Just found your channel yesterday (thank you YT!), and although I haven't practiced Tai Chi or Qigong regularly ever, I do love the principles and resonate with them when I find teachers that share them. You are such a teacher, thank you for sharing the principles and doing so in such a clear and simple to understand and experience way. 🙏 This practice, so simple (or so it seems!) triggered what felt like fear moving through my central channel, and my hips wanting to readjust their posture. Simple, and powerful. 🙏
Thank you for your comment and sharing your experience. You are intuitively sensing your body on a high level! Keep up the journey. Thanks for watching and commenting.
This is one of the best and clearest explanations of both how to get it right and how not to do it. It is very subtle as you say, my teacher refers to it as "correct sitting", and it is in all aspects of Tai Chi movements. A good check is to touch the abdomen and ensure that it's completely relaxed, there should be no tension trying to pull the coccyx forward. Another teacher of mine, uses the analogy of the coccyx extended like a snake to the ground. This helps us to feel its mobility and fluidness, instead of holding it rigid and immobile. It should feel natural after awhile, which will allow deeper relaxation and therefore deeper connected sinking into the ground. This in turn should begin to produce a flow upwards within the body. It may not happen at first, or even after a year's practice, although some improvements can happen slowly at first. We just have to keep working on it and be patient with it.
Thank you for your insight and for taking the time to leave a comment. Yes, many students think the abdomen needs to be tightened as in so many other types of exercises. I'm glad you brought it up. Sounds like you have had some great instructors along the way. As you said, the key is to be patient with oneself and the journey! Thanks for watching and for your support.
Btw, would you say this is something that comes natural to infants and mammals (as much of the good movement things do) or this purely a human advancement? Thanks again
Yes. It has been said that Tai Chi teaches us to return to our natural state of movement without all of the tensions and contrived muscle force that we have learned over the years.
Just found your channel yesterday (thank you YT!), and although I haven't practiced Tai Chi or Qigong regularly ever, I do love the principles and resonate with them when I find teachers that share them. You are such a teacher, thank you for sharing the principles and doing so in such a clear and simple to understand and experience way. 🙏 This practice, so simple (or so it seems!) triggered what felt like fear moving through my central channel, and my hips wanting to readjust their posture. Simple, and powerful. 🙏
Thank you for your comment and sharing your experience. You are intuitively sensing your body on a high level! Keep up the journey. Thanks for watching and commenting.
This is one of the best and clearest explanations of both how to get it right and how not to do it. It is very subtle as you say, my teacher refers to it as "correct sitting", and it is in all aspects of Tai Chi movements. A good check is to touch the abdomen and ensure that it's completely relaxed, there should be no tension trying to pull the coccyx forward.
Another teacher of mine, uses the analogy of the coccyx extended like a snake to the ground. This helps us to feel its mobility and fluidness, instead of holding it rigid and immobile. It should feel natural after awhile, which will allow deeper relaxation and therefore deeper connected sinking into the ground. This in turn should begin to produce a flow upwards within the body. It may not happen at first, or even after a year's practice, although some improvements can happen slowly at first. We just have to keep working on it and be patient with it.
Thank you for your insight and for taking the time to leave a comment. Yes, many students think the abdomen needs to be tightened as in so many other types of exercises. I'm glad you brought it up. Sounds like you have had some great instructors along the way. As you said, the key is to be patient with oneself and the journey!
Thanks for watching and for your support.
Thanks! a real lesson
You are welcome!
Great, thank you 😊
You're welcome 😊. Thanks for commenting!
Btw, would you say this is something that comes natural to infants and mammals (as much of the good movement things do) or this purely a human advancement? Thanks again
Yes. It has been said that Tai Chi teaches us to return to our natural state of movement without all of the tensions and contrived muscle force that we have learned over the years.