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As the foremost Western expert in Wu style tai chi and Yang style tai chi, holding direct lineages from China, Bruce Frantzis teaches six powerful qigong sets, as well as bagua zhang and hsing-i from the martial, health, and meditation perspectives.
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The Impact of Words – Taoist Meditation Agenda
Understanding the effect of words is an important topic in Taoist Meditation. Most of us have heard the phrase: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Yet in the modern age being politically correct has come to a point where society...
Tai Chi Solution – Busting Stress and Allergies
There are many studies that show tai chi and qigong (chi gung) benefit in reducing stress, but what about helping with allergies? Connecting the dots between stress and allergies and asthma is easy. The most common symptoms of stress are achingly similar to those...
Tai Chi – The Perfect Exercise
TIME magazine has called Tai Chi the "Perfect Exercise." What’s the big deal, why is it so different from typical exercise and who can benefit from practicing tai chi? Most of the estimated seven million Americans who practice the ancient art of tai chi do so to...
Tao Ziran – The Natural Way in Taoism
The word Tao has many meanings. First, there is the Tao of doing anything, which is the same as the ideal way of doing something. You must travel on a particular path in order to wind up where that path leads. Going a little deeper, the word Tao considers the...
Spherical Movements in Tai Chi and Bagua
The internal martial art of Bagua Zhang and the highest levels of Tai Chi are ultimately based on the sphere. In this video, Senior Instructor Lee Burkins demonstrates bagua using a motion capture monitor. If you look at a circle, you will see it is two dimensional....
Tao Te Ching, “Bones of the All” and Linking to the Earth
The phrase “bones of the all” in the Daodejing is sometimes referred to as meaning something old or ancient, but the true meaning is that all and everything is in the Earth. Daoists hold the position that the Earth is a living entity with a consciousness of its own....
Embracing the One in Taoism and Life
We just had a 1-1-11 day so I thought it would be appropriate to share this post about Oneness and Taoism. The 'One' and 'Oneness' are very much central to Taoist philosophy and thought. In Chinese, shou-yi or shou-i means "embracing the one." This is very tricky...
Taoism and Wu Wei: Action, Non-Action
Wu wei is a very fundamental concept in Taoism, similar to wu wei wu, which means action, non action. Wu means nothing and wei means action. In the West most people have clear agendas and they set out to accomplish specific goals. However, in Taoism one of the central...
Tides of Change – Living the I Ching
Everything changes. Every moment in time is unique unto itself. Every moment in time carries a shadow of the past and in many ways the future is nothing more than a projection of the past. What happened before is going to happen again, although in exactly what way is...
Living Life with the Warrior Spirit
Many people talk about "peaceful warriors" to the point that it has become a cliché, not to mention an oxymoron because war is not peaceful. If you are a real warrior, in the classic sense of the word, it means that you're going to have to go out and fight, beat...
The Tao of Sex: For All Stages of Your Life (Part 3 of 3)
For most people, cultivating sexual chi is a lifetime progression because it has the potential for completely engaging and connecting the body, mind and spirit. In youth, the sexual practices help fully release the body’s chi while engaging the elements of mind and...
Tai Chi Push Hands – Immovable Liu Hung Chieh and Old Zhu
This is a great video clip. In my book The Power of Internal Martial Arts and Chi on page 242 I tell the story about when I first meet my main teacher and Taoist Master Liu Hung Chieh: "On one of my first days with Liu, he asked about my martial arts background. Liu...
For Love of the Game or Ego? Part 3
You say you practice tai chi - but how are you practicing tai chi? When my children were younger and every time I would come back from Europe, I'd always bring home a collection of coins from any country I visited. My youngest son would take the coins and mush them...
For Love of the Game or Ego? Part 2
Not everyone wants to learn about chi and not everyone wants to learn to meditate. I asked my teacher why he didn't teach meditation and he replied that most people don't want to learn it. In later conversations he explained that it has a lot to do with the fact that...
For Love of the Game or Ego?
We currently live in an extremely over-marketed society and you could sum up marketing at one level as getting people excited about a given benefit followed by affirmations - accurate or not - that they have achieved the benefit. Suddenly, they have bragging rights...
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