5 day push hands beginners workshop during the 21st International Push Hands Meeting in Hannover Germany. Our bilingual workshop for Push Hands beginners follows a coordinated schedule with matching topics. It is led by Birgit Golze (Wednesday-Friday) and Nils Klug (Saturday/Sunday). Wednesday – Friday (Birgit Golze) I often jokingly refer […]
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Push Hands Workshop “Situations and possibilities – Expand your Push Hands toolbox!”
新年快乐 – Happy Chinese New Year!
Welcome to the year of the tiger!
Time to try something new…
The 21st International Push Hands Meeting will take place from May 4th to May 8th 2022 in Hanover, Germany!
This Tai Chi Aspect encourages you just to play your form – without questioning, without remembering details, without trying to improve, without wanting to get something out of it.
Going faster helps you to check your knowledge of the choreography.
To pause in the form is the best starting point for structure work.
The stop button represents the practitioner’s ability to stop at any point in the form.
Concepts like „hanging from heaven“/„being suspended from above“ – to keep the head up straight – or the instruction to tuck in the tailbone – to move Huiyin to its „ideal“ position – are generally paid with
Awareness of the Baihui as highest point of our body – Tai Chi Aspects
Without added focus, we will normally feel a natural lengthening of the lower back, around the mingmen area.
You always wanted to try sword fencing, but the time was never right? To learn an elegant sword form has been on your bucker list for a long time, but you always hesitated? This autumn, there is an opportunity right for you! Sword form and fencing in the Cheng Man […]
Letting go is awesome! – If you master the art of letting go, you will be able to head for new experiences with free hands and a fresh mind!
Our free Tai Chi online course with our 8 form is now complete!
In nature, you may discover spirals everywhere. The same discovery may be made inside our own bodies – which, after all, form also part of nature.
Our life on earth is greatly influenced by gravity. We do not float around in space – instead, we have to “pick ourselves up” before going somewhere.
Tai Chi Aspects and Meditation in Motion Tai Chi Aspects are single images and concepts on which one may concentrate while doing the form. They are tools for form refinement. By and by, they will combine into a moving kaleidoscopic picture. The flow of practicing – Practising the flow In […]
Breathing in Taijiquan is the topic of todays Tai Chi Aspect. While we prepare our move we exhale. When growing into the posture we inhale. The breathing is supporting the compression in our body. While exhaling we decrease the compression. Inhaling increases the pressure in our body. The changes of […]
Rewind each single movement of a form is a very good aspect to train. Beside getting a strong base you can work on many details while practicing. Have fun watching the video and trying this Tai Chi Aspect. Over the next weeks we’ll publish more posts with topics like breathing, […]
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 […]