5-Dimensional Flow Class: Finding Calm in the Storm

Описание: 5-Dimensional Flow (5-D Flow) is a complete system of posture, movement, breathing, and mindfulness that can give you health, happiness, and a long life if you practice for at least a few minutes each day in a gentle, loving way and allow it to integrate into your daily life.

5-Dimensional Flow gives benefits to your health, happiness, and longevity:

On a PHYSICAL level 5-Dimensional Flow can give health and well-being to your muscles and joints for a pain-free, functional body with the strength and flexibility to do the things you need and want to do. 

On a PHYSIOLOGICAL level 5-Dimensional Flow can give health and well-being in terms of your energy levels, blood circulation, and nervous system, as well as your ability to process food, heal and regenerate your cells. You can easily become energised but calm, which I call sharing good energy (increased blood circulation) and loving information (remaining relaxed with parasympathetic dominance) inside your body.

On a MENTAL level 5-Dimensional Flow can give health and well-being in terms of your mind's ability to think clearly and logically with the right balance of intuition and emotional well-being, with the natural default state being happiness.

On a SOCIAL level, practicing sharing good energy and loving information inside yourself gives you a model for how you can be in the world. It makes it so much easier to connect with others lovingly and generously if you are feeling comfortable, energised, relaxed but totally connected with yourself.

In the PRESENT MOMENT your practice should feel healthy and happy on physical, physiological and mental levels while you are doing your practice)

For your IMMEDIATE FUTURE your practice should leave you feeling healthy and happy immediately after you finish it and for the rest of your day)

For your SHORT-TERM FUTURE your regular practice of 5 Dimensional Flow should allow you to remain feeling healthy and happy over the next few days, weeks, months, and years

For your LONG-TERM FUTURE your regular practice of 5 Dimensional Flow should allow you to still be feeling healthy and happy into your more senior years 20 - 100 years into the future)

The 5 dimensions refer to the 5 different ways (or dimensions) in which the true core of your body can move. The basic premise of five-dimensional flow is that all action, breath, resistance of thought, or intuition should start from your core.

Your 'true core' is an infinitesimally small point. When magnified to the size of your lower abdomen, or to the size of your trunk, and eventually to the size of your whole body, you can move in five different ways, which we call dimensions.

The ways or dimensions of movement that your true core can do are like the movements of your spine or trunk:
(1) Lengthening and shortening
(2) Bending forward and backward
(3) Side-bending from left to right
(4) Twisting from left to right
(5) Expanding and contracting (like your trunk but not your spine can do)

The actual core of your body is an invisible point located approximately at the centre of your body. 

At rest, your core is usually located between:
Your navel and your pubic bone, inside
The top of your hips and the L5-S1 spinal junction, and your tailbone, inside
Your pelvic floor and your diaphragm

Your true core is referred to as:
the Dantien in China,
the Tanjeon in Korea
the centre of the Hara, or Tanden, in Japan,
the Kanda (the origin of 72,000 nadis of subtle channels) in India, and
the Nadu Kuru in some indigenous Australian cultures.

In Western medical science, the core is the seat of your enteric nervous system, the most significant part of your autonomic or automatic nervous system. The enteric nervous system is an extensive plexus or network of nervous tissue bigger than a cat's brain. It is often called our "second brain" or "gut brain." It is intimately associated with regulating healthy immunity, digestion, reproduction, and cellular regeneration.
In fact, your immune system, digestive system, and reproductive system are all connected to your enteric nervous system through nerves in your lower abdomen.

In Western physiotherapy and sports science, your core is related to your lower abdomen. The often-used expression 'engage your core' is often misunderstood as hardening your lower abdomen. More correctly, all movement should begin at your core. Sometimes that may include hardening the lower abdomen, but 90–99% of the time, you should always be able to feel that each breath begins at your core in a natural relaxed way.

Core muscles include:
The rectus abdominis (the '6-pack' muscle).
Internal and external abdominal oblique muscles.
Transverse abdominis.

Your core also includes less-mentioned muscles, such as those of the pelvic floor, hip flexors, such as your psoas muscle, lower back muscles, such as the multifidus, and, very importantly, your diaphragm.

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