How to Receive and Redirect Force in Tai Chi; Ming Men and Song

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4 ай бұрын

Learn to take incoming force into the Ming Men point to absorb and redirect. Also to use this technique when you are doing solo Tai Chi and Qigong (Chi Kung) to enhance your Tai Chi practice and Tai Chi posture.
The video shows Susan Thompson Tai Chi demonstrating and explaining key principles of tai chi and qi gong practice using a partner in a simple push hands (Tuishou) exercise. The main focuses are:
1. Proper body mechanics - Opening the joints, keeping an integrated posture with the knees and elbows aligned, allowing the spine/back to function as one unit focused on keeping the Ming Men (lower back) area open and aligned.
2. Mastering the Ming Men - The critical skill is keeping the Ming Men open and not allowing it to close or become disconnected from the body, as this provides structural integrity and rootedness.
3. Expressing energy from the open Ming Men - Rather than using muscle, the demonstrations show expressing outward energy from an open and aligned Ming Men through the limbs in a controlled manner for effortless movement.
4. Receiving/Following energy into the open Ming Men - For techniques like "Bicycle Wheel", the key principle is following incoming energy/pressure into the open Ming Men area from the partner, without retracting or closing off the Ming Men.
Susan Thompson Tai Chi emphasizes imagination and feeling the principles, beyond just the physical movements. Overall, it highlights crucial internal skills in tai chi of integration, rooting, energy expression, and adhering - which allow effortless movement when applied properly.
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@HillardEarl 4 ай бұрын

At its core, Push Hands involves a series of gentle movements and techniques that emphasize connection, rootedness, and responsiveness. Practitioners engage in a partner exercise that focuses on sensing and redirecting their partner's energy, rather than overtly resisting or overpowering them. This approach requires a high degree of mindfulness and attunement to subtle cues, fostering a deep sense of awareness and presence in the moment.

@InternalTaiChi 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your insight, Earl. People often mistaken two things when watching YT videos...1. What I teach is not necessarily all that I know. 2. Video Titles are created for SEO keywords and algorithms. This video is an introduction toward creating proper rooting, sensing and distributing incoming force; a mini step towards integrating into push hands practice. One must feel it first. That is what this video is about. Thanks for watching and commenting.

@francoislerebelle2521 12 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your skills in Taï chi especially the pushing hands ! This is exactly what i’m looking for since Many years ! I wish you would be in France for teaching me! Thanks again 🙏

@InternalTaiChi 12 күн бұрын

I have searched for a long time also so I do understand. And I wish I were in France too! Perhaps one day I will come there and do a workshop. That would be fun!

@DrEricRobins 9 күн бұрын

@@InternalTaiChi what is this body of knowledge within Tai Chi called; the one you were searching for for a long time? Its truly the practical applications of TC? Is this similar to what Adam Mizner teaches?

@InternalTaiChi 9 күн бұрын

@DrEricRobins Thank you for your inquiry. It is what those Tai Chi practitioners are NOT teaching or sharing; the simple stuff that actually is effective, easy to learn and gives our Tai Chi movements context. I will have a more complete answer to your comment on my other video where you commented, where I am demonstrating connecting to the fascia. We disperse the incoming force and then connect to the opponents fascia, then we can move them. Add Song and energy and the effect is even more magnified. Tai Chi has had a long unfortunate tradition of secrets held back for only the elite and as a result the true essence of Tai Chi is becoming extinct. I hope to change that.

@DrEricRobins 9 күн бұрын

@@InternalTaiChi thanks for the explanation; you've earned a subscriber to your channel. Also, kudos to your teacher, Master Ting. In my tradition we say, "May his memory serve as a blessing," but it obviously already has in his students like your self. I look forward to more videos.

@krenx Ай бұрын

This is the authentic material and conditions of taiji quan. Thanks for sharing.

@InternalTaiChi Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙂

@laketahoetaichi2093 2 ай бұрын

Application is one the key components towards a more in depth understanding of tai chi. You can only learn so much from doing motions repeatedly by yourself. Good to see your students getting the experience in a controlled manner. I use the word intention instead of imagine. Imagining someone grabbing you pertains more towards the self defense aspect imo. Much respect and keep up the great lessons. 🙏

@InternalTaiChi 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment and insight. It is always good to explore different words to communicate the "intent" behind the movement, essence and lesson! "Imagine someone has grabbed your wrist. Now use intent to bounce them away." Or imagine you're a big beach ball and they bounce off your imaginary space. My students like the word imagine because it is more playful and less intimidating. I use the word pretend too! Intention is important as well and can be influenced or driven my imagination. Look at Walt Disney! 😄 His imagination brought about a vision that brought about an intent to build Disney World. Fun stuff. Ultimately it's a feeling. First it's accessing through a guiding , then training so our body goes to that feeling without thought or words. 👍

@Andy-il7kf 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, i like so much how you teach. The type of metaphors and visuals/props you use, really help me. Im still working on soong in standing postures right now (with your video help). This particular vid reminds of aikido training. In Ki Aikido right from the beginning we learned this internal work as 'ki training', often the first half of a class. we even had 'ki tests' as part of grading, as well as demonstrating physical forms. For me, the aikido cue 'extend ki' is mostly 'soong', although context dependent its other things sometimes. It is so great to come at this form of knowledge from another perspective as well. I love it 😊

@InternalTaiChi 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Andy! I appreciate your comments and insight regarding Ki. It sounds very similar and definitely relates. I am thinking "extend ki" is like our extending our Qi just a few millimeters past our skin, bringing a quality of fascial expansion to our stance. Really neat that there is that overlap! I have a former Aikido instructor in my Tai Chi class. I'm sure he will be delighted to hear about your insight of the overlap! Thanks for watching and commenting.

