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Names of Tai Chi Forms in English and Chinese

Names & Sequence of Orthodox Yang Style Tai Chi Forms Below are the text version of the three sections of the TCSociety Yang classic/orthodox form. They are listed in Traditional Chinese characters, Pinyin pronunciation, and English. Special thanks to Caroline Pan...

Carnegie-Mellon Tai Chi Form

This 'form' was salvaged from a motion capture library I found earlier this week. The library is apparently a collection of data sets recorded in 2008. No information is given in regard to the identity of the performance artist. The person is doing what appears to be...

Hypercubic X-Stance

The 'basic' step, visualized as a hypercube: Hypercubic X-stance from B dub on Vimeo. Later, it will be possible to visualize movements of the hypercube through 3d space. ~ Consider postures like 扇通背 shan tong bei (Fan Over the Shoulder) We continuously move the...

Hsuing-YangHo-stabilized-1

Hi there! I just wanted to share a video from my Vimeo collection If you are not aware, there are quite a few videos of Xiong Yang-Ho out there on youTube. Xiong (sometimes spelled 'Hsuing') Yang-Ho (sometimes 'Yangho') was the first of TC Hou's tai chi chuan...

qikung3-notes-020512

These were the various interpretations mentioned today in class. Please see: Six healing sounds- https://baharna.com/chant/six_healing.htm © Copyright 2003 by Joseph F. Morales ~

qikung2-notes-012812

If you missed last week's blog, you can find the link here: https://tcsociety.com/notes-from-todays-essentail-taichi-workshop ~ From today's class we covered the first two [WOOD] meridians, and also one of the sounds associated with the liver organ. If you saw the...

notes from essentail taichi workshop

If you missed today's Tai Chi Qi-Kung  workshop with TC,  I've made some notes and transcribed them here. I will not cover any of the movements or hand motions, but I am creating some notes on the ordering. In the Vimeo video link below you can see a visualization of...

Master 300 Chinese Words In 11 Weeks

You are invited to join our Chinese Summer Camp to learn some basics Mandarin through songs, conversation, culture and writing in a fun way. What can we do in 11 weeks time to enrich our life with Chinese? Maybe a new way of thinking opens a gate to joy, maybe a new...

Cold Weather Breathing

Recently, temperatures have dropped as the cold weather season has arrived in the northern hemisphere. There are many ways to stay warm this winter. When the mind is determined to deal with the weather change- the body will cooperate. Breathing will follow to achieve...