Walking - Testing Your Root

Using the sliding or rubbing step and the natural step (heel to toe) to test your root while in motion and subjected to various impacts.

Any Point on the Body becomes a Weapon: How it Works

An explanation and demonstration of Yang and Yin Peng, highlighting the difference.

Any Point on the Body becomes a Weapon

When one has cultivated long enough and practiced diligently over a long period, one aquires both Yang and Yin Peng throughout the body.

Yang Tai Ji - The Dan Tien Method

This vid is an example of a rarely seen high-level practice using the first set of the original Yang Cheng Fu Form. In this method the hands are kept fairly close to the body and relatively centered in front of the Dan Tien, generally at the level between the navel and the pubic bone. After enough correct practice one feels 1) the movement of the Dan Tien energy, 2) the body's Spiral energy, 3) the hands interacting with the body's Elixir Field...among other things

INSIDE ZHAN ZHUANG - The Nuts and Bolts of Standing Meditation Part 1c

Part 1c concludes with the breath - half-moon and whole-body breathing, the chi breathing point, the Psoas muscles and the hanging basket - suspending the pelvis, closing technique for ending each practice session, how to apply what you've learned and what to expect as you explore the Wuji standing meditation practice.

INSIDE ZHAN ZHUANG - The Nuts and Bolts of Standing Meditation - Part 1b

Part 1b summarizes, reviews and continues with the basic components of the Wuji posture, position of the legs, unlocking the knees, using gravity to release blockages, explanation of SUNG, the body's ideal state. Surrendering to gravity - dropping the weight below the feet, the two types of muscles - mobilizers and stabilizers.

INSIDE ZHAN ZHUANG - The Nuts and Bolts of Standing Meditation - Part 1a

Part 1a continues with the basic alignments and body mechanics, opening the midrift to stretch the spine, finding your center from the back, feeling the five points, the low Dan Tien and Mingmen, explanation of the Kua, the biggest "joint" in the body, connecting the lines of gravity - front, back outside and inside.

INSIDE ZHAN ZHUANG - The Nuts and Bolts of Standing Meditation Part 1

Part 1 includes the basic mechanics of the stand using the Wuji posture. Alignment of the feet, the three parts of the feet and their importance, the central, left and right deep channels of Chi Gung, the feet as the benchmark of your stand and gravity, arm and hand positions, the spine, eliminating it's three curves, activating Feng Fu point at the base of the skull, how all nerve messages pass through this point from the brain to the body, the position of the head and neck, releasing the chest and rounding the back.