Cafh´s Gymnastics

Course XVIII - Teaching 11: Difficult Exercises III

Lateral (quite wide) position. Arms high up, in natural or at attention position. You rotate and bend the trunk through drive to right downward in such a way that your hands can hold the right ankle.

Course XVIII - Teaching 12: Difficult Exercises IV

Natural position. Left hand can be leaned on the wall, or your arms can hang freely. Approach with violence the knee to your chest, while at the same time launch the related leg forward-upward, and later drive the stretched leg backwards, along with simultaneous drive of right arm forward.

Course XVIII - Teaching 13: Very Difficult Exercises I

Lateral position. Arms high up. Bend trunk forward, and later bend upper area of the trunk upward until the horizontal line while you move your arms to one side and breathe in at the same time.

Course XVIII - Teaching 14: Very Difficult Exercises II

Passage position. Run body support over front leg. Arms high up, incline trunk forward, and at the same time raise rear leg in such a way that arms, body and raised leg remain on one horizontal line as much as possible.

Course XVIII - Teaching 15: Very Difficult Exercises III

Natural position. Extremely, on tiptoe. Bend knees directed forward, and lower trunk. Now, move hips ahead in such a way that your knees come close to the ground, and straighten both legs as you continue to move hips ahead.

Course XVIII - Teaching 16: Final Instructions

With exercises given by the previous teaching the part related to Cafh’s Gymnastics ends, which as a whole is sufficient to keep agility, strength and elasticity in the gymnast who persists in it in order to face with relative facility demands of daily life, and also helps the passage of prana from one to other center by giving flexibility to sinews during exercises usually practiced.

Course XIX - Teaching 1: Value of the Postures

The ancient masters have highly developed the science of postures. Unfortunately, just a fragmented knowledge about this wisdom reaches our times through the Hindu people, but its true meaning is not grasped because currently people makes the mistake of analyzing everything separately and do nor look for relations with the Unity.

Course XIX - Teaching 2: Degeneration in Postures

The noble upright posture, acquired by men after millennia, is an emblem of his evolutionary state, distorted at present by usual human postures, curved and asymmetric, which faithfully reflect human depressions, limitations and disharmonies.

Course XIX - Teaching 3: The Spinal Column

A right placement of the spinal column depends entirely upon a higher perfection grade in postures. Many ancient postures have been devised in such way that during their practice are forcing the spine to its right position.

Course XIX - Teaching 4: Exercises for Straightening of the Spinal Column

In natural human postures, the spinal column should form a line with very light undulations, but usually in most men convexity more or less marked in their backs can be found on the upper area of the spine (chyphosis).