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 the lineage of my grandfather, Sigung Wong Kiew Kit: 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 between the lineage’s exercise and the personal gesture I propose for carrying the door into the day. The gesture neither describes nor replaces the technique of the exercise. You can approach these everyday gestures without trying to reproduce my inner experiences.
The practices I share here are intended for adults.