Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog, but things have been a little crazy.

This past weekend Shifu Painter was in Toronto teaching workshops on the internal aspects of the art, which was hosted by Shizi Eric Reynolds and Shizi Jan Carstoniu.

On Friday night there was a workshop on the internal aspects of the Willow Bends(our version of push hands) exercise and other sensitivity exercises. This workshop was very informative as it delved into the deeper levels of the Willow Bends game and variations on how to play it to get the most out of it. Also included was a discussion and exploration of Yin side of the Jiulong Rolling the Pearl program. The evening ended off with some sensivity and awareness building games, it was a very full evening to say the least.

Saturday and Sunday built on what we learned on the Friday evening, but focused on the areas of the internal aspects of circle walking. As part of it was refining some of the basic walking and turning, Yi Xin Gong, etc, but built upon this to learn what should be incorporated into our circle walking. Shifu Painter also covered some information on Nine Palace training and different variations of it.

Overall it was a great weekend with lots of information to work with over the course to the next 6 months before he returns.

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