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Anatomy of Yang Family Tai Chi Simplified Standard 24 Movement T'ai Chi Ch'uan Form (Yang ... T'ai Chi Ch'uan: National 24 Form Standard Simplified Taijiquan Version 24 Movements 1956 Yang Style Taijiquan 24 Short Form Simplified Tai Chi Standard Beijing ... Professional Blogger Templates Templateism Templateism has relieved my headache by providing awesome and SEO optimized Blogger templates for my blogger websites. Now I don't need to hire a designer! Tai Chi: Learn About Benefits and History of This Exercise Tai chi is a centuries-old Chinese martial art that descends from qigong an ancient Chinese discipline that has its roots in traditional Chinese medicine. 4 Masters of Chi Reveal Their Secrets : Waking Times I am a Tai Chi teacher and am so glad to see this information being put out there. So much is overwhelmingly about Yoga a practice that in the West has strayed so ... Publishers Note: Some pages Qigong - YMAA Foreword Master Mantak Chia There is a growing wave of popular interest in Qigong now both in China and the rest of the world. To learn Qigong the most important ... Desert Song Healing Arts Center - Yoga Massage Tai Chi ... Desert Song Healing Arts Center enriches our greater community in Phoenix Arizona by offering inspiring programs in yoga massage meditation tai chi and the ... Tai Chi: Health and Disease Prevention - MedicineNet In China it is believed that tai chi can delay aging and prolong life increase flexibility strengthen muscles and tendons and aid in the treatment of heart ... Classes Available Information on the Classes Available. Yoga (Hatha Yoga) / Feldenkrais Method / Align and Flow Yoga / Asthanga (modified primary series) / Flow Yoga / Mindfulness ... Bagua Early Heaven Sequence Later Heaven sequence ... EARLY HEAVEN SEQUENCE; GUA: DIRECTION: NATURE: SEASON: FAMILY: PERSONALITY: MEANING: Qian/ Quian: South: Heaven: Summer: Father: creative: expansive energy the sky ... Yang Style T'ai Chi Ch'uan Long 108 Form: Bibliography ... American Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan Association . Anatomy of Yang Family Tai Chi: A Guide for Teachers and Students. By Steffan de Graffenried. Rank: #1263755 in BooksPublished on: 2007-12-20Original language: EnglishNumber of items: 1Dimensions: 9.00" h x .23" w x 6.00" l, .39 pounds Binding: Paperback108 pages 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.If your teachers have not grounded you in the Classics of tai chi, Steffan de Graffenried will!By T. Patrick KilloughBegin PREAMBLEAs of today, October 10, 2011, there are eight customer reviews on amazon.com of Steffan de Graffenried's ANATOMY OF YANG FAMILY TAI CHI. I have read all and profited from several of them. One preliminary conclusion I draw from those reviews is rather complex. That is, how useful ANATOMY OF YANG FAMILY TAI CHI is to any reader depends on personal answers to three or more questions:-- (1) How long have I been studying Yang tai chi and with how many teachers-- (2) How familiar are my teachers with the classical literature of tai chi Do they think it important that their students read ANY books about tai chi-- (3) If you bring up topics from your own non-directed reading, are your teachers open to what you are struggling to express to themIn my case:I am 76 years old. I have studied and practiced Yang Family Tai Chi for a little over three years here in Black Mountain, North Carlolina, near Asheville. I have had a total of three teachers (the healer, the jeweler and the pastor) -- none claiming to be anywhere near Master status, but each devoted to his own teacher and to that teacher's minutiae of interpretation and practice.-- During my two years with my first laid-back teacher, the healer, I discovered that his approach ("Tai Chi for Health") tracked very closely with what is presented in Tai-Chi Ch'uan {Y. K. Chen - TAI-CHI CH'UAN: ITS EFFECTS AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS}. The healer brought me through the whole form nearly three times, his standard being first time 50% right, second time, 70%, third time 90%.-- When my first teacher stopped teaching to concentrate on his practice of Chinese medicine, I started all over with two new teachers simultaneously.One, with 18 years of tai chi under his belt, is a jeweler; the second is a Christian minister (his tai chi classes are in the vestibule of his church), and also the most gifted local student of the jeweler (having trained with him in a park for two years of classes twice a week, for the past five years now teaching on his own). Neither of these two accepts any form of payment for his instruction. I study in small classes three hours per week with the jeweler and one hour per week with the pastor. No one would call me a quick-learning or talented student of anything to do with physical exercises.The Yang Form taught by the jeweler and the pastor is much more determinedly "martial" than what is taught by the healer. Every single posture and movement, with no exceptions, is different now from what I was first taught three years ago. I have found no repeat NO book or DVD presenting the Yang form movements that I am being taught now. I have also visited three other tai chi teachers in nearby Asheville.Healer and Jeweler do not urge students to read about tai chi. Pastor reads a fair amount and watches more DVD, I think, than the other two. Not one of the three has read deeply into tai chi classics. Not one is remotely as analytical as Steffan de Graffenried. Yet each of my teachers to date is a pleasure to watch doing the form. And each has distinct, but very different, strengths as an instructor. Currently, despite three times as many contact hours/week with him, perfectionist Jeweler has brought me only to Move 34 in Y. K. Chen, "Needle at Sea Bottom." More forgving Pastor has his little band, including me, at varying levels of proficiency virtually all the way through all 108 moves. None of the six teachers mentioned, by