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Do you want to learn this Yang Style Tai Chi from the beginning? Practice along with my weekly lessons.

28/7/2019

I get a lot of people asking to learn Tai Chi from me starting as a complete beginner, and so many times, even locally it isn't possible. We all lead very busy lives and obviously being on the internet there are geographical incompatibilities. This is disappointing as Taiji (when taught & practiced according to the classics) has so much to offer beginners looking for a myriad of ways to improve their self-esteem, wellness & health, or just to experience this subtle and deep art. So, I am in the process of creating & uploading weekly lessons exactly the way I practice and this style. If you join I will "slowly & sequentially" explain and practice the basics (as if we were together in a lesson) and we will start to experience the meditational & mindful qualities of Taiji as we learn & repeatedly practice this Yang Style. For those who already learning from my Wee Kee Jin workshop videos, these lessons/practice along sessions are a perfect accompaniment to reinforcing and revising Wee Kee Jin's teachings. These lessons will be available soon, let me know (by posting a comment in my blog comment section) if you are interested & in the meantime enjoy the calming, relaxing video which reflects what I strive to offer. Thanks for your time.

Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about being the best “you” through the art of Tai Chi

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Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about calmness & peace of mind

Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about the Master Huang Sheng Shyan Yang Style as taught by Wee Kee Jin

Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about ageing gracefully

Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about cultivating your energy and vitality

Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about living mindfully and intentionally

Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about a non-aggressive internal/soft martial art

Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about being in better control of your health and wellness

Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about natural, deep relaxation

Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about a natural antidote to stress and other ailments

Relaxed Mind Tai Chi is about empowering you with a lifelong friend

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Lee Chang Tye
www.relaxedmindtaichi.com

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Every movement in the Taiji Set has a purpose

8/7/2019

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Is Every Movement in the Taiji Set Important?

In the Taiji set every posture flows continuously into the next posture. When we're performing those little, subtle transitional movements our attention and emphasis is usually on the “big/obvious movements & postures”, the ward off, the roll-back, push, snake creeps down…etc. The less obvious postures or transitions leading up to these obvious postures we often don’t understand or overlook. Are they important and can pay less attention to them in our practice? No, they are all there for a reason and the set has been ingeniously created to integrate such subtle movements and applications in our regular practice without us usually knowing; by the Masters who understood Taiji much better than you or I.

We can practice the Taiji form for years if not decades without paying attention to, nor understanding what each individual movement, or even part of a movement is, or why it is there. “Why do we turn the waist a slight 15 degrees? Why does the elbow and shoulder drop here whilst the other hand move to the mid-line position thus (in the transition from left ward-off to ward-off grasp the bird the tail)? etc, etc. Without any commitment to accuracy or understanding of the movement in our regular practice our whole Taiji form - let alone what we think are the less important movements become vague and neglected and soon enough become unrecognisable. The Art and the wisdom of the Masters becomes lost.

Commitment to accuracy is what your teacher should instill into their student and for the student to make the effort to repeatedly practice. For beginners meaning the first few years the details and accuracy of destination, direction of feet and hips, arc of movement, synchronisation of body, base, arms, hips and hands is bewildering and most of their energy and attention is spent learning this - week in, week out. This process is where the teacher dedicatedly drills the student in the direction, timing, speed, synchronisation, beginning and ending points of the feet, legs, waist, body, arms, hands, head & eyes. The student has to have enough faith in the teacher to follow & remember all these details.

One such movement/posture that I have not paid so much attention to, puzzled over and frankly pretty much written off as “fluff” was “Daoist Immortal Flaps His Sleeves” (transitioning to “fist under elbow”) even the name suggests the most menial, even decorative, & certainly unusable of martial techniques. So I am glad to see my teacher Wee Kee Jin demonstrate one use of “Daoist Immortal Flaps His Sleeves” in this short video. I’ve learnt something and will now practice this posture from a better perspective, I hope you don't make the same mistake I did and enjoy the video too. I thank Esaias Hobbs another student of Wee Kee Jin for posting up this video. His youtube page at "The Acupuncture Works" is -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ycUBFEEcso&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0DF_I-gd-btfg5r1INJEIzOIYWN9b4HT8CHer4303Yn3DrrWtzfjIcQ3U

Lee Chang Tye
www.relaxedmindtaichi.com

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