The lesson last Tuesday was a Nei Gong one, Pulling Down Yang. Seems like a pleasant enough one, another in the Hunyuan series And I also watched Qi Building and Filling from the Sweden 2025 video set; very interesting, I should watch it again.

Wednesday: I did 45m of Wu Ji and a 1h MCO attempt. I didn’t have enough juice in that; one random thought is that the CPAP has been making my sleep annoyingly fragmented recently, I wonder if that’s related?

Thursday: I did 20m of Taiyi Standing, 20m of Wu Song Shen Fa 2, and 10m of Foot Pump; the Foot Pump still isn’t doing anything for me. And I went through the 37 form twice and the Xin Jia first form once. In the afternoon I went through Rick’s October 25 Zoom class and did 30m of attention to breath. And in the evening I watched the Qi Building & Filling lecture a second time, and packed for the workshop; no Hunyuan review, I should get back to that this week.

Friday: This was a travel day; I did 20m of standing work, Wood Wu Xing plus Wu Ji, and 30m of attention to breath.

Saturday and Sunday: A Foundations workshop. I think Rick wouldn’t approve of those Nei Gong goals that I posted a week or so ago on the other blog; clearly I should work on consolidation more. And on connection some, but I feel like I’m not doing horribly with that? At any rate, good weekend, and the second Dragon seems more interesting to me now.

Monday: I got tired of getting annoyed at the CPAP machine, and I enjoyed sleeping better over the weekend without it, even though I was in a hotel! So I’m declaring an end to that experiment, and I sent back the CPAP machine. I did my weekly going through the Du Stretch video; I wonder if I should do it more often, it definitely seems useful but it’s a little less clear if I’m getting sustained benefits from it or if I’m just taking two steps forward and then two steps back every week. (It’s not like it’s the only back thing I’m doing, but still.) And I did 45m of Wu Ji and 40m of Dantian Gong.

Tuesday: I went through my Chen pole weapon forms. I did 20m of Wu Song Shen Fa 1 and 10m of Foot Pump; more going on in my torso than normal in the WSSF, presumably because of the workshop. I went through the 37 form three times and the Lao Jia first and second forms once each. And a bunch of smaller things in the afternoon: 25m Wu Ji, 10m Ji Ben 1, 30m Full Moon, 30m (sleepy) attention to the breath, 25m Pulling Down Yang.