{"id":52,"date":"2020-07-26T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T19:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/Shanti\/?p=52"},"modified":"2020-08-18T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:00:27","slug":"wu-chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/2020\/07\/wu-chi\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu Chi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wu Chi or <em>Emptiness<\/em> is the most fundamental Qigong posture. Many Qigong movements begin and end with Wu Chi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\".\/Standing\/\">Standing<\/a> feet shoulder width apart and parallel.<\/li><li>Knees slightly bent sinking into the earth (from the waist down).<\/li><li>Arms at side with gravity pulling the fingers to the ground.<\/li><li>Shoulders relaxed with a natural slight rounding.<\/li><li>Abdomen expands on inhalation and contract on exhalation.<\/li><li>Head erect, lifting out of the <a href=\".\/baibui-point\/\">Baibui point<\/a> (top of head) (from the waist up).<\/li><li>Molars lightly touching with back of tongue on roof of mouth.<\/li><li>Soften the gaze (see everything in general, nothing in particular).<\/li><li>Observe your body, mind and the flow of Qi.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/Shanti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wu_Chi_02.jpg\" alt=\"Wu Chi stance\" class=\"wp-image-51\" width=\"181\" height=\"426\"\/><figcaption>Feet shoulder width apart (not hip width).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Stand in Wu Chi at the beginning of your practice for 1 to 5 minutes. Repeatedly relax and correct your posture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conclude your Qigong practice with Wu Chi for a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wu Chi or Emptiness is the most fundamental Qigong posture. Many Qigong movements begin and end with Wu Chi. Standing feet shoulder width apart and parallel. Knees slightly bent sinking into the earth (from the waist down). Arms at side with gravity pulling the fingers to the ground. Shoulders relaxed with a natural slight rounding. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qigong","category-taichi","category-yiquan","tag-intention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}