Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

"I want to reply to your first post because you mentioned Earl montigue. ... but he is a big guy and sure he would love a fight if one came to him." I don't think size is important, and anyway Erle is not that big. I visited Erle and practised with him in '82 or '83 and he wasn't as tall a...

Tai chi IS meditation. One reason for practising meditation in a chair or otherwise is to discover what it feels like to feel good. Once you discover the feeling, you do the form in the same way and continue to feel good. Once you know what it feels like to feel good and how to be the feeling, you d...

This thread is a good chance to practise pushing hands, or at least the non-resistance part of it. Pushing hands can be a metaphor for life: the people who let you in to a certain point and stiffen up, those who keep pushing you off to the left or the right, those who use more and more muscle and th...

An interesting topic, and probably the crux of tai chi. One exercise for practising mind intent is to look at a coffee cup (say) and imagine reaching out and picking it up. Do this a couple of times and then let yourself actually reach out and pick it up. If you do this several times you can start t...