Beyondia : Be Inspired to Look BEYOND Today and ANY DAY

As a vocal coach and the creator of the Natural Corset training I cannot tell you enough how important the hara is.
For those who are not acquainted to this subject:
“Hara, or balancing point or gravity point, is the vital center of the self, the focus of existence . It is a prime factor of all human life. The hara is an area located one and a half inch below the navel and one and a half inches inward toward the spine.
A person with a good hara will stand upright, firm and collected. The body would not easily be toppled over if pushed.”

What does this mean in practice?

One day I was giving a workshop and I wanted to demonstrate this principal. I asked for a volunteer to push me away. A young man, about twenty years of age, came forward. He really had very strong  arm-muscles. (he looked a bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger). Honestly I was a bit worried. Was my hara that developed that I could resist his pushing me away? But I easily did. It was quite embarrassing for him so I told him my ’secret’.

David was a student in one of my music classes. He was eight years old and very tiny for his age. He looked quite insecure and after a little while I figured out that they were bullying him on the playground.
I asked him: Do you want to learn how to be strong and how you can resist them without fighting? He didn’t want to believe that anything could possibly help him but I made him curious. We started practising how to use the hara. A bit nervous but very enthusiast he left my classroom. A week later (I do have my students once a week) he ran towards me, completely overexcited: miss, miss, I did it! I did it! They stopped bullying me and some of them already want to play with me!

I can assure you: nothing in the world can pay me for those shiny eyes  and big smile of a person who has conquered something and went beyond his or her own limits!!

Cherish your hara!

Bea