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Yin and yang tissue

Submitted by michael young on 2014-09-29 10:48

Lately in my training, I've noticed that as i unify my yin tissues begin to feel heavy, full, and dense...like a dense sponge that is full of water. The yang tissues feel equally full but they are light and expansive. The more I recognize these feelings, the more I can mobilize the body with them. i.e. expand to absorb, condense to project. This feeling in the arms is increased by wrapping the elbows down while maintaining the same position of my wrist. The wrapping really amps up the fullness.

Throat/throat notch

Submitted by michael young on 2014-09-25 10:52

Lately, I've noticed a feeling of fullness in the throat. It's not painful but not comfortable, either. It helps to stretch the chin upward. The fullness is able to drop more with more expanding at the mingmen. What's going on?

Coherence / Entanglement with ILC and Wild Goose

Submitted by arthur deich on 2014-09-20 15:14

Sifu Kelley has asked me to expand here on a comment I made to him about ILC and the entanglement I am encountering with the Wild Goose system. A little background may help.

Tucking the ribs

Submitted by michael young on 2014-09-06 20:16

I've recently begun to feel the ribs tucking as a quality and not just doing it because it's one of the 13 points. I find that I have had a habit of holding onto my diaphragm. When I release it, there is a drawing in and pulling on the lower ribs. I assume this is because the diaphragm itself is attached to these ribs.

Straight and Curved

Submitted by imklg on 2014-05-09 10:39

In the Neijia Arts we sometimes refer to the concept of "Finding the Straight Within The Curved". What does this video say, if anything, about your training methodologies?

Hard work

Submitted by michael young on 2014-04-09 10:47

Does training ever stop feeling like really hard work? Lol. I never expected my legs to be getting worked the way that they are.

What Is Softness In Light Of Tai Chi Principles

Submitted by imklg on 2014-04-04 17:37

As I read through student posts I get the sense that you all want to hear something more about the training process. In short, each of you from a Tai Chi Chuan background are beginning to recognize the difference between the Tai Chi Chuan mindset and the Xhong Xin Dao mindset. Although Tai Chi principles support both methodologies, the approaches are very different.

Condense in the legs?

Submitted by michael young on 2014-03-25 15:57

Am I doing something wrong if the base of my hamstrings get very full and tight? Just above and behind the knee.

2014 Winter Retreat

Submitted by michael young on 2014-03-19 18:21

I've been training solo for about a year and a half with the Sifu on demand program. Human nature as it is, I didn't train EXACTLY as sifu said. Lol. I didn't always follow the progression as prescribed. I haven't had any partner training to speak of for all that time. I had some"accomplishment" in the sense that I was developing some internal feel. I came to the retreat in Tuscon and finally got to touch hands with some Iliqchuan brothers and sisters. The amount of refinement that I got was profound.