Jomon Stretch

Jomon Stretch Class

Jomon Stretch Class (Anybody) 1.25 hour

Date: March 20th (Sun) 11:00 - 12:15

Place: Kudan Shigaku Dojo[Access]

By: International Kuratomi Jomon Shindo Association

Fee: 3,000yen

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In Jomon Stretch Class, students dance with pound key shape (= #) pose in tune with philosophical rock music. It warms blade and sacral bones, and cure back problem and stiff shoulder. Instructors provide students with touching support. In addition, studnets take basic Jomon Stretch poses.

3 Basic Varied Poses in Jomon Stretch

盆ストレッチ
Bon stretch (Standing)
Bon stretch is a systematized simple movement of Bon-Festival dance.
People dance Bon dance with inner thigh. Inner thigh movement twist pelvic bone and improve overall blood circulation.
These movements alleviate fatigue in shoulder, neck, waist and ankle, caused by computer work. As it ameliorate blood circulation of whole body, it is recommendable for those who want to shape-up.
1. Put your right ankle crossed with your left ankle. Your left hand should be suppored by a wall. When two legs become one, your hip joint is stabilized as if they consist of fish tail.
2. Your right hand should be extended obliquely upward as if it is pointing the Moon.
3. Then your hip should be bowed toward right side.
4. Bow your hip toward left side.
5. Bow your body backward putting your right hand at your hip.
6. Finally bend your body down forward, poking your hip backward and haning your right hand loosely.
7. Streching toward east, west, north and south.
8. Take about two minutes for each movement with meditation.

安心ポーズ
Reassured Pose (Sitting)
1. Be seated on your knees.
2. Cross your arms with your palms on the shoulders of opposite side.
3. Erect your hip bone.
By bending your hands, muscles are relaxed and you lose tension. This is very simple, but with this movement your heart and lungs are relaxed. It is also effective for stomach pain and for autonomic nerve imbalance. It is exactly "reassured pose" as named.
[Effects] Bronchi, Lungs, Heart, Kidney, Genitals

勾玉ポーズ
Fetus Pose (Lying Down)
Practice with envisaging a baby fetus in mother's uterus.
1. Lie down on the floor with your right side of body. If your neck is hard, put a cushion under your head.
2. Taking the reassured pose, match your inner thighs each other, sit on your knees, lie down and curl up.
3. Put up your thighs and stick them together with ventor. Pressurized ventroptosis are raised and your body becomes warmer.
4. Do the same process with your left side of body on the floor.
[Effects] Blood circulation in whole body should be ameliorated. You become full of energy and courageous.

Other poses for ameliorating various disease


Frog pose
Frog Pose
1. Your hands should be put asideof your body and be relaxed.
2. Open your hip joint, match the soles of legs opening the both ankles like a frog.
3. Meridians for Liver, Spleen and Kidney which are located inner thigh of left leg, should be pressurized by right foot. Then the same pressurization using left foot for right inner thigh.
[Effects] Back problem, Gynecology, Myoma, Liver, Spllen, Kidney, Atocia

Connecting the Sky with the Earth
Connecting the Sky with the Earth
Right hand corresponds to left hemisphere of neocortex, and left hand to that of right.
By twisting the both hands, coordinate the balance between left and right hemisphere.
This pose uncharge the blood in the head as well as egest waste materials.
1. Tuck the fifth toe of right foot by left foot thumb and second toe. Foot thumb strengthen liver and the fifth kidney.
2. Intersect the both hands, and put it at Hyakue-meridian located at the top of head.

Animal Pose
Animal Pose
Make your forehead touching the floor, and erect your coccygeal bone upright is the animals' stretch. It reminds us of wild animals instinct. Erect your spine and stimulate your spine with the memory of before erect bipetalism. It is effective for hay fever.
1. Lay on your stomach and take animal pose.
2. Cross your right and left hands and put them at your forehead.
3. Stretch with straigntened spine and erect your coccygeal bone toward the sky.

