Hi, im hoping some of Dr Yangs Boston students might be able to help me here, im pretty confused about which breathing method i should be doing, and where i should be visualising my chi going, i have lots of points of confusion, and i just read Dr Yangs book 'The Root of Taiji Qigong' and instead of enlightening me it confused me further...
With the 'spine wave' exercise i have been taught to inhale chi to the dan tian then exhale and release the stomach (daoist breathing) and move the spine in a wave like motion - expanding and contracting the chest and letting the motion flow into the arms. Now i thouhgt i was just getting to grips with this exercise, but i read that with Daoist breathing there should always be an inhale as you move chi from your tailbone up your spine.... So was my previous method wrong.. and te book also said you can get injured by not using the correct breathing.
This method also seems to contradict the way i have been doing some of my qigong, and also my form, where i would inhale while contracting and exhale while pushing forward etc... however to inhale as the chi (or movement?) goes up the spine would require 4 breaths per move instead of the standard 2.... which also seems wrong...
I feel like im just babbling on now so ill wait for some responses and go into detail at peopels request....
Hope you understand what i mean, and hope to get some responses as im confused as which method to do, and if one or the other is going to injure me
Many thanks!