Tai Chi Neigong Shibashi: Yang Style Compact 18 Forms
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Tai Chi Neigong Shibashi in Yang Style Compact 18 Forms is created strictly based on the Yang family traditional postures. Posture is only a tool to cultivate inner energy, your goal is to gain neigong. Repetitive drill on each posture is easy for a beginner to learn, it also provides the opportunity for advanced students to ascertain the feeling of inner work layer by layer. It is designed for Zoom teaching to fit limited space for home or corporate onsite practice. This is also a perfect short form to lead beginners into the long form 108. Demonstrations are given in front and back views, and Master Tsao gives a detailed description of each posture's main neigong concept.
Posture 2. Let you understand a figure 8. It's a loop. What that means is when I
shift the body weight back and forth, I go a figure 8 loop. It can be big,
it can be small. So that means now, settle down to my left foot, which is the back foot.
I will say this is the back foot, front foot. The back foot settles down to the heel. Then
go a little bit curl to the front foot, the toe. The energy is to go a curl flow. And
reaching here, then circle from the front foot, from the toe to the front heel. So this
is the settle. So from the heel, turn back toward the back foot's toe. So this energy
is looping. Go there and looping back. When I looping back here, then the back foot will
turn around outside, return to the back heel. Then another time, forward, out. So this is
a figure 8 loop.