The Five Tibetan Rites – NOT physical fitness exercises
I’ve mentioned the Five Tibetan Rites in this blog before, but let me review what they are: these Rites are a series of physical movements developed by lamas in Tibet about 2,500 years ago and handed down from generation to generation. They were kept secret in Himalayan monasteries because they were considered to be a path to higher consciousness – ONLY for the initiated, with the side benefit of youthfulness.
Author Peter Kelder, who brought the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation to the west in the 1930s, specifically tells us in The Eye of Revelation (later released as The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth), “I would like to make it clearly understood that these are not physical culture exercises at all. They are only performed a few times a day; so few times that they could not possibly be of any value as physical culture movements. What the Rites actually do is this: They start the seven Vortexes spinning at a normal rate of speed; at the speed which is normal for, say, a young, robust, strong, virile person of twenty-five years of age.”
There you have it! Kelder goes on to say the Five Tibetans affect the body, mind and emotions, activating key energy centers in the body. This practice was designed to align the body’s energetic field to support rejuvenation and holistic wellbeing. It also stimulates the glands of the endocrine system. Most importantly, these physical movements help you discover your true nature as a multi-dimensional being. They help you open your heart, expand your consciousness and generate sexual energy to clear away physical and energetic blocks.
With these Rites you generate more life-sustaining energy through the spinning of the seven vortexes. Once your body’s energies flow freely through their channels and all seven vortexes are spinning at the same speed, your body can transform itself and maintain health and vitality for a long, healthy, youthful life.
These seven energy vortexes are not the seven chakras many of us are familiar with. As Kelder explains, “There are two of these vortexes in the brain, one at the base of the throat, another in the right side of the body [at the waist] opposite the liver, one in the sexual center and one in each knee.
“These spinning centers of activity extend beyond the flesh in the healthy individual, but in the old, weak, senile person they hardly reach the surface except in the knees. The quickest way to regain health, youth, and vitality is to start these magnetic centers spinning again.”
I practice the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation every day and I have the energy and vitality I had in my 20s and can dance just as exuberantly, so I highly recommend them. But first get your doctor’s permission. Start with just 3 of each a day and work your way up to 21 of each.
Want to see how to do them? Click on Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation at the top left of this home page to watch the video. Then CLICK TO COMMENT below and share your thoughts with our online community. Thanks!
Joy and Blessings,
Ellen
Thank-you for all the information you send out to your readers.
Good Morning Ellen,
I was just going to email you some questions about the 5 Tibetans and here is your article. However, I still have some questions and was wondering if you could answer them?
1. When I first started with 3 each of the Tibetan series, I had a slight detox. I’ve worked up to 8 ea now. If I don’t make time to do the exercises daily, as has happened this week, do I have to start over and go back to 3?
2. The article mentions the exercise series are done more than 1x per day. Is 1x per day enough?
3. If seems to me the article is saying/quoting that this is not an exercise. If so, with all due respect, this is exercising and strengthening my muscles. Did I misunderstand?
Thanks Ellen for your clarification.
Regards,
Pat Goforth
Hi Pat. Good questions.
1. Do you have to start all over with 3 of each a day? Your body will give you the answer to that. Test it with 8 of each and if it’s too many, your body will let you know. Then start again with however many feels right
2. In my opinion, no. 1X/day is not enough to get all the vortexes spinning at the same rate of speed, that of a robust 25-year-old.
3. I was quoting from the book. Yes, we do get some benefit to our muscles but in my opinion, we need some additional resistance or interval training to really affect a change in our muscles. I think he was making the point that the PURPOSE of these movements is to get all the energy centers spinning at the same rate of speed.
I hope this was helpful.
Hi Ellen,
Do you do all 21 more than once a day or do you break them up in sets to equal 21 per day?
Example: I have been doing 15 in the AM and 6 in the PM. How do you do them?
Thank you and love all the info in your website. Mari
Hi Mari. I do 21 of each in the morning but if the only way you can do them is to break them into morning/evening sets, then do that. It’s better than not doing them at all because you can’t do all 21 at one time. BTW, I spin 33 times rather than 21 because 33 is considered a sacred number and I like spinning 33 times. Kelder’s book says 21 is sufficient but you can do them more often if you wish. Thanks for your lovely compliment.
Ellen
Hi Ellen,
I have been doing the Rites off and on for several years. After getting back into doing them for awhile, I think, “I’m really not exercising” and then go on to another form of physical activity. Since I’ve learned of you, I go to your site for a refresher course. I go back to the Rites because I just don’t feel the same without practicing the them. I feel more relaxed, at peace, balanced and energized…AND my muscles are more toned. I experience so much more energy. I am 75 and can outwalk everyone I know…and I know it is because of the Rites. I LOVE the 5 Tibetan Rites. I refer anyone who asks to your site to learn more.
