The Five Tibetan Rites

[TigerLilly]

Does anyone else do these exercises?

I have now been doing them (almost) every day for two years and I certainly feel younger even if I do not look it

http://home.acceleration.net/clark/C...ive.Rites.html

The Five Tibetan Rites


The Five Tibetan Rites is a yoga routine based on a ritual of exercises discovered in the early 1900's, by a British army colonel, Colonel Bradford, who was living in a Himalayan monastery. They are practiced around the world and are said to prevent aging. In 1939, Peter Kelder published "The Original Five Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation," which helped spread the rites in the western world. Mr. Kelder has since updated the book "The Eye of Revelation - The Original Five Rites of Rejuvenation," Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, 1989, ISBN 0-945685-04-1.

The rites are comprised of five different movements (with a sixth added for good measure), with each movement performed up to 21 times (Tibetans believe 21 is a perfect, mystical number). It is best to start with 3 repetitions of each exercise and gradually increase the repetitions. The entire routine can be completed in less than 10 minutes.

[TigerLilly]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Tibetan_Rites

In his booklet, Kelder claims that while stationed in India, British army officer Colonel Bradford (a pseudonym) heard a story about a group of lamas who had apparently discovered a "Fountain of Youth". The "wandering natives", as he called them, told him of old men who inexplicably became healthy, strong, and full of "vigor and virility" after entering a particular lamasery. After retiring, Kelder's Colonel Bradford went on to discover the lamasery and lived with the lamas, where they taught him five exercises, which they called "rites". According to the booklet, the lamas describe seven spinning, "psychic vortexes" within the body: two of these vortexes are located in the brain, one at the base of the throat, one on the right side of the body in the vicinity of the liver, one in the reproductive anatomy, and one in each knee. As we grow older, the spin rate of the vortexes diminishes, resulting in "ill-health". However, the spin rate of these vortexes can be restored by performing the Five Rites daily, resulting in improved health.

I have found that I have far more energy, my weight has slowly dropped to normal for my height, and an old knee injury that used to bother me has all but disappeared.

Generally these 5 simple exercises have changed my life!

[Nortreb]

Thanks for posting this TigerLilly!

The exercises are a branches of a very old system of energy activation for the body, mind, spiritual complex. Yoga, taichuan and qigong are also branches of this system.

These exercises are very effective in directly activating the magnetic properties along the Cerebral-Spinal system.

Peace

[TigerLilly]

Thanks Nortreb

There is certainly something special about them. They are very simple yet amazingly effective in my experience.

[christian]

I do them every morning since years, I add some push ups and other stuff, anyways, for me it's great for getting started in the morning.

[TigerLilly]

Posted by chiquetet (here)
I do them every morning since years, I add some push ups and other stuff, anyways, for me it's great for getting started in the morning.

I agree Chiquetet the morning is the best time. If I put them off I never get around to doing them. It takes disapline but its worth it.

[astrid]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Lwi1zGqkdA

Salute To The Sun is also a great practice for body mind and spirit.

You are meant to do it in the morning facing the East.

[Roseheart]

I do Sun Salutes and the 5 Tibetans. Love em. x

[9eagle9]

Odd that. I do all of them but number 4 as part of my daily yoga. Have to throw that one in there too.

[The One]

Thank you so much for brining this to my attention.

I really do need to start doing more exercise because the only exercise i do at the moment is drink about 20 coffee's a day

That why i am always on the go

[TigerLilly]

Thank you Astrid

I used to do this years ago in Yoga class. I will add it to my morning routine.

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Posted by 9eagle9 (here)
Odd that. I do all of them but number 4 as part of my daily yoga. Have to throw that one in there too.

Number 4 is simple but it's good for the back of the arms and tightens up the butt!

[G.Deluca]

i was just searching for morning routine exercise! thank you very much for posting this

[astrid]

I must admit i have been very slack with my exercise of late.
But i have found a local yoga teacher so now i have no excuse to get back to it.

Sometimes classes can help you get more motivated to establish a home practice, i find anyways.....

More Yoga postures in this clip, so beautiful to watch when its done well.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OydBrlGo1HY

[TigerLilly]

Posted by The One (here)
Thank you so much for brining this to my attention.

