Make contact with your hands first…
Nils Klug
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Taking your left arm away while turning…
The application can represent a Pulling movement, underlining the direction of the protecting right hand – up and out (peng).
Add some intention and meaning to your meditative form by visualizing…
Tai Chi – Kick with the foot like Bert
Stay tuned for our series on form and application
Welcome to the final level of Push Hands Yang skills!
Concerning the supposed spectacular results, there is a second “secret“: Expanding one’s structure outwards in the fraction of a second – a bit like an airbag…
Taking our Push Hands to the next Yang level
If the first step of our Yang training is building our structure and testing it with postures…
For the beginner, the central question is hence this: How to build my structure?
Our aim now is to become soft, i.e. sensitive to the touch of another person.
After some training of turning and melting, we start to feel comfortable in 2D and 3D: moving our torso via the hip joints to…
Instead of turning “like a millstone“, which is a two-dimensional beginners exercise…
Welcome to our mini-series on Push Hands!
It is actually quite easy: the rising hand is always on the inside
Learn Push Hands with us in Autumn 2022!
A good atmosphere and both practitioners being good partners is necessary for things not to get too competitive or hectic in this scenario.
If I try to go out of the way of the incoming force, but crumble
In the 4 postures, one moment of openness is after yielding the press, when all four hands are piled upon each other, building the famous sandwich.