Nei Gong Notes, February 17, 2026
Tuesday lesson was a Taiji one, on Continual Jin. Interesting; I haven’t yet had much time to play with it, but I definitely will.
Wednesday: I attended Rick’s Zoom class, we basically went through the relaxing / internal stretch exercise that we did in the Foundations class. (Not as long, but still a while.) It was good to feel; my body is continuing to feel stretchier inside.
Thursday: I went through the Chen sword weapons, but otherwise I didn’t have time for Tai Chi. In the afternoon I did 25m Dragon 1, I rewatched Wood Wu Xing video, and an extra 10 minutes or so of the exercise after that, and I did 40m of Dantian Gong. And I wached the Taiji Pushing Hands – Opening the Joints / Yao Stretching lesson. (The recent IAA rejigger caused almost all the push hands lesson to be marked as incomplete; all the other ones up through here contained videos that I’d seen, but this one was new.) And I did a bit of Hunyuan 48 review in the evening
Friday: Went through video of Rick’s February 7 Zoom class. This time it was super intense – same stuff as Wednesday, I guess doing it twice in close succession was additive? I felt more pressure in my feet leading to connectivity up my legs and through my body than normal, and I felt more of a stretch in my Huiyin than I basically ever have. So I will certainly want to spend more time doing this; I took some notes on how Rick was guiding us through the process, so hopefully I’ll be able to do a decent job of trying it on my own? (And it would surprise me if he came back to that on future Zoom classes this month; if not, I can always rewatch the first two February videos.)
Saturday: My regular Chen class.
Sunday: An hour and a half of push hands; my main takeaway there was that I should spend more time (both when doing push hands and when going through the form) with my attention in my legs, and then extending up my body). And 25m of Calm Abiding in the afternoon.
Monday: I’m visiting my parents this week, so this was a travel day; I did 30m of attention to breath, but that’s it.
Tuesday: Mostly spending time with my parents (and my brother), though I did do 30m of Anchoring the Breath. It had actually been a while since I’d done that; I noticed that my breathing slowed down and deepened basically as soon as I started this, so I guess the other breath work that I’d been doing has had an effect, even if it’s not retraining my habitual breathing as much as I’d like. And the exercise got decently intense at the end.
No lesson today, since I’m visiting my parents.