Section 2 Videos - 2025
Discussed in detail how Sink, Turn & Expand are found in every posture. We used the act of "catching the baby" to demonstrate the "sitting" in every posture or qigong. When you "catch the baby" you automatically expand and sink by loosening the leg muscles and kuas. We related this to opening the arms as we start the section. We then went into a detailed explanation of doing "Brush Knee". We discussed sinking into the movement, rather than just shifting the weight across. We looked at how the arms spiral from the back, and how when the Brush Knee is finished our upper palm spirals a little by dropping the elbow and hiding the pinkie, creating a long line from the fpinkie finger to the back toes.
Feeling suspended, lifting the head, dropping the hips, these are just words unless you really feel them. Like a slinkie, the hips drop away from the head creating a tugging or tension between them that is a connection. As your spine lengthens, you have to feel it in every posture. The tailbone must connect to the heels to feel this even more. We related this concept to the Swing Arms, Push the Water, and Block and Strike qigongs. We then looked at it from what happens when we do Brush Knee. We went into great detail about the many aspects of doing Brush Knee, to Present the Peach, to Brush Knee.