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I've not run into it with Ti Chi at all. But the energy center the Instructor talked about, the power center, Dantien) is what we would call the 2nd Chakra or Sacral. My Instructor for this was a nearly 80 year old Immigrant from China and a very revered and respected teacher who had been teaching his whole adult life.
However the two different forms of Qi Gong I've taken (one Zen QI Gong) chakra were directly worked with.
The Zen Qi Gong class more that the other class, the instructor actually had us working directly worked with kundalini energy after all the charkas were opened and circulating energy. The class members were all advanced practitioners and well into understanding the body's subtle energy circuitry.
The other class was more geared towards folks who were not energy aware yet and were using it more as an exercise or centering calming yoga type practice. The Instructor however is energy aware personally and always makes a comment to me after class about how much she is aware of my energy work, auric field and that it makes her occasionally nearly giddy with high frequency energies and she has to ground after I attend class before attempting to drive home.
My comment about Black Belts was in regard to the hard Martial Arts not Ti Chi or Qi Gong, which have no belt system as far as I know.
Some of the hard Martial Arts do get into subtle energy work or at least the knowledge it exists but not until decades of study and only if the instructor knows about it.
Whereas with Ti Chi is starts out working with the bodies energy and energy movement, building it up and storing it from the beginning - or at least that is how I learned it through my revered elderly teacher.
I was sent to study under this gentleman because during a belt test under the Ti Quando system which comes out of Korea, I was breaking boards before my palm touched them, and it was causing the board holders who were 4th degree black belts and big guys to loose thier balance from the explosive force. This was witnessed by all the upper belts and my Instructor.
My Instructor knew of internal energy (Chi) but had never seen it used until that day accidentally by me and so could not instruct me in controlling and managing it, so could only refer me to the one who was most known and respected in that state for training.
I'm sure there are many differences from teacher to teacher and from region to region, not only in America but from what region in Asia the Instructor trained in or his/her Instructor did or the style came from.
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