Service Description

There are three pillars to traditional Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan: Chi kung Form work Push hands All are essential for understanding the Art of Tai Chi as a method for cultivating and using internal power (chi). This workshop focusses on push hands. In it's simplest form it is partnered practice sensing and feeling how to maintain one's own balance, whilst disturbing the balance of one's practice partner. This is intended to be done playfully and without ego, so push hands is by nature a fun activity. The true Art is not based on clumsy force and brute strength, but instead on one's ability to listen to the opponent's force, interpret the energy and respond in an appropriate manner using chi flow. This will be investigated through fixed movement push hands exercises, that focus on the eight energies, and through sensitivity push hands, which focuses on freedom of movement with incredible stability. Push hands moves one's understanding of internal energy quickly forwards and points towards the full potential of Tai Chi.