Outer and Inner Dissolving

Outer and Inner Dissolving

The Outer and Inner Dissolving processes are part of the same circle. The first phase of the Outer Dissolving process works with only the first two energy bodies, the physical and energetic.  Inner Dissolving is more complex and initially more difficult, as it works...
Energy Gates Qigong for Tai Chi

Energy Gates Qigong for Tai Chi

How to Improve Your Tai Chi Form When I was first learning tai chi in Japan, I practiced Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body Qigong for six hours a day to improve my tai chi form. I adopted this routine on the recommendation of my teacher because one day I went to...
Dragon & Tiger Medical Qigong

Dragon & Tiger Medical Qigong

Are you looking for a simple yet challenging qigong exercise set for health, energy and chi development? Look no further than Dragon and Tiger Medical Qigong. This qigong exercise set helps to move and get rid of stagnant chi in your body. It consists of seven...
Learn Bagua Zhang

Learn Bagua Zhang

To learn bagua zhang there are many schools of thought. Bruce Frantzis’s teacher, Grandmaster Liu Hung Chieh, was fortunate to study bagua with disciples of both the martial art tradition of Tung Hai Chuan (who popularized bagua zhang) and the Taoist monastic...
How to Get the Most Out of Your Practice Time

How to Get the Most Out of Your Practice Time

As someone who has taught energy arts practices like tai chi and qigong for over 50 years now, one of the most common questions I get asked while teaching (and at retreats) is, “How can I get the most out of my practice?” I also often get asked more...
Maintaining Awareness

Maintaining Awareness

Your ability to feel and control energy depends on maintaining continuous internal awareness inside your body. Without some minimal level of continuous inner awareness, you cannot focus long enough on your movements or energy flows to gain most of the wonderful...
Nervous Tension – Letting Go Into Happiness

Nervous Tension – Letting Go Into Happiness

In previous eras, physical labor was a huge part of life – people plowed fields and had to do manual labor to earn money for their food and shelter.  That’s not how most people operate in today’s jumpy world. This electronic age is constantly...
What is Meditation?

What is Meditation?

Richard: In the West, we think of meditation as somebody sitting down in lotus position . . . Bruce: Right, “contemplating the navel” . . . Richard: Right, with the carrot in your ear or the light behind your head . . . In the east . . . Can you just explain what...
The Source Code for the Old Yang Style of Tai Chi

The Source Code for the Old Yang Style of Tai Chi

Just like a computer has hardware and software, tai chi could also be said to have software or source code. Traditionally, the original source code of tai chi was only taught to a select few. Over the years, the source code changed and was modified, and segments of...
Tai Chi Tips Part 6

Tai Chi Tips Part 6

Here are your Tai Chi Tips 41 through 50. This section is part six of six, and there are 50 tips in total. At the bottom of the page is a link to the previous series of videos in the sequence. Tai Chi Tip #41 – Coronal Circles in Tai Chi   Tai Chi Tip #42...
Tai Chi Tips Part 5

Tai Chi Tips Part 5

Here are your Tai Chi Tips 33 through 40. This section is part five of six and there are 50 tips in total. At the bottom of the page is a link to the next series of tips in the sequence. Tai Chi Tip #33 – Arms and Legs on Four Corners in Tai Chi    ...
Tai Chi Tips Part 4

Tai Chi Tips Part 4

Here are your Tai Chi Tips 25 through 32. This section is part four of six and there are 50 tips in total. At the bottom of the page is a link to the next series of tips in the sequence. Tai Chi Tip #25 – The Waist and Four Points in Tai Chi   Tai Chi Tip...
Tai Chi Tips Part 3

Tai Chi Tips Part 3

Here are your Tai Chi Tips 17 through 24. This section is part three of six and there are 50 tips in total. At the bottom of the page is a link to the next series of tips in the sequence. Tai Chi Tip #17 – Arms and Legs Move Together in Tai Chi   Tai Chi...
Tai Chi Tips Part 2

Tai Chi Tips Part 2

Here are your Tai Chi Tips 9 through 16. This section is part two of six and there are 50 tips in total. At the bottom of the page is a link to the next series of tips in the sequence. Tai Chi Tip #9 – Sinking the Knees in Tai Chi   Tai Chi Tip #10 –...
Tai Chi Tips Part 1

Tai Chi Tips Part 1

Here are the first eight Tai Chi Tips. This section is part one of six, and there are 50 tips in total. At the bottom of the page is a link to get the next series of tips in the sequence.   Tai Chi Tip #1 – How to Relax in Tai Chi   Tai Chi Tip #2...

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