“If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.”
– Beinsa Douno –
Beinsa Douno (Master Peter Deunov) was a spiritual teacher who lived and taught in Bulgaria between 1895 and 1944.
He created a special form of exercise that is known today as „Paneurhythmy“. Hidgi Chuan is a teacher of paneurhythmy, as well.
Paneurhythmy is a mixture of dance and exercise movements that are pracitsed by a big number of people. Each movement or exercise is done to express a certain quality.
Paneurhythmy is not only about moving, exercising or dancing but to create a harmony that allows every participant to reach a state where the expression of his movements is in complete harmonie with his inside.
By practicing Martial Arts with Hidgi Chuan I learned that we cannot lie with our bodies. Therefore we can use the practice of paneurhythmy to realize at what quality we are still struggling, so that we might come to the conclusion to work on this one a bit more.
Beinsa Douno created musics for each exercise. Himself he loved to play the violin and this instrument is found very often in his musics.
I heard Hidgi Chuan play many of the musics of Beinsa Douno. As Hidgi is teaching paneurhythmie, as well, he knows a lot about the musics of Beinsa Douno.
Unfortunately I could not find many of his musics on the internet, but here are a few examples:
I heard Hidgi Chuan play the music above quite a few times.
This one is a music that I find very pretty but I could not find out if this music was written originally by Beinsa Douno. I find it a bit strange that this music appears everywhere with his name even though nobody is giving the origin of this music. Still, I find it very pretty and touching and so I put it here for now:
Playing Music with Hidgi Chuan 