Tai Chi Forms How many Tai Chi Forms Do You 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 the Shaolin-Do 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.?
The Shaolin-Do Tai Chi Curriculum includes:
Yang Family 24 Posture
Yang Family 64 Posture
Yang Famly Straight Sword
Yang Family Broadsword
Yang Family Broadsword Two-Man set
Chen Family 83 Posture
Chen Family Iron Fan
Fist of Ultimate Mercy
Classical Pa Kua Chang
Classical Pa Kua 7 fighting techniques
8-Animal Pa Kua
Snake (python) Pa Kua
Pa Kua Spear
Pa Kua Wu Tze Kun (Sun Moon Fork)
Dragon Style Pa Kua (4-sections)
Pa Kua Broadsword
Yin/Yang Dagger
Hsing Ie 5 Roads
Hsing Ie Linkage Form
Hsing Ie 12 Animals Forms
Hsing Ie Two-Man Set
Hsing Ie Shattering Fist (applications)
Hsing Ie Entwine the dragon sword
(Before Heaven Chi, Live Set, and After Heaven Chi Set)
Eagle Claw Chi Kung
Damo's I Chin Chings (1-49)
Meteor Fist (4 forms)
Hurling Rocks Fist
Hurling Rocks Feet
Dragons twirls the Plum flowers to 1000 eagles (eagle claw form)
Dragons twirls the plum flowers to 1000 snakes (snake form)
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