Easy Tai Chi Practice for Beginners + Experienced Practitioners
Tai Chi Circling Hands is an effective self-healing exercise system that refines and interwines various internal power generation techniques into one. Tai Chi Circling Hands offers most of the potential health and healing applications available in tai chi without the complex choreography. It is quick and easy to learn and forms the foundation of all bagua and tai chi practice, serving as a stepping stone to learning these more complex arts.
Tai Chi Master Bruce Frantzis +
Senior Tai Chi Instructor Paul Cavel
Benefits of Tai Chi Circling Hands
Even if you do not already or hope to practise tai chi or bagua Tai Chi Circling Hands can be a quick, 15-minute practice to integrate into your other exercise programme. No complex choregraphy is necessary to get started.
With its gentle, repetitive motion Tai Chi Circling Hands is practised to:
- Open the vascular system and increase blood flow. Increased blood flow can relieve tension in the heart and thereby balance blood pressure.
- Improve balance and flexibility, particularly in the joints.
- Release shoulder neck and back pain.
- Improve digestion.
- Energise and revitalise the internal organ base.
- Boost the sex drive and performance.
Tai Chi Circling Hands: Great for Computer Users
Tai Chi Circling Hands is particularly good for office workers—or anyone who spends a lot of time on the computer. A little practice goes a long a way to release bound tension in the fingers, hands, arms, neck and shoulders—even when not done well!
Tai Chi Circling Hands: Transferring Your Skill to Your Form
For anyone already practising bagua or tai chi, you can upgrade your form by using Tai Chi Circling Hands to deepen the neigong (internal power) already present and integrate absent strands. These 16 components that generate the internal power in bagua and tai chi can then be transferred into your form. You don’t have to learn a new form or style, just practise a few simple yet effective exercises to increase the internal content of your current form dramatically.
Tai Chi Circling Hands: Turning, Twisting & Shifting Your Weight
Tai Chi Circling Hands uses turning, twisting and the weight shifting found in bagua and tai chi. Creating circles in both directions on three planes (horizontal, vertical and sagittal) fuse circularity—the foundational principle of all internal energy arts—with deep internal content through 12 simple exercises.
The turning, twisting and weight shifting brings the legs alive, produces power and unifies the body while embedding core principles. These include:
- Nothing moves before the spine
- Root the lower body to carry the upper body
- From posture to posture internal power is unbroken.
Tai Chi Circling Hasnds: Generate Chi for Health & Vitality
The circling action of the hands creates continuous motion and thereby the possibility of generating an incredible amount of chi (life-force energy)! The practitioner seeks to remove all stops, smoothing out the glitches in their body and tuning into the flow—this allows the chi to flow unimpeded.
Regular and repetitive practise of Tai Chi Circling Hands embodies the foundational motions for all bagua and tai chi leg, body and hand motions. So it makes the learning and refining of forms a much easier and obtainable process.
You can make your body soft, relaxed and strong while keeping the mind smooth and calm. These are the ingredients for creating excellent health and vitality.
Attend a Tai Chi Circling Hands Class in 2012
3-5 August 2012 | York, UK
Pulling Silk in Tai Chi + Tai Chi Circling Hands
18 August 2012 | Camden, West Central London
Circularity in Tai Chi + Tai Chi Circling Hands
Watch a Tai Chi Circling Hands Video by Paul Cavel