WuJi Posture and Yi Ying Jing with Gea

This workshop will offer you the tools for understanding - from both a logical perspective and a somatic-embodied perspective - WuJi posture. WuJi is the fundamental posture of alignment in any Qigong practice; it is the posture that we begin practice in, end practice in, and maintain awareness of during practice. Many Daoist meditations are also practiced while standing in WuJi. From WuJi we can begin training with the many modalities of Qigong. Wuji means: infinite pole, central channel, nothingness (wu = nothingness). When you “stand in WuJi” you are an infinite energetic pole and your body’s central channel is open. Through alignment in this posture you are allowing your energy to properly flow as you marry your energies to the energies of the heavens and earth. We always train with WuJi.

After beginning to understand WuJi, we will move through 8 of the Yi Jin Jing movements as taught by…