Dantian ( 丹田) or more accurately the Lower dantian (下丹田, Xia Dantian) is an acupoint located about three fingers width below the navel and two fingers width behind the navel. The lower dantian is the most important acupoint in Taijiquan as it is:
In Chen Style Taijiquan, the most important principle to grasp is to train the whole body to support the dantian and for the dantian to support each and every parts of the body in return. When the dantian rotate the chi will flow from joints to joints and the body moves accordingly. Dantian basically can be imagined as a tiny ball and it can orbit or rotate in two rotational axis. One axis is the up, forward, down and backward rotation. The other orbital axis is the up, left, down and right rotation.
Actual Dantien rotation can also take the form below or a combination of both plane making it to rotate diagonally.
It is also important to take note that the chi rotation towards or outwards from the dantien is spiral.
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