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Fat Cat wrote:

baffled wrote:Mr FC,
Do you have a good resouce for the Thai Hermit stuff?

For the White Temple (Wat Po) style medical stuff from Jivaka the book by Corsi is good. There are some good shows from Thai television on youtube that were demonstrating the 60 or so classic poses. I'll think of some others.

Other stuff you have to piece together from different sources. Even Wai Kru have a lot of yogic positions. In ancient times there was a Vedic civilization that incorporated not just India but much of what became Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Laos, and Philippine Islands. They had a whole science of the body that codified the meaning and effect of various postures, expressions, and hand positions and it pervaded everything from their martial arts to their dance and fine arts. If you look at inscriptions from Ayutthaya, the kings ministers for example would go through a whole series of bodily prostrations laid out in specific postures, etc. etc. Warriors getting ready for battle, priests for rituals, they would all do a series of movements to prepare.


Here's Indonesian style crocodile -

Awesome. Thank you.