I really do need to start doing more exercise because the only exercise i do at the moment is drink about 20 coffee's a day

That why i am always on the go

If you do these you won't need the coffee!

[9eagle9]

OMG NO COFFEE! That's ...that's Satanic. Juan Valdez and his donkey are rolling in their graves.

Happy Birthday TL.

Skip the yoga and do some 12 ounces curls instead Just for today ....

[The One]

Posted by 9eagle9 (here)
OMG NO COFFEE! That's ...that's Satanic. Juan Valdez and his donkey are rolling in their graves.

Happy Birthday TL.

Skip the yoga and do some 12 ounces curls instead Just for today ....

lol ........................

[Anna]

Ha Tiger Lilly,

Yes, I also do these exercises regularly for over 20 years now.
After doing martial arts for 10 years followed by T'ai Chi and Qi Gong I ended up doing the Tibetans to keep fit and healthy.
I have also taught them for a while and always marvelled at the great visible results; healthy people with shiny eyes.
I experience that the breathing in between each movement gives the meditation.

The One: I like coffee too but maybe you need to change your brand when you need 20 per day, can't be real coffee...

hug from Anna

[TigerLilly]

This program is used by the Monks to live long, vibrant and healthy lives. In fact, Kelder's book states that many have lived longer than most can imagine by following the program often called the "Five Tibetan Rites".

Kelder outlines "many examples of the benefits of the "Five Tibetan Rites" including the following: , endurance and vigor; improved emotional and mental health; enhanced sense of well being and harmony; and very high overall energy."looking much younger; sleeping soundly; waking up feeling refreshed and energetic; release from serious medical problems including difficulties with spines; relief from problems with joints; release from pain; better memory; arthritis relief; weight loss; improved vision; youthing instead of aging; greatly improved physical strength

Kelder shares the five rites through the eyes of a fictional character in the British Army(although Kelder claims he is a real individual) driven by a seemingly irrational wish, a wish to recapture his health and youth.

This aging British Army officer embarks upon an adventure of discovery that leads to forbidden Tibetan ancient land obscured by centuries of isolation; a land of wonder, where miraculous feats are a part of everyday life. There, in the shadows of the earth's tallest mountains, he stumbles on the hidden Shangri-La, a mysterious place without time where people age but somehow never grow old.

So begins the chronicle of Colonel Bradford, whose extraordinary adventure brings him back to the West years later at age 73, looking and acting like a man of 45!

How did he accomplish this remarkable feat of rejuvenation? The secret is said to be in a series of five ancient Tibetan exercises, which anyone can perform in a matter of minutes. These simple exercises will restore youthful health and vitality by balancing and harmonizing invisible energy vortexes within the body."

So, you ask, how exactly do "The Five Rites" work?.......................

Good question. The five rites or exercises are designed to stimulate the seven major chakras or energy vortexes in the body. "The seven vortexes govern the seven ductless glands in the body's endocrine system, and the endocrine glands in turn, regulate all of the body's functions, including the process of aging." Energy flows from the Universal Energy Field through the chakras into the energy systems within our bodies, including the Meridian System.

Read more: http://www.healthy-holistic-living.c...#ixzz1O2d7EPva

Sleeping soundly - yes
Lots of energy - yes once I've done them
better memory -??
better balance -from the spinning.
I have also read that they get rid of grey hair,
I have found that it just makes my hair much curlier!!

[TigerLilly]

Posted by Anna (here)
Ha Tiger Lilly,

Yes, I also do these exercises regularly for over 20 years now.
After doing martial arts for 10 years followed by T'ai Chi and Qi Gong I ended up doing the Tibetans to keep fit and healthy.
I have also taught them for a while and always marvelled at the great visible results; healthy people with shiny eyes.
I experience that the breathing in between each movement gives the meditation.

The One: I like coffee too but maybe you need to change your brand when you need 20 per day, can't be real coffee...

hug from Anna

Wow Anna I'm impressed, 20 years. Having reread and posted all this I think I need to work on the breathing more for the meditation element.

[Moonwish]

May I suggest

"The Five Tibetans" by Christopher S. Kilham.

Excellent consice review of the practices and then some.

I agree, can change your life. Liven your connection to source.