Qigong for Health

This post describes some uses of Tai Chi Qigong for health. If you are interested in QiGong for other purposes, check out my post on Qigong (or Chi Kung) Energetic Expressions. Using Tai Chi … [Read more...]

Tai Chi Chi Kung Energetic Expressions

In Tai Chi Chi Kung there are physical and energetic expressions of the energy.  These expressions can be used for health and for self defense.  There is a bit of difference between the physical and … [Read more...]

Bagua Combat Applications of Open Hand Basics

Some application & examples of the use of the open hand in Bagua.  Advanced Bagua is taught in our silat program. … [Read more...]

Tai Chi Qigong

Tai Chi Qigong by definition refers to Tai Chi energy work. In this post I will try to shed some light on what is meant by the Qigong energy work aspect of the practice. Tai Chi Qigong is often … [Read more...]

BaGua video clip

Here's a brief clip of some Ba Gua using the principles from our Thursday night "Internal Combat Arts" class. We spent most of the class focusing on using the strikes from the people around you to … [Read more...]

Poison hand

In this post I am going to write about a specific kind of Poison Hand.  The fact that it is a poison hand method actually occurred to me while I was writing this post which started out as a healing … [Read more...]