No, it does not. It feels like Yoga. Asana tends to be open, expressive and the movement includes the limbs extending in order to stretch the muscles and tendons to open the joints and create space in that way- reaching outward. Internal Martial Art teaches us to open the joint directly at the ligament level. The ligaments connect the bones to each other, and are a strong material that is hard to reach with the mind, hard to stretch with the muscle. QiGong and IMA cleverly use the leverage of the bones along with relaxation and gravity to make space in the joints. The intended effects are the same, but the method is different. The key to both systems is the mind. The projection of the mind from the head outward to the body is a large and mysterious capability. These tools, the skin, muscle, nerve, fascia and bone - are a doorway to discovery of our true self.

Thanks everyone who has come to this channel, I look forward to sharing ideas with you. I want to start a discussion around what is Qi or Chi? It is an important question, and like many important questions, it may be unanswerable. 😀 But here are a few options. If something else, what?

If you have landed on this page, Welcome! You may be interested in Martial Arts, QiGong, Yoga, TaiJi, BaGua or some combination thereof, if so we are on that same path. I have been studying these arts since the early 90s, and they have brought me so much that has enhanced my life- I look forward to sharing my knowledge and helping people of all levels of experience use the internal arts to unlock some of the energy they have inside themselves to heal and find the wellspring of power and energy within us all.