I belong to the Japanese Traditional Dance Club(so called Minbu), and I met a fantastic teacher for it. The teacher, Yoko sensei, had worked as a PE teacher of ICU for 30-40 years I suppose, and even now she comes to teach as the dance!
Her researching theme is about the health of human body. She have told me and the other her students of what she learned in her life:
1. Concentrating on the center of gravity(?)(Jyushin) is good for health
Center of gravity(?) of our body is on our gat, what is important to human health. She told me that the point is also the center of movement. Moving from the point makes easier to live. Activities against it, for example swimming which our gravity come up from the gat, are sometimes not good for health.
2. Teate(placing our hands on our body) is effective when you get hurted
The action is meaningful literally, because human has energy to cure own body inherently. If you get hurted, put your hands on the place, and continue doing it until it stops acing. Then put your hands off...the blood from the hurt will be stopped!!
3. Taue(rice planting) has been the best training for our body
Japanese people have lived with rice for a long time, and it has made their body strong as farmers. It requires to work on bowing position and standing on rice field firmly. Even though They were not so tall, particularly their lower side of body got strong. As I wrote above, the center of gravity was the important part of farmers' action.
It was difficult to explain these kind of topic in English, but I will try to tell you more when I can remember the information from Minbu teacher.
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