Qi Gong Tips #5
By drandrewcolyer | July 26, 2007
We are starting with (returning to) the Lower Stance today.
Begin with feet in parallel footing.
Step out low and wide.
Turn into the crease (don’t reach).
You are turning further because the leg has to go out further.
This is the original way they stepped out.
Keep turning = that’s what puts the leg out.
Turn out = so that the foot goes down.
Once you get there = come to center.
Tuck your pelvis and butt.
Arch your knees out.
Qi Gong Principle:
Sacrum / tailbone in line with your heels.
Knees over feet.
Elbows and arms are doing the same thing.
This is the original way to learn = crease >> knees >> arch.
Qi Gong Principle:
Arms and legs move at the same time.
Elbows and knees together.
Upper and lower coordination.
Everything has to expand.
“Expand inside.” –Hawks
This is very healthy.
You may challenge the Principles = but you can’t argue with them in this Low Posture.
You have to be together.
The wider stance = causes a difference in how the body works.
Qi Gong Principle:
You have to go left to go right; you have to go right to go left.
Hawks quotes today:
“This is going to be a trip. You have to figure it out.”
“Recognize that you never really get anything until it gets you.”
“If you want to be good at anything, you have to believe in it.”
“You can’t figure it out = you have to get to a place where it happens by itself.”
“Once the Principles work in the body, the rest of it is a mindset.”
“I can’t teach you anything. You have to be able to teach yourself.”
“You have to take all the ingredients and go cook them. See what it tastes like.” –B.P. Chan
Sink!
What is sinking?
Dan Tien lowers = it pulls everything with it = above = the connective tissue responds.
Tai Chi Tu = “Grand Terminus Symbol” or “Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate”
Tai Chi Chuan = “Supreme Ultimate Exercises” or “Supreme Ultimate Fist”
Click on this link for further definitions of Tai Chi, Yin, and Yang.
Do this Lower Stance with Fire and Water (Bear).
Also do the Lower Stance with #4 of “8 Qi Gong” = the arms swirling thing = “Pulling the Thread of the Tai Chi Tu”.
Sinking and turning. Sinking inside.
Next = #2 of “8 Qi Gong”
Hands and arms waving back and forth in the front of your body = but with the scissors motion.
Fold and unfold.
Top elbow touches hand.
3 pieces. Elbow >> Center >> Wrist >> Turn.
“You are learning how the body moves in 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, and 7’s. Everything is measured.” –Hawks
Inhale >> expand out.
Exhale >> contract/crease/cock/fold.
Do it from the inside.
Qi Gong Principle: You have to generate it from the feet = like everything else.
“The Qi that you magnify, or embellish, moves through everything. We are a magnifier for the Qi. It is in every living object. That’s why you have an effect on the world.” –Hawks
The two hands are gears.
1 + 1 = 1
One Center + One Body + One Mind = One Qi.
“Do enough things right, and something is going to change.” –Hawks
Thank you.
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