Three Major Dantians or Focal Points of Energy

Aloha Everyone,

When we practice Qui Gong, Tai Chi and Dao Yin exercises, I often speak of being aware of your Dantian, or your focal point of qui or energy.  Dantian or sometime referred to as Tan Tian, your energy center.   Tai Chi, Qui Gong and Dao Yin teachers I had always instruct that we center our mind in the navel area of more specifically lower dantian or in Kundalini Yoga,  the swadhisthana (the 2nd) chakra.  

There are three major dantians.

1.  Lower Dantian – located below the navel – considered most important as cultivating life energy

2.  Middle Dantian – located at the heart level – storing life energy   

3.  Upper Dantian – between the eyebrows, location of the 3rd eye, energy of consciousness and spirit

Namaste — Cathi