Noticing confusion: My lineage teaches the Hara as being two inches below the navel in the body, just like TCM’s lower Dantian.
Makes sense to me: Practices actuall full-belly breath rather than breathing into the upper belly but keeping the lower belly tight as you’d do in pilates.
I’ve started saying it’s at the diaphragm because I find more people find the hara with that instruction than the two inches one. The diaphragm is not quite the hara, of course, but it gets them paying attention to the right part of the body to eventually find it.
Noticing confusion: My lineage teaches the Hara as being two inches below the navel in the body, just like TCM’s lower Dantian.
Makes sense to me: Practices actuall full-belly breath rather than breathing into the upper belly but keeping the lower belly tight as you’d do in pilates.
I’ve started saying it’s at the diaphragm because I find more people find the hara with that instruction than the two inches one. The diaphragm is not quite the hara, of course, but it gets them paying attention to the right part of the body to eventually find it.