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I am interested in "nuad phaen boran" (northern style from Chinag Mai area). Can you recommend a book not for basic techniques but for theory of energy lines (sip sen), and therapeutic applications? Thank you!
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Re: Any recommended books?
Sun, July 12, 2009 - 7:47 AMAll those books have been burnt by the invading Burmese centuries back.
People are still trying to figure out the 50-100 detailed shen line charts carved in stone at the galleries of Wat Pho.
Harald Brust in his works, explains the theory best, albeit concisely, in a way most comprehensible to the western mind --- making a link to the 72,000 prana nadis as direct lineage. -
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Re: Any recommended books?
Mon, July 13, 2009 - 11:49 PMThank you!
Fortunately I can get it even in German which is my mother tongue :-)
I also think about buying "Encyclopedia of Thai Massage" from C. Pierce Salguero.
Anybody is familiar with that? -
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Re: Any recommended books?
Wed, July 15, 2009 - 1:39 PMSalguero's work has good clear color photographs --- most others are in B&W.
He makes interesting correspondence between the assisted-yoga TYM stretches, and their actual Yogic names/applications;
however has nowhere near the amount of scholarly historical background and exposition as found in Brust (aka> Asokananda).
If you are like me, you'll get anything you can on the subject. Each book has a few things the others lack. I've found public libraries often have useful TYM works. I'd find works no longer available to buy, so I'd photocopy or scan them. -
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Re: Any recommended books?
Sat, July 18, 2009 - 6:27 AMThank you once again!
I started searching in public libraries.
But Austria is not in the US… -
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Re: Any recommended books?
Wed, October 14, 2009 - 2:48 PMThe carved tablets at Wat Pho show different combinations of marma points and these diagrams look very similar to Chinese acupressure maps. The hard part is knowing what treatment each diagram is about. This will take more study.
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