The Lower Center (or Dan Tian as it's known in the Chinese Internal Arts) is the center of the Yin dynamic in the body. This means it's responsible for drawing the system together, solidifying it, bringing stability and organizing it into something coherent. More importantly, it's the system in our being that allows change to stick in place and helps everything to be arranged properly without requiring the mind to manage it all. When it's cultivated, these qualities become passively available in the system, automatically acting on any perception within both the body and mind. Instead of moving into yet another strategy of management with the mind, a strongly cultivated Dan Tian allows us to deeply relax and allow the center to do the work of reorganizing and arranging the various parts of our system. It brings both strength in the form of density and solidity, and deep system wide relaxation; a quality not possible through mental management. Many modern approaches to the Dan Tian involve visualizing lights and whatnot in the center. This serves to stimulate the Yang Qi, but without the Yin qualities mentioned above, these changes will quickly leave and do not accumulate into density in the long term. The method presented in this course works on direct perception of the physical location of the Dan Tian, releasing all activity of the mind (including any attempts at visualization) so the energy tangled in the mental activity can be absorbed by the lower center. If you train every day, this 6 month course will awaken your lower center and give you a clear path forward for deepening its cultivation. While this method has a few minor pre-requisites, it's generally simple, safe, and accessible to most beginners.