A guided Tai Chi session covering foundational movements like the crane brush knee and grasshopper step. The instructor emphasizes continuous motion without pauses, precise foot placement, and maintaining a steady pace through all 23 movements, linking breath to each motion for clarity and health benefits.
Chapters
Feet together but not quite together, enough space for fist. Okay, take your time, and when you're ready— and the most advanced thing that you can achieve is to move away from the beginning and never stop, no pause. In Indian style, You expand, but not as much as stretching. My crane, brush knee. You see, you don't overstretch the arm like so. You keep it Protecting the waist all the time, and also adding the, um, intention. You see your target and you imagine all the things that you are doing here. You see your target, you're looking at your happiness.
One more. One more monkey.
Beginning. Grasshopper step is a bit tense. Breathe in. Expansion. Continuity. Right, hands like hands. This has another application, but it's easier to see in the long form. When you learn the long form, things become clear. So much nicer. The weather changes there, man. But this is good for, for health, and when you have a small space, this is very handy.
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Down. Okay, okay. Now, as you can see, this is a little bit more expanded than the other 23 movements. Constant pace is another one. So if you start at a certain pace, you have to keep it all through the different movements. You cannot go slowly and then fast.