Iron shirt revolution

On my recent two month travel through Asia, I took the opportunity to study a new flavor of to go... iron shirt, as taught by Mantak Chia.

Similar in many ways to the taoist qigong I've been practicing for four years, yet many differences in the details. Actually, different in that there are many details... perhaps a dozen key postural points to keep in mind for the spine alone, for example.

I've been spending 20-30 minutes per day doing a mixture of three exercises; embracing tree, golden urn yin and golden urn yang. I notice dramatic increases in energy levels, speed of concentration and cohesion (comprehensive awareness) of energy meridians! After such a long time of freestyle, initially the iron shirt stance felt slightly awkward and forced... yet within a week I was achieving results EVERY session that I could only have expected once in awhile from an extraordinary session with my freestyle techniques.

Granted, this is fresh for me and I'm going a bit about it... yet it's been almost 3 months of daily practice, and I can't see myself abandoning this new path. Very exciting stuff.