Hi,
I just wanted to clarify a small piece regarding the exhales with the open mouth. It is done prior to meditations, as these three gentle exhales, and at the end of meditation, as I said, a way to come back into the physical body, or back to more physical body awareness, followed by harvesting qi. In active exercise, open mouth breathing is done during bouncing. Again, it primarily allows you to release, relax, come to a general focus, let go of some extra energy, before beginning your initial alignments and active exercise. -g