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My focus in practicing and teaching Wing Chun (詠春拳 Yongchun Quan), the Shaolin tendon method (少林易筋經 Shaolin Yijin Jing), the Yin Yang and Five Elements methods (陰陽五行功 Yinyang Wuxing Gong) as well as the Daoyin method (導引功 Daoyin Gong) clearly is on the internal aspects of all of these practices.

Such an internal approach to movement traditions based on Daoist philosophy cannot only enrich a movement practice, but it can also support paths for much deeper transformation processes. With the text photo pieces here on this blog I want to offer additional inspiration and more creative ways to reflect on Daoist philosophy–a Daodejing commentary in images.

Nei-kung

/ Ansgar Gerstner - Daoist philosophy in movement: Wing Chun & old Chinese well-being practices

Nei-kung 內功 — a profound way of transforming

As I explained in one of my prior posts, I stopped using the term 氣功 Qigong in describing my work with movement, and instead adopted the term 內功 Nei-kung that I became acquainted with during my time in Taiwan, studying Mandarin, Wing Chun and more there in the 1980s. In this particular prior post, I was trying to show that my switching of terms is not trivial linguistic nit-picking.

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