Category Archives: Movements of CMC 37

Tai Chi Form Movements – Single Whip

An excellent posture for chi circulation. It is popular to get into the final expression of this movement and hold for some time to circulate the chi and strengthen the body.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Push

Grasp Sparrow’s Tail is completed with Push.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Press

This movement is led by the waist with a rooting and pressing of the back foot.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Roll Back

The third part of Grasp Sparrow’s Tail is Rollback and here the importance of the waist in Taiji practice is emphasized.
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The Tai Chi Walk – Walking Brush Knee and Press

To learn the Brush Knee and Press Tai Chi Walk will aid you in learning the form more easily and better ingrain the principals. The following break down is not intended to teach, but rather support what you have learned in class.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Ward Off Right

This will practice your first right bow stance of the form. Hold this posture for some time to practice rooting and alignment.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Ward Off Left

Ward Off Left begins the series know as Grasp Sparrow's Tail.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Beginning

Taiji is stillness in motion and motion in stillness. The beginning movement demonstrates the separation of yin and yang as stillness is transformed. 1. Arms float upward like bubbles from the bottom of a pond. Wrists are bent and tranquil – fingers being drawn downward. Sink body slightly. (1.5) At shoulder level fingertips lift slightly [...]
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Preparation

Better not to think of "Preparation" as preparing to begin the form, but rather as preparing to let go of everything else.
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