Nei Gong Notes, June 10, 2025
A Nei Gong lesson this week, Side Channel Rolling; another Hunyuan practice. Pleasant enough, gets my body moving.
Wednesday: 1h50m Wu Ji. I would have done a full 2 hours (it was getting plenty annoying, but I would have lasted), but people came early to look at work that was going to be done on my deck.
Thursday: Tai Chi in the morning. I reviewed the 37 Form Opening Sequence; went through the Jian form a few times; did 20m Taiyi Standing, 20m WSSF1; went through the 37 Form a few times. I’m starting to feel a little good about it: tons of details wrong, but there are also parts that feel good inside my body, and also I’m at the state in the form where it doesn’t feel so long. In, I did a slightly abbreviated Spinal Dao Yin and 45m Calm Abiding. In the evening I reviewed the Hunyuan 48 and listened to IAA pod number 6. I also watched Chen Qingzhou’s Jian video; I’ve got it largely correct, though I think a few details are wrong. I think we’ll start that soon in the Saturday class, so I don’t necessarily have to worry too much about getting the details from the video?
Friday: 1h Dantian Gong, 20m Thickening the Qi, 20m Golden Orb. Golden Orb was probably more effective than when I did it without the thickening, but still, I don’t think it was as effective as when following along in the Zoom video? So I should follow that along again next time. And 30m breathing practice (Dry Sighing, Yin Yang Breathing). Again, good Dantian Gong, it feels like it’s starting to have an effect around my tailbone, that’ll probably be useful for when I get back to working on the Microcosmic Orbit.
Saturday: I needed extra sleep, so I didn’t do my regular Advanced Dantian Gong or long Silk Reeling. I did 20m Zhan Zhuang, and I went through the Dragons, though; and of course there was the regular Tai Chi class. And I went through half my weapons so I don’t have to do that on Sunday.
Sunday: 25m of Hunyuan stuff (side channels, belt). Sunday Tai Chi class. I did a bit of Bellows Breathing in the afternoon, but I was too sleepy for it to go well; I was planning to go into Scholar Breathing but I cut it short.
Monday: 1h Wu Ji, 15 minutes Side Channel Rolling, 40m Kidney Hui Chun
Tuesday: 20m each WSSF 2/3; and finished almost all my Tai Chi forms. Still not feeling WSSF 2 very strongly… And I went through the Du Stretch video (I should probably do that more regularly), did some full moon practice, and I did the Bellows Breathing / Scholar Breathing / Calm Abiding that I didn’t manage on Sunday.
The big thing this week is that the 9 day Nei Gong retreat starts on Friday. So I might cut my practice short on Wednesday to make sure I can pack, and Thursday will be a travel day, and I won’t be giving detailed reports on the workshop. Fortunately, the lesson for today is just a review of the Yang 37, so it’s not really adding anything particularly new, so I can go through that lesson like normal.