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13 AUG 2012

Submitted by princenasir on 2012-08-13 07:27

I've been thinking about posting my daily training stuff in a blog on my training site that I'm going to do on Wordpress. I did not want to clog up this site with 100 posts, but I will give it some thought. My Grandma did much better last week now that I am spending more time at home studying and trying to build up my kettlebell classes. I have been waking up and standing for 20 minutes in Wuji posture and then spending ~10 minutes on Bitter Pill. 

Maintain the energy on the center of the hips?

Submitted by michael young on 2012-08-12 20:20

I have been revisiting the thirteen points. Keeping the energy on the center of the hips has always left me mystified. Is this what we do when we allow the weight to be carried at the hips and release the knees so that we aren't carrying our weight there?

Meditation, posture and yin-yang subtle feelings

Submitted by pjmca on 2012-08-07 11:05

 

When time for meditation arrives I scan the body letting go any tension, smiling naturally breathing in order to manifest mind/body stillness and let chi ignite an alert upright sitting posture with crown suspended to open awareness…

27 Jul 2012

Submitted by princenasir on 2012-07-27 06:06

I am still here, but have not been blogging at all lately. School is back in full swing, so I am having to juggle the YMCA, my kettlebell classes, school, taking care of my Grandma, and my own training. My last day with the YMCA will beon next Friday, 3 AUG. From there I am going to make some major changes to my kettlebell classes. I want to go with the model that Crossfit uses where people playa monthly fee to come here and train. I will keep a few classes going which will be actual classes with a curriculum.

This body of mine.

Submitted by michael young on 2012-07-24 16:43

So, for the last week or so, my body has felt all bound up. It feels as if my training is working in reverse. My body is supposed to be opening but it feels more constricted than ever. I'm sure that this is just me being more aware of the tension that has been there for years, but that doesn't make it any more comfortable. LOL It sucks and I am just waiting for it to pass. Any insight will be appreciated.

Errors when blogging. Do you have any suggestions?

Submitted by pjmca on 2012-07-16 18:06

I made a mistake. I’m sorry for posting twice the same content. Is there a way to delete a post in editing phase?

Back button does the trick bringing us to the editing page, but we can do nothing to delete or correct a post once it is saved.

Expand from ming men

Submitted by michael young on 2012-07-14 12:35

Got to do some bitter pill today. Focused mostly on keeping the center of gravity force in the center of the foot during all of the changes. Feeling the full ness in the hands and not spiiling the chi before the melt. Worked on Yi-chi-li while doing some expand to absorb and condense to project in different directions. Today is the first time I have ever felt the expansion from ming men.

Posture and throwing hands

Submitted by michael young on 2012-07-13 16:21

This is a video of how I have been doing Throwing hands and a  look at my posture. It's okay to laugh! Comments welcome from everyone. :)

 

Elastic?

Submitted by jeff on 2012-07-10 21:49

Been upping the frequency of my training again now that I'm back from vacation and starting to feel better (was quite sick for about 3 weeks). Trying to clean out my basement as I put away stuff from our trip, so I can continue on with my videos on stage 1. It's really sad, but I've been very intimidated by the video taping and have had a hard time figuring out the technology to do it. The last week or so, I've continued to extend the time little by little on my Bitter Pill work and standing meditation.

9 Jul 2012

Submitted by princenasir on 2012-07-09 20:50

Havent posted anything in a good while. I have been wrestling with thoughts of moving on from the YMCA. I spent about 6 months trying to get hired as a trainer at the YMCA only to realize that I really ought to be working on my own. All of my plans for my many summer projects have fallen behind because I am jumping to run to the YMCA to stand around and not train. Even when Sifu was in town, I was pretty exhausted from waking up early mornings to go open the gym.

About laziness – amend

Submitted by pjmca on 2012-07-08 09:25

 

My knowledge of English falls short of reasonable to let me use accurate metaphors, so the intended meaning when I used: “dropped my attention letting my awareness extract its inherent truth” falls far from my intention.

I wanted to mean letting my attention join one of the principles in order to reveal its relationship with qualities involved.

As a matter of fact my practice was much more every other day than of day in day out.

About laziness

Submitted by pjmca on 2012-07-03 17:34

Hi everybody, it's nice to come here after a while and see chi-factory growing in contributions, sharing, questioning under Sifu’s supervision, helping us with our difficulties, doubts and correcting our ways when necessary.

I settled in a new home. This process disrupted my routines. My willingness to practice was left behind. I simply was not in the mood.

Sifu explains clearly in our program (I can’t recall in what particular lesson) how to deal with these types of lethargy.

28 JUN 2012

Submitted by princenasir on 2012-06-28 21:15

I have been really tired today. It was not from the training that I did yesterday, but more me staying up late and waking up early. My diet wasn't the best today either. After my post last night, I sampled the P90X recovery drink and poured at least 2 tablespoons of chia seeds in it. This morning I also hade some whey with milk and chia seeds. All that fiber had me feeling pretty full all morning even though I had not actually eaten anything.