T'ai Chi: Relax Into Raw Power:
Why practice T'ai Chi and QiGong?:
Subtle adjustments equal powerful changes
Where this journey can lead:
Relaxing the mind, the body, and our lives
Unfurl your constricted creativity
Getting centered makes life magical
T'ai Chi and QiGong as physical engineering principles
Getting daily biofeedback untangles life issues:
T'ai Chi and QiGong as biofeedback
Seeing the physical and mental health link
T'ai Chi and QiGong are powerful life medicine:
Reboot your nervous system for clarity
T'ai Chi and QiGong for career enhancement
Multi-tasking: meditation, fitness, and massage
Medical T'ai Chi & QiGong: the prescription for the future:
Health benefits of T'ai Chi and Qigong
Acupuncture and T'ai Chi:
Zang Fu: Massaging internal organs for health
Your organs are related to your emotions
Western medicine's research on T'ai Chi and QiGong:
Stress is the root of your health issues
T'ai Chi is your heart, head, and body's best friend
Boost to your immune system:
How does T'ai Chi fight for the immune system?
Reducing free radical damage to age more slowly
You can dramatically improve your balance!
T'ai Chi & QiGong: healthcare of the future
Access the healing power of the mind
Expanding your mind and lightening your heart:
Leave the rat race behind:
Frantic action vs efficiency
T'ai Chi is smelling the roses
Remember to breathe (everything else takes care of itself)
Lose your grip on reality: the power of effortlessness:
Our flexibility is our strength
Learning to see patterns in the chaos of life:
Calming the chaos within changes our world
Releasing old patterns enables our evolution
T'ai Chi dispels the idea of wrongness
T'ai Chi is a model for life
T'ai Chi and QiGong expand imagination
Finding your center-feeling your center:
T'ai Chi walking: practice feeling centered
T'ai Chi deprograms antiquated cellular programming:
How T'ai Chi frees us from ancient patterns
T'ai Chi enable us to function effectively in the modern world
Demystifying what makes a T'ai Chi master:
Overcoming unconscious issues affecting conscious actions
Becoming a master entails not being a victim
Overcome nature with nurture
T'ai Chi can affect the world around us
Suiting up and setting out:
Planning ahead: where and when to practice T'ai Chi:
Home practice vs class study:
Making the most of learning T'ai Chi by book
Making the most of video/DVD T'ai Chi
Understanding TCM's horary clock
Outdoor vs indoor practice:
Benefits of practicing outdoors
Choosing a surface to practice on
Large class vs private class:
Pros and cons of large classes
Pros and cons of private lessons
How often should I practice?:
T'ai Chi is a model for easing life changes
Let go of your grip on expectations or results
Value of T'ai Chi's social aspect
Be prepared: your first day of class:
Choosing your T'ai Chi wardrobe
Class rules and internal/external hygiene:
External hygiene and class rules
Internal hygiene-a state of mind
T'ai Chi and massage therapy
Resistance to change tempts you to drop out
Wrongness is our culture's resistance
Attending your first class:
How to address your instructor
How are T'ai Chi movements taught?
Yes, there is homework involved
Horse stance and other terms:
T'ai Chi posture is power!:
Horse stance and three Dan Tiens
Vertical axis aligns posture
Never pivot a leg you've sunk into
Active bones under soft muscle:
T'ai Chi is not isometrics
When it's easy, it's correct
T'ai Chi motions are round motions
Breath is the root of T'ai Chi and QiGong:
Knowing your martial terms for T'ai Chi:
Starting Down The QiGong Path To T'ai Chi:
Let's do some heavy breathing
T'ai Chi vs Qigong: what's the difference?
Ancient science is the future
Is your mind half full or half empty?
Mental healing and QiGong challenges:
Trying too hard to see the light?
Allow healing Qi to flow through you
Sitting QiGong (Jing Gong Or Nei Gong):
Energy medicine and Qigong
Kirlian photography: seeing Qi is believing:
Having smooth Qi means being in the zone
Don't control Qi, let Qi radiate
E=MC2 means you are only energy
On sitting QiGong, Jing Gong, or Nei Gong
Moving QiGong (Dong Gong):
Mindful movement vs mindless exercise
Mulan Quan teaches elegance:
QiGong warm-up exercises:
Letting your Dan Tien move you:
How breathing can center you
Let the Dan Tien propel your movement
Lengthened, not stretched
Sinking the Qi is like filling a sandbag:
Moving from the horse stance
Deep-sinking your Dan Tien
Chinese Drum's kaleidoscopic sensations
Deep-tissue cleansing leaves you radiant:
Fling off and exhale the weight of the world
Experience your incredible lightness of being!
