Pelvis — seated root

base, balance, and lower-body organisation

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.

Head — hermit breath focusNeck — turning and openingChest — opening postureNavel — folding centrePelvis — seated rootPelvis — seated rootAnatomical-right shoulder — reachAnatomical-left shoulder — reachAnatomical-right foot — stanceAnatomical-left foot — stance

Point 5 of 9 in Reusi Dat Ton

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Wat Pho medical inscriptions and Reusi Dat Ton hermit-posture diagrams (primary_canonical)

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 (scholarly_modern)

Historical and ethnographic study of Thai medical knowledge and its Buddhist, animist, and Ayurvedic contexts, used here to frame lineage variation and transmission.

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