Zen Mindfulness - Sei Ki HeartTouch - Tai Chi Qi Gong

Performing too many movements can be a distraction from giving full attention to what you actually do. less...

The addition of peng nu jia an on both sides, single whip & cloud hands adds a lot to this form.

Though its a little more complicated to learn, it makes for a really nice training form for Yang Tai Chi.

Balance can be practiced using the emphasis on cat stance throughout, rather than by doing the standing poses which appear after this in the full 24 sequence. I called it 9 for a while, but 12 is better as it covers the first half of the 24 less...

When performed well and repeated daily this form can provide all of the benefits that the Tai Chi can give and it only takes a few minutes.

Longer forms take one deeper into meditation and are satisfying somehow when one is ready for them, but at the same time can be less useful healthwise than doing this short sequence with total focus and Qi connection.

For myself, I like to do both the short forms and the long ones. less...

The result is a form which feels fully connected and mature, not a beginners form, although I still miss some of the changes in direction that feature regularly in 85.

Yang 24 is a more linear form which is simpler to do, while still very useful for health and meditation and that in the end is still its role. less...

The sequence here is very similar to Long form as performed by practitioners closer to the Yang Chenfu lineage and Yang family, but there are some differences especially at the beginning and in the way of moving, more emphasis being given here on the silk reeling spiral of the lower body and upper body connection with that movement.

The session filmed here was a little fast partly due to the environmental disturbances around me.

Ideally it would take another five minutes, possibly ten minutes even, if one was really exploring the depth of the yin and yang in the movements. Still the feeling on this day was good.

Hopefully at some stage I will also add some videos of Chen Xiao Jia and Chen Lao Jia performed in a Small Circle way. less...