Curriculum
- 3 Sections
- 111 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Section 1In this first section we will become familiar with gentle T'ai Chi warm-up exercises, meditations, practices in expanded awareness, and the beginning section of the T'ai Chi Chuan Form.37
- 1.1Welcome To T’ai Chi!
- 1.2Week 1-Lesson 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: Temple Exercises
- 1.25Lesson 6-3: T’ai Chi Form: “Push Through Single Whip”
- 1.26Lesson 6-4: T’ai Chi Form Review Through “Single Whip”
- 1.27Lesson 7-1: Guiding Principle: “Tension”
- 1.28Lesson 7-2: Awareness Exercise: “Standing Chan”
- 1.29Lesson 7-3: Temple Exercises
- 1.30Lesson 7-4: “Tai Chi Form Review: “Song through Single Whip”
- 1.31Lesson 7-5: Closing Exercise: Song of Rising and Falling Hands
- 1.32Lesson 8-1: Guiding Principle: “Our Life is the Creation of our Mind”
- 1.33Lesson 8-2: Awareness Exercise: “Pulling Silk”
- 1.34Lesson 8-3: Awareness Exercise: “Potential VS, Expression, Fast/Slow”
- 1.35Lesson 8-4: Temple Exercises
- 1.36Lesson 8-5: T’ai Chi Form Review: “Song through Single Whip”
- 1.37Lesson 8-6: Closing Statement: “Whatever We Think”
- Section 2In this section we will shift from the beginning "Temple Exercises" and explore an "Activation Sequence" that further promotes mindfulness, and relaxation. This part of the "Form" will offer new sequences that will exercise our posture, balance, and flexibility.37
- 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 3Section 3 will share with you a very advanced "Qi-Gong" Practice known as "The 8 Threads of Brocade" as new exercises. The teachings in this final section will take you more in depth into the T'ai Chi Chuan form with more segments to challenge and improve balance, inner strength and flexibility, while promoting mindfulness in each breath, step, and graceful movement. Enjoy!37
- 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