Tai Chi Push Hands Training Intensive Course Details

Contrary to popular opinion, Tai Chi Push Handsⁱ is not only for developing martial ability. Tai Chi Push Hands encompasses techniques for physical self-defense and healing—either yourself or others. Besides a way to develop martial art skills, Tai Chi Push Hands can be a valuable training tool to develop a healer’s palpation skills, energetic sensitivity and projection abilities to feel and heal what is wrong in someone’s body.

Tai Chi Push Hands is a popular interactive practice within tai chi that is an art of playing with your own and your partner’s energy. Students can learn about themselves and others—with practical applications to daily life. Push Hands is great tool for learning to let go and relax.

Bruce has put together a step-by-step system so anyone can learn the energetics of tai chi through push hands. This unique tai chi program will give you the exercises required to develop foundation for higher level tai chi, including all the internal energetics and alignments for health, healing and martial arts.

Push hands has 3 progressive parts:

1. Basic choreographed fixed step and moving steps forms upon which the rest is based.
2. Intermediate phase where using the two person basic form movements attack and defense movements are spontaneous and unrehearsed
3. Energetic aspects of pushing hands get translated into useable fighting techniques for dangerous unrehearsed situations.

Over this 7-day tai chi push hands training intensive some of the topics we will cover:

1. The ten principles of pushing hands fundamentals including:

1. Constant contact and sticking
2. Shifting weight
3. Joint movement with relaxation and without muscular force
4. Constant arm rotation
5. Turning the waistand Folding the Kwa
6. Rooting
7. Bending andStretching without collapsing or leaning
8. Four Basic Physical Motions of Peng, Liu, Anⁱ and Jiⁱⁱ
9. Defense
10. Offence and FaJin 

2.   A series of  fundamental exercises which include the preparations for and the choreographed movements of:

1. Two types of Single Push Handsⁱ: fixed and moving steps. 
2. Double Push Hands: fixed and moving steps.
3. Both based on the physical and energetic movements of Ward Off, Rollback. Press Forward and Push Downward.
4. Hand and Stepping movements of Da Luⁱⁱ

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn from a Tai Chiⁱ Master the training methods a disciple would be given to practice to very high levels.