Reusi Dat Ton
Reusi Dat Ton is a Thai / Reusi Dat Ton — self-stretch hermit points body system as transmitted through the lineage Reusi Dat Ton is a Thai self-care and stretching tradition represented in the Wat Pho corpus through hermit figures and instructional postures. The map uses a front-view set of posture foci aligned broadly with sen-line regions, but it deliberately keeps a posture-practice lens distinct from the route inventory in sen_lines_sib_sen.. This page lists every point in the system with sourced placements and links to cross-tradition correspondences curated for The Body Spiritual.
Open in interactive explorerPrimary sources
- Wat Pho medical inscriptions and Reusi Dat Ton hermit-posture diagrams (Wat Phra Chetuphon, Bangkok; restored inscription corpus, 19th-century presentation) — The Wat Pho inscription corpus preserves hermit-posture and Thai medical teaching materials associated with Reusi Dat Ton; panels, restorations, transliterations, and modern posture numbering vary.
- C. Pierce Salguero, Traditional Thai Medicine: Buddhism, Animism, and Ayurveda (Columbia University Press, 2007) — Historical and ethnographic study of Thai medical knowledge and its Buddhist, animist, and Ayurvedic contexts, used here to frame lineage variation and transmission.
- Modern Thai massage and Reusi Dat Ton teaching manuals (Contemporary instructional syntheses, secondary reference) — Used for common English labels and posture-region conventions; these manuals do not establish one universally fixed front-view point map.
Known lineage variants
- Reusi Dat Ton posture names, sequences, and body emphasis vary among Thai schools and modern teaching programmes. The coordinates are small editorial loci for posture attention, not a canonical list of anatomical points.
- This system cross-references sen_lines_sib_sen because both draw on the Thai medical teaching corpus, but it uses the corpus as a posture-practice lens rather than repeating the ten Sen route set. Sen paths and Reusi Dat Ton posture foci should not be treated as interchangeable.
- The taxonomy has no Thai keyword. The tradition remains explicitly Thai and is grouped under eastern_dharmic pending a dedicated Southeast Asian taxonomy keyword; anatomical right is x < 0.5 in the front view.
Cross-tradition overlaps
- Anatomical-right foot — stance ↔ Ñawi — anatomical-right foot (distance 0.016)
- Anatomical-left foot — stance ↔ Ñawi — anatomical-left foot (distance 0.016)
Related systems
No other systems share this tradition label.
Points
- Head — hermit breath focus — attention and upright orientation
- Neck — turning and opening — postural mobility and breath passage
- Chest — opening posture — thoracic expansion and embodied ease
- Navel — folding centre — trunk flexion and abdominal attention
- Pelvis — seated root — base, balance, and lower-body organisation
- Anatomical-right shoulder — reach — upper-limb extension in posture
- Anatomical-left shoulder — reach — upper-limb extension in posture
- Anatomical-right foot — stance — lower-limb extension and grounding
- Anatomical-left foot — stance — lower-limb extension and grounding
Frequently asked
What is Head — hermit breath focus?
The head marker highlights attention, orientation, and breath in the upright hermit-posture frame. It is a teaching locus selected from the posture tradition and not a claim that Reusi Dat Ton has a single named head point.
What is Neck — turning and opening?
The neck is shown as a movement hinge for turning, lengthening, and coordinated breathing in posture practice. The point is intentionally broad because posture demonstrations differ in range, sequence, and naming.
What is Chest — opening posture?
The chest anchor represents the opening and breath-coordination emphasis visible in many self-stretching postures. It is an editorial region marker and should not be conflated with the central Sen Sumana route in the companion system.
What is Navel — folding centre?
The navel marks the trunk-folding and abdominal attention used to make several stretches legible in the front projection. This is a posture coordinate, not a claim about a Reusi Dat Ton organ centre or a fixed digestive treatment point.
What is Pelvis — seated root?
The pelvic point gives the posture map a lower-body base for seated, folded, and balanced hermit forms. It is an editorial anchor for body organisation and not a claim that all Reusi Dat Ton sequences use one pelvic focus.
What is Anatomical-right shoulder — reach?
This anatomical-right shoulder marker represents reaching, pulling, and upper-limb coordination in the posture frame. The bilateral counterpart is held in a separate point so the front-view silhouette can preserve laterality without claiming a fixed school geometry.
What is Anatomical-left shoulder — reach?
This anatomical-left shoulder marker pairs with the opposite reach locus to show bilateral upper-limb work in a posture sequence. Its mirror placement is a rendering choice because instructional schools differ in stance and arm direction.
What is Anatomical-right foot — stance?
The anatomical-right foot is a lower-limb stance marker for stretching, balance, and grounded movement in the posture diagrams. It is not an endpoint claim for a Sen line and is deliberately separated from the shared Sen foot gateway.
What is Anatomical-left foot — stance?
The anatomical-left foot pairs with the opposite stance marker to keep lower-limb posture attention visible on the front silhouette. The bilateral display is editorial and does not prescribe a universal foot orientation or Sen endpoint.