Quigong

  • Ba Gua Stepping and Rooting

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    I should really call this getting your nervous system stabilized, and one of the best ways to build strength in your Root is to do the stepping of Ba Gua in a straight line at first. Whether you hold the Single Palm Change, Fire Palm, Water Palm, or you put your hands behind your back […]

  • The 2nd Fire Couple?

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    So, I have thought long and hard about this, and really expect my thoughts here in the next few lines to become controversial. But here it goes anyway after years of reflection on the 2nd Fire coupled meridians, the Pericardium and San Jiao meridians. Oh boy, here it goes…it’s not really the Fire Element to […]

  • Wu Walk Part 3

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    So when I am stepping, now all of the focus at first needs to be on opening kidney 1. As I feel the strengthening of the structure, which allows Kidney 1 to open up, the structure creates a greater flow of Qi. I can see in my mind’s eye the opening of the 5th metatarsal […]

  • The Wu Walk Part 2

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    The Wu walk can be applied in a variety of ways, especially in push hands, stances in the Wu Long Form, transitions between postures in the Short Form, but the structural rules can apply to other things as well. I have used this walk to check imbalances within my postures of Ba Gua, whether the […]

  • The Wu Style Square Form

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    I honestly don’t know who invented this form, if it was Wu Chien Hao, or another Wu Family genius of tai chi, but eventually when you understand the basics of the Wu Square Form of Tai Chi, then you are doing something really good to train your structure for the smoother transitions required when you […]