Unusual techniques for applying I Ching hexagrams describes a kinaesthetic approach to understanding both trigrams and hexagrams:
“You can hold any hexagram as a ‘shape’ in your body by holding or releasing tension in various parts of your torso”
Interesting!
The topic is interesting as I have today attended a seminar on the Yi-Jing and Changing lines with relation to Chinese Medicine.
Here is as I was told the relationship of the lines.
6. Neck and head (anything above the neck)
5. Upper Heater ( Heart, Pericardium or Heart Protector, Lung)
4. Middle Heater ( Liver, Gall Bladder, Spleen, Stomach)
3. Lower Heater (Kidneys, Bladder, Small Intestine, large Intestine)
2. Leg, lower back
1. Feet, toe
Hexagram 31 in Wilhem’s book talks about the influence
1. Toe
2. Calves of legs
3. Thighs
4.
5. back of neck
6. jaws, cheek and tongue.
Just my two cents
Togan Muftuoglu
In Frits Blok’s 2000 coffeetable book “THE I CHING, LANDSCAPES OF THE SOUL” on one of the pages devoted to each hexagram a template of a body with the lines of the presented hexgram overlaid from feet to the head was shown.
Hi Hilary
Thanks for the interesting blogs, links etc – you keep me in touch with such exciting stuff!
My query/response to this thread is:
I am a deovtee of Tai Chi as well as the Yi and I am seeking accurate & detailed information regarding the direction and movement of energies through the body and the connections to hexagrams. I want to use this information in creating new works of art that reflect on this dynamic but I need more understanding/information on this subject. Anybody out there who can assist?
Best Regards
Caro
Look out for Da Liu’s book, T’ai Chi Ch’uan and I Ching. I think it shows up second hand on Amazon and Ebay quite often. It was recommended in the I Ching Community back in 2003.
do you know that old thing called chi – its very difficult to put into trigrams and hexagrams “kinsthetics” etc.
if you belive in the universal principle and want to see it from the stars to where you are at right now – i would prescribe a Derek Walters “chinese astrology”.
it takes a whole year of star gazing which you could incorporate into your Tai chi.
Also a year plan from either Shou Yueng or Fu hsi to read each night according to your tastes. That should point you in all kinds of chi energy.
perhaps even get you readdmitting the Neiching.
Thanks for the input – I just received a copy of ‘Landscapes of the Soul’ and the body interpretation is interesting. Pity the layout wasn’t used better to give more prominence to the paintings, although I found the additional info very interesting. Which brings me to my point today:
Is the ‘deconstruction’ of the hexagram to produce five hexagrams a valid method? I often have this problem when I find new ideas on the web or wherever – I’m usually intruiged by the propositions -another good recent eg is Michael Winn’s free Inner Smile ebook – and then I wonder whether this is a valid premise, proposition or practice or whatever.
Any guidance out there from those of greater experience? Perhaps I should ask the Yi but I don’t like to bother the Oracle with trivia – my Sifu encourages us to learn by observation and meditation – not talking – but sometimes we Westerners need more direct input!
And Hilary & Arthur – thanks for the interesting ideas – I’ll try to find a copies
Thanks again for the resource