After studying Chanrou for a while, many people start to ask a deeper question:
"Where did this system come from?"
Juliu Horvath himself gave a rare and honest answer to this question.
Not theory, but personal experience.
The origins of Chanrou and Changong are not derived from anatomical studies, nor from improvements to existing musculoskeletal systems, nor from any philosophical system.
It comes from Kundalini—an internal energy phenomenon of the body.
Juliu said, "Those who truly want to know what Kundalini is must read the relevant books. It begins to manifest itself after your energy body opens. When I went through this process, my body began to exhibit different movement patterns according to the needs of my organs and circulatory system—where energy could flow freely and where it was blocked, the body produced the corresponding movement."
He had not studied Kundalini Yoga beforehand, nor had he received any formal training in it. He only began to understand what it was when the process actually happened in his body.
A process that lasted twenty years
This process was not completed overnight.
Juliu said, "The whole process took me about twenty years until my energy was completely balanced. It manifested little by little through different movement patterns, and I didn't recognize what it was until the very end. That's how it happened."
He calls this energy "evolutionary energy"—it guides and purifies you step by step, from the emotional body, the mental body, to the physical body. It's a learning process that happens at the energy level. You don't know what will happen next; it just keeps happening, happening, happening, until finally, you might be able to explain it, or you might not be able to find the language.
He said, "I can only tell you what the process is. As for the ultimate purpose of this energy, I don't fully know yet. I don't plan to go there."
This humility comes from real experience—he didn't piece together a philosophy from other people's books or experiences; he started from scratch and personally went through the whole process.
Chanrou is the culmination of that experience.
Juliu made a very important distinction:
"What you (practitioners of Chanrou and Changong) have received is a byproduct of this experience—it has already been crystallized and is being transmitted through me. You may not directly experience Kundalini itself, because that requires a different path. But through this methodology, you will experience the healing process."
This sentence explains a lot.
You don't have to be a master to receive healing. While students may not experience the same energy awakening, you will have direct access to this healing power developed from the source of energy—a power that has been crystallized in every movement, every breathing pattern, and every spiral.
This is why many people describe their feelings after completing Chanrou's training as indescribable—"It feels like I've grown taller," "I suddenly feel very light," "Something has been unlocked." Because the core of this system comes from a place deeper than muscles and bones; the changes it brings thus touch upon a more fundamental level than posture and physique.
Why is Chanrou able to help so many different people?
Juliu said, “So many people have recovered from various medical conditions through this process—conditions that the medical community cannot help with or can only help with to a limited extent—and they have benefited even more through Chanrou. People keep asking, ‘How does this happen?’ — It happens because this methodology comes from a source beyond our knowledge. When you do it, it happens to you. It creates a balance in the body that affects the entire organism.”
Why can Chanrou improve conditions that many medical systems struggle to handle? Juliu believes it's because this approach creates a balance that transcends knowledge—not targeting a particular symptom, but influencing the entire organism's self-regulating capacity.
In the sports, therapy, and dance communities, Chanrou has proven to be helpful. However, Juliu's attitude towards this is very direct:
"If it helps you, do it. If it doesn't help you, why do it? That's all I can tell you. But try it first, experience it before you're biased."
Language cannot explain things
Juliu used a very specific example to illustrate why the effects of Chanrou cannot be fully explained:
"Many times people come to me and ask, 'Tell me which muscle is working.' It's like I'm just saying a word, but in that one word, my tongue, muscles, jaw, eyes, emotions, thoughts—all of these are happening simultaneously. How do you explain all of that? It's impossible. Just one action involves millions of processes happening at the same time. It's impossible to explain it clearly."
Your body will tell you whether you feel good or not. This is more real and more important than any muscle name.
"What's possible is telling you how to do it, how to approach it, and then letting you benefit from it. That's possible."
This also explains Chanrou's teaching language—not anatomy, but imagery; not instructions, but guidance; not letting you analyze with your brain, but letting you feel with your body.
Because some things can only be experienced, not explained.
The roots of Chanrou run deeper than you can imagine.
Horvath's sharing reminds us that Chanrou is not just a "method of exercise," but a process of integrating energy and mind and body. Its origin comes from the manifestation of life energy, rather than the imitation of external techniques.
Many people consider Chanrou a movement system, which is correct. But if you want to understand why it feels different from other exercises, why it brings about those inexplicable changes, and why practitioners often say it "changed my relationship with my body"—you need to know where it comes from.
It originated from a person who, on a small island in the Caribbean, through twenty years of inner experience, allowed a system that transcends the realm of knowledge to slowly crystallize and take shape through his body.
Every wave, every spiral, every breath you practice now carries the imprint of that source.
For practitioners, Chanrou is an experiential form of healing—only through personal experience can one understand its power. This is the purest essence of Chanrou: it is not just exercise, but a conduit to connect with your inner life force.
