Welcome! Thank you for joining for the 30 Days Of Yoga experience! Watch this video before you begin! It includes helpful ideas and tips to support you on your journey, to improve our health for me! Today we begin with this video! Tomorrow - DAY 1 of YOGA.
As we transition into the New Year I already feel great about the idea of practicing for 30 days straight. I feel excited about challenging myself, connecting to myself and learning something new. I am grateful that my body is able to move, that my breath is capable of deepening and I love that I will be doing it with so many others, around the globe.
The hardest part each day will likely be getting on the mat. Make time. Stay focused and choose to make the experience your own. This 30 Day practice is intended to support you in finding what feels good in the New Year. So, though it may be challenging to make time for your practice – just do it – knowing that it is okay to adapt, change, modify, rebel and do your own thang at any time.
But get on the mat.
Take conscious breaths and stretch each day as a way of connecting to your intentions, your big picture and ultimately, complete wellness, have a strong health for me today
The Tai chi 's lesson 7:Lu is about keeping your center of mass downward, and turning from your waist. Let 's watch the video first to know more and improve our health for me.
Lǚ is an energy of deflecting and neutralizing. Incoming force is deflected or diverted to the side or downward and in the process, you draw off and dissipate the incoming energy. This is also known as leading the force to emptiness or void in order to neutralize it.
Transcript: INTRODUCTION So you know the old riddle; what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? Well in Tai Chi Chuan theory, the immovable object appears to be yielding and giving way. But what is really happening is that it is simply redirecting the energy into a harmless direction. This redirecting energy is another is another Kinetic Concept known as Lǚ, which is often translated as yield or roll back. One more time I am going to show you the movement in its entirety and then we are going to break it down piece by piece, improve our health for me today.
LOWER BODY
Neutral position Start with the feet together, hands relax by your sides. The knees are slightly soft, the hips are a little soft. The head is floating up towards the sky like a balloon filled with helium. All the weight shifts over to your right foot. Your left foot steps upward and then steps out to the side about shoulder width. And then center the weight evenly over both feet. After the hands rise up to about shoulder height, the knees soften and everything floats down, getting heavier. Hands press down towards about hip height.
One: Turn and Deflect Shift your weight to the right foot and rotate towards the left about 60 degrees. All of my weight here is on the right foot, about 90% there and only about 10% on the left heel.
Two: Deflect in Empty Step Now my weight begins to shift forward onto the left foot, the right foot gets empty and steps all the way into this Empty Step here. Now my weight is 90% on the left foot and only about 10% tapping down with the right toes.
Three: Step Out The right leg steps out just to the side of that front brown circle in front of your mat. Landing heel first, remember. You land sort of empty, so most of your weight is in the back foot As you settle down the weight distributes about 60% in your back foot and 40% over your front foot. The toes in the front foot turn inward about 30 degrees.
Four: Draw an Arc and Catch So here I shift my weight forward onto that front foot, now my weight is 60% on that front leg and the left foot stays about 40%, still in the same place as it was before.
Five: Sit Back and Deflect You are going to reverse direction, sit back into the left hip. The weight going to about 60% on the back foot, 40% on the front foot. Keeping the front leg slightly bend and the toes turned in.
Back to Neutral I shift my weight all the way back so I can step side by side. The hands float down, I shift my weight back to the right foot and step the feet together. Head floating up, spine getting longer, finishing Lu.
UPPER BODY This time through we are going to take a look at what the hands and arms, basically the upper body is doing.
One: Turn and Deflect So as I rotate towards the left, my hands are just trailing, deflecting outwards, palms down, fingertips pointed towards the front.
Two: Deflect in an Empty Step The hands are going to stay at pretty much the same position, palms down, fingers pointed towards the front. And the elbows stay slightly bend, you know, not locked out.
Three: Step Out My waist is going to start the action here, turning slightly to the left, my hands trail with the motion. Now again make sure your torso stays upright, your head floating up towards the ceiling like a balloon filled with helium.
Four: Draw an Arc and Catch My waist shifts forward and my hands draw an arc in the air, moving forward. My right hand about nose height, my left hand down at shoulder height. Palms forward, fingers pointed up. I turn my waist slightly to the right to finish of this movement.
Five: Sit Back and Deflect So I am going to reverse direction, sitting back down into my left hip. Sink and turn the waist to the left, both hands deflect and neutralize downward. The left hand at hip level, the right hand right in front of the body. Palms down, fingers pointing forward.
Back to Neutral And then finish up, go back to neutral. Step back, let the hands float up to about shoulder height and then float down, easy breath. Shift the weight back to the right foot and finish.
Now is the time for practice, to improve our health for me with tai chi, yoga, meditation. You should try to play tai chi 's music in the same time to stimulate our emoticon.
Today is the time for Tai chi 's lesson 6: Great two-person exercise to build strength and balance and to learn yielding and rooting, to improve our health for me Transcripts:
Leg strength, it is the key to a foundation of a solid Tai Chi Chuan.
Now in the first Duàn, our training exercise is designed to help you strengthen your legs and increase the stability of your torso.
Go grab your training partner and come along and play.
Start in the Wújí stance (Neutral Position) with the Taiji Zen Salute.
Now both of you step forward with the right leg and shake hands.
Try to push, pull and torque each other out of balance and off position, by changing the amount, direction and speed of your power.
Avoid using brute force and be careful to avoid causing injury to your partner.
The first person to cause the other one to lose their balance 5 times wins the game.
Once you are comfortable playing the game on the right side, try switching to the left.
