Step 17: 抱虎归山 (Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain)

1. Sit and sink more weight onto your right leg and feel the left toes lifted.
2. Then turn your body anti-clockwise, turning only your left toes and pivoting on your left heel. Simultaneously, lower and straighten both arms gently as you turn - relax your shoulders, then flex down your elbows, but keep both wrists bent so that at the end of the turn both the middle fingers are touching each other at the tip.
3. At the end of the move, both your hands should be completely lowered, slightly bent at the elbows and wrists with both palms facing up, as if like holding an elongated ball in front of you. While your right foot is flat on the ground, you should still maintain your left heel on the ground and left toes lifted.
4. Continue to keep your left heel on the floor as pivot point, reverse the turning of your body in the clockwise direction by first turning your left toes.
5. As you turn, feel your left elbow bending and lifting your lower left arm up while your right hand is kept in the same position relative to your body and moved as a block with the body.
6. Once you have turned 90 degrees, your left palm would have been raised to your chest level, facing slightly down and right, reflecting onto your right palm.
7. Now place your left toes down, shift your weight subtly onto your left leg and feel your right toes being lifted.
8. Continue turning in the clockwise direction - this time round - with the turning of the right toes and right heel as pivot.
9. Now, keep your left palm as part of the body instead as it continues turning in the clockwise direction. But the right palm moves instead - it should turn anti-clockwise until it is facing the back by the time you have moved another 90 degrees.
10. As you completely sit with all your body weight onto your left leg, pull your right heel back to touch your left heel and then immediately step out at an angle of about 45 degrees to the right. Land on your right heel first before you place down your right toes.
11. Next, shift more weight to your front leg now, i.e. to your right leg to balance your body weight on both legs.
12. Continue to shift more weight onto the right leg. Then lift your left toes and with pivot on the left heel, turn the body clockwise with the left toes until you are facing 45 degrees to the right.
13. Sink back onto your left leg slightly and feel the 'Gong Tui' (躬腿) effect which manifest into a subtle forward push of your left palm and a slight lift of your right hand (palm still facing down).