Good news! I’ve started filming a short 8-week Tai Chi Notebook course, and you can get it here, for free.
As usual things come together by chance (or maybe a it’s fate) but either way, a friend asked me to show them how to do “this internal stuff“, so I was about to shoot them a simple video on the basics, then I realised that there’s too much to cover in just one video, so I planned out 8. Then I started to get creative and made it look a little bit professional, and the end result is what you’ve got here – a short YouTube course called Pulling earth, pushing heaven.
In week 1 of the course we cover the concept of “maintain and extend”. Each week will focus on a different aspect until we get to the point where you’ve got the basic idea of “Tai Chi movement”. Of course, this is just ‘foot in the door’ stuff, but I’d like to think that after following along for 8 weeks, and doing it every day, you’d at least have the correct foot inside the correct door. Look out for part 2 next week.
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I think it depends on the person. Little and often worked best for me, rather than one long session. You need to practice it a lot until you can feel the muscle-tendon channels, once you can then that feeling naturally transfers to whatever movement you are doing – tai chi or qigong – so you don’t need to do the basic exercise as much, but it’s still necessary to return to it from time to time to ‘check in’ that you are still doing it right.
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Hi Graham,
how long do you recommend practicing this material each day?
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