Yang style Form based upon Chen Meng Cheng upright form.
Curriculum
- 3 Sections
- 112 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Section 1In this section we will become familiar with gentle warm-up exercises and the beginning section of the T'ai Chi Chuan Form.38
- 1.1Welcome To T’ai Chi!
- 1.2Lesson 1-1: Guiding Principle: “Activate Feeling Intelligence”
- 1.3Lesson 1-2: Temple Exercises
- 1.4Lesson 1-3: Closing Statement: “More Life in Your Years”
- 1.5Lesson 2-1: Guiding Principle: “Given Harmony”
- 1.6Lesson 2-2: Awareness Exercise: “Song of Rising and Falling Hands”
- 1.7Lesson 2-3: Temple Exercises
- 1.8Lesson 2-4: Awareness Exercise: “Song of Rising and Falling Hands”
- 1.9Lesson 2-5: Closing Statement: “Soft Overcomes”
- 1.10Lesson 3-1: Guiding Principle: “Paying Attention”
- 1.11Lesson 3-2: Awareness Exercise: Rooting/Dropping the Center
- 1.12Lesson 3-3: Awareness Exercise: Song of Rising and Falling Hands
- 1.13Lesson 3-4: Temple Exercises
- 1.14Lesson 3-5: Awareness Exercise: “Form of Six”
- 1.15Lesson 4-1: Guiding Principle: “A Little Done at the Right Time”
- 1.16Lesson 4-2: Temple Exercises
- 1.17Lesson 4-3: T’ai Chi Form: “Ward Off”
- 1.18Lesson 4-4: Awareness Exercise: Song of Rising and Falling Hands
- 1.19Lesson 5-1: Guiding Principle: “Half of All Power”
- 1.20Lesson 5-2: T’ai Chi Form: “Engagement”, Form Review “Song through Engagement”
- 1.21Lesson 5-3: T’ai Chi Form: “Rollback-Press”, Form Review through Press
- 1.22Lesson 5-4: Closing Exercise: “Form of Six”
- 1.23Lesson 6-1: Awareness Exercise: “Shape of the body has Power”
- 1.24Lesson 6-2: Awareness Exercise: “The Shape of the Body”
- 1.25Lesson 6-3: Temple Exercises
- 1.26Lesson 6-4: T’ai Chi Form: “Push Through Single Whip”
- 1.27Lesson 6-5: T’ai Chi Form Review Through “Single Whip”
- 1.28Lesson 7-1: Guiding Principle: “Tension”
- 1.29Lesson 7-2: Awareness Exercise: “Standing Chan”
- 1.30Lesson 7-3: Temple Exercises
- 1.31Lesson 7-4: “Tai Chi Form Review: “Song through Single Whip”
- 1.32Lesson 7-5: Closing Exercise: Song of Rising and Falling Hands
- 1.33Lesson 8-1: Guiding Principle: “Our Life is the Creation of our Mind”
- 1.34Lesson 8-2: Awareness Exercise: “Pulling Silk”
- 1.35Lesson 8-3: Awareness Exercise: “Potential VS, Expression, Fast/Slow”
- 1.36Lesson 8-4: Temple Exercises
- 1.37Lesson 8-5: T’ai Chi Form Review: “Song through Single Whip”
- 1.38Lesson 8-6: Closing Statement: “Whatever We Think”
- Section 237
- 2.1Lesson 1-1: Guiding Principle: “A Little Done”
- 2.2Lesson 1-2: T’ai Chi Form Review “Song through Single Whip”
- 2.3Lesson 1-3: “Advice on Practice”
- 2.4Lesson 1-4: Morning Activation Sequence
- 2.5Lesson 1-5: T’ai Chi Form Review: “Song through Single Whip”
- 2.6Lesson 1-6: Closing Statement: “Balance and Mindfulness”
- 2.7Lesson 2-1: Guiding Principle: “What Lies Behind Us”
- 2.8Lesson 2-2: Morning Activation
- 2.9Lesson 2-3: T’ai Chi Form: “White Crane”
- 2.10Lesson 2-4: T’ai Chi Form: “White Crane Walking”
- 2.11Lesson 2-5: T’ai Chi Form Review: “Song through Golden Bell Cover”
- 2.12Lesson 3-1: Guiding Principle: “Emptiness”
- 2.13Lesson 3-2: Morning Activation
- 2.143-3: T’ai Chi Form: “Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain”
- 2.15Lesson 4-1: Guiding Principle: “Ancestors”
- 2.16Lesson 4-2: Morning Activation
- 2.17Lesson 4-3: T’ai Chi Form: “Crane’s Extended Wing”
- 2.18Lesson 5-1: Guiding Principle: “Shoe”
