Nei Gung in Wu Short Form

[Anonymous]

Bruce,

Thank you for the Tai Chi Mastery Program. I have almost completed learning the Wu Short Form and appreciate the insights you provided. Your insights make the difference between a living and a dead form. It is amazing how the form movements can cause energy to move through my body in predetermined, predictable, and palpable ways.

Some observations and then a question.

The observations:

I am finding hidden gems within the form. I see postures from I Chuan embedded within the form (for example – wu chi before commencement and holding the balloon in move two). I also see the multiple and sometimes simultaneous manifestations of yin and yang, for example in the contraction / expansion, weight shifts, and inhales and exhales, and by extension places where yin and yang cease or transition between moves. I also see parts from dragon and tiger in the tracing of various energy pathways with the hands. Finally, I see elements of energy gates in the turning of the waist from the kwa. Totally cool.

The question:

You point out that the entire nei gung system can be found in the form. Would you be willing to show us an instance of where each nei gung component manifests in the form? This would greatly increase my understanding of, and effectiveness in practicing, the form.

Thank you.
Kind regards,
Charlie Andres, Ph.D., J.D.

[Anonymous]

Hello Charlie A

I just wanted to respond to your post- good material here/nice thoughts (I know you wanted Bruce to respond, and he and others may). I would say that your question [your second point] touches on parts of your observation(s) [the first point.]
In other words, you recognize a few ways that the movements seem to parallel (Dr&T, Egates, IChuan, for ex); if further you saw them as ways of looking to see what is there, and the form movements (whether TaiChiChuan Form, or a ChiGung Form) as a “container” , And further elicit as you have.

As example, each movement has shifting of weight (foot to foot) as well as onehand to the other hand… a slight twisting/turning (of forearm, eventually all bones)… every joint circles…. etc. not just move to move, but each say “micro-inch” of a movement (like Commencement- as rise hands an inch, during that movement there is a proportional movement everywhere else in the body, a proportional-fraction of the turning-rotation, ie move so far half-way there = half way twist, 3/4s way there = 3/4s twist… Also KaiHe (Opening-Closing), circling of the joint-pt (activating the Egates), etc. all these things happen coordinated to the others, in all places throughout every moment of the form….

Above being a few- if one explores the 16NeiGung… each applies (1/4 the movement of hands = 1/4 the shift of weight of feet = 1/4 opening/closing = 1/4 rotation & = 1/4 of other components… lengthening/wrapping, activating WeiChi, the Auric energies..etc… just within any movement more can be “found” (or perhaps “put into”?) the container of the movement of the “Frame” (crude position of limbs- hands-torso-feet)…

I hope above detail might help and add insight (I tried to be clear, thus adding examples, but seems this could be confusing, unless above was already obvious to you- in which case your question would be different.) My understanding of your Question being- which moves in the TaiChiChuan Form has which NeiGung (ie where in the Form is NeiGung#4 vs #12, etc.) best wishes

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