"Super-Charge
Your Energy With the Five Tibetans"
by Frederic Patenaude
I recently gave a workshop in Ontario.
Since we didn't have a yoga teacher,
I was asked to show some exercises in
the morning. I'm not an expert in Yoga
but one thing I have practiced for years
was the FIVE TIBETAN RITES, a simple
series of exercise designed to increase
your energy and level of well-being.
To my great surprise, no one in the
workshop had ever heard of that.
The five “Tibetans” is
a series of simple, yoga-like exercises
that can give you tons of energy and
make you look years younger. The book
that made the Tibetans really popular
is “The Ancient Secrets of the
Fountain of youth,” by Peter Kedler.
It is still available as an e-book,
and has been translated into many foreign
languages. But still, some people haven’t
heard of the Tibetans.
I first read about it in Joe Alexander’s
book Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda,
where the exercises are explained, accompanied
with Joe’s drawings. I felt inspired
after reading that chapter, and started
practicing the exercises. I was surprised
to find that what Joe had described
in his book was true: the Tibetans give
you more energy and make you feel great!
The Tibetans are so easy it’s
a joke. They are a series of five exercises
that take about 10-15 minutes to complete,
that everyone can learn in a few minutes,
and can be done anywhere where there’s
enough space to lie down.
Each exercise is done 21 times, and
you don’t have to hold the position
like you do in hatha yoga. You combine
deep breathing with the movements. The
first exercise is not even an “exercise”
as it only involves turning around like
an idiot. In the second “rite”
you lay down, raise your leg in the
air, keeping your chin on your chest.
The third rite is a back stretching
exercise. The fourth one is doing the
“bridge,” and the fifth
one is a regular, bending, typical yoga
exercise.
The Fountain of Youth?
Christopher S. Kilham (who has written
several book on yoga) writes: “After
practicing the Five Tibetans for two
years, I was convinced that, at the
very least, they were extraordinary.
Despite the fact that they represented
only minutes in a daily yoga regimen
that was several hours long, I felt
invigorated by practicing them. (...)
At the very least, they do in fact greatly
increase strength, energy, and mental
alertness. They open up the body/mind
energy system and seem to balance energy
in a way that I have not experienced
with any other individual yoga method
or set of yoga practices.”
In the beginning of the book, “The
Ancient Secrets of the Fountain of Youth,”
by Peter Kedler, we can read a series
of testimonials where people report:
more energy, increase in strength and
endurance, gray hair turning back to
its original color, vision improvement,
athritis relief, better memory, younger
look, weight loss, and more extraordinary
rejuvenation. People claim to “look
ten years younger,” and to have
“never felt better.”
One M.D. writes: “My sexual desires
and my abilities have all returned to
normal. I cannot explain this medically
or scientifically, yet I know that what
has happened to me is absolutely true.”
One person claims that after six months
of doing the exercises, “the gray
hair at the back of my head began to
turn back to its original dark brown.”
Another person says: “Since doing
the rites, I’m always alert and
full of energy.” A man from California
writes: “Everything this book
claims is true. I haven’t been
sick for one and half years —
not even a cold!” All these extraordinary
testimonials of rejuvenation and many
others can be found at the beginning
of Kedler’s book.
Whether the
five Tibetans are indeed the “secrets
of the fountain of youth” remains
to be seen. There might be some exaggeration
in these testimonials. However, every
person that I have talked to who has
done the rites has had great results,
and most are really excited about them.
People usually report increased energy
and mental alertness. The most radical
testimonials of rejuvenation from doing
the rites, as most of the ones found
in Kedler’s book, come from older
folks, some past their 80th birthday,
who report feeling decades younger,
while getting rid of health problems
that had been plaguing them for years.
But even younger people (like me!),
can get a lot of benefits from doing
the rites.
The Colonel’s Tale and the chakras
One afternoon, Peter Kedler was sitting
in a park, reading his newspaper, and
engaging conversation with an old man,
a retired British Army officer, whom
he calls Colonel Bradford, though he
admits that it is not his real name.
It seems that during his travels to
India, some years ago, Colonel Bradford
had heard the interesting stories of
a group of lamas who had discovered
the secret of eternal youth. The lamas
lived in monasteries, where the secret
had been kept due to their remote location.
Colonel Bradford, who had, like many
other men, grown old at the age of forty
(and was not getting younger since),
told Kedler that he intended to go to
India and look for this monastery. He
asked Kedler to come along, but Kedler
refused, wondering shortly after if
this was the right decision.
