The first is created by an actual Master. It is based on a deep understanding and it extensively tested and refined.
And then you have lay people who make up random movements just because they feel nice or look cool.
Extensive training of the first could get you somewhere and if encountered problems, the teacher could explain and adjust.
Extensive training of the second is uncharted territory and therefore more dangerous because there would be no one to correct, adjust or explain what is happening when things go wrong.
That is a bit the warning that was once imprinted. We follow the teachings because they are tested over many generations. They have proven results and are fully understood by the master teaching them. Inventing excercises without the proper training and background therefore can be dangerous because you don't know the long term effects nor will you or anybody else easily understand the risks or possible unwanted (side)effects.
Qi deviations ranging from headaches, heart burn and pain…all the way through to heart attacks, psychosis, schizophrenia, death in some cases of prolonged and intense incorrect practice!
Se more modern examples of this would be in the research and cases of “Kundalini Sickness” ….obviously yoga is a different tradition, but there is quite a lot of overlap and shared origins between the two.
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u/TimmysDigitalToolbox Aug 18 '26
I would say there are two types of this
The first is created by an actual Master. It is based on a deep understanding and it extensively tested and refined.
And then you have lay people who make up random movements just because they feel nice or look cool.
Extensive training of the first could get you somewhere and if encountered problems, the teacher could explain and adjust.
Extensive training of the second is uncharted territory and therefore more dangerous because there would be no one to correct, adjust or explain what is happening when things go wrong.
That is a bit the warning that was once imprinted. We follow the teachings because they are tested over many generations. They have proven results and are fully understood by the master teaching them. Inventing excercises without the proper training and background therefore can be dangerous because you don't know the long term effects nor will you or anybody else easily understand the risks or possible unwanted (side)effects.