Pure grace. It's always great to see people who do these arts justice.

WOW! You guys rule! That is about the best footage of martial arts ever made. Please keep it coming!

I come back to this even after 9 years, Priest Yuen is captivating. And the presentation has so much mystique. If only it were higher res..

Master Yuan's Tai Chi is purposeful and fluid. Not many people can perform like that. I see a lot of soft and limp Tai Chi, but Master Yuan's fluid movements is what I want to achieve.

Taijiquan is both a sport and a philosophy. Depending on one's approach to Taijiquan the results can differ. Most people practice for wellness. A few go deeper to find peace and harmony.

The complete film, The Empty Mind is feature length, 90 minutes and can be purchased at emptymindfilms (.com) The DVD ships worldwide. Thanks for watching - emptymind films

brethren... let us not bicker. let us be truly happy and joyous. ~ peace, love, understanding, wisdom, healing, virtue. ~ blessings to all

The Soundtrack is ... The Empty Mind by YellowBell. It was released at the same time as our movie premiered. You can purchase the entire soundtrack CD from yellowbellmusic Thank you for watching - Jon Braeley at EmptyMind Films

Travelling to Wudang is the hard part. Wudangshan is a small village with only a rural railway line that connects to Wudan, which has an airport that connects to Beijing. There is a train from Beijing to Shiyan which is 20 miles away from Wudang and now I hear that this train does make a stop in Wudangshan, but not all trains do this. Once at Wudang Mountain there are many martial arts schools on the mountain and below in the town. Avoid the Chinese holiday periods though.

So honored to be a part of your project all those years ago John! Such beautifulfootage!

it never ceases to amaze me how well these masters, and students, control.... utilize their jing and other energies.

Dear XBLOCKS, what you are saying is true. Wudang Shan, like Song Shan has become a tourist circus. I was embarrassed when I visited the Shaolin temple. When I was training in Shaolin styles in Hong Kong, though, my teacher told me that in order to find a good instructor, you need to make sure they know applications of the movements. And when they make the long stance, he said a common mistake is to point the toe outward instead of keeping it parallel with the back foot...

Awesome. What beautiful, centered people. And by watching we, in a way, practice everything tai chi isn't.

Very nice. I was on a quest in the early eighties to find this in China. Despite much travel and searching it remained elusive (perhaps it was still too soon after the cultural revolution when kung fu was banned). To finally see it now in the comfort of home is a wonder of the times.

i have peace of mind just listening to the sound track, i just happen to train in the arts of Tai Chi myself so giving me even better peace and strength of mind and body. i find that Tai Chi helps to relax my body aswell as my mind

This guy is one of my favorite artists!

There is no record of Shaolin Temple as the birthplace of Taichi, (Martial Arts - yes). There are records that show the internal or soft style originated at Wudang Mountain and Tai chi developed from this - mostly as exercises and not the forms you see today. The first actual Tai chi forms (with martial arts aspects) were created at Chen Village with Chen Wangting. I was at Wudang recently and the main priest 0 Zhong YunLong, insists that records exist that Tai chi started with Wudang.

Those postures are actually designed to strengthen the hips and entire lower body. Even elderly people can begin or continue intense Tai Chi practice due to it's gentle nature.

Mountain has healing power.Martial arts related to spirituality..'Universal Arrow',Kerala,India.

Wooow This master has the most fluid moves that I never saw !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lovely! what music is this , i really enjoy it , i find it soothing

this is beautiful art. thank you for this video. and thank you to all who made this possible :)

They are very open to teaching foreigners and make guests feel welcome. Not all Wudang schools teach foreigners due to access and language barriers. Both Wudang and Shaolin are not the easiest places to visit and accommodations can be minimal - costs approx $50/day for tuition-hotel room and food. Hope this helps, emptymind films.

fantastic wu dang shan

Great Film.

"Wise men do not need to prove their point,men who need to prove their point are not wise." -LaoZi

Tai Chi has roots going back 1000's of years of Chinese history and with the origins early Daoism. Origins of modern Tai Chi dates around 800 years with Cheung San Feng who brought strands of Tai Chi together. Wudang is a center of Daoist learning and practice. Martial arts is one element of Daoism, but what Daoist do on Mt Wudang is not exclusive to just Wudang, but actually in many sacred mountains.

"Te soft and yielding overcome the rigid and hard but few put this into practice"

I can see the relation to Chen style in it. Very nice.

Lo veo y lo sigo viendo tantas veces...

We are all dual in this journey of life. Meaning we are all one. (in this together)

I think if we all did Tai Chi, the world wold be a better place ^^

Update: Master Yuan recently left the mountain and opened his own school at the bottom of Wudang (Lao Ying) at the Yu-Xu Temple. His TaiChi displays the very essence of Yin and Yang. Thank you for watching. EmptyMind Films.

I think this knowledge should be told to everyone without burocracy

That was great!

Tai Chi as a moving meditation IS a type of Qi Gong!

As I alluded to quite clearly I said that "martial arts were LARGELY introduced by Ta Mo, and that more specifically Wudang inherited to a large extent Xiaolin forms that were of course refined and differentiated in time by Taoist masters etc. Hope that clears up the confusion.

in a place like this, living in the open like they used to do centuries ago i would be amazed if a person is not atuned to nature

This was a very endearing clip. Made me even more interested in traveling to China.

i love reading all these martial arts posts. so many are concentrated on being right, they miss the points. those here with the egos, are obviously not the learned masters...

it's nice there, I wish I would be there

Danke fürs Teilen!

nice presentation. well done.

