Tai Chi E Book

My friend Kevin Parker has written his first ebook containing exercises to work on the principles of  Tai Chi.

It's a snip at £6.61 on Amazon.

Buy it!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BEXREPQ/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

Tai Chi Internal Exercises for Ta Ji Quan Practioners

www.amazon.co.uk

So you've learnt your Tai Ji form and you want to get deeper into the mysterious 'Internal'. Inside this book you will find 31 different exercises to help you develop further using your own form as a vehicle for travel into the wilder reaches of T'ai Chi Chuan.

Touch and Pushing Hands

Sensitivity is a key aspect of pushing hands

I remember reading a story in which a member of the Yang family was admonished for letting an opponent touch his sleeve, which was torn.

This illustrates the need to work on the neuro sensory approach, to work with the lightest touch. If we only work on a brute, muscular level we will end up getting stuck and unable to interpret the energy of the other person before it is too late and upon us.

Hatfield-Chinese New Year - go see this!

Yiquan 8

As before, reproduced here with permission of Heron Beecham.

Never hold on to your own ideas obstinately in practice;

Ordinary exercise is enough for taking care of health.

 

The skill of conducting the spirit comes from a place beyond external form.

The subtleness of exerting the mind only exists in a state empty of thought.

One Energy

The most important "energy" to develop is Ward Off or Peng.

This permeates the entire body and is contained in everything. I am not talking about a specific posture but an internal energetic experience.

To begin with we hold a posture to support the energy and become fixated, to some extent, with body mechanics and alignment. And this is fine because we need to start with something.

But then ,as you develop, this changes to the energy supporting the posture.

Tai Chi Weekends

If you are a beginner interested in Tai Chi and want to experience a taste,then look no further than Andy and Denise Spragg.

Their website is www.re-vitalise.co.uk and here is a clip from one of the weekends with Andy and myself. I no longer teach on these weekends but they were great fun with some fantastic people.

We were on the Heaven and Earth show on BBC1 which was an experience in itself,seeing how everything was filmed out of synch!

Bob&Christian Tui-Sau birds eye view-having fun!