Internal Gong Fu

[...] practices Wujifa zhan zhuang. (My current reflections are added in italics.) There are no journal notes for February due to a combination of a class cancellation and my not attending due to working [...]

[...] methods blocked that feeling. Further reading: Introductory article explaining this "Journal Notes" series: Zhan Zhuang Training Journal Previous article in this series: Too Tense for the [...]

[...] despite what you may think about yourself. (Note: I'm a little behind on posting my journal notes because I was traveling in China for four weeks, from June 20 to July 18.) Further reading: [...]

[...] with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan zhuang. (Note: These journal notes combine both July and August because I was traveling in China for four weeks, from June 20 to [...]

[...] Notes from my April 2011 Zhan Zhuang Training Journal. I train with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan [...]

[...] Notes from my August 2011 Zhan Zhuang Training Journal. I train with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan [...]

[...] Notes from my April 2013 Zhan Zhuang Training Journal. I train with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan [...]

[...] Notes from my May 2013 Zhan Zhuang Training Journal. I train with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan [...]

[...] 2013 Zhan Zhuang Training Journal. I train with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan zhuang. * Question: Does the saying, "rooted in the feet, directed by the waist, [...]

[...] 2013 Zhan Zhuang Training Journal. I train with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan zhuang. * Question: I've been practicing the combined mini-squats with theraband [...]

[...] 2013 Zhan Zhuang Training Journal. I train with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan zhuang. * Questions: Regarding theraband pulling, how am I doing? (I demonstrate.) [...]

[...] 2012 Zhan Zhuang Training Journal. I train with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan zhuang. (My current reflections are added in italics.) * Note for October, I'm still [...]

[...] : - Submitting to the Experience: Journal Notes #109 Make sure to visit Wujifa.com and the Wujifa blog. And stop by The School of Cultivation and Practice.   [...]

[...] in this series: - Feeling in My Eyes: Journal Notes #110 Make sure to visit Wujifa.com and the Wujifa blog. And stop by The School of Cultivation and Practice.    [...]

[...] in this series: - Stay Tuned... I'm still in the game... Make sure to visit Wujifa.com and the Wujifa blog. And stop by The School of Cultivation and Practice.    [...]

[...] in this series: - Stay Tuned... I'm still in the game... Make sure to visit Wujifa.com and the Wujifa blog. And stop by The School of Cultivation and Practice.     [...]

[...] aliveness which then snowballs into a general dampered living of feeling. Further reading: Introductory article explaining this "Journal Notes" series: Zhan Zhuang Training Journal Previous [...]

[...] for themselves. And fewer still will share their learning with others. Further reading: Introductory article explaining this "Journal Notes" series: Zhan Zhuang Training Journal Previous [...]

[...] can be therapeutic. Simple human contact, touch, communicates, awakens... Further reading: Introductory article explaining this "Journal Notes" series: Zhan Zhuang Training Journal Previous [...]

[...] stuck. Such is the level of subtlety at which internal gongfu is played! Further reading: Introductory article explaining this "Journal Notes" series: Zhan Zhuang Training Journal Previous [...]

[...] Learning the internal strength component of the internal martial arts is like a native speaker of English learning a foreign language like Chinese. Insofar as [...]

[...] Learning the internal strength component of the internal martial arts is like a native speaker of English learning a foreign language like Chinese. Insofar as [...]

[...] and polarized belief that external martial arts are hard, tough, fast, powerful and the internal martial arts are soft, meditative, and restrained with a inference that internal martial arts train [...]

[...] phrase,  "What you don't know can hurt you." This is also true in learning the internal martial arts. When I was a "child" learning Tai-chi Chuan in the 1980s, I had a naive faith [...]

[...] I train with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan zhuang. (My current reflections are added in italics.) December 2012 * It occurred to me in the two weeks since Victor's [...]

[...] with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan zhuang. (My current reflections are added in italics.) * My journal entry of June 19 says: I haven't practiced zhan [...]

[...] with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan zhuang. (My current reflections are added in italics.) * Question: Why do you teach with questions? Answer: Because [...]

[...] with The School of Cultivation and Practice which practices Wujifa zhan zhuang. (My current reflections are added in italics.) * Note: I haven't done any Wujifa zhan zhuang training since [...]

[...] Wujifa zhan zhuang. (My current reflections are added in italics.) * I haven't done any Wujifa zhan zhuang training since April 3rd. I've only been doing some of the Wujifa adjunctive exercises and my [...]

[...] are added in italics.) * Note for October, I'm still not fully back to practicing my Wujifa zhan zhuang training on a daily basis. I am doing some stance maybe 2-3 times a week for 10-20 minutes a [...]

[...] are added in italics.) * Note for November, I'm still not fully back to practicing my Wujifa zhan zhuang training on a daily basis. I am doing some stance maybe 2-3 times a week for 10-20 minutes a [...]

[...] zhan zhuang. (My current reflections are added in italics.) * Note: I haven't done any Wujifa zhan zhuang training since April 3rd. I've only been doing some of the Wujifa adjunctive exercises and my [...]