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Shi Dhuk as practiced in the Shen Tradition is a structured discipline which has pupils proceed through a simple hierarchy of shufa, no matter what school the student studies with. However, one of the schools within the tradition - the Dha Dhuk school - begins not with posture exercises as in popular Shen Tradition Shi Dhuk, but rather with structured meditations called 'ghifa' covering a range of traditional Shen values. Although there are foreign aficionados of Shen culture who study in the Dha Dhuk school, it is almost entirely the province of the Shen. | Shi Dhuk as practiced in the Shen Tradition is a structured discipline which has pupils proceed through a simple hierarchy of shufa, no matter what school the student studies with. However, one of the schools within the tradition - the Dha Dhuk school - begins not with posture exercises as in popular Shen Tradition Shi Dhuk, but rather with structured meditations called 'ghifa' covering a range of traditional Shen values. Although there are foreign aficionados of Shen culture who study in the Dha Dhuk school, it is almost entirely the province of the Shen. | ||
Other schools within the Shen Tradition include: | |||
'''Other schools within the Shen Tradition include''': | |||
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<li>The [[OneSky]] School, which believes that transcendence is theoretically possible for one who truly masters Shi Dhuk to transcend to a higher plane they call Willspace, though they acknowledge that nobody has ever achieved such mastery and that they can't demonstrate the existence of such. | <li>The [[OneSky]] School, which believes that transcendence is theoretically possible for one who truly masters Shi Dhuk to transcend to a higher plane they call Willspace, though they acknowledge that nobody has ever achieved such mastery and that they can't demonstrate the existence of such. | ||
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Some schools within the Tajhan Tradition include: | |||
'''Some schools within the Tajhan Tradition include''': | |||
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<li>The [[Olore]] School, who teach that it's only through the shufa that we may purify our minds and bodies, and rid them of the accumulated toxins - emotional, mental, and physical - that the outside world seeks to drown us in. | <li>The [[Olore]] School, who teach that it's only through the shufa that we may purify our minds and bodies, and rid them of the accumulated toxins - emotional, mental, and physical - that the outside world seeks to drown us in. | ||
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Some basic shufa are shared between both Traditions and the Martial School. These include: | |||
'''The Martial School''' | |||
This branch of Shi Dhuk emphasizes mastery of mind and body to strengthen both and improve the fighting performance of its practitioners, who are mostly made-up of current and ex-military forces of the Corran. It is legendarily punishing, both physically and mentally. It's exclusively taught on Otra IV, and would-be rogue instructors are typically hunted down and destroyed. | |||
'''Some basic shufa are shared between both Traditions and the Martial School. These include''': | |||
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<li>Aghishufa (open pose) - sitting in a cross-legged position with a straight spine and emptying your mind. | <li>Aghishufa (open pose) - sitting in a cross-legged position with a straight spine and emptying your mind. | ||