You, Ellen, are an inspiration to me. Thank you for all the good and “Rite-on” information you provide us.
Frances
Dearest Frances. Thank you for your comments – I’m sure many will benefit from your perspective. And thank you for your kind words and for referring people to my site. I too LOVE the 5 Tibetan Rites. I KNOW they’re a major factor in my youthfulness.
Ellen
I Love the 5 Tibetan Rites and I have been doing them regularly for 4 years. I don’t do all 21 except for the spinning. I do them every morning sometimes skipping a day here or there due to time constraints. The rites have helped me to stay healthy. I stopped doing them for a week when I was on vacation a few years ago and got a sinus infection. Since then I have practiced them faithfully and am very healthy as a result. No more antibiotics for me! I love your information Ellen, keep up the good work U are doing, U are truly an inspiration!
Thank you so much, Lorraine, for sharing your experience with our community. Yes, I find there are times when I have to skip them but I try to make those times few and far between, as you do. Sometime in the past I heard from two people who said their gray hair turned back to its original color after doing the Five Tibetans regularly. I wonder if anyone else has had that experience.
Big Blessings!
Ellen
Hi Ellen,
I have read that we should spin counterclockwise because of the hemisphere we are in. Do you know if this is true or not? I’ve done the five Tibetan rites, but for the first rite, have always spun clockwise. Please advise.
Thanks very much.
Karen
Hi Karen. People in the Southern Hemisphere should be spinning clockwise as well, because all the sources I found that seem well-researched say that it’s the body’s energetic systems that are responding to the clockwise direction of the spin, and the force that makes ocean currents and weather currents go counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere is too subtle and large to affect an individual body’s systems. On the sites that recommended switching directions for the Southern Hemisphere, there was no supporting research at all to support the suggestion– just a vague notion about water going counter-clockwise down drains.
Hi Ellen,
What a pleasure receiving your newsletters on the 5 Tibetans.
They are just perfect for me. I practice it with so much bioenergetics in it and it renews my whole being. The rites are fantastic and i say thank you to Peter Kelder for making it known to the western world. Ellen, do you know i now have a blog where i talk about this miraculous rites? Please find time to visit it and express your opinion. I’m sure we can collaborate. http://millepetali.blgspot.it/
My FB page:Fonte Della Giovinezza- You’ve always been an inspiration, Ellen. I love you, remain blessed, Geradine
Ellen, you’ve always inspired
Oh , the link for my blog has an omitted letter, i re-write it correctly;
http://millepetali.blogspot.it/
Thanks,
Ellen: I am so thankful for the article GROWING YOUNGER in HAO Magazine.Just reading your article energized me so that I realized at 64 that I need to get started doing as you recommended in the article which has lead me to your website. I intend to order your book and CD shortly. I am so excited to try this and improve my health from low backaches, knee problems and tennis elbow. Thank you again for inspiring me to begin to take care of my myself and feel good about myself.
Oh Carol – thank you!! I haven’t even seen the magazine yet. I’ve been on retreat at Sacred Mountain near Boulder, Colorado for one week – my daughter Harper and I go home tomorrow. For pain I suggest reading Julie Daniluk’s book, Meals That Heal Inflammation: Embrace Healthy Living and Eliminate Pain, One Meal at a Time. If your doctor approves, you may want to do the Tibetan Rites Of Rejuvenation to see how to do them (click on that on my website: http://www.howtogrowyounger.com); they really are an important part of the process of growing younger.
Blessing to you – let me know how it goes for you.
Ellen
Good Morning!
My name is Mary and I live in Massachusetts. My Aunt used to visit Taos when she was alive, she loved it. She did quite a few paintings of the scenery out there. I just turned 48 and my second grandson was born last week! I have been doing the five rites occasionally for a few years, only I get really sick after about a week. I have a disorder called Fibromuscular Dysplasia which means my cerebral and carotid arteries are twisted and lumpy instead of smooth. I can not stretch my neck too much. Would that make a difference in doing the rites? I don’t want to be completely
disabled at my age and the rites do not seem to bother my neck.
Dearest Mary. Congratulations on your two grandsons! Re the Rites, please ask your doctor. I wouldn’t want to give you advice that could hurt you but there are other things you can do to stay young. Mostly watch your thoughts and what you say out loud that could be affirming ill health. I’ll email you an mp3 of track 3 of my Affirmations to Grow Younger CD. Blessings. Ellen
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