Rusie Datton
- What is “Rusie Datton”?
Rusie means hermits.
Dat means stretching.
Ton means (one)self.
- History of “Rusie Datton”
Thais believed that there must be some hermits in the past society, who lived in the forest in isolation and practiced virtue or meditation. It usually took many hours and caused muscular pains. When they tried to relieve the pain by changing position, stretched out their bodies, twisted their joints or bodies, it could relieve the pains. Then it was told from persons to persons. It could be possible that ordinary people could find out these patterns.
Some doctors tried to find the relationship between this hermit’s method and Yoga in India to know that there were many differences in the patterns. Most of the Thais’ patterns are quite simple and easy to practice. Only few are similar to Thais’. Among 80 patterns, there is one similar to Chinese another one similar to Indian Yoga and two patterns are similar to both of them. There is no doubt that there were some exchanges of knowledge in the past.
Wherever and whenever we are living everyone wants to be healthy by themselves. We can find out those methods in, Yoga of India, Tai-kek of China and Datton of Thailand.
They are not only reduction of symptoms but also a good exercise which will keep us healthy and tireless.
However if the poses selected easily without full consideration are performed or extraordinary poses are done disregarded flexibility and muscular strength of the human body, they are not only ineffective but also dangerous.
In our textbook, we have gotten rid of such problematical poses or modified them and added some useful self-massage poses so every one can study this subject safely and fruitfully.
