Taijiquan & Qi Gong:
Slow, relaxed and attentively observed movements can awaken very deep and fine perceptions to integrate the wholeness of our being with the help of our breath. Thus sensitivity, relaxation, concentration, inner strength and stability can develop. Yang style according to Cheng Man-Ch'ing, 37 movements (short form), 108 (long form), basic exercises e.g. five loosening exercises, advanced students practise martial forms: sword, sabre, Shan Shou, DaLu, Push hands (Tuishou).
Taijiquan master Cheng Man-Ch'ing (1900-1975, sometimes spelled Zheng Manping) was not only a famous master of Taijiquan but also of Chinese medicine, calligraphy, painting and poetry. After he was able to heal the wife of Yang Chengfu, the founder of the Yang style, he became a personal student of the master.
When Cheng Man-Ch'ing had reached the age of 20 doctors diagnosed him with tuberculosis and gave him six more months to live. That was when he started the practice of Taijiquan and lived up to the age of 75! Every new day was like a gift for him and the delight he took in pure life must have given him the strength to become a great master of Taijiquan. He emigrated to Taiwan. For the last ten years of his life lived in New York, from where his short Yang form spread to the West.
The form consists of 37 movements when started with the position "the waking of the Ki" (Qi Shi). Nowadays the form is usually started with "the preparation" (Yu Bei Shi) and thereby extends to 38 movements. Cheng Man-Ch'ing developed the 37 form by abridging the 108 Yang style form.
Patrick Kelly
is a Taijiquan teacher from New Zealand. He studied for 20 years with Huang Sheng-Shyan, who himself was a direct student of the "inner circle" of Cheng Man-Ch`ing. To Patrick Kelly Taijiquan is mainly about the inner and spiritual development: the development of the "mind-body co-ordination". His search for inner development has taken him from boxing to Yoga, further on to Japanese meditation practices and finally to Taijiquan. Since 1992 he is also teaching in Europe.
Huang Sheng-Shyan says: "A student should be ready to cross the mountains for a good teacher - a teacher should be ready to cross the ocean for a good student."
Slow, relaxed and attentively observed movements can awaken very deep and fine perceptions to integrate the wholeness of our being with the help of our breath. Thus sensitivity, relaxation, concentration, inner strength and stability can develop. Yang style according to Cheng Man-Ch'ing, 37 movements (short form), 108 (long form), basic exercises e.g. five loosening exercises, advanced students practise martial forms: sword, sabre, Shan Shou, DaLu, Push hands (Tuishou).
Taijiquan master Cheng Man-Ch'ing (1900-1975, sometimes spelled Zheng Manping) was not only a famous master of Taijiquan but also of Chinese medicine, calligraphy, painting and poetry. After he was able to heal the wife of Yang Chengfu, the founder of the Yang style, he became a personal student of the master.
When Cheng Man-Ch'ing had reached the age of 20 doctors diagnosed him with tuberculosis and gave him six more months to live. That was when he started the practice of Taijiquan and lived up to the age of 75! Every new day was like a gift for him and the delight he took in pure life must have given him the strength to become a great master of Taijiquan. He emigrated to Taiwan. For the last ten years of his life lived in New York, from where his short Yang form spread to the West.
The form consists of 37 movements when started with the position "the waking of the Ki" (Qi Shi). Nowadays the form is usually started with "the preparation" (Yu Bei Shi) and thereby extends to 38 movements. Cheng Man-Ch'ing developed the 37 form by abridging the 108 Yang style form.
Patrick Kelly
is a Taijiquan teacher from New Zealand. He studied for 20 years with Huang Sheng-Shyan, who himself was a direct student of the "inner circle" of Cheng Man-Ch`ing. To Patrick Kelly Taijiquan is mainly about the inner and spiritual development: the development of the "mind-body co-ordination". His search for inner development has taken him from boxing to Yoga, further on to Japanese meditation practices and finally to Taijiquan. Since 1992 he is also teaching in Europe.
Huang Sheng-Shyan says: "A student should be ready to cross the mountains for a good teacher - a teacher should be ready to cross the ocean for a good student."
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