So, when I downloaded the stage two videos I was in the middle of a lot of big life changes and stress. I thought that I had gone through all of them but I was wrong. Looking through my laptop and started up week 13. WOW!!!!! It hit on a couple of things that I have problems with.
1. I have a hard time condensing to the dan tien and not to the diaphragm just below the sternum. I think it is a habit that i developed doing lots of untrained singing and exhaling from there. The video touches on this and the warm up stretches helped me to feel this more clealy.
2. Those stretches kicked my butt!. Especially along the yang surfaces of the forearms. Doing the "SSSS" breathing helps me to more clearly feel the qualities of expand and condense.
Sifu, I'm sorry, but I think when I get there in Feb. I will feel like a comlplete newbie. ;)
The fact that I can see that I couldn't see these things clearly is proof that my mind is and awareness is opening up and the training works. I just need to do the work more consistently and completely.