четверг, 11 марта 2010 г.

Les bienfaits de l’apprentissage du Tai Chi

Les bienfaits de l’apprentissage du Tai Chi
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Les bienfaits de l’apprentissage du Tai Chi


Chacun d’entre nous peut bénéficier de l’apprentissage du Tai Chi. Cet art chinois ancien a été qualifié de «méditation en mouvement» et est connu pour prévenir et traiter de nombreux problèmes de santé, comme en attestent plusieurs études.


C’est une pratique qui se concentre sur les mouvements provenant du torse. Pourquoi est-ce important, et comment pouvons-nous perdre cette capacité lorsque nous vieillissons?


Voici un aperçu, présenté par Synerchi Publishing :


Un jeune maître Tai Chi a écrit que le but ultime de l’apprentissage du Tai Chi était de vivre à jamais dans la saison du printemps de votre vie. Le Tai Chi n’est pas simplement pour la longévité, c’est aussi pour la robustesse, même à un âge avancé. Les avantages pour la santé du Tai Chi Classique peuvent être vus sous différents angles et à différents niveaux, tous fortement liés à la pratique de la discipline interne.


Lorsqu’on étudie les mouvements des très jeunes enfants, nous voyons que leurs mouvements de bras et de jambes proviennent souvent de leur torse, leurs mouvements sont détendus et sans tension. Quand nous vieillissons nos mouvements ont tendance à se concentrer sur nos bras, nos jambes et nos épaules et moins sur notre torse: il commence également à y avoir une tension et une raideur dans nos mouvements. Peu à peu, nous perdons le contact avec le torse. Nous ne pouvons que faire que des mouvements simples, mais pas de mouvements subtils, complexes et puissants que le torse est intrinsèquement capable de faire. Nous parlons de la dextérité des mains ou des pieds, ne sachant pas que le torse peut être capable d’avoir autant de dextérité, mais nous pensons au torse comme une partie inutile du corps.


Nous voyons souvent la marche des personnes âgées avec un changement de la marche-mouvement qui ne se prolonge plus dans le torse. Avec tous les principaux organes et le système circulatoire complexe situés au niveau du torse, on comprend facilement l’effet défavorable de l’inaction et de la stagnation du torse sur la santé du corps. On peut affirmer que l’apparition de la rigidité cadavérique interne précède réellement la mort!


Si vous souhaitez conserver la jeunesse des systèmes internes du corps, vous devez apprendre à déclencher les mouvements du noyau interne du corps, à cultiver l’énergie interne de votre corps. Une fois que nous sommes en mesure de retrouver notre connexion avec le torse, notre corps commence à fonctionner plus efficacement, ce qui entraîne une meilleure santé.


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Les bienfaits du Tai Chi Chuan


Apprendre à canaliser son énergie, retrouver une harmonie avec soi-même et avec le monde, voilà ce que propose cette discipline ancestrale. Les bienfaits du Tai Chi Chuan sont doubles. Recommandé pour ses vertus relaxantes, cette pratique agit également en profondeur sur l’organisme. Yves Blanc, professeur à l’école de style Yang originel nous éclaire sur ce qui est à la fois « un art martial, une gymnastique et une méditation ».


Comme une gym douce, il agit sur la souplesse des articulations et le tonus musculaire. Il permet de mieux coordonner les mouvements dans l’espace. Selon Yves Blanc, il s’agit de « retrouver un équilibre en accord avec les rythmes de la nature ».


A la fin d’une séance, on éprouve une sensation de chaleur et de bien-être. A long terme, on se sent plus alerte, mieux en forme. Pour trouver le mouvement juste, une position tenue sans effort, on doit travailler en total relâchement. Le travail respiratoire enseigne à bien placer son diaphragme et à conduire son souffle. Les mouvements réalisés en étirements apportent souplesse, tonicité, renforcent les tendons et les muscles.


Bien qu’aucune étude scientifique ne puisse réellement appuyer ces propos, une pratique régulière du Taï chi apporte de nombreux bienfaits, tant sur le plan physique que sur le plan psychique.


Bienfaits physiques :


  • – Travail sur la posture et l’équilibre.

  • – Contrôle de la respiration et harmonisation avec les mouvements du corps.

  • – Amélioration de la souplesse grâce aux étirements.

  • – Décontraction des tensions lombaires.

  • – Entretien des amplitudes articulaires.

Bienfaits Psychologiques :


  • – Meilleure gestion des situations de stress.

  • – Relaxation et détente.

  • – Amélioration de la concentration et de la mémoire (mémorisation de l’enchaînement des mouvements).

La pratique du Tai Chi Chuan


Aucune aptitude particulière n’est requise. Adolescents ou personnes âgées, tous peuvent se laisser tenter par cet art martial qui n’utilise pas la force brute comme valeur première. Enchaînements de mouvements souples et de postures précises incarnés dans une espèce de combat dansé au ralenti, le Tai Chi Chuan se concentre autour « d’une mise en mouvements doux et d’étirements légers et constants », rappelle Yves Blanc, professeur à l’école de style Yang originel. Mais attention aux apparences : « Les gens arrivent avec l’idée qu’on se fait du bien facilement. Il faut travailler. Le plus important dans l’apprentissage du Tai Chi Chuan c’est l’observation et l’humilité.