Sideway Pose
Sideway Pose
1. Lie down with your right side touching the floor, and put your right hand up.
2. Make a fist with your left hand and put it under right underarm
3. Cross your legs and curl up like fetus.
[Effects] Lump at underarm should be a sympton of breast cancer. This is effective for stiff shoulder and frozen shoulder. It activates the movements of blade bone. Please avoid oily food.

Fish Pose
Fish Pose
1. Lie on your back.
2. Cross your left leg with your right leg.
3. Straighten your both hands and put them under coccygeal bone.
[Effects] In the evolution process, humans were once fish. This pose corrects the distortion between right and left. Left-Right imbalance caused by whiplash should be corrected in order to prevent serious disease afterwards. This pose is also for spine correction.

Stomach Pose
Stomach Pose
1. Lie sideways
2. Cross right-left legs
3. Cross right-left hands and put them near umbilicus.
Please do for both side.
[Effects] Congestion and gases in liver and intestine should be discharged. Digestive organs should be activated.

井桁のポーズ
井桁について勉強してみたいと思います。
今の姿勢は西洋人のように胸を張ります。
井桁動きは、首の力を抜き鎖骨を落とします。
首の力が抜けると、反射神経が機敏になり、瞬発力も出てきます。
井桁の内股にすると足指に力が集中するので、感性がするどくなり、踊りを踊ってもきれいな動きになります。
足を開いたら攻撃の動きも鈍ります。
内股は腎臓を無意識に鍛えます。
イチロー選手は内股を鍛えているそうですが、内股は強くて柔軟な身体つくりをします。
井桁くずしとは
ヒザをゆるめて少し曲げながらくずれていきます。
倒れて行きながら次の動作に移って行きやすくなり、ヒザのを緩めながらくずれて行くけど、倒れない。
柔術では倒れながら相手を打つと、次の動作の立ち直りが早いという。
脳の動き同じで、どっちかに思い沈みながら、どっちかに崩れて行きます。
踊りもそうで、ワルツを踊るときに、沈みながらどっちかに崩れて行く。
子供のときにはみんな出来ていたけど、大人になると出来にくくなります。
足で円を描くとき、くずれて行くけどくずれない。
くずれながら動くとつかれないし、ひざから上を一緒にくずすと沈んだら浮かぶという。
老人にもこの井桁動きを使うとからだをくずしません。
縄文ストレッチの動きも見ているとスローだけれど、実際には早い動作も出来ます。
西洋式の立ち方は、あごを上げて胸を張るという、やり方を戦後の体育教育でやらされてきましたが、まっすぐ立つのは大変なんで、実はこの姿勢は強い攻撃には弱いということです。
運動の選手や戦後強い武道の傾向になってから、ヒザを痛める人が増えてきたのは、ヒザの力を抜けないから、ひざを痛めぶざまに倒れます。
昔の武は卵をわって出てくるといった蒸して生むという。
結ぶ、息子、娘、といったのは、「ム」というのはお産のウムという、たちて、切て、分裂させる手伝いをするというのが縄文時代からあり、「共生」「和」の思想がありましたが、儒教が入ってきてから「ゆるさない」とか言うことになったそうです。
「たがいちがい」に動く、あっちこっちが同時に動くという。円柱でそれをいかになくしていくかで一つの基盤になったのが、井桁の動きです。
井桁の円柱の柱を立て、それを以下に動かして行くかで、一つの基盤になります。
小魚のように井桁を応用すると早くなります。
井桁の柔術を心得た人はうねる、うねたないとかの反応が身についている人には強い力は打ち込むことが出来ません。
坂東玉三郎の踊っているところに、アメリカ大統領のボディーガードたちが、かかろうとしたら吹き飛んだという逸話があります。
井桁のポーズは漢字で井戸の「井」と書きますが、この字を円形に崩すと「女」という漢字になります。女の着物姿は井桁ポーズそのものです。
日本の女の寿命は世界一長寿ですね。
ならば現代人の健康危機には、日本の女性の着物姿を目標に上げたらいかがでしょうか。
縄文ストレッチはこの着物姿でも出来る、井桁の基本ポーズを掲げています。
皆様も縄文ストレッチにトライされませんか。

Photos in the classroom

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