The Foundation for Mastering Tai Chi

The foundation for mastering the internal structure of Tai Chi is energy meditation. Many Tai Chi students around the world do not receive any training in energy meditation: most people are taught long and difficult Tai Chi forms first. They have to go through many years of practice and correction to perfect the outer form and make it look beautiful.

Because of the time devoted to the outer form, the internal energetic work is often neglected. Lack of meditation experience, along with the need to learn lengthy forms, makes it difficult for people to go into internal work.

At the online course with Grandmaster Chia starting this Sunday you can learn the short Tai Chi Qigong form and all its complementary practices. This form can be memorised quickly allowing you to focus on the inner alchemy, energy cultivation and healing.

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In this course, different aspects of Tai Chi will be taught separately through sitting meditation, standing meditation, and finally moving meditation. 

☯️ 1 step - sitting energy meditation 

Through sitting practice, you can strengthen your awareness and concentration without being distracted by the body's movement. The first emphasis in this practice is to learn to quiet and focus the mind and to relax the internal organs. This phase is accomplished through the Inner Smile and the Six Healing Sounds.

The next step is to connect with life energy. This is accomplished through practice of the Microcosmic Orbit and the Fusion of the Five Elements meditations. In these practices, you train your mind to feel Qi, to generate and gather it into an energy center, the lower Tan Tien, to direct Qi to other areas for healing and strengthening; and then to store Qi for future use. 

If you learn Tai Chi without the benefit of sitting meditation, it will be more difficult to feel Qi and to gather, concentrate, and guide the energy.

☯️ 2 step - standing energy meditation 

After learning sitting meditation, you will find it easier to learn standing meditations such as Iron Shirt Qigong. In Iron Shirt Qigong you gently pack, or compress, energy and guide it through the Microcosmic Orbit. You also learn to adjust the structure of your stance in alignment with gravity, in order to become grounded or rooted both structurally and energetically.

Once you have the feeling of aligning and integrating the body's structure in this way while standing still, you can carry this experience into movement within the Tai Chi form. Standing meditation is the easiest way of mastering this vital internal aspect of Tai Chi. 

☯️ 3 step - moving energy meditation 

Through Tai Chi Qigong you can integrate what you have learned through sitting and standing meditation practice into movement. As you master the Tai Chi principles of movement, you can gradually apply these same principles in all your movements throughout daily life. Whether washing the dishes, doing yard work, or walking down the street, you will spontaneously move in harmony with the Tao.

This is the essence of Tai Chi🙏🏻w Rd