Nei Gong Notes, February 11, 2025

As noted in my last post, I was on a work trip in the middle of last week, so not as much Nei Gong as normal and much less Tai Chi than normal. And I didn’t find time to do a new lesson last week, either. I did keep up my daily Nei Gong, so it wasn’t a skipped week, but definitely a light one.

Having said that, the weekend was pretty solid. I had Tai Chi classes on both Saturday and Sunday; on Saturday, my long silk reeling exercise this week was Elbow Rotations. There wasn’t much of interest going on in the single arm versions, but the double arm version was pretty interesting, with a rather strong unfolding feeling going out through my chest to my elbows in the outward direction, and on the inward direction there was an unfolding lower down in my body. Other than that, nothing in particular to report; I am glad that we’re going through the Xin Jia first form pretty seriously in the Sunday class, though, there are details that I was getting wrong.

And I did do a long Wu Ji on Sunday; 1h30m again this time, but with 30 minute bell intervals instead of 15 minute. And it was surprisingly okay; it continued the pattern of a given duration not being particularly bad the second time I do it, even with the less frequent bells. I still think that no bells is going to be a problem, but hey, maybe I’m wrong about that?

I’m feeling a decent amount of ambient fullness in my spine during the day, and also there might be something interesting going on in my shoulders? (Maybe more Qi being present, maybe just more space being present.)