chiflow Nei Jia Kungfu Taiji, Xingyquan, Baguazhang Qigong and Liangong

Madisonville Community College's Tai Chi class tonight is ending this session at the Badgett Center Front door with some efforts to learn some chi kung or qigong exercise postures with it. Bagua Chi Kung DVD I have been looking at today from Plum Productions about how the system is done in that style. There are 5 family styles in Tai Chi and numerous variations on chi kung. Most can be breathing, imagination visualization with movement, and an attempt to improve internal organ massage with external posture movements. Tai Chi is often called meditation in movement can get health benefits in a Methodist church as easily as in a Tao garden setting. It has a different feel in a nature setting in my mind with birds singing and the wind in your face than in a building, but then I like birds and nature and relax while hiking. My biggest effort is to stop being analytical during a movement or too self critical and kind of be only in the moment while relaxing. In Tai Chi the slower you go and the farther behind the finish line you are the better you may be doing it. This is just one link found looking at Bagua methods of chi kung. There are many and you could have many styles in different schools in the very same town. The key is to let it flow without trying too hard to push things and one concept is you never push past 70% of posture, stance, practice, effort, time, or weight. You always try to have something left in reserve, a wrist not locked, a spiral motion, a circle, or at least an open flow of circulation. I will be looking at taking the next session when it is offered at MCC since I really enjoy doing it in a group setting and I learn by fine tuning after all these months still very much getting more by instructors or thinking about a move while helping a fellow student than I would be statically doing it only with a DVD for example. There is a benefit to having an instructor watching from that outside perspective that helps you improve and avoid slipping into a bad habit. Since I am still rehabilitating my torn left knee meniscus to try and avoid surgery, I have to watch myself to not give in to it. In Tai Chi one thing is always to remember to avoid hurting yourself by adapting to your limitations. That is one reason it is taught in senior citizen groups and even to wheelchair patients. One of my most relaxing is called Stork spreads its wings and Wave Hands like Clouds, but oddly enough when I am in the zone and doing Apparent Close Up and feel it from the back leg out the palm of the hand just right, that is when I know I am doing it correctly. chiflow Nei Jia Kungfu Taiji, Xingyquan, Baguazhang Qigong and Liangong