- 2.19Lesson 5-2: Morning Activation
- 2.20Lesson 5-3: T’ai Chi Form: “Step Back and Repulse Monkey”
- 2.21Lesson 5-4: Awareness Exercise: “2nd Wu Chi Posture”
- 2.22Lesson 6-1: Guiding Principle: “Success”
- 2.23Lesson 6-2: Morning Activation
- 2.24Lesson 6-3: Awareness Exercise: “Matching the Breath”
- 2.25Lesson 6-4: T’ai Chi Form: “Waving Hands in Clouds” (Cloud Hands)
- 2.26Lesson 6-5: Awareness Exercise: “Prayer Wheel with Awareness on Strength from Ground”
- 2.27Lesson 6-6: Closing Statement: “Whatever You Think About Expands”
- 2.28Lesson 7-1: Guiding Principle: “Everything in the Universe Flows”
- 2.29Lesson 7-2: Morning Activation
- 2.30Lesson 7-3: Awareness Exercise: “Prayer Wheel”
- 2.31Lesson 7-4: T’ai Chi Form: “Snake Creeps Down the Vine into Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg”
- 2.32Lesson 7-5: Awareness Exercise: “3rd Wu Chi Posture”
- 2.33Lesson 8-1: Guiding Principle: “Hasten Slowly”
- 2.34Lesson 8-2: Morning Activation
- 2.35Lesson 8-3: Awareness Exercise: “Advance and Retreat”
- 2.36Lesson 8-4: Awareness Exercise: “Potential vs. Expression”
- 2.37Lesson 8-5: T’ai Chi Form: Section 2 Form Review
- Section 337
- 3.1Lesson 1-1: Guiding Principle: “Finding Balance”
- 3.2Lesson 1-2: Awareness Exercise: Standing Tibetan Crane with Breathwork
- 3.3Lesson 1-3: T’ai Chi Form: “San-Te, Separate Foot Left/Right”
- 3.4Lesson 1-4: Closing Statement: “Cause”
- 3.5Lesson 2-1: Guiding Principle: “Follow the Breath”
- 3.6Lesson 2-2: Awareness Exercise: Standing Tibetan Crane with Breathwork
- 3.7Lesson 2-3: “The Eight Threads of Brocade”
- 3.8Lesson 2-4: T’ai Chi Form: Review “San-Te, Separate Foot Left/Right”
- 3.9Lesson 2-5: Closing Statement: “Fullness of Time”
- 3.10Lesson 3-1: Guiding Principle: “Change Our World”
- 3.11Lesson 3-2: Awareness Exercise: Standing Tibetan Crane
- 3.12Lesson 3-3: The Eight Threads of the Brocade
- 3.13Lesson 3-4: T’ai Chi Form: “Separate Left Foot, Turn & Kick With Heel, Brush Knee & Twist Step”
- 3.14Lesson 3-5: Closing Statement: “Effortless Presence”
- 3.15Lesson 4-1: Guiding Principle: “Movement of the Way”
- 3.16Lesson 4-2: The Eight Threads of the Brocade
- 3.17Lesson 4-3: T’ai Chi Form: “Pound and Break”, “Press the Golden Circle”
- 3.18Lesson 4-4: Closing Statement: “Movement of the Way”
- 3.19Lesson 5-1: Guiding Principle: “Relax”
- 3.20Lesson 5-2: Awareness Exercise: Wu Chi “Standing Like a Tree”
- 3.21Lesson 5-3: The Eight Threads of the Brocade
- 3.22Lesson 5-4: T’ai Chi Form: “Fair Lady Works at Shuttles”
- 3.23Lesson 5-5: Closing Statement: “The Full Well”
- 3.24Lesson 6-1: Guiding Principle: “Discipline”
- 3.25Lesson 6-2: The Eight Threads of the Brocade
- 3.26Lesson 6-3: T’ai Chi Form: “Grasping Sparrow’s Tail”, “Snake Creeps Down”
- 3.27Lesson 6-4: Wu Chi “Standing Like a Tree”
- 3.28Lesson 7-1: Guiding Principle: “A Well Trained Mind”
- 3.29Lesson 7-2: The Eight Threads of Brocade
- 3.30Lesson 7-3: T’ai Chi Form: “Step Back and Ride Tiger”
- 3.31Lesson 7-4: T’ai Chi Form: “Sweep Lotus With Leg”, “Bend Bow Shoot Tiger”
- 3.32Lesson 7-5: T’ai Chi Form: “Section 3 Form Review”
- 3.33Lesson 7-6: Awareness Exercise: Wu Chi “Standing Like a Tree”
- 3.34Lesson 8-1: Guiding Principle: “Challenge and Inconvenience”
- 3.35Lesson 8-2: The Eight Threads of Brocade
- 3.36Lesson 8-3: Awareness Exercise: Wu Chi “Standing Like a Tree”
- 3.37Lesson 8-4: T’ai Chi Form: Complete T’ai Chi Form Performed in Silence
