Practices: The thirteen practices
The practices share an opening and a closing. Between them lies the exercise I have chosen for each door.
The exercises belong to different series of my school: the Eighteen Lohan Hands, the Eighteen Lohan Arts, the Eighteen Jewels, and the Sinew Metamorphosis. Gathering them here does not make them a single traditional series.
With an instructor
The choice, frequency and repetitions of each form are learned with the instructor. The narrative order of the doors does not prescribe the same practice for everyone, nor does it require all thirteen exercises in one session.
I distinguish the school’s exercise from the personal gesture I propose for carrying the door into the day. When I give only the name of a form, the name serves to recognize it with whoever teaches it to you; the gesture that follows neither describes nor replaces its technique. You can approach these everyday gestures without trying to reproduce my inner experiences.
The practices I share here are intended for adults.