@fhoniemcphonsen8987 4 ай бұрын

Neat stuff. Thanks for posting.

@InternalTaiChi 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! ☺

@someshsp 2 ай бұрын

great explanation susan i will remember too keep a song in my heart

@InternalTaiChi 2 ай бұрын

Songing the heart is the best of all!

@asingingtree 2 ай бұрын

So cool!

@InternalTaiChi 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Taichistretchingspace3479 4 ай бұрын

Opening the Ming Men is akin to drawing the bow….to do this the student needs to become Song…this is a very advanced concept…I am fast learning not to over face beginners with advanced principals.

@InternalTaiChi 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. It is my belief that our students learn what we put before them. I can teach Song to beginners easily. I try not to categorize what is "advanced" or "easy" because that is based on my own experience or others' stories. I taught a two-day workshop last weekend. I had all different levels in my class. Every single one of them achieved song. Perhaps placing it in every movement is the challenge, but achieving song does not necessarily have to be categorized as advanced. I try to not predispose my students that something is difficult to achieve or will take years to achieve. I have seen students get song in 2 minutes and I have seen students take years to get it. The more I turn my teaching to internal first, the more outstanding results are happening in my students of all levels. I don't want to limit my students in any way. I know your experience might be different, and I will respect that. Food for thought based on my own experience: The expectations I set forth for my students is most times what they achieve.

@Taichistretchingspace3479 4 ай бұрын

@@InternalTaiChi Thank you for your positive reply and in some ways I do agree however I still believe that beginners need structure and there are levels of timing that exist in the Huang Sheng Shyan system of Taiji Chuan. I have myself taken Yang Family Principals and integrated these into the Ba Duan Jin as an original activity to develop yin yang in folk who keep falling because they have forgotten how to move like a child. Such is life today in all its busyness folk just forget how to dance like a child. When I teach I teach what I want to learn. Bless you for sharing openly ☮️

@InternalTaiChi 4 ай бұрын

@@Taichistretchingspace3479 "dance like a child." I like that! I just created a video today and referenced restoring ourselves to our original child-like free movements unbound by tight fascia. That video will go up in a couple weeks but I created it today. Cool that you mentioned it. Keep spreading the art!

@bobbader4789 3 ай бұрын

@@InternalTaiChi❤

@FabioPedrazzoliGrazioli 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful explanation thank you, I heard a beautiful metaphor about "the sticking and following", being like when you are petting and caressing a cat on their back, the cat goes away but not really, his body sticks to your hand in a very soft way 🙂

@InternalTaiChi 3 ай бұрын

That is a beautiful metaphor! Thank you for sharing it. 💞

@phoenixmountaintaichi 4 ай бұрын

Very nice!

@InternalTaiChi 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@littlecannon 2 ай бұрын

I call the bicycle thing… Balance. Balancing the arms, balancing the legs, balancing the arms with the legs. Once you get following right, you become sticky. Good stuff.

@InternalTaiChi 2 ай бұрын

Balance is truly an essential element! Thanks for watching and commenting.

@afimsel5161 19 күн бұрын

Nice

@InternalTaiChi 18 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@olivvapor4873 10 күн бұрын

My Taichi teachers used to say : Where our thoughts go, energy goes …

@InternalTaiChi 9 күн бұрын

True!

@rbfay1 26 күн бұрын

How do you exercise the Ming me in 🤔

@InternalTaiChi 26 күн бұрын

It is not an area to exercise. Rather an area to open and relax.

@martam518 3 ай бұрын

Why Qigong is good for people sick with cancer?

@InternalTaiChi 3 ай бұрын

Qigong is good for all types of health diagnosis and for healthy people to maintain their health. Qigong opens up the body and allows more of our own bioelectric energy to circulate through the body with reduced muscle and mind tension. This creates a healing environment for our body.

@littlemomma70 14 күн бұрын

Is this Wu Ju Jing Gong?

@InternalTaiChi 14 күн бұрын

It is not.

@littlemomma70 14 күн бұрын

@@InternalTaiChi You are familar I heard.I train in it. I enjoy your videos

@InternalTaiChi 13 күн бұрын

@@littlemomma70 yes I trained directly with Master William Ting who taught it. This is part of the Wuji Qigong from which the Wu Ji Jing Gong Tai Chi is derived. Thank you!