Each workshop will focus on one specific topic in which you will learn some unrevealed secrets and must-know techniques of Taiji plus a lot of related drills and exercises.
Topic 1: How to understand the SLOWNESS of Taiji movements?
1. Mind & meditating
2. Qi & Breathing
3. Searching for feeling & Working on details
Topic 2: How to meet basic body requirements?
1. Head & Neck
2. Shoulders, Elbows, Wrists & Hands
3. Back, chest & Waist
4. Hips, Knees, Ankles & Feet
Topic 3: How to send Qi to the extremities?
1. Five finger drill
2. Tiger mouth
3. Thumb & pinky
4. Sitting wrists
5. Toe & heel
6. Natural & reverse coiling
Topic 4: How to use guided imagery in the training?
1. Imaging
2. Playing with intangible
3. Expecting
4. Predicting
Topic 5: How to make Taiji walks and steps?
1. Yin-yang transition
2. Zero weight landing
3. Delayed landing
4. Forward, backward and side steps
Topic 6: How to achieve the high quality of Taiji movements
1. Stickiness
2. Elasticity
Topic 7: How to make new movements easy to remember?
1. The law of association
2. Names of the movements
3. Similar movements
4. Ending postures
Topic 8: What is the focus in Yang style Taiji training and how to do it?
1. Learn to work on Spine
2. Learn to build up Ward off energy
Topic 9: What is the focus in Chen style Taiji training and how to do it?
1. Learn to work on Dan Tian
2. Learn to build up Silk-reeling or coiling energy
Topic 10: How to breathe in Taiji?
1. Dan Tian
2. Reverse
3. Fajin
4. End of each movement
Topic 11: Why and how to end each movement as statue?
1. Full volume of the movement
2. Supported from all directions
3. Central equilibrium (centered, balanced and rooted)
Topic 12: How to make Dan Tian the core of movements?
1. Definition and location
2. Breathing technique
3. Dan Tian rotation (horizontal, vertical and figure 8)
4. Tightening and relaxing of Dantian
Topic 13: How to create five bows of the body?
1. Same curve of the arms
2. The extending of the shoulders
3. The rounding of the elbows
4. The opening of the kua
5. The bending of the knees
6. Neck and tail bone
Topic 14: How to understand and make Taiji Quan mostly a Yi activity?
Learn the technique of three images
1. Physical picture
2. Mental picture
3. Spiritual picture
Topic 15: How to exercise and relax your waist?
1. The definition and location of Ming Men
2. The zero point
3. Massage the lower back from inside
4. Open “the gate to life”
Topic 16: How to open and relax the four big joints?
1. Jian: the two shoulder joints
2. Kua: the pelvis are and two hip joints
3. Extending outwardly
4. Drop elbows to bring shoulders down
5. Flex knees to relax Kua
6. Search for the feeling
Topic 17: Taiji Eight Gates and Five Steps
1. Four major & four minor hand techniques
2. Four steps & central equilibrium
3. Ba Men Wu Bu Drill
Topic 18: Learn the four basic co-ordinations
1. Hand – hand
2. Hand – foot
3. Hand – eye
4. Internal – external
Topic 19: How to understand Yin-Yang in Taiji?
- Insubstantial Vs. Substantial
- Open vs. close
- Light vs. heavy (settled)
- Front vs. back
- Up vs. down
- Left vs. right
- Tight vs. loose (Stretch vs. relax)
- Soft vs. hard
- Fast vs. slow
- Internal vs. external
Topic 19: How to understand Yin-Yang in Taiji?
- Insubstantial Vs. Substantial
- Open vs. close
- Light vs. heavy (settled)
- Front vs. back
- Up vs. down
- Left vs. right
- Tight vs. loose (Stretch vs. relax)
- Soft vs. hard
- Fast vs. slow
- Internal vs. external
Topic 20: How to get grounded and build up rooting?
- open and relax "four big joints"
- settled at the end of movement
- zhan Zhuang (stake dirll)
- breath at feet