Learning A T'ai Chi Long Form:
Introducing the Kuang Ping Yang Style:
Origin of T'ai Chi: the snake and the crane
Shao-Lin Temple: where it all began:
From the Temple to the West
T'ai Chi becomes a philosophy
Short forms vs long forms
Why sixty-four movements?
T'ai Chi and Chinese medicine
T'ai Chi long form instruction:
Strike palm to ask blessings, 1
White crane cools its wings, 4
Push turn and carry tiger to mountain, 7
Spiraling hands to focus mind toward the temple to parry and punch, 8
Stork covers its wing/sword in sheath, 11
Slow palm slant flying, 12
Raise right hand and left: turn and repeat (part 1), 13
Wave hand over light/fly pulling back, 14
Green dragon rising from the water, 16
Wave hands like clouds (3), 18 (part 1, linear style)
High pat on horse/guarding the temples, 20
Lower block/upper block, separation of right foot; lower block/upper block, separation of left foot, 21
Turn and kick with sole, 22
Wind blowing lotus leaves (4), 23
Step back/lower block/upper, kick front, 27
Lower block/upper block separation of right foot, 28
Chop opponent with fist (pivot and rotate fist)(3), 30
Sink to the earth/backward elbow strike, 31
Single ship, 3/4single whip (part 4), 32
Partition of wild horse's mane (4) and single whip, 33
Fair lady works at shuttles, 3/4
Grasp the bird's tail (part 2), 35
Wave hands like clouds (part 2, linear style), 37
Single whip down, return to the earth (part 1), 38
Golden cock stands on one leg (x4), 39
Repulse the monkey (3) (part 2), 40
Fan through the arms (backhand slap) 45
Step push/box opponent's ears/cannon through sky, 46
Wave hands like clouds (round style; part 1), 48
High pat on horse (part2), 50
Cross wave of water lily kick (part 1), 51
Parry up; downward strike, 52
Step up to form seven stars, 57
Retreat to ride the tiger, 58
Slanting body/turn the moon, 59
Cross wave of water lily (part 3), 60
Stretch bow to shoot tiger, 61
Grasp the bird's tail (right style), 62
Grasp the bird's tail (left style), 63
Grand terminus; gather heaven to earth, 64
T'ai Chi's Buffet Of Short, Sword, And Fan Styles:
Mulan Quan basic short form:
Mulan Quan promotes elegance and health
Step in the eastern direction
Float rainbow to golden lotus:
Ride wind to dragon flying:
Dragon flying toward wind
Purple swan tilts its wings
Flying bees through leaves
Stretching cloud to floating:
Miracle dragon lifting head
Green willow twigs dancing:
Green willow twigs swaying
Preparation to eye on sword:
Left foot half-step with eyes on sword
Forward step, holding sword under elbow
Sword exchange, turn body, and low jab
Sword upright to balance body:
Body return, step with sword upright
Vertical sword and balance body
Turn around, lower to sitting position, sword upright
Step up, lower to sitting position, sword up-jab
Level sword, turn body, and lift knee
Lift leg, side step, side chop with sword
Art & science of push hands:
Different forms of push hands
T'ai Chi as therapy for young and old:
Preparing for athletics and life
Treating attention deficit disorder
Teaching T'ai Chi to kids
Treating eating disorders
Cardiac rehab and prevention Stroke recovery
Therapeutic powers of T'ai Chi and QiGong
T'ai Chi's philosophy of balance and flow:
Chinese herbs and teas for health conditions
Feng Shui: architectural T'ai Chi
T'ai Chi teaches mindful living
T'ai Chi as corporate wellness:
Bottom line on stress costs to business:
Using T'ai Chi as stress and pain relief
Investing in creative potential
Helping with lower-back problems and carpal tunnel
T'ai Chi is a natural for the office
Do T'ai Chi and change the world:
T'ai Chi and unemployment
T'ai Chi and the healthcare crisis
Helping students stay current in a world of change!
Studying health from the inside out
Helping students avoid drugs
T'ai Chi and crime and law enforcement
T'ai Chi and the environment
Celebrating world T'ai Chi and QiGong day:
Unleash the world-altering power within you!
Photos of past world T'ai Chi and QiGong day events
A: T'ai Chi and QiGong yellow pages
C: Author's acclaimed four-hour, class-like DVD