Last week’s lesson was Nei Gong, on The Subtle Body; maybe I’ll finally figure out what Yin Qi and Yang Qi feel like… And I watched Reverse Yi to Find Qi from the Bali 2025 talks; was good but I think it would have had more impact on me if I hadn’t been watching the Sweden 2025 talks recetnly.

Wednesday: 20m Wu Ji; 1h Dantian Gong and thickening.

Thursday: 1h Subtle Body; I’m not really feeling the Yin Qi but maybe I’ve got a bit of an idea about Yang Qi? 35m Dragon 2. I went through the Hunyuan 48 and the Lao Jia second form. At the request of my TCM doctor, I started using a Fitbit to track my sleep; my upshot after a little less than a week of doing it is that I’m getting about an hour a night of deep sleep, and my doctor would like that to be at least an hour and a half. And I was surprised to see that deep sleep actually happens at the start of the night, I’d assumed based on the name that it was later on, but talking with Claude, that’s normal.

Friday: Just 40m of Dantian Gong; I spent the afternoon with a friend, so not much today.

Saturday: 30m Advanced Dantian Gong, 10m Taiji Wuji, and I finished my series of long Silk Reeling with a long Dantian Rotation. (Didn’t feel as much during that one as I expected.) Definitely glad I did that; I certainly won’t do the whole series again, but there are at least half a dozen that are quite useful. Though for the next month or two I want to focus on Song, so I’ll do the who Silk Reeling sequence instead, just with only three or repetitions of each one instead of six and trying to Song it strongly. And then hopefully that Song will carry over into my form. As to the rest of the Chen class, we finished the Hunyuan Pao Chui; I haven’t been focusing on that form at all (and in particular I haven’t been doing it at home) but at least I’ve been paying enough attention that the basic moves are familiar to me, so if I want to learn it next time that should be doable. But I’m also glad that we’re starting the Hunyuan 48 in January, I could definitely use an in-person review on that, I’m trying to solidify it through videos but it’s tough. And I went through the four Dragons.

Sunday: 90m push hands; some interesting / practical discussion of doing tiny Peng/Lu/Ji/An combos within one small bit of the pattern, instead of only looking for the energies in broad strokes. And also an interesting discussion of Ji as deforming the ball from Peng so there’s a pointy part sticking out. (Kind of a three-dimensional version of Damo’s notion of Ji as both hands pushing at a single point.) And 30m attention to breath; I think that, as long as I’m getting TCM treatments on Sunday (which hopefully won’t be for ages) I probably won’t do much Nei Gong on Sundays. And some Shui Gong 2 at night

Monday: 80m Wu Ji; I’d have to go through the archives, but I feel like it’s been months since I’ve done more than 75m, so that’s certainly good. And 30m Dantian Gong, and Shui Gong 1 at night.

Tuesday: 20m each of Horizontal Punch and WSSF1. And I went through the 37 form, the Chen weapon forms, and the Chen Xinjia form, and took a walk after that. In the afternoon, I did 35m of Dragon 2, went through the Du Stretch video, and an hour of Subtle Body. (Maybe I started feeling hints of Yin Qi? I’m really not sure.)