The value of RoTai™-USA Shaolin healing based techniques to Polarity Therapy practitioners

​Is your Main Question: How can graduate training in RoTai™-USA pain relief methods benefit me as a Polarity Therapist?

Firstly, RoTai™ really works - with some key differences that make it a unique and brilliant complement to Polarity Therapy. The training blends elements of RoTai™ pain relief integrated with the elements of Polarity Therapy. Both therapeutic methods are descendants of ancient 5-element meridian based systems of wellbeing and health. 

RoTai™-USA per se is an integrative approach to 

• the body structures - bones, muscles, tendons, sinews, joints, 
• the energetic structure of the meridian network, and 
• the relationship of these to the organs of the body and more subtle aspects of the therapy. 

These, as a whole, are as essential to health and well being as the meridians themselves and energy points along them, which are equally strongly emphasized in RoTai™-USA practice . 

"But" - you ask - "doesn't Polarity Therapy already do that?

Let's answer the question with a couple of more questions...

If a client is having issues with, for example, their shoulders or their lower back or their hip joints, as Polarity Therapists what do you do? Yes, there are superb element-base Polarity protocols. And yet you find that somehow it isn't quite getting your client "there"... Now what do you do? What secret ingredient is missing?

Many Polarity Therapists have stated that their practitioner training skimmed over structural work and protocols that address the body's structural underpinnings inherent to the Earth element - and its inter-connectedness to the other elements - were glossed over or marginalized by a more "floaty" approach to Polarity Therapy Practitioner training. Some graduates have commented that they were taught the structural work solely from an energetic point of view without ever addressing or acknowledging the physical tissue involved.

How unfortunate! After all, the body is a structure designed to facilitate our presence on the Earth plane, so squarely facing the body's structural needs simply makes good, compassionate sense. 

RoTai™ does exactly that, and more.

A Meeting of Two Paradigms

In essence, RoTai™-USA and Polarity Therapy both address the "Polarity" of the energy currents in the body.

Chinese Yin Yang symbol

The original RoTai™ was initially called Shaolin Healing because it is derived from the healing aspects of ancient Shaolin Kung Fu practices. This ancient healing aspect evolved to help monks injured in Kung Fu martial arts training to recover quickly and well. 

Shaolin monks in Kung Fu training

Structural and energetic tools from Chinese traditional medicine including the structure of bones, joints, muscles along with Qi knowledge and 5-element theory of health and well being, and the energy-based meridian system informed the development of RoTai™ healing techniques.

RoTai™ works with meridians of ancient Chinese medicine

Think of the RoTai™-USA approach to the meridian system this way: If one bulb in a strand of Christmas lights is blown, either a section or the entire strand fails to light up because the electric current - the energy -  is not getting through. RoTai™-USA is the therapeutic version of turning that light bulb (or bulbs) back on so that the entire strand - that is, the entire meridian - lights up because current or energy is flowing through it again. 

The directions of energy flow and the relationships between points which can harm or heal are also all aspects of RoTai™ Pain Relief. 

​Polarity Therapy is deeply influenced by the ancient paradigm of Ayurvedic medicine from India, involving the articulation of subtle energy - Prana, through three "Gunas" and 5-elements informing physical health and well being. 

The founder of Polarity Therapy, Dr Stone, described it as a "step-down" process of energy articulated into the body, and its +'ve and -'ve polarities within the "wireless" currents of the body and energy field.

Step down of energy into the human body

Positive & negative Polarity in the human energy systems, illustrated in the Caduceus

Polarity Therapy recognizes that blockages in the wireless anatomy of man are the cause of pain and dis-ease, and employs many varied protocols to clear these blockages.

Polarity Therapy energy currents in the human body

"The object of Polarity Therapy is the removal of energy blocks which are the cause of real pain in the overall sweep of wireless currents in the vital energy fields of the body". (Quoted from Dr Randolph Stone, the founder of Polarity Therapy.)

A key difference

Because the original RoTai™ was developed as a therapeutic technique to help Shaolin monks heal after Kung Fu training injuries, it systematically integrates the structural needs of the body with the energetic needs inherent to the meridian system.

Now back to the original question...

Return  for a moment to the question at the top of the page and focus on the client with shoulder issues.  What was missing?

Now imagine that in addition to the Air protocols that you know from Polarity Therapy, you can confidently support that work with specific structural techniques from RoTai™-USA to help those shoulders release physically and energetically... and, along with that, also release the underlying physical issues and emotional holding that are often buried there. The client with lower back issues and the client with hip joint issues can equally be helped when you integrate RoTai™ techniques with your Polarity Therapy work.

That is the benefit to you as a Polarity Therapist who undertakes graduate studies in RoTai™-USA therapeutic techniques.

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