Nei Gong Notes, February 2, 2025

I’m going on a work trip on Tuesday and tomorrow is a little busy, so I’ll just do my weekly post today. And we’ll see if I do a new lesson this week or not; I might have time for that tomorrow, I’ll see. A Nei Gong class this week, Dredging the Channels 2; not much to say about that. On Wednesday I was sleepy enough that I didn’t want to try a long Wu Ji; I tried to do a decent length Calm Abiding, but I was sleepy enough that it wasn’t particularly effective. I got some good Tai Chi in during the afternoon, though; my first Wu Song Shen Fa for a while (20 minutes of WSSF1) and I also did 20 minutes of that exercise where you try to relax beneath the surface of the ground.

On Friday I was a little sleepy but not too bad so I decided to do a long Wu Ji; I ended up doing an hour and 30 minutes for the first time, so I guess that was a good choice! Not a particularly good long Wu Ji session, certainly not as good as the previous week, but it was fine until the last 15 minutes, and I stuck it out. Not sure if I’ll do 1h45m next week or stick with 1h30m but set my timer interval to 30 minutes instead of 15 minutes, but I’m leaning to the latter.

I didn’t have as much time for Advanced Dantian Gong a normal on Saturday so I wasn’t optimistic as to how it would go, but actually I felt a surprisingly strong connection between my hands and Dantian. (Maybe because of the Wu Ji the previous day.) And I had a good Calm Abiding session today; not the longest but pretty strong.

My long silk reeling exercise this week was Chest Opening and Closing. Didn’t feel much in terms of reeling the silk; my Yong Quan got a good workout, at least, and my lower back was surprisingly warm at the end, so that’s something.

This coming week is supposed to be rainy, so, between that and the trip, we’ll see how much Tai Chi practice I manage.