Tai Chi with Bill

The Internal Exercises for Health and Power
of Master Stephen Hwa's Classical Tai Chi

This five week class is an introduction to Classical Tai Chi's Southern Wu style. In this class we will take movements from the form to learn the internal dynamics within the moves of the form.

This curriculum was created by Stephen Hwa whose teacher learned from and lived with the creator of the Southern Wu Family Style, Wu Chie Chuan.
Stephen Hwa seeking to reduce the drop out rate within tai chi form classes generally decided to offer in this curriculum what has been traditionally saved for advanced students much later in the tai chi learning process. That is the internal work on how to move the body from within the tan tien, the core of the body, and which really makes the practice come alive. This is the element that is not seen when onlookers observe a tai chi player's performance of the form and
is a combination of the mind's participation and the coordination of the yin/yang dynamic within the muscle, fascia, tendon layers of the body.
What you will learn:

The six major internal dynamics.
Using select moves we put the internal dynamics into play to work on our....balance, relaxation and stress management, the lower back movability, rooting, full relaxed
belly breathing, mindfulness of movement, and situational awareness. Tai chi as mind and brain exercise.
We will use solo and optional gentle partner exercises to test how we are able to express our root and "power" which is created through all of the above.

Who is this class for:

Beginners as an intro to tai chi.

Experienced tai chi students of any style from adolescents to Seniors.

The class is not physically demanding. We use a "small step, small frame" with a small range of movement but because of the yin yang contrast within each move
we get a large reward.