the way, is Oriental.END PREAMBLEI have written such a long preface because I believe that de Graffenried's book is pitched toward practitioners like me: hundreds of hours of practice, with very little presentation by teachers of history, theory and analysis of tai chi or qigong. For such as me, this book is notably useful and thought-provoking. ANATOMY OF YANG FAMILY TAI CHI causes me to thirst and reach greedily with the author for new insights (I have so few insights into tai chi at this stage). I applaud the way Graffenried was taught: "through physical and oral instruction and through the study of the classic writings" (Preface, p. 7). Needless to say, his book moves into a void in the way I have been taught tai chi.None of my teachers has distinguished, as goes Graffenried, between 13 postures and the movements that make up the 108 successions of the Long Form. Yet the author implies that it was once common to spend five years on the postures before linking them up through movements! All of my teachers teach posture and movement simultaneously -- from the beginning.None of my teachers has said a word about The Six Harmonies, Eight Gates and Five Steps so well introduced by Graffenried. Balance, spine, waist, torso, relaxation, lengthening and stretching and proper breathing have been taught -- and with considerable emphasis. Some pushing hands I have done. All of the practical training and qigong exercises done in my classes has made it easier for me to understand de Graffenried.So I am finding ANATOMY OF YANG FAMILY TAI CHI an Aladdin's cave of treasures to delve into, entirely, alas, on my own, without proactive help of my two current teachers. They welcome me bouncing things I read off them -- ideas and explanations of de Graffenried and others. But they are no deeper into the rich written history and philsophy of tai chi than am I. ANATOMY is the book of the hour for bumbling me!Alas, ANATOMY OF YANGE FAMILY TAI CHI is not flawless. Its weaknesses include:-- (1) a certain incoherence in the sequencing of presentation. In normal American pedagogy, a teacher begins the demand side of his pupils, with the familiar, and then steps systematically across them into unknown territory. Steffan de Graffenried, by constrast, begins as a supply sider, esoterically, with unfamiliar terms of art, concepts and history. Later he uses them to explain already familiar (from classes) movements and postures. In addition, be it conceded, the author also elucidates some new (to me) practices, e.g. slight spiraling movements of knees and thighs;-- (2) weak proofreading that should have detected a score or more of typos;and, finally,-- (3) instructive, well selected but poorly reproduced, grainy black and white photos of historical figures, exercises and postures.Bottom line: this is a very good book for me, given my novice status in tai chi and the background weaknesses of my three teachers regarding reading of the classics of tai chi. Thank you, Steffan de Graffenried!-OOO-0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.good reference bookBy mark palmiterSeeing as how I am studying and instructing Yang style Tai Chi Chuan this book definitely had pointers that I needed to know.2 of 8 people found the following review helpful.DisappointedBy Thomas N. WaltersI was very disappointed with this book. It covers a lot of ground already explored more completely in other books. The photos and layout of the book have the look of being home-made without much skill. Having practiced Yang style Tai Chi for more than 30 years I am always reluctant to accept personal claims of skill and knowledge. Placing oneself in the Tai Chi lineage, as Steffan de Graffenfried does, while ignoring other more famous and competent teachers is an affront and an embarrassment.See all 10 customer reviews... Publishers Note: Some pages Qigong - YMAA Foreword Master Mantak Chia There is a growing wave of popular interest in Qigong now both in China and the rest of the world. To learn Qigong the most important ... Bagua Early Heaven Sequence Later Heaven sequence ... EARLY HEAVEN SEQUENCE; GUA: DIRECTION: NATURE: SEASON: FAMILY: PERSONALITY: MEANING: Qian/ Quian: South: Heaven: Summer: Father: creative: expansive energy the sky ... Professional Blogger Templates Templateism Templateism has relieved my headache by providing awesome and SEO optimized Blogger templates for my blogger websites. Now I don't need to hire a designer! 4 Masters of Chi Reveal Their Secrets : Waking Times I am a Tai Chi teacher and am so glad to see this information being put out there. So much is overwhelmingly about Yoga a practice that in the West has strayed so ... Classes Available Information on the Classes Available. Yoga (Hatha Yoga) / Feldenkrais Method / Align and Flow Yoga / Asthanga (modified primary series) / Flow Yoga / Mindfulness ... Tai Chi: Learn About Benefits and History of This Exercise Tai chi is a centuries-old Chinese martial art that descends from qigong an ancient Chinese discipline that has its roots in traditional Chinese medicine. Yang Style T'ai Chi Ch'uan Long 108 Form: Bibliography ... American Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan Association . Anatomy of Yang Family Tai Chi: A Guide for Teachers and Students. By Steffan de Graffenried. Tai Chi: Health and Disease Prevention - MedicineNet In China it is believed that tai chi can delay aging and prolong life increase flexibility strengthen muscles and tendons and aid in the treatment of heart ... Desert Song Healing Arts Center - Yoga Massage & Tai Chi ... Desert Song Healing Arts Center enriches our greater community in Phoenix Arizona by offering inspiring programs in yoga massage meditation tai chi and the ... Simplified Standard 24 Movement T'ai Chi Ch'uan Form (Yang ... T'ai Chi Ch'uan: National 24 Form Standard Simplified Taijiquan Version 24 Movements 1956 Yang Style Taijiquan 24 Short Form Simplified Tai Chi Standard Beijing ...
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