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Footage from Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching an I-Ching Immersion course. In this clip, Bruce demonstrates and explains the first exercise for moving from your central channel while standing (as opposed to walking).

Part 1 of 4 Footage from Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching an I-Ching Immersion course. Here, the focus is on the energies of change inherent within the I-Ching, and how meditators strive to begin gaining an awareness of them so that they can flow with the effects created. This concept, when connected to martial arts, allows for a radically different type of movement and fighting style not found in anything else, which is explained in detail here.

Footage from Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching an I-Ching Immersion course. Bruce concludes explaining the sitting hand exercise. This allows you to start connecting to the environment around you.

Archive footage of Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching Ba Gua at a retreat. In this clip, Kumar shows how to connect dropping the elbows and proper stepping with threading all the way through your body to your finger tips. By doing so, it becomes possible project a great deal of force into your finger tips and drive people forward with each step.

Archive footage of Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching Ba Gua at a retreat. In this clip, Kumar demonstrates one of the early exercises to become able to fluidly change direction at any point without hesitation, the practice of Diamond Walking. Along with explaining some of the implications for the state of mind created by this art, Bruce also shows basic fighting applications associated with its usage.

Archive footage of Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis explaining how the practice of Ba Gua can begin to activate the liver, and create a detoxification reaction, and then gives advice on what to do if that situation occurs.