Bao wrote:According to what I can see on the website, it seems like she practice and teach forms only.
my first advice is to sit into the hip. There’s a physical sinking that happens—the hip and center of gravity lower slightly as the socket settles securely over the ball or “head” of the femur. The center of gravity shifts so that the weight of the upper body is over the hip. Because the hip is part of the dan tian, hip sitting is a way of maintaining that awareness of the dan tian that is so useful on every level—physical, mental, and spiritual. I stress sitting into the hip with every transfer of weight.
The photo on the left, above, shows me she isn't physically doing what she says. Also, the hip (kua) is not part of the dan tian. Seems likely that she has not understood the role of the kua, how to relax it and how to round the crotch, essential in "sinking qi" and loosening/relaxing the body.
And here another fundamental T’ai Chi concept comes in—song. Song refers to the joints and is often translated as “loosening” or “relaxing.” But I think the words “expanding from within” best express this idea. When we’re relaxed, we’re naturally in a state of song—unconstricted and spacious. We can enhance this by deliberately looking at joints and seeing the bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves, and skin softening, opening up, and spreading outward particle by particle—releasing, relaxing, and letting go. I’m convinced I can do this to any one joint in my body and every joint follows suit.
Yet, the photo on the right, above, shows additional evidence that she isn't physically doing what she says.
I've not located any video footage of her to show how she moves. That would tell much more about her "dan tian" than her poetic descriptions and internal musings. I'm wary of people who talk too much about their feelings of things since one can subjectively feel all sorts of things and assign meaning to those things that can be, or are, without objective support. For example, just because I might feel like I am floating in air (levitating), doesn't mean I actually am. Gravity is like that. I might like that sensation of "floating", and pursue it as part of my practice, but it is just silly for me to write about my ability to levitate. And foolish for anyone reading about it to give it a second thought, unless the reader wanted to achieve a similar subjective feeling.
Trick wrote:Once i asked one of my teachers here in China about the dantian, he said; The whole body is the dantian,now focus on your practice
A good answer until the student has put in the prerequisite work for a more detailed answer.