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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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