Friday, September 13, 2019

Tai chi Intensive Workshop for Advanced Practitioners who are looking to go Deeper

Tai chi 3 Days Intensive Workshop for Advanced Tai chi Students


The 3 Day, 10 hours Workshop is designed for Individuals or groups who wish to go deeper into their Tai chi Journey.

Curriculum we will cover include the Energetics of Tai chi form ( and add on principles of Sensing hands leading to to push hands,) emphasising on organizing your Tai chi energies  and to be calm, stable, mobile and yet "defense ready" conforming  to Tai chi principles of non Resistance, yielding and Sensing. 

The practice of Sensing and sensitivity in Tai chi hands is something missing from 95% of Tai chi practitioners.

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Suggested Curriculum
  • Adding breathing to Tai Chi set.
  • Development of Flow: further refinement. Function of Mind in flow.
  • How to have fullness of chi flowing everwhere in the body.
  • Internalizing. Understand foreground, background and inner ground.
  • Circling. Big and small.
  • How to use internal movements to generate external power (also known as fajing)
  • Legs and not Arms - How to correctly "root", being un-movable and stable to being pushed.
  • Acceptance vs Resistance. Accepting and Rooting.
  • Six harmonies. And its uses.
  • Study of Separation and Unity in partner practice.
  • Yielding : Sitting back correctly. Use of elbow. Use of finger. Use of knee.
  • Breathing and stillness.
  • Quieting the mind. De-clutter, and reprogram the mind towards calmness.
  • Sensitivity Training: sensitive Hands, activated body.
  • Responses to forces.
  • The Internal Martial arts approach to defending one self against forces. Yielding and neutralising.
  • Push Hands Curriculum
  • Relaxation response in the face of stress and incoming forces.
  • Nature of simple direct force, and its inherent weakness within its fierceness. Splitting Forces.
  • Moving from techniques to listening to forces.
  • Stationary vs Mobile Push Hands.

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