D’ autres recherches: http://www.health.harvard.edu


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четверг, 4 февраля 2010 г.

Learning Tai Chi with TT Liang

Learning Tai Chi with TT Liang

In this tai chi video Bruce Frantzis talks about his experience learning tai chi with T.T. Liang. Who was an amazing man and teacher of tai chi who loved life and tai chi.


Bruce took his 1st class with T.T Liang is 1972 in Boston, Ma.


They studied pushing hands, free fighting, sword form system and his 2 man set.


T.T had a love of life and continued to learn throughout.


To join Bruce's tai chi list goto: https://energyarts.leadpages.net/tai-... “Energy Arts is dedicated to offering the most comprehensive tai chi, qigong (chi gung), internal martial arts, breathing and meditation programs on the planet.”


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вторник, 26 января 2010 г.

Learn Tai Chi

Learn Tai Chi

If you want to learn tai chi, you’ve found the most comprehensive system in the West for starting and advancing your practice!


Tai chi is a miracle health exercise with applications as a powerful martial art and effective form of moving meditation. We hope you discover for yourself how this wonderful, gentle art can change your life.


Click into any of the following six articles written by Bruce to get started now. Additionally, you can sign up for Bruce’s mailing list to receive his FREE Tai Chi Secrets Report with more in-depth information for serious students:


Practicing the Wu Style Tai Chi short form at the beach
Practicing the Wu Style Tai Chi short form at the beach

Original article and pictures take www.energyarts.com site

четверг, 14 января 2010 г.

Learn Tai Chi Online with Jet Li's Online Academy - Lesson 9

Learn Tai Chi Online with Jet Li's Online Academy - Lesson 9

In this video taken from Taiji Zen's Online Academy, we'll teach you how to apply the kinetic application of Lǚ. The kinetic concepts of Tai Chi Chuan are all concepts of applying force to your opponent. Lǚ means to divert energy, so this application will teach you how to divert incoming force eaily and gently.


Jet Li's Taiji Zen Online Academy teaches Tai Chi Chuan with a unique principles based approach. It is well-suited for beginners learning Tai Chi as well as more advanced students.


In Taijiquan theory, Lǚ and Jǐ (Pressing Energy, Kinetic Concept #3) are two mutually interactive forces. The down and backwards deflection of Lǚ can be used to neutralize the forward pressing energy of Jǐ.


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Transcripts:

INTRODUCTION

Lǚ is an energy of deflecting and neutralizing, a very powerful and a versatile concept in Martial Arts in general and in Tai Chi Chuan in particular.


Now Lǚ and Jǐ, or piercing (pressing) energy, are mutually interactive forces. So in your practice, your partner is going to feeding you Jǐ energy. Master Wang is going to be demonstrating Lǚ.


KINETIC APPLICATION

He steps out with the right leg to the outside of his partner. The stance is opened at 30 degrees relative to the partner forming a very wide 'V'. This helps create stability and move for maneuver in this position.


The left hand is on the partner's left wrist, and the right palm controls the partners elbow. The hands are gentle but firm, not grasping but still controlling.


As the partner presses forward, Master Wang uses Lu. He deflects and neutralizes the incoming force by shifting his weight back.


His arms absorb and redirect the partner's Jǐ energy, leading it into emptiness.


Notice how Master Wang is not pulling his partner's arm but rather yielding and redirecting only as he feels the incoming force.


Using Lǚ, the point of force should be in the palms. That means that the arms are relaxed, but heavy


Now take care not to use arm strength to pull your partner downwards.


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четверг, 17 декабря 2009 г.

Learn Tai Chi Online with Jet Li's Online Academy - Lesson 2

Learn Tai Chi Online with Jet Li's Online Academy - Lesson 2

Jet Li's Taiji Zen Online Academy teaches Tai Chi Chuan with a unique principles based approach. It is well-suited for beginners learning Tai Chi as well as more advanced students.


This video, taken from Taiji Zen's Online Academy, guides you through the key principle of 'Suspend from the Crown' or 'Xū Lǐng Dǐng Jìn'


'Xū Lǐng Dǐng Jìn'(虚领顶劲)means to maintain an upward floating intention, as if your entire body is being suspended by a string from the crown of the head. This intention should be continuously maintained in every movement.


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Transcript:


The first principle that you are going to learn in your study of your Tai Chi Chuan Essentials is called xū líng dǐng jìn, which means 'Suspending the Body from the Crown of the Head'.


This is the first step in relaxing structurally and it connects you, it connects the whole body to the heavens above and the earth below, sort of giving you a sense of being bigger than just the confines of your physical body.


The upward intention allows you to let everything else relax and let go.


Now here is how to do it. First thing is to suspend your head from the top as if you are being drawn up by a string.


So if I tie a string to the top of her head and lift if up and we get taller and taller, now that string is going to hold you up and everything else can relax below it.


