I got acquainted withthe wonderful system of medical qigong at the very end of 2018.At first I practicedthree times a week, and over time, the number of classes increased significantly - up to 5-6 per week. Now that I myself have several students,
some days there can be up to three (rarely four) classes. The sessions with Elisa throughout our practice were extremely fruitful, although, of course, the more I practiced, the more effective our communication became.
As time passes, I am more and more amazed at the gradual and consistent introduction of all the instructors of my body into this amazing system. Despite the fact that knowing the wholecomplex of my ailments, it was even difficult for me to imagine what the sequence of working with them would be. Even now it is difficult for me to understand that I was able to learn to relax in the first place. Everything and everywhere was clamped, but probably in my case it all started with the lower back, which bothered me the most and which ached wildly and for a long time when I tried to get closer to the correct execution of the exercises.
Over time, the feetbegan to respond to my efforts, but after three fractures it was very
problematic to adequately build support in them. And here I began to catch all the mentions of Ajahn and Elisa about external and internal load / support on the feet during classes with trepidation. With a complete asymmetry in the distribution of the load not only between the right and left foot, but also between the parts of each of the feet separately, these instructions were worth their weight in gold for me.
In the process of fighting for my feet, I imperceptibly felt that I was able to suddenly relax my chest and shoulders - this was the result of attempts to correct, as it seemedto me, an innate head position with neck forward, which prevented me from establishing a connection with the top of my head, freeing the T-zone and generally correcting posture.
And here is one of themost interesting moment: I was overtaken by acute esophagitis, which was the result of taking my medication ibrutinib.
Elisa, as always, came to the rescue: I will never forget her “everything down”! In short, I learned to relax the esophagus, and with it the stomach and abdomen. By the way, only recently I have been learning to relax my stomach, maintaining a clear connection between the feet and the stomach (before that, this connection for me automatically meant tension in the abdominal muscles).
However, the work onthe feet remained the main thing for me, since each small victory (the opportunity to lean on some bone or part of the foot) indicated new goals to strive for. And it was at this time that Elisa with “7 stars form” appeared in my life. I immediately agreed to the offer to try. The feet did not want to obey, the head did not want to remember the movements - the first couple of months (and maybe longer) it was all painful. However, I immediately felt how useful it is for the stop - support
on the feet at different angles, in different directions. And when there was a wonderful jump in the state of my feet - February-March 2022, I fell in lovewith “7 stars”. Thanks to Elisa, having continued this practice with Ajan and Zeynep, I was prepared for a deeper understanding of it and now I feel great pleasure doing it.
One of the latest miracles that I am seeing at the moment is the ability I am gaining to relax my knees. Finally, Olga got through to me, for a long time she drew my attention
to the tension in her knees. I could only feel it when my feet finally learned to take on the load that my knees had carried for years. And with regard to the feet, I have come to the point where the relative symmetry in the distribution of the load on them no longer seems unattainable. The next task is to restore sensitivity to two fingers of the left foot. It turns out that I haven’t relied on them for ten years at all ...
At the end of winter, Ajahn said that now I will change very quickly. Everything is so, but I did not think that the progress would be so intense. Even the curvature of the spine at the border of the thoracic and lumbar regions has been recovering very quickly in recent weeks ...
It was to such a wonderland that qigong opened the way for me. Thank you very much to everyone who works with me and worked out, who massaged my long-suffering legs, who is ready to help at any moment and who rejoices at my victories, like myself.