Exactly! It builds upon something you may already be familiar with to help you to a deeper level of relaxation. And if relaxing feels good, what might you feel when you relax even more deeply? Let's find out!

Thank you! It's a profoundly beneficial exercise because it helps you realize your ability to release tension in all forms, from first the apparent tension to gradually more unconscious tension, until you become aware of emotions, energies, and thoughts, that you have not realized was stuck before, but can completely free yourself from now in a simple and comfortable and easy way. And when tension leaves you, and ease becomes you, how lovely would that be, right? 😀☯️

Yes. The release can be very emotional for some people. We hold all our stress and worries in our bodies. 🙂🙏🏼☯️

That is an excellent personal imagery! Great job and as you keep that in mind you'll notice yourself feeling even more comfortable during your Tai Chi and your day to day activities!

That is a great visual and sensation!

Thank you for your comment!

Thank you for the comment!

Thank you! It's responses like yours that keep me motivated to keep sharing. Because I love seeing everyone enjoy Tai Chi more and at a deeper level! BTW the fascia mastery course is ready! 🎉

Thank you for your comment from your heart. I appreciate it!

Thank you! Share with anyone who wants to relax more 😄

Fantastic. Mianquan is a very cool art! I've only started seeing a little bit of it on youtube and it looks quite sophisticated in its own way. Song is a powerful, transformative skill that opens the door to internal power and greatly enhances all your movements. I'll be showing a lot more about Song on the channel!

Good points! And in the coming weeks I'll be showing how to apply this to actively pushing and pulling so that all your body works together in a balanced, relaxed, and totally powerful way.

@@phoenixmountaintaichi Great! Can't wait!

Haha yes, it is maybe a little silly sounding but it is totally how it feels!

Thank you Dave, cheers!

Thank you! Try it in class and any other time you feel tense too!

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Thank you! 🙏

Thank you Frank. A lot of the classical insights on this channel that is not commonly seen elsewhere are passed down from the Wong Yongquan lineage of Yang Tai Chi. Wong Yongquan was an inner door student of Yang Jianhou and Yang Shaohou. He served as a household secretary and recorded a lot of inner teachings, which he decided to publicize for the betterment of the Tai Chi community near the end of his life. Some of the insights you see on the channel that do not sound like classical Chinese culture (eg donuts, cellular signals, vibes), are the result of my intention to help modern cultures understand and develop Tai Chi skill. Because teachings are the fingers that point at the moon right? And as people's way of thinking, culture, and geography change, maybe a different way of pointing at the moon becomes more helpful, could it not? I'm always working on refining this and I'm happy to see that people are benefiting from the explanations! It's my goal to raise the baseline public understanding of true Tai Chi so that we can all enjoy it at a higher level, and Tai Chi can be properly appreciated as the health and martial practice it can be. You know how Coffee culture had a 2nd wave, where people started to enjoy tastier lattes, and a 3rd wave, when people became interested and knowledgeable about roasts and bean origins and brewing methods? I hope to see the same happen for Tai Chi! Cheers and thanks for asking! ☕☯️

@@phoenixmountaintaichi Thanks for the detailed response, you sound like someone with the knowledge in science who can demystify tai chi. keep on the good work! btw, I was especially impressed with your explanation/interpretation of KUO, which according to my reading of various texts, do not project the authentic meaning like you have.

I think I understand. How to maintain contact with the ground and have song while lifting one leg to step? We can make that video. It's one of the key lessons in the Song and Momentum Transfer course that we'll put out this summer too!

Hi! You are right that it's multilayered, because you can learn to release the tension in more and more parts of your body, more and more deeply than before. As you release more tension, the connectivity of your body improves along with the adaptability of your body to pressure. There's definitely a limit to how much pressure I can take in the way shown here! Maybe 25% more than the pressure he applied I would have to move or adapt in some additional way. The point isn't that we're immovable, rather, because aside from a physical demonstration, we want to become more stable and adaptable with the body and strength we have. And as we learn to rely on that to support us, we can relax and better focus on the other aspects of Tai Chi being that benefits from our attention, or on whatever else you want to focus on, that can bring you more success in life, in ways beyond what tensing and struggling have not brought before.

Yes that is the right idea, and you do that until you feel the body expand towards as the fascia releases. You might find it helpful to mentally allow some slumping so that you relax fully. As the fascia releases and expands that will tend to fix any slumping that you temporarily experience. Does that match your experience?

@@phoenixmountaintaichi hi, yes I do mentally slump. Feels like very grounding so I’ll have to focus more on the expansion at the end and see the results. Seems like I’m on the correct route. I have many years meditation experience it only two years of tai chi with somebody who knows the internal side as well so it’s finding the method.

​@@riptizperfect! Your years of meditation experience will be very helpful and you've probably already noticed that. When students ask me how to become better at Tingjin, how to be more aware of Qi, more sensitive to anything, the main key is to become more internally quiet. Because we all have that capacity, as our inner chatter quiets. So that heads you will find a pleasant rate of success with your Tai Chi as you appreciate and apply your meditation skills. Cheers!

You're very perceptive! Done with intention and awareness of your Qi, it will indeed facilitate condensing your Qi. One of the things I love about Tai Chi is that people can immediately begin to enjoy it and benefit as a beginner. And as their skill and awareness grows, they can enjoy and benefit from the same practices even more, as connoisseurs. Because there are layers and layers of depth to everything that we can explore and appreciate, and that's always nice, especially when it surprises us!