Tai Chi Chuan

Tai Chi has been called 'Yoga in Motion', a kind of moving meditation - a powerfull key to relax and to increase the concentration capacity.

What is Tai Chi? Tai Chi is a millenar system of movements, origined in China, with aspects that improve the health. As original, it is a very effective martial art, which is considered to be the mother of the three classical "Internal Martial Arts". In Tai Chi acts the vital energy ("Qi" ou "Chi" in chinese) like the source for an unimaginable vitality for the everyday life and also putting available incredibles amounts of energy in the case of risky situations. The cultive of Qi, its increase and development at the meridians the possibility to put it available voluntarily are the elementary bases of a qualified Tai Chi training. It doesn't really matter if we do Tai Chi as a martial art or for the improvement of our health.

The apprentice reaches the same results with his practice:

  • Increasing perception of his proper body, of Chi in his own body;
  • Opening of the meridians, increasing the flow of Chi
  • Increasing storage of Chi in the different centers of energy of the body
  • Learning how to direct Chi to different parts do corpo com a força da imaginação e da vontade
  • Perceiving, initially, the flow of Chi in feet and hands, then in legs and arms, torse and head
  • Afteron, one transfers more Chi to the subtle body
  • We transfer Chi to the feelings in the emotional body
  • We transfer Chi to the thoughts in the subtle body
    • to the spiritual body
  • As the next step, we understand how to change quickly from one level to another level
    • nível para outro, ligando-os entre si.
  • The use of weapons in Taijiquan is useful for the student to learn how to project the accumulated Chi from inside his physical body to the outer void space
  • One of the most important aspects of the training is to perceive the many different forms of Chi in Taiji (Tai Chi), Qigong (Chi Gong) and taoist meditation.

The 10 principal points of Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan)
according to Yang Cheng Fu

  1. A energia do alto da cabeça deve ser leve e sensível
  2. Afundar o peito e levantar as costas
  3. Relaxar a cintura
  4. Distinção entre cheio e vazio
  5. Afundar os ombros e abaixar os cotovelos
  6. Usar a mente e não a força
  7. União das partes superiores e inferiores do corpo
  8. União entre o interno e externo
  9. Continuidade sem interrupção
  10. Buscar a quietude no movimento

Quanto mais tempo e esforço colocamos na cultivação do Chi, tanto mais sucesso obtemos.