The Dharma Body
Seven days of body intelligence with Brian Campbell and Jambo Truong
Meridian: Bladder The bladder channel governs the body's surveillance system. Its shadow voice is fear: the body that cannot stop scanning for threat, that braces along its entire posterior length, that has forgotten what it feels like to be safe. Its healthy voice is trust: the capacity to rest, to release held vigilance, to move through life without armour because the body has learned it does not need to brace against what is coming. The day works the full posterior chain from occiput to heel, the physical terrain where the body stores its oldest vigilance. Myofascial release opens the structural holding along the back line. Still point work drops into the channel itself, holding the conversation at the energetic root of the bladder meridian until the posterior chain releases and the body begins to move freely.
Meridian: Kidney The kidney channel governs the body's deepest reserves. Its shadow voice is freeze: the existential stop, the body that has gone so deep into depletion it can no longer generate forward movement, standing at the edge of what feels possible and finding nothing there. Its healthy voice is flow: the return of generative power, movement that comes from depth rather than emergency, the body remembering it has reserves it forgot it was carrying. The day works the deep front line through the plantar fascia, psoas, and deep spinal tissues, the physical terrain of the body's foundational support. Myofascial release opens the structures that compress and starve the kidney channel. Still point work holds the conversation at the body's Gate of Life until the system remembers what it feels like to be full.
Meridian: Stomach · Line: Superficial front line The stomach channel governs the body's capacity to receive and assimilate. Its shadow voice is hunger: anxiety, obsessive thinking, the body that takes in but cannot digest what life offers. Its healthy voice is nourishment: experience received, integrated, and actually feeding the system rather than passing through it. The day works the superficial front line from sternum through hip flexors to the anterior lower leg, the body's reaching, effortful, forward-leaning surface. Myofascial release frees the structural holding that keeps the body straining toward what it needs. Still point work holds the conversation at the centre of the abdomen until the tissue receives rather than grips.
Meridian: Liver · Line: Deep front line lateral The liver channel governs the smooth movement of energy through its natural course. Its shadow voice is stagnation: frustration, suppressed anger, the body caught in its own plans, energy that builds and cannot move. Its healthy voice is vision: the capacity to see clearly, decide cleanly, and move forward without forcing. The day works the deep front line's lateral aspect through the inner thigh, adductors, and lateral ribcage, the terrain where the liver channel runs closest to the body's surface. Myofascial release opens the structures that hold the channel in compression. Still point work holds the conversation directly over the liver's home until the breath deepens and the energy begins to move.
Meridian: Lung · Line: Arm lines anterior The lung channel governs the body's capacity to receive and release. Its shadow voice is grief: the inability to complete an exhale, holding onto what has already passed, the body contracted around an old loss. Its healthy voice is breath: the capacity to receive fully, release completely, grieve cleanly, and return to the present. The day works the anterior arm line and upper superficial front line through the pectorals, anterior shoulder, and arm from chest to thumb. Myofascial release opens the physical terrain of the lung channel across the chest and arm. Still point work holds the conversation at the uppermost gate of the lungs until the chest opens and the exhale completes itself.
Meridian: Heart · Line: Arm lines medial The heart channel governs the capacity for genuine contact. Its shadow voice is disconnection: the body that protects its centre at the cost of real presence, contact offered partially or not at all. Its healthy voice is presence: the capacity to be moved without being destabilised, to meet another person or another body fully. The day works the medial arm line and anterior thorax through the inner arm, axilla, and pericardial fascia. Myofascial release opens the physical terrain surrounding the heart. Still point work holds the conversation directly at the heart's home until the armour softens and presence becomes possible. A quiet thread has been running through the whole week along the body's central axis. Today it becomes visible. Three days of still point work have landed on the same extraordinary meridian without being named. On Day 6 the practitioners feel it for themselves.
Meridian: Gallbladder · Line: Lateral line The gallbladder channel governs the capacity to decide and commit. Its shadow voice is suspension: indecision, resentment, the body held along its lateral edges, never quite landing, never quite moving. Its healthy voice is courage: the clarity to see what is needed, the decisiveness to choose it, and the ability to move cleanly once the choice is made. The day works the lateral line from the foot, along the IT band through the lateral ribcage to the lateral cervicals, the body's edge from hip to temple. Myofascial release frees the terrain that holds the body in permanent hesitation. Still point work holds the conversation at the body's decision point, bilateral, both sides at once, until the body lands.
WELCOME
LESSON 1 · WHY WE START HERE
LESSON 2 · PRACTICE: FINDING YOUR ANCHOR
LESSON 3 · PRACTICE: RESTING THE ANCHOR
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Brian Campbell and Jambo Truong have been co-creating and co-teaching together for years across Asia, US and Europe. They built Yoga Bodyworkers together. Both are Forrest Yoga Guardian Teachers at Level 5, appointed directly by Ana Forrest, two of a small global cohort. Both have been working with bodies for over two decades.