Five Tibetan Rites - The Climb

Five Tibetan Rites is the daily practice Peter Kelder described in 1939: five movements, one after another, building from 3 to 21 of each over ten weeks. It takes about ten minutes a day. A practitioner, drawn in the stippled ink of the original booklet, does each rite with you. He sets the pace. A voice names each movement and each breath, and soft bells mark the poses. You follow, and the app counts. THE PRACTICE • All five rites, in Kelder's order or your own, with the standing pause he asks for between them. Or practise one rite on its own. • Kelder's ten weeks, counted rite by rite: each rite adds two a week once you've reached its count, so a slower rite never holds the others back. A gentler program and free practice are there too. • The first rite, the spin, is timed rather than counted: turn until you feel slightly dizzy, then rest until it passes. • For each rite, the guided style with the breathing cues later teachers added, or Kelder's original 1939 version. • A slow, normal or fast pace. YOUR PROGRESS • Your counts drawn as a climb up a mountain, camp by camp, towards 21. • A calendar of the days you practised. The book allows one rest day a week. SAFETY FIRST Before your first practice, a short safety check asks a few yes-or-no questions. Your answers never leave your device. They leave out or ease the rites that could be risky for you, and say when to check with a doctor first. THE STORY A small library tells the booklet's story, how the rites are done, and what the records say about where they came from. ON ALL YOUR DEVICES Sign in with Apple, Google or your email to keep your practice in step on your iPhone, your iPad and the web. Without an account, everything stays on your device. PRIVACY No ads and no third-party trackers. Only anonymous usage statistics, never linked to you. This app offers general guidance for healthy adults. It is not medical advice. If you're unsure whether these exercises are right for you, ask a doctor before you start, and stop if anything hurts.