I was feeling a little sick in the middle of the week, so no lesson last Tuesday evening and no practice on Wednesday and Thursday. Apparently many people got sick after the workshop, don’t know if something was going around or if it was something more esoteric.

On Thursday I was starting to feel better, so I finished my Tai Chi forms for the week, and I did 15m of Side Channel Rolling and 40m of Kidney Hui Chun. Also one thing that I noted that day was that my Yellow Court was feeling more active than normal; it had been doing that since the workshop, clearly the workshop had an effect. (Mostly calmed down as of this writing, though.) And I watched the Shen Up, Qi Down video that was posted to the Foundations course; glad I did, it stuck in a way that previous presentations of that material haven’t, it managed to get me in a mental state that really does feel different inside.

On Friday I hadn’t slept well (I’m trying out an apnea treatment that, honestly, isn’t going great), so all I did was 20m Wu Ji and 25m Spleen Hui Chun.

On Saturday, I started doing Advanced Dantian Gong but it quickly became clear that a nap would be more useful then too, so I stopped after 15 minutes. I went to my regular Chen Tai Chi class, and went through the Dragon Dao Yins.

On Sunday I did half of my Tai Chi forms, 20m Wu Ji, 10m Coiling Snake, and an hour of Calm Abiding.

On Monday, I did a 25m stretching session (I should do that more often, but certainly right now I’m feeling that my body has regressed in a bunch of ways since the workshop, so stretching seemed called for), 1h of Wu Ji, and 25m on Kidney Hui Chun.

And today was a rather good day. I reviewed the Ward off Left video in the 37 form, I went through the rest of my Tai Chi forms (and I actually decided to go through the Jian form six times, because I’ve decided that it’ll be the form that I show to my teacher later this month), and I also did 20m each of the four energies exercise, Wu Song Shen Fa 1, and Wu Song Shen Fa 3. So lots of Tai Chi in the morning; and, in the afternoon, a solid Nei Gong session, with an hour of a mix of Wu Ji, Spine Waves, and Ji Ben 4, followed by an hour of Calm Abiding. I did need a decent nap in the middle of it, so it’s not like my energy problems had disappeared, but also my sleep was better than average last night, I think. (Possibly due to Shui Gong 2, I did that last night and I think it made a difference.)