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Rufus Laggren wrote:> chisel work

And I don't see any errant deep chops lift on the finish. Nice work.


Cheers,
Rufus

Thanks Rufus!

BRK Day 85

A full day yesterday as usual!  First junk pole fence work which Simon is doing great at. Then a few transplants on to Alterton Abbey's Hugel beds followed by tractor road grading.

In the afternoon: transplants of onions on to the base camp hugel beds; Fred and me went to get water in Judy; Fred let me firehose down the base camp hugels (which is way more fun than I'll admit to); finished the Boot camp project time with desktop chisel work; later Simon gave his first design presentation just before Himalayan yoga.

Wow, that WAS a full day!   I'm intrigued by your mention of "just before Himalayan yoga".  If it's not too personal a subject, maybe a brief description/link/pic of the practice there at WL?  

I started yoga back in Dec at a local place and wasn't that happy.  When COVID shut that down, I found something online that surprisingly I'm super happy with.  So now I want to know what everyone else is doing.  I hadn't actually heard of "Himalayan" as a style before.

Kerry Rodgers wrote:Wow, that WAS a full day!   I'm intrigued by your mention of "just before Himalayan yoga".  If it's not too personal a subject, maybe a brief description/link/pic of the practice there at WL?   ....

....  So now I want to know what everyone else is doing.  I hadn't actually heard of "Himalayan" as a style before.

hmmmm....so the set of stretches I'm referring to as Himalayan Yoga was first taught to me in the mid-90's by a man named Micheal Phillips in Tucson, AZ. To prepare his student's bodies to move Chi through their bodies, he taught us this particular set with the name "opening the gates" -a Mandrin name.

In 2015 I went to His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje USA seat near Woodstock, NY to finish a practice called Ngondro. There were two high level monks sent to prepare the monastery for the Karmapa's arrival in 2016; one of those monks name is Khenpo Tenkyong. He asked if I wanted to learn Himalayan Yoga, I said yes, and he taught me the EXACT same set of stretches!

Khenpo Tenkyong said he was from a kung fu monastery and he used the word shaolin but later I went to Nepal and learned that the Kagyu Lineage has both male and female kungfu monasteries; these monks and nuns are physical protectors.  Khenpo Tenkyong was born in Nepal and as a young boy told his parents they needed to move  to India so he could assist the Karmapa; they did.

If you wanted to learn these set of stretches, it will take about a month as these are not session yoga poses....one has to learn what is going on inside of one's body rather than just the outside.
Here are the people I recommend that you ask to teach you this set of Himalayan Yoga:

Khenpo Karma Tenkyong

Sam FS Chin

Kelley Graham

This man, Michael Phillips, is the one who showed me these set of stretches first (and so many other internal energy tools).

Lastly, in order of importance, I could teach them to you and it will take about a month and half to make sure you 1) can do them; 2) you get the internal instructions ingrained in your body. You would be better served working with the above caliber of people to learn this set of stretches.

BRK Day 86

Did a little nest labor and took the new Boot for a Ant Village tour...did a little work On Narrow Pond too.

Orin Raichart wrote:...the set of stretches I'm referring to as Himalayan Yoga...

Thanks, Orin!  I'll have a look.

BRK Day 87

Made it out On Narrow Pond yesterday.....thanks to my supporters, I have tools, perennials, and annuals! Thank you Wiliam, Greg, Kerry and Pearl!  I've got updates for you as usual this week!

Here's a little video for the rest of you!

BRK Day 88

Yesterday I finished chiseling the large library desktop after a good morning of great progress on the junk pole fence.

Here's some videos Clayton took and I pasted together:

BRK Day 89

Yesterday I did a little work on the junk pole fence then spent most of the morning moving Chateau de Poo (once the fence was up, moving the Chateau would've been hard and dangerous). In the afternoon, I gave the library desktop a final sanding then began building a cell phone housing for the security cameras.

BRK Day 90

The housing placement for the camera wasn't great for the camera's field of vision and the router it attached to wasn't the closest, down it came for a new location and a battery charge.

...did a little work on the hugel beds to free up the food plants and in the afternoon we collected a load of junk pole