Tree Wrestling works by realigning our intellectual understandings with the experiences we create during the practice. Its designed to help us get out of our own way.
One day, during a particularly long session of standing during one of Master Fung's classes in Fort Mason, I was doing my usual job of creating puddles of sweat under my elbows in sixty degree weather when Sifu comes up and asks me, "What are you doing"?
So, I start answering him, "Gripping my toes, squeezing my knees, tucking my tail bone, imagining balloons propping open my joints, pushing my head up, sinking my chest...", he stops me shaking his head. "Why are you doing all those things?"