Seminar Topics

Weekend Summarys

Paris, Ghent, Hamburg, Vienna, Berlin

9 energy clouds in the Deep Mind –
3 levels of Deep Body (Physical-Etheric) Mind, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
3 levels of Deep Emotional (Astral) Mind, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
3 levels of Deep Mental (Celestial) Mind, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
3 levels of training (internal movements, forces, connection)
3 types of waves (initiated by waist moves first)
3 timings (as a training method)
3 types of force
3 aspects of Mind (awareness, intention, Intelligence)
5 phase muscles changes (used to train intention)
5 elements touch, connect, merge, follow, earth (to train connection)

Essential training of internal waves – centre changes before upper-body and head moves, shoulders change before arms and hands move.

Taiji Movements use the body to train the Mind
Taiji Meditation used to train beyond the body
Intelligent Being grows on progressively deeper levels as a result

"Levelling Off"

"Levelling off" describes in more refined detail what has always been taught at the overlapping transition from phase 1 to phase 2. Physically it describes how the more steeply rising curve of phase 1 gradually turns to horizontal.

The initial curve is trained by pushing away from the front foot while neither bending nor straightening the back leg. If that continued you would reach the highest point when directly over the back foot which would then create a sharp corner down to the foot and forward.

So about halfway back the back leg begins to bend slightly, which changes the curveture (the radius decreases as the back leg shortens) and the body "levels off" to now reach its highest point about 2/3 the way back, from which it can descend on a curve (front leg neither bends nor straightens) towards the back foot on phase 2.

Most importantly, during that overlapping transition from phase 1 to 2, the Mind goes down to the back foot but the body does not go down (it "levels off").

The Mind, in the sense of Intention or Yi, going down to the back foot energises the nervous system in that direction which activates slightly the extensor muscles in the leg.

The activated extensor muscles, which would normally shorten to extend the leg under that activation, are instead stretched due to the simultaneous slight bending of the back leg.

That stretching of the extensor muscles creates the connection between the centre and the rear foot, which generates a very light elastic pressure in the back foot.

This achieves close to the 3rd timing as the Mind completes phase 2 of energising, activating and connecting, while the body is still in the process of transitioning from phase 1 to 2.

This is not new, it has always been taught, for example in the Push and Pull on the Hips where we use the 3 step process - the body from the central position (halfway back) moves straight back a little (on the level), the Mind goes ahead to the foot to establish the connection and light foot pressure, then the body descends gently towards the foot elastically absorbing the partners force.

The subtlety of how you first connect to the ground determines the potential quality of the elastic force which then rises through the body in a wave. Anything less than the 3rd timing will produce an unrefined, hard connection to the ground and resulting rough force rising (remember the Body's Intelligence naturally uses the most advanced 3rd timing).

Further, something equivalent takes place at the transition from phase 2 to 3, and from phase 3 to 4.