Now is the time for practice, let 's do together to improve our health, have a healthy lifestyle. Do not forget to play the tai chi 's music to stimulate our emoticion.
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Fortunately, disabling the ads is incredibly simple. The only tricky part is identifying where they’re coming from, but we’ve got you covered. The culprit is the new Get Office app that comes preinstalled on Windows 10.
There are a few different ways you can disable the Get Office notifications. If you never plan to take advantage of the Office discounts available in the app, the scorched-earth approach gets the job done quickly. Simply open the Start menu’s All Apps list, right-click on the Get Office app, and select Uninstall. You’ll be asked to confirm the deletion; do so. Boom! Done.
But there’s another way to silence those annoying ads without wiping Get Office from your operating system. Open the Start menu and head to Settings > System > Notifications & actions. Scroll down to the “Show notifications from these apps” section and slide the Get Office app’s slider to off. Again: done!
In Taijiquan theory, Péng and Àn (Pushing Energy, Kinetic Concept #4) are two mutually interactive forces. The outward expansion of Péng can be used to neutralize and dissipate the incoming push of Àn.
Transcript:
Well congratulations, you are well on your way on learning your Tai Chi Chuan Essentials.
But now it is time to go to the next step, because you will have to learn the practical application that goes along with each form that you are learning.
It is really when you learn the practical part that it becomes a Martial Art.
Now we are very fortunate, because to help you learn the practical applications we have master Wang Zhanhai, who is a multiple time national champion in Push Hands here in China and a 12th generation lineage holder of Chen Tai Chi from Chen Village.
Master Wang, nǐ hǎo, nǐ hǎo (Greeting in Chinese). Are you ready? Let's get started.
Péng energy can be used to dissipate an incoming force. Now the first stage to that is to learn to feel the incoming force against the outside edge of your arm and the second phase to that is to use the expanding energy to dissipate that force.
Now to help you practice this, your partner should just be applying a general push forward, later on we will learn this is the energy Àn, which means Pushing Energy.
But for today just generally push. Master Wang is going to apply the Péng Energy, so keep your eye on him.
Taiji Zen Salute!
Both sides step forward with the left foot.
Notice his feet are not on a straight line, but rather the stance opens at a 30 degree angle. This creates more stability in the position.
Now let's try practicing Péng. Rotate, sink, gather, then expand forward when your partner pushes lightly into your left forearm.
Observe how Master Wang's head and spine are upright. Posture is aligned and strong, suspending the body from the crown of the head.
Hands are placed on the elbow and wrist area. This is where your partner will feed you An (pushing) energy.
Now observe how Master Wang's rounding structure allows him to easily absorb and channel the force into the ground.
It's as if an imaginary beach ball is continuously expanding, helping to provide a bouncy but firm buffer in front of him.
He is using his Péng energy to expand in all directions, absorbing and dissipating the incoming An energy.
Now let's look back at the foot detail.
Notice Master Wang's foot turned in at a 30 degree angle. This creates the proper angle to absorb and neutralize the incoming force.
You can experiment what would happen if the foot was pointed forward, instead of turned in at a 30 degree angle.
You probably notice that your structural ability diminishes a lot and you know have to rely on brute force which is not Tai Chi Chuan.
Try this at home and feel it for yourself, don't forget to play the Taichi music together to have more emotion to do taichi and have a health for me.
Today, we will practice the Tai chi 's lesson 4 to have a health for me beside meditation, yoga. The lesson 4 is called: Hollow the chest, round the back, release the tension.
This video, taken from Taiji Zen's Online Academy, guides you through the key principle of 'Hollow the Chest, Round the Back,' or 'Hán xiōng bá bèi'.
'Hán xiōng bá bèi'（含胸拔背）means to sink the chest in mildly and round the back, resulting in a slightly arced circular shape. This is the body's natural position and is optimal for muscular relaxation.
Transcript:
Our second principle is called 'hán xiōng bá bèi', which basically means 'Hollow the Chest and Round the Back'.
Imagine the torso like the back half of a circle, the back should be rounded and the chest hollow.
Here are some ways to make sure that you get these principles into your body.
Number one: take a nice deep breath, inhale and then exhale~. Very nice, that already releases some of the muscles.
The second thing you will have to do is release the muscles here in the chest.
Typically the muscles are all puffed out, people walk around in this military posture. But if you relax, you can see how that sinks down.
And to continue that, number three is relax the shoulder blades to get this feeling in the back of your back. The shoulder blades point down, rounding up the back and hollowing out the chest. We will improve our health to have a healthy lifestyle for me today
So what are the benefits of this principle?
Well number one, when you hollow the chest and round the back the energy can flow. Typically the energy is stuck right here in the chest. When you release those muscles, you can get the Qi flowing throughout your entire body.
Number two, this structurally connects the chest and back to the spine, bringing an even better alignment. And alignment equals power.
Again, if the chest is tight, then the shoulders are tight, the elbows will be tight, the wrists are tight, everything gets tight.
So when you relax the chest, round the back, everything else gets relaxed too and increases the ability to have speed of reaction, a strong health for me
And I introduced you about Tai chi 's lesson 1 and Tai chi 's lesson 2 , now is the time to practice two lesson. To know more about that, let 's watch video together, and follow it.
It is well-suited for beginners learning Tai Chi as well as more advanced students.
Designed for self-practice, these guided videos provide minimalistic reminders to help you keep on track when practicing solo. Practice makes perfect! To have a health for me with fitness, healthy mind and healthy sleep
