Do any other area that is on display or has tension
When to Use which Healing Technique Polarity or the "Steam Technique." Used to release tension from a specific muscle at various levels and depths. It can also be used to release tension from a general area. Tractor Beam.
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Wombing. Used to rebuild an area that is damaged or destroyed. Wombing + Tractor beam. Used to align hips and the occiput. Wombing + "poking" or "the chaser." Used to align vertebrae, remove swelling or fluid from an area. Wombing + grasping energy and levering open a joint. Used to un-jam joints.
Examples of When to Use Yin or Yang Techniques It is often nice to start with a Yin technique unless the person's energy is extremel y depleted. If they are depleted, then use the Yang technique to build up some energy so that t he river begins to "flow." Once there is some flow, then return to the Yin s tyle. The Yin work is particularly good for rebuilding damaged tissue and for edema as well as fluid in the lungs or anything of that nature. It is also especially good for releasing tension in an area of acute pain. The Yang is particularly good for releasing old, chronic pain. It is also obviously very good for lots of other conditions as well. It is also very useful to alternate between techniques for releasing old chronic pain. This creates a sort of pumping action by alternating between Yin and Yang. We have also noted that moving or aligning teeth is easier with the Yin than the Yang. Which technique you choose to start with is more of an acquired taste or which technique appeals to you more. We have found both the Yin and Yang techniques to stand on their own and, as noted above, certain conditions seem to respond more quickly with one over the other. This is a bit of trial and error. In general, try one technique and see if you are getting a result. If not, go to the other. Keep practicing and playing, you will be amazed at what you discover.
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Four positions of towel elongations
Bent Leg Position Prone
Preparing to Pour Forward Pose
Pouring Forward
Ground Scan and Rest Pose
Standing / Bent Knee Prep
Bent Knee
WAVE AS A FLOW THROUGH THE BODY
Photos from Awakening The Spine; ScaravelU; pp. 28-29
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