{"id":5016,"date":"2015-04-20T01:02:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T01:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2015-04-25T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T01:38:09","slug":"suggested-exercise-for-weavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/suggested-exercise-for-weavers\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggested Exercise For Weavers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tibetan<\/a>

Tibetan 5 Rites – from Qi Gong class – 1994 — Suggested number of times for each separate movement is 5<\/p><\/div>\n

Chilkat and Ravenstail weavers will sit for many hours at a time enjoying ourselves as we watch our weavings come to life; it’s always exciting!\u00a0 To counterbalance the long hours of sitting, the above simple movements can help keep us flexible. \u00a0 Our bodies are vehicles, they are a tool to help us enjoy, achieve, create, re-create and live our lives. \u00a0More often than not, every one of us abuse and\/or ignore our bodies in some form or another and we wonder how come we don’t feel or look good?\u00a0 If we desire longevity with our current capabilities to be mobile and continue creating our weavings, we need to incorporate good health habits now and always.<\/p>\n

Like many of us indigenous folk, there are many ways I had kept fit naturally while maintaining every-day life: \u00a0I used to live up three flights of stairs and hauled everything from firewood, to kids, to groceries, musical instruments, costumes and props, weaving looms, pounds of fresh caught fish and lots of 5-gallon buckets of fresh berries, painting and art supplies, furniture, new washer, dryer, refigerator and piano.\u00a0 I once had a landscape company for 13 years where I specialized in building rock walls and digging up indigenous plants hauling them from the woods or beach and replanting with domestic plants and trees.\u00a0 Living this way is a wholistic approach to keeping healthy, physically, spiritually, emotionally, mentally.\u00a0\u00a0 I enjoyed silent pride in the strength of my body, mind and spirit.\u00a0 And instead of signing up for a gym membership, I got paid to “work out.”<\/p>\n

I am no longer that active; haven’t been for the past 20 years since I left Alaska part time, and especially the past 7 years since all the family changes that took place during this time period. \u00a0 Slowly but surely, I gotta admit, even though I am not overweight per se, my muscles have all gone flabby. \u00a0I know it ain’t easy for you to read this, but there you have it; that’s what I get for pushing 60 and no longer living on 3 flights of stairs.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, when I caught a glimpse of myself jumping down from the attic steps and I saw all that shaking going on in my arms, I was\u00a0flabbergasted! \u00a0Or maybe I ought to say “flabby – gasted…?” \u00a0I also found out that I have lost some hearing in my left ear. \u00a0When I asked my Left Hand Corner what to do about possibly regaining the hearing or at least not losing any more of it, the answer was: \u00a0do the “Tibetan 5 Rites…” \u00a0 Huh? \u00a0Okay, I’m not going to argue. \u00a0 Like my usual self, when I see or experience something I don’t like, if it’s in my personal power to do something about it, I’ll make a change.<\/p>\n

I used to do these 5 Tibetan Rites years ago when I had learned Tai Chi, and they were very easy, no problem. \u00a0Two weeks ago on the very first day of doing these rites, I discovered how weak my body was; I could barely hold myself up without shaking, and some of the moves I could only do twice. \u00a0 I was surprised, yet not. \u00a0Today, I do the recommended dosage of moves: \u00a05 of each of the 5 moves. \u00a0With my meditative exercise plan, I have integrated a few Qi Gong movements along with a simple version of a Tai Chi movement. \u00a0It feels good to feel my body becoming stronger.<\/p>\n

God willing, I have every intention of being as healthy as I possibly can while aging into the last 1\/4 century of my life. \u00a0I’ve got lots of things I still must do before I kick any bucket. \u00a0And when I kick that bucket, I would rather avoid any shaking flab!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chilkat and Ravenstail weavers will sit for many hours at a time enjoying ourselves as we watch our weavings come to life; it’s always exciting!\u00a0 To counterbalance the long hours of sitting, the above simple movements can help keep us flexible. \u00a0 Our bodies are vehicles, they are a tool to help us enjoy, achieve, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,150],"tags":[362,363],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-wellness","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-robin-murphy-nd","tag-tibetan-5-rites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}