My Tuesday evening lesson was a Nei Gong one, on Balancing Upper and Lower. And I also watched the Attention and Acceptance talk from Bali 2025.

Wednesday: 1h (kind of iffy) Wu Ji; 1h Dantian Gong + thickening.

Thursday: I had a sleep morning, so I didn’t do as much Tai Chi as I would have liked, but I did go through forms: the Chen sword forms, the Lao Jia first and second form, the start of Hunyuan 48, and the 37 form. In the afternoon I did Du Stretch; 25m Dragon 1; and 30m Calm Abiding. In the evening, I did a Hunyuan 48 review.

Friday: 30m Wu Ji, and 50m super iffy Microcosmic Orbit attempt. My back was actually feeling unusually good then, but when it came to moving Qi through my back, I just didn’t have enough Qi to do anything significant. (Even though I’d been at a Foundations workshop the previous weekend!) So that’s three days in a row when my practice was bad; and I was in a sleepy and/or scattered mental state all three days. Maybe it’s just being tired, maybe there was liver rising, maybe I’d just been letting other stuff distract me more?

Saturday: Regular Chen class. 10m Wood Wu Xing, to see if that helped with the problems I’d been having. Though I was tired again, because one of my dogs (Ulli) had been throwing up a lot that night.

Then, unfortunately, Ulli started throwing up again, so I took him to the vet; after doing x-rays, it turned out that he’d swallowed a stone, and it had made it into his small intestine. So I was shuttling him from one vet to another vet. He had surgery, it was fine, but I wasn’t going to be doing any Nei Gong or Tai Chi that day! And on Monday I was also distracted and I actually had a couple of (routine) medical appointments myself that day too, so I wouldn’t have had time to do much anyways.

Today I picked up Ulli from the vet, so that was nice. (And he seems like he’s doing fine: lethargic, but no more than you’d expect.) And I did get back to a bit of practice: Chen long weapons, the Xinjia first form, the 37 form, and 20m of the Rolling Power exercise for Tai Chi, and Du Stretch and 10m Balancing Upper and Lower for Nei Gong.

So we’ll see how things go this coming week! Hopefully I won’t have any crises to deal with, hopefully my sleep will be better, and hopefully I’ll get my mind less scattered. I’m not doing a lesson tonight, I could definitely use a redo on this past week’s practice.