Meridian Stretching: Fire Element(full version): Pericardium & Triple Heater Meridians

Описание: The ideal position for stretching the Pericardium and Triple Heater is strenuous for many people. You can start from a regular cross-legged seating position like in the beginner's clip, a half lotus, or ideally a full lotus as seen in the full version clip. If you try the full or half lotus and it feels uncomfortable or strenuous, you will lose the feeling of stretching and relaxing the whole Meridian and you will not be able to release stagnant Ki. So be gentle with yourself and choose the variation that you can relax into, only progressing when the next progression feels comfortable.

With your legs crossed, in whichever variation you can chosen, try to get your knees closer to the ground. If you can't touch your knees to the ground that's okay, just make sure you aren't holding them up unnecessarily. 

Next, cross your arms over one another and grab hold of your opposite knees. The arm on the same side as the leg that's on top should go over the other arm. If you are right handed, it will most likely be easier to start with the left arm over the right.

Using your arms to pull yourself down, exhale as you bend your torso as far forward as you can, as if trying to touch your forehead to the ground. Don't hold your head up, let it fall forward. Find a point where the fold isn't strenuous, but you feel like you are at the end of your natural flexibility.

Gently holding that position and take a deep, quiet inhalation. The lines of tension that form along your back and down the outside of your arms and legs as you inhale is the path of the Triple Heater Meridian. The opposite lines of tension that form on the inside is the course of the Pericardium Meridian. As you exhale, you should feel these lines relax. (Note: Both the pairs of the Pericardium and Triple Heater Meridians as well as the Heart and Small Intestine Meridians are associated with the fire element. Heart and Small Intestine can be thought of as the "sovereign fire" and the Pericardium and Triple Heater can be thought of as the "minister of fire" in their functional relationship in the body.)