This is the authentic material and conditions of taiji quan. Thanks for sharing.

@InternalTaiChi

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙂

At its core, Push Hands involves a series of gentle movements and techniques that emphasize connection, rootedness, and responsiveness. Practitioners engage in a partner exercise that focuses on sensing and redirecting their partner's energy, rather than overtly resisting or overpowering them. This approach requires a high degree of mindfulness and attunement to subtle cues, fostering a deep sense of awareness and presence in the moment.

@InternalTaiChi

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your insight, Earl. People often mistaken two things when watching YT videos...1. What I teach is not necessarily all that I know. 2. Video Titles are created for SEO keywords and algorithms. This video is an introduction toward creating proper rooting, sensing and distributing incoming force; a mini step towards integrating into push hands practice. One must feel it first. That is what this video is about. Thanks for watching and commenting.

great explanation susan i will remember too keep a song in my heart

@InternalTaiChi

2 ай бұрын

Songing the heart is the best of all!

Thank you, i like so much how you teach. The type of metaphors and visuals/props you use, really help me. Im still working on soong in standing postures right now (with your video help). This particular vid reminds of aikido training. In Ki Aikido right from the beginning we learned this internal work as 'ki training', often the first half of a class. we even had 'ki tests' as part of grading, as well as demonstrating physical forms. For me, the aikido cue 'extend ki' is mostly 'soong', although context dependent its other things sometimes. It is so great to come at this form of knowledge from another perspective as well. I love it 😊

@InternalTaiChi

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Andy! I appreciate your comments and insight regarding Ki. It sounds very similar and definitely relates. I am thinking "extend ki" is like our extending our Qi just a few millimeters past our skin, bringing a quality of fascial expansion to our stance. Really neat that there is that overlap! I have a former Aikido instructor in my Tai Chi class. I'm sure he will be delighted to hear about your insight of the overlap! Thanks for watching and commenting.

Application is one the key components towards a more in depth understanding of tai chi. You can only learn so much from doing motions repeatedly by yourself. Good to see your students getting the experience in a controlled manner. I use the word intention instead of imagine. Imagining someone grabbing you pertains more towards the self defense aspect imo. Much respect and keep up the great lessons. 🙏

@InternalTaiChi

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment and insight. It is always good to explore different words to communicate the "intent" behind the movement, essence and lesson! "Imagine someone has grabbed your wrist. Now use intent to bounce them away." Or imagine you're a big beach ball and they bounce off your imaginary space. My students like the word imagine because it is more playful and less intimidating. I use the word pretend too! Intention is important as well and can be influenced or driven my imagination. Look at Walt Disney! 😄 His imagination brought about a vision that brought about an intent to build Disney World. Fun stuff. Ultimately it's a feeling. First it's accessing through a guiding , then training so our body goes to that feeling without thought or words. 👍

So cool!

@InternalTaiChi

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Opening the Ming Men is akin to drawing the bow….to do this the student needs to become Song…this is a very advanced concept…I am fast learning not to over face beginners with advanced principals.

@InternalTaiChi

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. It is my belief that our students learn what we put before them. I can teach Song to beginners easily. I try not to categorize what is "advanced" or "easy" because that is based on my own experience or others' stories. I taught a two-day workshop last weekend. I had all different levels in my class. Every single one of them achieved song. Perhaps placing it in every movement is the challenge, but achieving song does not necessarily have to be categorized as advanced. I try to not predispose my students that something is difficult to achieve or will take years to achieve. I have seen students get song in 2 minutes and I have seen students take years to get it. The more I turn my teaching to internal first, the more outstanding results are happening in my students of all levels. I don't want to limit my students in any way. I know your experience might be different, and I will respect that. Food for thought based on my own experience: The expectations I set forth for my students is most times what they achieve.

@Taichistretchingspace3479

3 ай бұрын

@@InternalTaiChi Thank you for your positive reply and in some ways I do agree however I still believe that beginners need structure and there are levels of timing that exist in the Huang Sheng Shyan system of Taiji Chuan. I have myself taken Yang Family Principals and integrated these into the Ba Duan Jin as an original activity to develop yin yang in folk who keep falling because they have forgotten how to move like a child. Such is life today in all its busyness folk just forget how to dance like a child. When I teach I teach what I want to learn. Bless you for sharing openly ☮️

@InternalTaiChi

3 ай бұрын

@@Taichistretchingspace3479 "dance like a child." I like that! I just created a video today and referenced restoring ourselves to our original child-like free movements unbound by tight fascia. That video will go up in a couple weeks but I created it today. Cool that you mentioned it. Keep spreading the art!

@bobbader4789

2 ай бұрын

@@InternalTaiChi❤

Neat stuff. Thanks for posting.

@InternalTaiChi

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! ☺

I call the bicycle thing… Balance. Balancing the arms, balancing the legs, balancing the arms with the legs. Once you get following right, you become sticky. Good stuff.

@InternalTaiChi

Ай бұрын

Balance is truly an essential element! Thanks for watching and commenting.

Very nice!

@InternalTaiChi

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Beautiful explanation thank you, I heard a beautiful metaphor about "the sticking and following", being like when you are petting and caressing a cat on their back, the cat goes away but not really, his body sticks to your hand in a very soft way 🙂

@InternalTaiChi

2 ай бұрын

That is a beautiful metaphor! Thank you for sharing it. 💞

Nice

@InternalTaiChi

4 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Is this Wu Ju Jing Gong?

How do you exercise the Ming me in 🤔

@InternalTaiChi

12 күн бұрын

It is not an area to exercise. Rather an area to open and relax.

Why Qigong is good for people sick with cancer?

@InternalTaiChi

2 ай бұрын

Qigong is good for all types of health diagnosis and for healthy people to maintain their health. Qigong opens up the body and allows more of our own bioelectric energy to circulate through the body with reduced muscle and mind tension. This creates a healing environment for our body.

Your use of the Chinese terminology and understanding of the term Soong is cattywampus

@InternalTaiChi

3 ай бұрын

Well at least I understand cattywampus.

Bicycle wheels thank you for that,great exercise.What road did the insane biker travel ? the cyclepath.(psychopath) (cycopath) get it get it

@InternalTaiChi

3 ай бұрын

😂 Great pun. Thanks for commenting and watching!