Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 245 Yang’s 10 Essential Points Yang’s Essential Points #6 – Use the Mind and Not Strength This one is mysterious and miraculous. One of those ideas that is easy to say and difficult to really understand. I will share...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 244 Yang’s 10 Essential Points #5 – Sink the Shoulders and Drop the Elbows This is good, common sense advice for all aspects of our lives. All the Essential Points have something to do with growing a deep root to bring up...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 243 Yang’s 10 Essential Points #4 – Distinguish Empty and Full Now here is one that on the surface appears simple. Take a glass and fill it with water – full. Now empty the water out – empty. Simple. But wait. When you...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 242 Yang’s 10 Essential Points #3 – Relax the Waist The Tai Chi Body can be thought of being divided into three sections – the legs, the waist, and the upper body (includes the head). These three can and should function on...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 241 Yang’s Ten Essential Points 2. Sink the Chest and Raise the Back The most effective and powerful results happen as a result of using the torso to do an action. Look at any sport – tennis, baseball, golf, track and field...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 240 Yang’s Ten Essential Points of Tai Chi Chuan These are ten essential principles or points that make Tai Chi unique among meditative/martial exercises. You must study and contemplate these ideas until your mind has...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip – Number 239 Live for Today? We in the West are not encouraged to plan for the future. We often hear the philosophy of living just for today, for there most probably won’t be a tomorrow, because of the threats of growing...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 238 Effective Force Every effective force issued from our body also uses an equal and opposite energy. As we move forward from Sit Stance to Bow Stance, our back foot pushes down from the hip, while our forward foot acts like a...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 237 Exploring Stress Stress, especially unrelenting stress, plays havoc with all the systems of our body.There is only one sure-fire way to deal with this as far as I can see – soften and relax. Let me give you an example....
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 236 Lao Kung Point I want to share with you something I was playing with during this morning’s practice session. It is in regard to an energy center called the Lao Kung point. It reaches the surface of the body in the center...
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