Nei Gong Notes, January 27, 2026

Tuesday lesson was a Tai Chi one, on Pulsing the Jin and Pushing Hands – Rolling Power. Both parts seemed pretty interesting, I’ll definitely give both of them a try. And nice to see another exercise where I really can feel the Jin moving through my body: I still don’t think I’m good at building up Qi in my feet and releasing it, but it does show up and move somehow.

Wednesday: Du Stretch; I’m doing a better job with the bit where you’re simultaneously raising your torso up while rocking your pelvis, I’m paying more attention to feeling the stretch from rocking at the correct height in my spine. 40m Kidney Hui Chun. 25m Wu Ji / Ji Ben 3 combo.

Thursday: Chen sword forms. Lao Jia first form twice, once slow and focusing on my right Kua and once at normal speed. Lao Jia second form. Pulsing version of 37 form. 45m Wu Ji. I wanted to rewatch the Subtle Body video but I was too sleepy. 🙁

Friday: a travel day; I did 20m of Wu Ji, but too sleepy during the flight to do any seated stuff then. Though in the early evening I was noticing that my torso felt surprisingly energized, and my head went surprisingly far back when I relax my neck, so those are good signs.

Saturday, Sunday: Foundations workshop, year 2 number 3. A good session on Songing throughout the body, and some useful Dragon 2 reviews

Monday: 30m Dragon 2; felt abnormally stretchy inside, I think because of the aforementioned session from the workshop. 40m Spleen Hui Chun, that felt strong.

Tuesday: 20m Pushing Hands Rolling Power exercise. I tried out the Figure Eight Energy Circulation exercise from the book Practical Tai Chi Training that I’m reading (one of the people from the Sunday push hands group recommended the book to me). Chen pole weapons; Xin Jia first form; 37 form. And I went through the Sinew Work Principles video; I might take that out of the rotation soon, maybe I’ll replace it with going through a random new Zoom class, I’ve liked every one I’ve watched so far.