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Chen
Family style Tai Chi Chuan - beginners |
Standing
meditation - WuJi style - as taught by the esteemed Cai Songfang |
In our classes,
sitting is followed by standing meditation. Generally, it takes
most people about |
one hundred hours
of standing to see and feel effects. If you asked just about any
martial artist, |
especially those
with significant experience in Tai Chi Chuan, Xing Yi Chuan,
Bagua Zhang or |
BaJi Chuan, what
they would practice if they were artificially restricted to just
one thing, the answer |
would be
standing. There are certain therapeutic changes that are easier
when the student is seated: |
drinking water
and putting on a cool wrap, for example, when there are
indications of a seizure or |
bradycardia or
tachycardia. Sitting is relatively safe - the student has a
shorter and hopefully softer |
distance to fall.
Both postures are working on muscle relaxation, deep breathing,
inter-meridian |
connections and
some self-healing. But sitting requires a chair (unless you have
thighs of iron). |
Standing can be
done anywhere - Mr. Cai did it while in prison for being too
bourgeois (he was a |
textile engineer
when the Cultural Revolution ravaged China). |
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