SunDo: The Best Exercise I’ve Ever Done!

This is just a quick post, because I’m pretty sure I’ll be blogging a lot about this subject in the future as I get more and more into it.

Basically, thanks to my girlfriend, Tania, I have just discovered SunDo – seriously my favourite form of exercise ever!

I’ll give you some background info from ‘SunDo International’ in a moment, but these are my initial thoughts on it after a handful of sessions.

• It is a combination of yoga, strength training, acupressure & meditation
• I leave each session feeling positive, centred, confident & like I’ve had a workout!
• Each class lasts an hour and a half and it is roughly broken down into a) warm up and acupressure, b) yoga, stretching and conditioning and c) breathing, meditation and gratitude
• It is approached like a martial art, but the progression is not linear. Some of the guys who have been doing it for two or more years say that while it is awesome from the first session, you get a massive moment where something powerful happens – and this happens to everyone at a different time! I can’t wait!
• Everyone there is lovely!

So here is some information from the actual foundation:

Based on his many years of experience in Korean martial and the broader arts and his scientific background, Grand Master Kimm has developed a unique holistic training method for teaching Sun Do.

Sun Do aims to

* Improve ones physical and mental health and to develop one’s character.
* Develop one’s unlimited potential ability and power.
* Understand one’s own pure nature.

Sun Do is effective for

* Developing strength, flexibility and vitality
* Improving the condition of every organ and corresponding meridian
* Improving and sustaining general health and wellbeing
* Releasing tension and reducing the effects of stress

Basic Sun Do training sessions comprise

Do In Bub (Warming Exercises) – These exercises are designed to increase the flow of Bio energy and blood throughout the body. In order to gain maximum benefit from these exercises, they should be done gently and in a relaxed state of mind

Hang Gong Bub – Meditation in Sun Do ‘forms’, combined with abdominal breathing techniques.

Advanced Sun Do Training is called Un Gong Shim Ki. Students continue to practice Do In Bub and Hang Gong Bub with the addition of techniques to manage the body, mind and spirit in cooperation with Universal energy.

Both basic and advanced Sun Do training assists students to develop mentally physically spiritually and philosophically.

Grand Master Kimm actually trains at the two centres in Melbourne and I’ve already met him – he is amazing!

So I will post more about my progress and discoveries through SunDo – and pictures of me in my outfit as soon as I can!

Ross

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