@YuJinLong The music is titled "Empty Mind."

i think its two different point of view,,,but they both are unique to its own culture!! It is concept how people seek into it!!

I absolutely agree. Anyone with eyes to see can tell that in particular Chen style is very Shaolin flavored in most of it's moves. I know for a fact that Shaolin does practice a soft internal style that is basically like a simplified yang and Chen style. Nuff said. Hey I love Wudang and they deserve a lot of credit but not for inventing Taiji.

great video

Powerful.

Please see previous comment on the music - thanks, emptymind films

.......please accept my highest respect........

It should be noted, though, that qi-gong was not actually given such a name until the PRC invented it and collected and systematized various practices that people had been doing around the country. Now we imagine that qigong is a traditional. Tai-chi on the other hand, while relatively recent in Chinese history, is something more traditional than qigong. This doesn't mean that some of the qigong techniques do not go far back into history, just that "qigong" didn't exist until quite recently.

wow thats amazing about the cholrite beautiful crystal you have there John love it

Oh how I miss the training in wudang !!

Kapitalny klip! Dziękuję. :))))))

@idma haha no doubt considering tai chi and qigong have been around for 7000 yrs

Thought provoking.. great art

a música é maravilhosa!!!

this music makes me want to cry. it's so elegant, beautiful, serene, tranquil, and sophisticated...yet simple. it makes me happy and at peace. thank you (if you could post music like this or message me about what it is =)

This style has flavors of a few systems, is this cause its a new invention ? No doubting that their push hands is very good tho.

@ShaolinHero1 religion : directed belief. belief: missing the point. point: specific in a generalised setting. fun: figuring out where to allow the mind to not go

Haha, Yuan Shifu for the win! Show 'em what you got, master!

@recruitor2001 Its the Wudang 28 Tai Chi Chaun form

Whew after this, my mind is so empty I feel like an idiot :)

There's probably more on show than just Wudang Tai Chi there.

You know smudje.. The perception u once had.. is what most people have right now.. They dont take this serious, thinking that "oh its so slow moving".. Its sheer force mate.. and once u master it there are no limitations trust me

@JoRoc22 Actually, LOVE is much much more; most simply don't realize it

You will not find much communism in China today - not even in the rural mountain areas like Wudang-capitalism rules. I also do not regard Wudang as a tourist trap - the facilities are still basic and foreigners are very few and mostly there to practice Wushu-Taichi etc. It is a difficult journey by rail or plane and bus, and this ensures that Wudang will never be overun by tourists until the travel gets much easier. EmptyMind Films.

the mind can achieve anything were are just limited by our body so we have to strengthen both mind and matter to achieve a higher level. the world is at constant growth like a few years back someone might not have been able to do a certain acrobatic trick, but could visualise it no today it may be possible. the future will hold many discoverys.

@recruitor2001 its the Wudang 28 Tai Chi Chuan

很好看 谢谢！！

@lilylessons sure

beautiful, no challenge being made, but i must see some actual application, or fighting any footage?, who really gets to see someone use it

HUMAN IS THE REASON FOR FIGHTING lets all listen to some irish fiddling and our live will move on alot better :DDDDDD

What is the sound tack? Very beautiful

What is the sound track? Very beautiful

that reminds me of zen quote: those who know shut those who speak don't know

on 1:47 i LOL, seeing a guy watching off with a sword in hand, looks like hes getting ready for some ass kicking

Do you by chance have any links to more information on what is being practiced in this video? I'd liek to read more.

whats the artist and name of song in this titlw, i love it.. thx

I still wonder, how come their hips and knees can withstand those efforts for so many years standing in traditional positions...?

Indeed. 道 可 道 ， 非 常 道 。 名 可 名 ， 非 常 名 。 無 名 天 地 之 始 ﹔ 有 名 萬 物 之 母 。

Until you come across a grandmaster, Then limitations hit you like the floor.

The music is quite traditional Chinese.

Is this the same Wudang monastery as in the Tiger and the Dragon movie?

Does anyone know the name of the uniform the priests wear? I dont know much about chinese martial arts. Cheers.

i like this song. who is it by? and the title?

That's Confuncius I think.Anyway there is much truth in those words.

Really? Can it be used to generate force, or self defence too?

el taichi es la mejor tecnica que conozco para poner la mente vacia, pero vacia en el termino taoista no en el termino occidental de la palabra.

What's the name of this soundtrack, please?

why does every one of these 'empty mind' videos have two guys fighting each other with comments, as you can see below this video?

anyone know where to learn tai chi in slovenia?

@Caranuil that's true. but if people can't understand their own religion and it causes war shouldn't it be abandoned?...

@idma however, there is an objective reality outside our bodies that is independant of our beliefs. at least if its outside the reach of our "aura" or "field".

I understand :)

I wish I knew of a good place to learn Tai Chi and Qi Gong techniques. I've done some what you would call dilettante training, but I know I am neither efficient nor knowledgeable enough in my self-training.

I'm on of the must falowers of kung fu Wang Dan. pa gua.

@lilylessons i want to learn japanese...is it free lesson?

That is beside the point, whether europe was united or not, religion still forced the atrocities of the crusades that can not be excused, regardless of how much unity it caused.

most......don't understand!!! everyone wants to base there opinion on what's 'real', but real in most cases is what you've come to believe due to tv. to me, classical martial arts are more real than anything created in the last 30 years.