Fire chi problem? Too much heat w/ taijiquan practice

[rwingo]

This is related to taijiquan practice, but I'm posting here as I believe it's a chi issue. I have recently started back with taijiquan after taking a little over a year and a half off.

After practicing taijiquan for 30 minutes or so, I'm having a problem with still being "hot" several hours later. For example, on days when I go to class, class consists of 30 minutes warmup, 30 minutes taijiquan, and then 30 minutes stationary push hands. Class finishes at 11:00am. At 6:00 - 7:00 pm, I'm still hot and often my skin is still warm/flushed. If I have practiced too late in the afternoon, I'm having difficulty getting to sleep at night.

My instructors suggested that it's a problem with fire chi and that I should focus my thoughts on my ldt. I admit that my thoughts have been mostly "hands and feet" because I'm having to relearn/remember parts of the form.

Any other suggestions?

[joeblast]

Are you doing any shougong when you are done?

[rwingo]

Are you doing any shougong when you are done?

No. Any advice/suggestions on that?

[joeblast]

Store the qi! Hands at qihai or rubbing LDT for a while...Dr Yang has some good routines towards the end of his small circulation book, I think they should still work well after taiji. I've literally just begun studying taiji so I'm not sure if there's anything specific that works better, I'll leave that to some other folks here with more experience than I

[Yue]

Joeblast is right. You store the qi using the above methods plus embryonic breathing focusing on the lower dan tian.

[rwingo]

Joe sent me a very good link.

Thanks for the replies/info!

[joeblast]

*chuckle* I'll have to give credit where due, it was just a link to a post from yeniseri