Turn your body, turn your body! That’s what I’ve been hearing throughout my Tai Ji journey. All movements should be whole. As the hand moves, the body moves, the leg moves – everything should move in perfect harmony. In the last reality check, I haven’t found this unison yet. I found something more subtle – [...]
The figure 8 training method is to draw a figure 8 on a horizontal plane while you’re in a horse stance, using your body as the pencil, and the butt as the pencil tip (or more precisely, the bottom of the vertical axis running through your body as the pencil tip). Please let me know [...]
It’s been a while since i’ve last written about my private tai chi lesson. I’ve finished the Sun style form some weeks ago, and now i suppose it’s fine tuning. The usual suspects are still there – relax, relax, relax! Such a simple word and yet the permutations of body parts that can be relaxed [...]
Kua is the link between your hips and your thighs. That’s my basic understanding of it. But a good test of a relaxed kua is when you can’t find your kua! The tension between thigh and hip disappears. I’ve actually felt this in a teacher. But I can’t reproduce it myself. Only very rarely that [...]
