Tai Chi Chuan promises great martial and healing powers by developing soft skills. Tai Chi teaches relaxation and grounding. As we explore relaxation, we learn to reduce excess stress and release residual tension. We notice that too much tension drains strength, upsets balance, slows our wit, and seems silly.

We own a number of methods, in the internal arts, that examine and develop soft skills.

• We practice Forms.
• We stand in Qigong Pose.
• We join in Push-Hands.
• We play Sticky-Hands.
• We do Da-Lu.

We combine these practices: by applying Qigong’s stillness to slow down our forms, or by pressing and pushing on Qigong or Tai Chi postures, we go deeper. We learn more about excessive tensions, and release them. We discover relaxed, sinking balance. We notice easy, winding motions.

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