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TRADITIONAL
TAI CHI TRAINING:
Join our semi-private group for Yang
styles of Tai Chi and Qi Gong. Yang Cheng Fu and Yang Lo Chan long
forms. Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday classes as listed
below:
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TAI CHI CHUAN is a flowing form of therapeutic movement that
is also a form of self defense, very much so. Tai Chi, contrary to
some popular misconceptions, isn't a health-dance. The seemingly floaty
and "dance-like "movements actually have healing properties
and are also practical, coded self-defence moves. Based in the principle
of stillness within movement, Tai Chi develops the physical,
psychological, and spiritual levels of the student. While heightened
perceptual and sensitive abilities may develop, these are a by-product
of the Tai Chi training, not a goal, and frankly most people are very
busy concentrating on memorizing the movement sequences for quite
a long time. It is this concentration which suspends the noisy mind's
chatter about every day problems that is part of the relaxation that
Tai Chi brings.
QI GONG
("Chi Kung"): The system of standing postures known as Qi
Gong taps into and builds the Qi (Chi/ energy) and healing potentials
of the human energy system. Qi Gong is an integral part of Tai Chi
training at 6th Dimension TM.
STYLES TAUGHT:
The long forms of Yang Cheng Fu and Yang Lo Chan Tai
Chi. Push Hands basics are also taught as part of your overall development
as a student of Tai Chi. (NOTE: If you are looking for
a short form, this isn't the place. Most short forms are simply extracts
from long forms, and some can be harmful. The benefits from the subtle
repetitions and the energy cycles within the long form are worth the
time and effort.)
| "In
the midst of stilness one comes in contact with movement, moving
as though remaining still." (Yang
Cheng Fu, c.1930; trans: Swaim, L., 2005, p. 435.) |
WHAT TO EXPECT:
There are three segments, or "thirds", to the long form of
Yang Cheng Fu style Tai Chi.
An initial commitment
to completing the 1st third is required:
This first third of the long form Tai Chi contains one complete
energy sub-cycle within the total Tai Chi form. It also provides important
building blocks for the next two thirds of the entire Tai Chi form.
You will be able to memorize the movements of the first third in about
30 - 40 hours - about 12 weeks of one 90 minute class per week - if
you attend class regularly and practise between classes. Completing
the 1st third gives you a good idea if Tai Chi is really for you or
not. IMPORTANT: Give it a fair try... and please understand that if
you miss lots of classes and don't practice between classes, your
progress will be much slower. Tai Chi looks lovely, but just remember
that anyone you seeing doing Tai Chi beautifully and smoothly has
no doubt put in hours, months, and years of practice... That smoothe
beauty comes from patient commitment.
The
whole long form generally takes people about 1 year of a 90 minute
class once a week to memorize all the movements of the entire Yang
Cheng Fu Tai Chi form - plus individual commitment, class attendance,
and weekly hours of training and practise at home.
The 2nd
third and 3rd third both involve additonal energy cycles and more
complex moves. That is why Tai Chi at 6th Dimension™ is initially
structured for an initial
year of 90 minute classes once per week. If you are doing 1 hour
per week, allow up to 1.5 years to memorize the sequence of movements.
Beyond
memorizing the Yang Chenge Fu form - Towards the essence:
Completing the memorization of the sequence of movements is
just the beginning. After this, push hands techniques are then undertaken
in more depth so that you become aware of where your energy really is
and of how you position yourself in many circumstances, not just in
class; the healing applications of Tai Chi and Qi Gong are explored;
we refine and deepen your understanding and performance in Ythe Yang
Cheng Fu from; and towards the end of the second year or early in the
third year, we also begin to explore the historical form of Yang Tai
Chi - the Yang Lo Chan form and work to deepen the energy awareness
in your form, thereby truly beginning your way to the essence of Tai
Chi.
"From
comprehending energy, you will attain by degrees spiritual illumination.
Nevertheless, without an exertion of effort, one will not be able
to suddenly have an understanding of it." (Yang
Cheng Fu, c.1930; trans: Swaim, L., 2005, p. 430.) |
TRADITIONAL TRAINING
APPROACH: Tai Chi training at
6th Dimension™ is conducted in the traditional manner. Tai Chi
originated from a tradition of transmission from teacher to student
and there were no judging systems, no belts, no step-by-step grading
systems or other contemporary trends - these are modern inventions.
At 6th Dimension™ we just steadily get on with learning Tai Chi.
Your progress in Tai Chi and Qi Gong is observed, and acknowledged and
honored in the traditional manner as you progress through your training.
Remember, Tai Chi is an internal energy art and, with over three decades
of training and teaching, your teacher will be able to see when you
have integrated important principles and are ready for the next layer
of deeper training, experience, and understanding. The challenge is
with yourself (not with a grading system).
"Right
Place, Wrong Place"
If
you are looking for Tai Chi training that adheres to its origins
in Kung Fu, you are in the right
place.
If
you are looking for short forms (which are in fact harmful),
lots of pseudo-guru
Sifu-ism, a
watered-down pseudo-Tai Chi which is really some sort of
New Age health dance that ignores that Tai Chi is a martial
art, our training is the wrong
place for you.
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Read
more about this approach: Traditional Tai Chi training site.
YOUR TRAINER:
Dr Ranna-Lesley Lachlan (Black Belt/ 8th degree, 1986) (PhD, BCPP, RPP,
RPE) has been involved in Tai Chi Chuan since 1978. Click here for more
information on the
journey to find a teacher. Ranna trained in Australia with
a Senior Master, Ian Garbett, and through his association with one of
his peers, Master Erle Montaigue, she was personally graded to Instructor
Black Belt/ 8th degree in 1986 (Montaigue School of Tai Chi and Bagua).
Dr Lachlan
has been a life long member of the Australian Therapeutic Movement Association
since 1985 and the Pacific Kung Fu Federation since 1986. Ranna has
been based in the USA since 1998 and has taught Tai Chi and therapeutic
movement at various locations in Australia and the U.S.A. since then.
ADMISSION: Read
the Tai Chi TRAINING INFO (click here)
then contact
6th Dimension™ to register for
Tai Chi training.
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Dimension TM
studio in the Winchester/ Stephens City area at Middletown.
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