Tenchijin (天地人)

Dive into the heart of the TENCHIJIN (天地人)

To me, this tanren is particularly interesting to understand the basics of Aunkai

And it is the Tenchijin that marked me the most when I began to practice the Aunkai

Because Tenchijin makes us feel plenty of  things and places us directly into the primary element of the Aunkai which is the energy

Here is a demonstration of Tenchijin by Akuzawa Sensei

I happen to know someone who works with the energy outside the martial domain. Our exchanges about the Tenchijin allowed me to go more in depth with the energetic movements that go through it, especially an exercise that comes close to the Tenchijin and is used in stress management.

In order to feel the energetic sensation in the first half of these two exercises, let’s imagine a little :

In the hands lifted toward the sky, a sun is born, and grows bigger. Our arms move apart as it grows in order to carry it.

Imagine the heat of those sun rays that flow through you, coming by your hands that are holding sun, you become filled with the sun’s energy and it makes you heavy, and it makes you go down toward the earth until you are full and then your descent stops, you are in balance.

The arms go down and the hands pick up the energy left behind, then shuffle in front of you to gather it, and the exercise renders sensible the « weight » of the energy, its pressure.

In Tenchijin (天地人) , our hands come back in front of us closing the circle. We can then feel the force of that energy like a block within us. In order to stand back up, we let our hands go back toward the sky.

They grab on a thread up there and it's the gathered energy that lifts us up with that thread.

Here is the demonstration of the other exercise

In the exercise of stress-reducing energy circulation, the difference is visible on the video : the hands that shuffle back the energy from behind will go toward the front and there « offer » the energy. 

It is in that movement that in the expulsion of the breath, the accumulated energy is freed, the goal being to open to a better circulation of the energy through the body.

To see Tenchijin (天地人)  from another angle allowed me to understand it even better and dive deeper into the heart of its principle.

"What’s essential is invisible to the eyes"