Small Mountain completes the trinity begun by the Three Treasures.
It is a dynamic combat set that is paired with the Jaguar Series and adds straight-line thrusting applications.
This vital practice develops focus and third eye awareness applied in immediate recapitulation, or direct knowing. Incorporating blunt force and heavy electromagnetic impulses, it develops the potency of one’s personal gravity in terms of its outward expression manifesting as propulsive impact. Upon integration of this set consciousness shifts from one level to another very quickly.
Small Mountain is a rapid coiling set with a focus on applying power in straight-line thrusting movements combined with the shadowless elbow. Powerfully positioned in front of the center of the solar plexus, these physical placements strengthen the willpower and determination of the practitioner.
This form adopts slow oscillating movements that create a gyroscopic effect within the central axis whilst maintaining a strongly grounded foundation. This renders the practitioner unpredictable for an opponent, not too dissimilar to a drop of water that lands on a spinning top and cannot find traction.
Small Mountain adds a component of direct laser focus that explodes out of coiling and back again. The speed at which this switch takes place, when first experienced, seems astounding and is a testament to how this skill is built up in preparation phases.
Even though this is a martial set, its primary emphasis – as for everything in Lo Ban Pai – is on the growth of one’s perception into heightened realities that reveal the unfolding labyrinth that is our attention as beings upon an evolutionary path.
At this stage of training Lujan always emphasizes stillness within motion, for the application of knowledge is empty if one does not embody wisdom.
This course sounds awesome! It’s such a beautiful mystery to me how this art of Lo Ban Pai enhances awareness through movement. It reminds me of what I heard about yoga recently…that it’s more about aligning your personal geometry with the geometry of the cosmos and when you get your personal geometry right then consciousness opens up. Thank you Lo Ban Pai.