Nei Gong Notes, October 28, 2025

I didn’t do a lesson last Tuesday, as I mentioned last week

Wednesday: I was still feeling the vaccines a bit, so I just did 40m attention to the breath. And my breathing is getting deeper and slower outside of that now; honestly, it feels a bit much, I wonder how much I’m subconsciously forcing it? Still, progress; and it actually carried into my sleep. Which then interacted weirdly with the CPAP machine, another piece of evidence that I should stop using that.

Thursday: 20m WSSF1 and 20m Foot Pump; the former didn’t feel as strong as it had before I’d switched to focusing more on Taiji Standing on sessions where I didn’t have time for both (which is most of them). And, presumably related, the latter didn’t feel like much either. And I went through the 37 form twice and the Xin Jia form once. In the afternoon I did 25m attention to breath, I watched the video for Rick’s October 22 Zoom class, and in the evening I went through Hunyuan 48 once.

Friday: I did 55m Spinal Dao Yin and 40m Dantian Gong.

Saturday: My regular Chen class, plus 20m of Yin Field and all four Dragons.

Sunday: I did 2h push hands; the second hour was with the same guy that I’d pushed with a few weeks back, again very helpful. And I did 40m of misc seated Nei Gong stuff in the afternoon. In the evening I published a post on my other blog talking about my Nei Gong and Tai Chi goals (among other things).

Monday: 75m Wu Ji, 40m DTG. It’s been three weeks since I’ve done that much Wu Ji, which is pretty embarrassing; though the good news is that I wasn’t sure I was going to make it that far this time but my brain kept on saying “sure, go another 5 minutes”; I’m used to the opposite problem recently.

Tuesday: I did 20m of WSSF3 (maybe felt a little better than the WSSF1 on Thursday?), 10m of Foot Pump, and I went through the 37 form and the Lao Jia first/second forms once each, as well as all the Chen weapons forms. In the afternoon I went through the Du Stretch video, spent 30m doing Dragon 1, 30m attention on the breath, and 15m Song Breathing.