Comments on: The Year of the Tiger, Tiger Bones & Standing Qigong Practices

By: kevin bryant

kevin bryant — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:39:45 +0000

thanks for your reply

By: Tai Chi Master Bruce Frantzis

Tai Chi Master Bruce Frantzis — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:23:50 +0000

sinking automatically causes rising of chi.

By: kevin bryant

kevin bryant — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:44:00 +0000

sinking is important, no doubt but isn’t there also rising at the same time there is sinking?

By: Bob Hughes

Bob Hughes — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:51:58 +0000

By no means am I qualified to explain how to allow the Qi to “sink.”
(It probably cannot be explained.)
But it is the essence, the sine qua non, the raison d’etre of the internal art of Taiji.
So I just want to suggest that you continue to ask, “How do I sink Qi?”
Nevertheless I am foolish enough to start a dialogue, even in the face of Bruce Frantzis.
1. Learn everything you can about physical structure and alignment.
2. Study how to open energy gates.
3. Find a teacher who knows how to sink Qi.
4. Touch in with that teacher and listen to how the teacher sinks Qi.
5. Touch in with everyone that wants to also explore sinking the Qi.
6. Touch in with trees, branches, reclining rockers, doors, anything that will give resistance and rebound when you push it.
7. Meditate and allow yourself to surrender to nature.
8. Be patient.

By: M.S.

M.S. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:05:00 +0000

Hey schaeken, hey nvl,
i think there are better ones to answer your question of how to sink your chi, but as i waited a little for others to jump in, i figured i could try to clear things up a little:

1. if you can contact/feel your chi directly, you let it sink from above your head through your body into the ground to the edge of your etheric field and keep this flow happening as long as you practice, or even beyond that.

2. if you aren`t able to contact/feel your chi directly, there are intermediate steps you can take. bruce wrote about one of them in the “outer dissolving practice” or “standing practice”, which includes the downward sinking chi current. you can read and listen to this practice in his book, audio and video called “opening the energy gates of the body”.
in short: with your mind and intent, you let your awareness drop, layer by layer, from the crown of your head through your body downwards, till you reach the bottom of your feet. on every height of your body you should relax and have a sinking feeling…

(this is just a rough sketch! please have a look in the media mentioned above. or even way better: take a seminar with bruce, or anyone else you trust you knows how to do safe and profound chi practice) and there is energyarts.com as well.

By: sh

sh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:05:46 +0000

Hi Bruce
Thanks for the great advice and the fantastic books you have written. Yes, like the others I am also very curious how to sink the chi during standing qigong. Functionally, is sinking qi an outlet for one’s dissolved qi to be earthed?

By: kirk

kirk — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:03:28 +0000

Hi bruce.
In winter,if we practice the 3swings after standing should we bring the energy back down to the dantien with shou gong to store it,as this is neither mentioned in “energy gates” book(1st edition) or dvd.I feel that the 3swings are the best practice to instantly take away tension from just trying to relax at this time of year! many thanks

By: Schaeken Lorette

Schaeken Lorette — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:36:23 +0000

I dont understand what it means: sinking the chi. How do I do that?

By: kerrie

kerrie — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:11:50 +0000

How does this relate if you are living on the otherside of the world
where it is now a stinking hot Summer in Australia
what does the tiger do in summer besides eat & sleep and a few other things

By: nvl

nvl — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:58:23 +0000

How does one sink the chi?