Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ Spring Forest Qigong Slight pain in abdomen

Hey, if there is anyone who has been doing the SFQ for awhile, what is your experience with pain after doing SFQ? I do not mean getting hurt by doing it, but rather after doing it for a few days, I am experiencing a kind of achy feeling in my stomach.

I think I have had this before: when I was deep into Tai Chi Chuan, at one point, I had this same kind of pain. It reminds me of another kind of ache I used to get when I worked out a lot with weights back in my late teens. I did a bunch of weight lifting/body shaping and I remember this kind of pain in my legs and arms. It kind of felt good in a way, because you knew you were working out.

I did not and do not expect that from Qi work, and yet, I think I get it sometimes. I have an intuitive sense that this is a good thing. It feels a bit like doing a lot of sit ups only I am mostly feeling it in the lower abdomen and not the upper.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. It is not anything terrible, just an ache. I will also search the archives.

But what say you? You few, you precious few... (BTW, anyone know where that is from? It sounds familiar to me, a poem or something, but I can't quite place it).

The sensations will shift as you continue your practice.

Much Love, Shawn

Thanks, Shawn. That is what I figured and that is how I remember it back when I was very deep into Tai Chi Chuan practice with my most foundational teacher, Marvin Smalheiser, publisher of T'AI CHI MAGAZINE. I was doing at least 3 hours of T'ai Chi and related QiGong every day, attending 3-4 classes a week, teaching beginners, doing pushing hands, fast forms and weapons and sitting and standing meditation.

And I remember this same sensation and having it shift and change.

So my experience bears out what you say, but my memory was a bit fuzzy on this. Now that you say it, it all comes back with confidence and clarity.

Thanks again.

I appreciate this forum and all of the shared experience and guidance.

Blessings,
Steve

Aloha shakurav,

Chuniy used to teach Tai Chi as well. He continues to do a very active version of it, which he uses as a little more exercise during his day.

At one time he brought over a friend of his who is a very accomplished tai chi master from China. The master was a great example of slower is better, as his movement during the Moving of Yin & Yang would make one wonder if his hands were actually moving or not.

Speaking of "push hands" , Chunyi talks about how at a certain level in that training, one no longer has a center, but each cell is its own center, and then there is nothing within them for the other to sense at all.

Much Love, Shawn

Thanks Shawn for that. All of that is both valuable information and also inspiring. Once, I get my SFQ practice on an even keel, I want to get back into my T'ai Chi Ch'uan practice.

There is a Tung Kai Yin school here in SF, CA. That is the school I once most learned and practiced in and the one I think I most feel I want to return to. It had a nice balance between yang and yin (martial and meditative) and I really did love it as sport, play, exercise, etc.

Aloha shakurav,

Chunyi just talked at the Guild meeting this Saturday about the connection between Tai Chi and Qigong.

Pretty timely since World Tai Chi/Qigong day is coming up on the 29th.

Notes for the meetings are sent out to members if you're interested.

Much Love, Shawn

I would be very interested! What do you need from me to send it out to me?

Thanks in advance,

Blessings,

Steve

One can sign up for the Guild here.

Much Love, Shawn