tai chi curriculum
Tai Chi is the one. When you're eighty years old, you will still have more brand new material to learn and challenge you. As a added bonus, you will get in the best shape of your life and maintain flexibility throughout your life.
Tai Chi Program
We have a set progressive curriculum so that you can see exactly what you'll be learning while your at our school.
You'll also learn...
Qi Gong Exercises
- I Chin Ching
- Classical Qi Gong
- White Crane Qi Gong
- Hua To's 5 Animal Live
- Hua To's 5 Animal Dead
Meditation
- Yin Chi
- Yang Chi
- Straight Flow
- Taoist Breathing
- Shien Tien Chi
- Open Focus
We also teach Nei Qong
This is an advance form of Qi Gong. Teaching the student how to direct their breath (chi) to direct pressure points of the body.
Push Hands
Beginner and advanced training. This is a sensitivity type of training teaching students how to use the principles of the Internal Arts (yielding & re-directing oncoming force). Even if you're not interested in self-defense, we promise that you'll have a blast practicing this and it will give you a better understanding of your material that you are learning.
White Sash Yang Tai Chi 24 form
Pa Kua Section 1 (Ba Gua)
Yellow Sash
Yang Tai Chi Straight Sword
Pa Kua Section 2
Blue Sash
1st Half of Yang 64
Pa Kua Sections 3-4
Green Sash
2nd Half Tai Chi 64
Pa Kua Sections 5-6
3rd Brown Sash
Tai Chi Fan
Buddha Fist
Pa Kua Sections 7-8
2nd Brown Sash
1st Half of Chen Tai Chi 83
Yin Dagger
1st Brown Sash
2nd Half of Chen Tai Chi 83
Yang Dagger
1st Black Sash
8 Animal Pa Kua
Tai Chi Broadsword
Tai Chi Broadsword 2 man set
2nd Black Sash
Pa Kua Spear
Hsing-Ie System...
5 Roads
Linkege
12 Animals
Two Man Set
Hua To's 5 Animal, Qi Gong
Shien Tien Chi Training
3rd Black Sash
Snake Pa Kua
Hsing Ie Dragon Sword
Pa Kua Sun-Moon Daggers
4th Black Sash
Dragon Pa Kua
Mulan Double Fan
Hsing Ie 6-Harmony Staff
Pa Kua Broadsword
We also teach seminars during the year where students can lean other material. Some examples are Advanced Qi Gong, Tai Chi Stick, Tai Chi Spear, Tiger Pa Kua, Chen Tai Chi, Double Mulan Fan, Advanced Push Hands, Open Focus Meditation.
We also offer private lessons where students can learn material of their choice. Private lessons are ONLY open to enrolled students.
You don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start if you want to be great!
How many Tai Chi forms do I need?
A person could perfect motion an spend their entire life benefiting from just one individual Tai Chi movement. You could rise every morning and practice that one movement for 30-60 minutes and gain every positive benefit Tai Chi people usually talk about. However, the average person would quickly become bored by a single movement practiced over and over again for all the years of your life.
Are You in it for the Long Haul?
So if your goal is to use Tai Chi in your daily healthful rituals you should pick a program where you can learn many things in the years to come.
Each day you can say,
"I am little tired of the Yang Family forms, I think I'll practice Chen style today."
Or
"I'm little tired of empty hand forms, this week I'll practice the slow and graceful weapon forms that I have learned".
Since all the forms apply the principles of Tai Chi, you benefit the same from them all. So take a quick look at the incredible list of forms you can learn in our internal curriculum. Each of them uses relaxation, awareness, deep breathing and movements from the spine. So do you want to learn in a Tai Chi school that goes from kindergarten through 8th grade, or in a school that goes from Kindergarten to Ph.D.?