The second thing you can do is elongate the back of the neck, so the back of the neck gets longer and longer. This will cause the chin to float in just a little bit, but you don't have to pull the chin in just make the back of the neck longer.


And finally, always imagine that you are floating. As if your head is a balloon filled with helium, when the balloon goes up the rest of the body can go down.


The benefits of this kind of proper alignment is that it bring your spine into neutral. Now the neutral spine is the best position for better energy circulation, and it is also the optimal position for increased mobility, flexibility and strength which are essentials in your study of Tai Chi Chuan.


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пятница, 20 ноября 2009 г.

Learn Tai Chi Online with Jet Li's Online Academy - Lesson 11

Learn Tai Chi Online with Jet Li's Online Academy - Lesson 11

Jet Li's Taiji Zen Online Academy teaches Tai Chi Chuan with a unique principles based approach. It is well-suited for beginners learning Tai Chi as well as more advanced students.


Designed for self-practice, these guided videos provide minimalistic reminders to help you keep on track when practicing solo. Practice makes perfect!


This video covers Jǐ, or pressing energy.


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пятница, 13 ноября 2009 г.

Learn Tai Chi Online with Jet Li's Online Academy - Lesson 1

Learn Tai Chi Online with Jet Li's Online Academy - Lesson 1

Jet Li's Taiji Zen Online Academy teaches Tai Chi Chuan with a unique principles based approach. It is well-suited for beginners learning Tai Chi as well as more advanced students.


This video will teach you the kinetic concept of Péng as part of the Taiji Zen Online Academy curriculum. It is the first of the 8 Tai Chi Chuan kinetic concepts which together with the 5 steps make up the 13 fundamentals of Tai Chi Chuan.


Péng is an energy of continuous outward expansion. It pushes out in all directions to create a protective buffer around the core. It's often described as the fundamental energy of Tai Chi Chuan, and applies to all Tai Chi Chuan movement.


Transcript:


Imagine that you are surrounded by a bubble of energy that can literally bounce off any incoming force.

In this lesson you are going to learn about a Taiji Zen Essential known as Péng, which means Expansion. Now Péng is the first in a series of Tai Chi Chuan Essentials that you are going to be learning in each Duàn, along with a movement that is going to express that Essential.

But Péng is not so much a movement or a technique, as it is a Kinetic Concept. It is an energy that you are going to learn how to put in any movement that you want.

To help make it easier for you to learn each movement by yourself, I am going to break down each movement into three pieces.

We are going to look at the footwork first, and then in the next pass we are going to talk about the hands and the waist and the third time through I am going to talk about the energy and the feeling that you have with each movement.


LOWER BODY

Let's take a look at the footwork first. Stand with your feet together, hands relax by your sides, the knees are slightly soft, the hips are a little bit soft and your head is floating up towards the sky.


Neutral Position

Now shift all the weight over to your right foot and your left foot floats up a little bit, then steps out to the side about shoulder width. Then evenly distribute the weight over each feet.

Both hands float up into the air, about shoulder level. Then everything gets heavy, the elbows sink down, the hands sink down, the knees bend and the hips sink down as well. Palms are pressing down right about to hip height.


One: Turn and Hold the Ball

I shift my weight onto the left foot and pivot on the right heel to the right, about 90 degrees. Now my weight right here is about 90% on the left foot and only about 10% on that right heel.


Two: Hold the Ball in Empty Step

I now shift my weight onto the right foot, bringing the left foot into an empty step. So there is no weight on this left foot and it is just tapping the ground right in front of the right.


Three: Step out

From here my left foot steps out, just at an angle by the other side of that round brown circle on the front part of your mat, landing heel first. In fact, whenever you step out like this you land with your heel first, but very lightly so there is not a whole lot of weight on that front foot.

I sink down into my stance and my front toes pivot in about 30 degrees. Still about 60% of my weight is back on the right foot.


Four: Sink and Gather

My feet and my weight pretty much stay in the same place. I simply sink down into the step, just kind of get down into it here.


Five: Expand Forward

I now shift my weight into the front foot, turning my waist as I go and as I finish I sink down into the stance and my right toes pivot inwards slightly.


Back to Neutral

I shift my weight back, step by side by side and let my hands float down as my knee straighten, my spine straightens, my head flows up.

The weight shifts back over to the right foot and I step my feet together and that's the entire sequence of Péng.


UPPER BODY

This time through we are going to take a look at what the hands and arms, basically the upper body, is doing.


One: Turn and Hold the Ball

So I am rotating my body with my left leg as the axis, turning my toes out and then I am going to put my hands out into a holding the ball position.

My right hand rising up like the top of the ball, about shoulder level, my left hand coming under and cupping the bottom of the ball, hand right in front of the navel.


Two: Hold the Ball in Empty Step

Keeping my hands right where they are, I shift my weight forward and step in while my waist is turning slightly to the right.


Three: Step out

Again, the hands are staying in the same place. My left foot steps out into its position.


Four: Sink and Gather

So from this position, my hands still in the same spot I sit down into my stance, just sitting down a little bit deeper. Rotate from the waist more towards the right, letting my hands trail my body's rotation.


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