Creating a solid base in Taijiquan is very important. If you build a house or a business you look for a solid foundation as well. If you grow into a Taijiquan posture and created a good base before you are more likely able to let go. Video “Create a Base […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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Digging is the todays topic of our Tai Chi Aspects series. We always activate both Hands (fingers) and Feet (Toes). Besides many other effects it helps to realize the four wheel drive 😉 Video Digging Tai Chi Aspects Tai Chi Aspects are single images and concepts on which one may […]
Leverage in Tai Chi Form is very important. Especially if you want to use the front foot to initiate your movement. Video “Leverage in Tai Chi Form” Tai Chi Aspects Tai Chi Aspects are single images and concepts on which one may concentrate while doing the form. They are tools […]
Weight Shifting – Tai Chi Aspects Tai Chi Aspects Tai Chi Aspects are single images and concepts on which one may concentrate while doing the form. They are tools for form refinement and are meant to encourage discovering, trying out of alternatives and learning. The videos on Tai Chi Aspects […]
Tai Chi Aspects Tai Chi Aspects are single images and concepts on which one may concentrate while doing the form. They are tools for form refinement and are meant to encourage discovering, trying out of alternatives and learning. The videos on Tai Chi Aspects have been developed in the course […]
Doing Qigong at home is a good way to stay active when forced to stay at home. It is also an uncomplicated way to recharge your batteries without having to leave your sitting room. Moving along with online Qigong videos may is a nice opportunity to learn something new – […]
Push! #Martialmonday is back with one from the archives. The next movement in the form is the „push“. It can be trained as an endless circle, using a simple exercise. Partner Exercise for Push One partner pushes the shoulders – the other neutralises. Then the roles are changed. Working with […]
Shoulder loosening – Circle Qigong: Exercise 4 Frozen shoulders? Tension in the rib area? Just try this simple exercise! This week‘s #wellnesswednesday addresses the shoulder girdle. The ribs, which build the ribcage shoulders and arms are connected through a system of muscles and sinews. Thus, tension and relaxation of the […]
How to communicate across styles and traditions? The Chinese internal arts have a rich heritage of family styles, styles derived from monasteries and increasingly – in China as well as abroad – independent approaches, based on individual experience or scientific knowledge. So, what is true and what is real? And […]
Small is beautiful – #martialmonday 15 – press #2 A hardly discernible movement with a big effect – that is one ideal of Taijiquan. How to achieve this? Long hours of practice is the short answer. A longer answer would be: by starting big and gradually getting smaller and smaller. […]
High time to push! – Push Hands Meeting Hannover, Germany This week, our #martialmonday team is demonstrating the rules for free pushing hands at the International Push Hands Meeting in Hanover, Germany!We are celebrating our 20th anniversary this year and we are looking forward to meeting more than 100 old and new […]
#wellnesswednesday Spine Qigong Exercise 4 – Swinging self-massage A groovy spine exercise for all of you, but especially for those who felt that the third exercise of Spine Qigong was too technical. Some of you may know this exercise under the name of loosening exercises or even constant bear. Here, […]
#MartialMonday 13 – Indirect Force – Application Press Indirect force The mysterious jin energy can be translated as a practice goal: not to use raw power. This does not mean not to use all one’s strength, but to develop a second nature. This second nature uses force in a non-violent […]
Coronavirus: Disease patterns and the road towards fearlessness – #PhilosophicalFriday I am writing this, because I am worried about the consequences of misinformation concerning the coronavirus. If the truth is first victim of war, then compassion seems to be the first victim of the war against a supposedly deadly super […]
Spine Qigong exercise 3 – Warming the centre Especially when it is cold outside, we should take care that our kidneys and our lower back do not get too cold. Besides outside influences, the reason for coldness in this area may also be excessive tension in the body. In this […]
#martialmonday 12 – I’m stuck! v. I’m off then. The point of attention in pulling – application (block and) punch This week we start from another practical application of the movement pull: both hands punch. The exercise For the exercise, we need to build fists instead of the open hands […]
The Chinese character 萬 wan means many. It means a large quantity which is innumerable, because it appears to be uncountable. To do justice to these connotations in a translation, the notion ”ten thousand“ is often used. One example is the “10,000 things“ in the Daodejing, another example is the […]
Spine Qigong – exercise 2: The 6 connections Thus weeks exercise will be going a bit deeper. Tsui will show us the 6 connections. The 6 joints If we leave the spine with its single elements aside, the human body has got 6 main joints: foot joint, knee joint, hip […]
#martialmonday 11 – With my back against the wall! How should I react? Form application – pull It is fairly easy: Today, we will work on the application „pull“. The posture pull offers two alternatives: to box and to pull. We will opt for the second alternative as a foundation. […]
The two characters 玉宇（yu yu）mean Jade House. The traditional value of jade in China The Chinese admiration of jade stones goes a long way back. On the one hand, it looked great and was therefore thought as the perfect gemstone. – Jewellery, belt buckles, ornaments and buttons on clothes and […]