Dantian is related to the flow of qi in Asian martial arts, traditional medicine and other areas. There are dantians in three parts of the body – head, chest and abdomen.

I am not very knowledgeable about this, nor do I want to be, but I find the concept of abdominal dantian to be of interest. It is located about two inches below the navel. I learned about it in a class I took on aikido. Before dismissing this as nonsense, try the following exercises, imagining your energy as flowing outward from your dantian:

1. Throw a punch.
2. Sing a song
3. Do a dance step
4. Take a few calming breaths

Do you feel it? After I took the aikido class, my singing and dancing abilities went from horrible to barely acceptable.