Many years later, Kedler received a
letter from Colonel Bradford. The very
exciting news were that not only had
the Colonel found the fountain of youth,
but that he was bringing it back to
the USA, two months later. This was
about four years after Kedler had last
seen the Colonel. When he finally arrived,
Kedler could not recognize him. His
gray hair had mostly disappeared and
he looked decades younger. The Colonel
then went on to tell his story.
After many months of wanderings in
northern India, the Colonel headed for
Tibet. After a long and perilous expedition
in the Himalayas, which followed a thorough
investigation to find the location of
the monastery, the Colonel finally arrived
to the land of eternal youth. There,
he found a group of lamas, composed
of men and women, who didn’t seem
to age the same way that Westerners
do. They constantly kept their strength
and vitality. The secrets to this “fountain
of youth” was apparently a set
of simple exercises that they performed
everyday, along with a frugal existence
away from the worries of the modern
world. But the most important thing
was their understanding of the “chakras”
The lamas explained to Colonel Bradford
that the chakras, also called vortexes,
are powerful energy centers, that govern
the endocrine system of the body, which,
in turn, regulates the process of aging.
There are 7 vortexes or chakras, and
anyone that has studied yoga is familiar
with them. In a healthy person, the
chakras are “spinning” at
a normal speed, permitting the prana,
or vital life energy, to flow through
the body. What happens is that at some
point, one or more of these chakras
slows down, and then the flow of prana
is inhibited, and that’s when
aging starts. So the key to eternal,
or at least greatly prolonged youth,
is to keep the chakras spinning full
spine, and one of the ways to do this
is to practice the five Tibetans everyday.
He wrote: “The only difference
between youth and vigor, and old age
and poor health is simply the rate of
speed at which the vortexes are spinning.
Normalize the rate of speed, and the
old person becomes like new again.”
Putting the rites into practice
I do not know if these rites originate
from Tibet, or anywhere else. As far
as I can tell, Kedler might have just
made up this whole story about the lamas
and the Colonel Bradford... but I don’t
care, it works! I don’t know if
it has to do with the chakras, but I
know, like everyone else who has practiced
this series of exercise, that the stuff
works. The only thing required for them
to work is: (1) to practice them everyday,
(2) to perform 21 repetitions for each
exercise. But before we get into the
rites themselves, there are a few things
we can discuss that will be of interest
to you.
Colonel Bradford, who later went on
to start the “Himalaya Club,”
where he would teach the rites to others,
mainly dealt with old and sick people.
Therefore, he recommended a certain
progression when starting the five Tibetans.
He suggested practicing each rite three
times a day for the first week. Then,
with every following week, to increase
the repetition by two, until, after
10 weeks, you are performing 21 repetitions
for every rite. However, like I said,
he was dealing with fairly old and sick
folks. Most people can start right away
with 7 repetitions, and increase with
7 repetitions by the second week, so
you are already performing the full
set of 21 repetitions after the second
week. You could even start right away
with 21 repetitions. That is what I
have done. If you find the rites difficult
to perform at first, find a progression
that works for you. The goal is to perform
21 repetitions for every rites, and
do the series once or twice a day. One
thing that is important to remember
is that the rites work in conjunction
with each other. So it is important
to do all of them. Performing the five
rites with 21 repetitions each will
take you from 10 to 20 minutes.
A good time to practice the rites is
in the morning, after of before taking
a shower. You will find that practicing
the five Tibetans in the morning will
make you feel more energetic and fresh
during the rest of the day. You will
also experience greater mental alertness
during your daily activities. I have
also found great benefits in performing
the five Tibetans another time, before
the evening, when most of us come back
home. It will leave you feel better
for the rest of the day, and improve
the quality of your sleep.
You will have better results if you
practice the rites slowly without rushing,
and if you breath deeply in-between
the rites. It is also critically important
to combine breathing with the movement,
as I explain in the description of the
exercises. There is no point in doing
the rites as fast as possible. However,
if you don’t have much time, you
could do fewer repetitions. Also, most
people have found that doing more than
21 repetitions is not useful. 21 seems
to be the magic number when doing the
rites.
As Barbara Simonsohn suggests in her
book (“Die Fünf Tibeter mit
Kindern”), it is useful to practice
the exercises at the same time everyday,
for example in the morning after a shower,
before breakfast, or before the evening
meal. This way we get used to the routine
and we implement a new rhythm in our
lives. In is also better to practice
the exercises on a empty stomach. We
can also practice the rites at the same
place everyday, for example in the living
room.
To learn more about the Tibetans
rites, I have found the out-of-print,
old edition of Peter Kedler's book,
originally titled "The Eye of Revelation."
This e-book comes with a 100% money
back guarantee, so I'm really happy
to point you to this classic in the
natural health field. The exercises
work for me, and I bet they'd work for
you too.
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