Posted by: RyuuJitsu
zhan zhuang - 01/23/06 09:15 PM
does anyone here do any zhan zhuang?
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If you can build up to 30 mins a day, you have arrived !
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Also enables awareness of chi circulation and how to control it, but this side needs 15 mins before it can be considered.
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This is why you need a good teacher, you cannot develope from books, there are too many mistakes and pitfalls depending on the physical and mental state of the practioner...
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All taiji principles are brought into account, elbows down, shoulders down, legs not locked our, tongue held loosely on the roof of the mouth just behind the teeth, small of the back pushed out, tailbone tucked under, head as if suspended from above, etc etc.
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Your movements are with the mind, where the mind is, is where the Chi is.
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...once you get over the physical side, then you develope the Chi movement.
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You start by pulsing between the hands, then make it circle around the arms, then vertical body etc.This takes time and effort.
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All taiji principles are brought into account, elbows down, shoulders down, legs not locked our, tongue held loosely on the roof of the mouth just behind the teeth, small of the back pushed out, tailbone tucked under, head as if suspended from above, etc etc.
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This also means that I start them off on ZZ. The senior students / dan grades etc., pick it up very quickly, and all acknowledge even on the day, they can work out the advantages and possibilities.
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Awareness etc. you are correct, continuity is all important especially in Taiji forms.
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I dont think you should not try to feel anything.
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So if you were going to hit someone ( sorry for violence again) thenyou dont just use body, Chi is where the mind is, in this case your hand, so mind and body together to achieve more power.
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If out of every art I did, I could only pick one, it would be ZZ, the possibilities are only limited by your own imagination.
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Isn't the conception vessel/governer circuit the main channel in the body?
Reiki
In your area of the healing arts do you rely on the chakra system or the tradional chinese accupunture meridian system. Or are they the same?
I'd be interested to see the commonalities between chakra's and the meridian system. Do the chakras that govern particular organs correspond to meridian points that govern the same organs?
(Maybe this should be in a different thread? Although it'd be interseting to see how this all ties into zhan zhuang also).