I was introduced to Katsugen'undō by Natsu Nakajima, who uses it at the start of the workshops she has been giving in Europe.
It is a system to excite spontaneous body movement so as to strengthen the bodies self healing capabilities. It also increases the communication between the unconscious mind and the motor system which makes it interesting for followers of the Subbody Method.
Natsu warned us not to teach this to psychotic types because sometimes they are not able to stop.
Further research in the cloud revealed a few nice video's and descriptions. Below I reproduced some the most interesting things I found to start you of on your own research.
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The basics for this exercise are taken from Haruchika Noguchi Sensei and “Noguchi Seitai”. “Seitai” basically means “properly ordered body.”
In very simple terms Noguchi Sensei said that we all have a tendency to hold on to excess energy that inhibits us from rebalancing ourselves and thus we inhibit our ability to remain physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy.
In terms of what we are exploring together, the above means that we often tend to create limiting and habitual forms of somatic communication. We lose the ability to fully communicate with our body, and we lose the ability to be fully aware of the communication of the body. It is the communication patterns of the body that lead to our verbal communication patterns. When you limit your ability to communicate somatically and be aware of your somatic conversation, you also limit your ability to communicate verbally and be aware of your verbal conversation. Of course your overall state of well-being will be affected as well.
The greater your ability to be aware of and embody a full potential range of somatic communication, the greater your ability to communicate verbally and “understand” your feelings.
PART I
PART II
PART III
PART IV
Once you have learned what to do, the following steps should be carried out in one continuous movement:
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