Nei Gong Notes, June 24, 2025

Most of the last week was the workshop. Lots of good stuff; and my body was feeling like it had had a pretty good workout by the end of it!

Which meant that I still felt what I thought was pleasantly exhausted (in a kind of unusual, more internal way) on Sunday; unfortunately, on Monday, I crashed hard at my normal nap time, and I’m feeling worse today. Not sure if I came down with something in the airport or if the lack of sleep Saturday night (caused by a flight getting me home at 1am and my dogs waking me up at a normal time) was too much sleep debt, or what; at any rate, I’m taking it easy now, certainly not doing a lesson tonight. (I did at least get a decent amount of Tai Chi in on Sunday, plus a bit of Calm Abiding.)

And I have some thinking to do about how to change my practice mix in light of the workshop. Probably work in a bit more seated gathering / thickening, and some occasional Microcosmic Orbit attempts? And I should spend more time doing active standing work with my mind inside my body, using it in different ways.