Clear Tai Chi Level 02 - Module 1

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Class 1A – Standing Principles

1. Standing 9 Lessons

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a. Sometimes the Simplest things are the most powerful

b. Being Present In The Moment

c. Melt, Root, Sink, Relax. Let Go & Find SUNG

d. Find the Motion in Stillness and make it quiet Chung Ting (中定 zhōng dìng)

e. Be Here NOW!

f. Drop your Root

g. Connection

h. Go from beginning to Place Hands on Jade Table while keeping these principles

i. Practice the form with c, e, and f with g

2. Wu Chi – Getting the restful & recharging feeling 2 Lessons

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a. Stand against the Wall to get your back flat & Trouble shoot any other posture/position difficulties

b. Belly Breathing & Gentle Bullet Proof Breathing with Vision (mind’s eye) turned inward

3. Internal alignment similar to soft/relaxed 3 Dan Tiens Linear 2 Lessons

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a. First Wu Chi with my Hands covering my Belly to really recharge with my Vision turned inwards then internal alignment

b. Do the entire 8 Move set with this feeling

4. Being In the Moment 3 Lessons

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a. Standing -Quiet Listening

b. Moving/doing the 8 Move form

c. Push Hands to Be in the Moment

Review 6 Lessons | 1 Quiz

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Review 01 – Zhong Ding (Central Equilibrium)

Review 02 – Melt, Root, Sink, Relax. Let Go & Find SUNG

Review 03 – Be Here Now – Continuous Motion

Review 04 – Connection: Stationary & Moving

Review 05 – Whole Body Connection: Head To Toe

Review 06 – Wu Chi Alignment Soft & Relaxed

Class 1A – Standing Principles

Class 1B – Energy Protection

1. Wu Chi Building and Circulating Energy 4 Lessons

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a. Wu Tang Energy Ball matched to amount of breath (in -pulling & out –compression)

b. Elastic Stretch Push to feel Electric for 10 seconds –Check Energy Ball to feel

c. Elastic Stretch Pull to feel Magnetic for 10 seconds –Check Energy Ball to feel

d. Wu Tang Rocking Energy Ball to Feel Electric & Magnetic & Switching

2. Internal alignment similar to soft/relaxed 3 Dan Tiens Linear 1 Lesson

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a. First Wu Chi with my Hands covering my Belly to really recharge with my Vision turned inwards Then internal alignment

3. Normalize with Carry the Cauldron & Grand Tai Chi

4. Make sure to put the energy away 3 Lessons

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a. Dangers of not putting it away

b. Use pouring and sinking, Carry the Cauldron, & Grand Tai Chi to put energy away

c. How to condense energy into bones to build jing storage into the bone

Review 2 Lessons | 1 Quiz

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Review 01 – Energy Protection

Review 02 – Rooting & Putting The Energy Away

Class 1B – Energy Protection

Class 02 – Clear’s Internal Push Hands, part 1

1. Clear’s Internal Push Hands 1 Lesson

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a. Why This Version?

2. The Most Important Principles 3 Lessons

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a. Drop Your Root

b. Sensitivity

c. Invest In Loss

3. Drop the Root 8 Lessons

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a. Drop the Root

b. Methods to help root drop

c. Drop the Root Deeper Back and Forth Game

d. Show how to stop the root from popping back up due to stimulus by really working on sinking even while pushing

e. Use Aaaaaaaah to help drop root deeper

f. Use Mild Version of Elephant Push Hands to show root drop

g. Drop your Root & Pour it continuously

h. Carry the Cauldron & Grand Tai Chi to normalize – Walk it off

4. Correct Bow Stance & Foot Position

5. The “Error of Double Weighted” & How to Fix it

6. How to feel empty vs full weight Inside of you and in a partner’s body when a person is double weighted.

7. Play Push Hands with both people are working on being correct & Not Double Weighted. If you cannot distinguish between your own empty & full it impedes your ability to ting.

8. Building Sensitivity 7 Lessons

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a. Deer Solo Stance to help build sensitivity

b. Feeling Heartbeat

c. Feeling Pulses

d. Feeling Digestion

e. Feeling Breathing drop throughout the body

f. Feeling Person Relax

g. Feel Root Drop

9. Move the Person’s energy 5 Lessons

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a. Not a Shoving Match

b. Find their energy/Root and if you have it then it is easy to Push them

c. Move their center of gravity or / & push their Double Weighted Error

d. Uncle Bill’s Soft Push Hands (Follow & join in order to Lead)

e. Now Full Push Hands using principle of Find their energy/Root and if you have it then it is easy to Push them

10. Applying the Standing Principles 5 Lessons

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a. Melt, Root, Sink, Relax. Let Go & Find SUNG

11. Use 8 & 9 Together in Push Hands to Follow & Lead them into Emptiness

Review 11 Lessons | 1 Quiz

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Review 01 – Different Push Hands Games

Review 02 – Tricks For Dropping Root

Review 03 – Sensitivity, Pressure & Tension

Review 04 – Dropping Root

Review 05 – Rooting & Connecting While Pushing

Review 06 – Bow Stance

Review 07 – Double Weighted Error

Review 08 – Sensitivity

Review 09 – It is Not A Shoving Match

Review 10 – Find Their Energy & Root

Review 11 – Apply Standing Principles

Class 02 – Clear’s Internal Push Hands, part 1

Class 03 – Moving Principles

1. Walking 11 Lessons

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a. Single Weighted

b. Stepping! Not Falling! Choose Your Step!

c. Maintain Body Connection (Relaxed not Collapsed)

d. Wu Tang Rocking Energy Ball feeling the electric & magnetic

e. Walking forward and backward in detail

f. Shifting Weight and Crushing

g. Total Foot Reflexology Method

h. Use Turning, Shifting & Rocking for Self Defense

i. Using invisible pulleys/bungee cords to move body parts

j. Practice the 8 move set with a, b, c, g, h & i

k. Correct Stance & Foot Position in Bow Stance

2. Body Mechanics 2 Lessons

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a. Alignments

b. Purpose

3. Moving 6 Lessons

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a. Be Present in this move in this moment

b. Maintain Body Connection

c. The breath Leads the Movement

d. Maintain the Electrical Connection

e. Utilize Sung and Pour from one movement into the next as if wearing shackles

f. Use a–e to enhance the proper performance of Underwater version of 8 Move Tai Chi set

4. Remember when finished to perform extra Carry the Cauldron and Grand Tai Chi to put the energy back into storage and to build your internal battery charge.

Review 14 Lessons | 1 Quiz

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Review 01 – Stepping & Single Weighted

Review 02 – Maintain Your Connections While Moving

Review 03 – Building Bone Density & Muscle Mass

Review 04 – Turning & Shifting For Leverage

Review 05 – Shifting Weight For Power

Review 06 – Rocking & Rolling Action for Absorbing & Projecting

Review 07 – Internal “Pulleys” for Tai Chi

Review 08 – Martial Uses of Structure & Posture

Review 09 – The Effortless Power Connection

Review 10 – The Staying In The Moment

Review 11 – Keeping Whole Body Connection In Motion

Review 12 – Power From Something You Already Do (All The Time!) Part 1

Review 13 – Electric & Magnetic Energy

Review 14 – Shackled & Underwater Methods

Class 03 – Moving Principles

Class 04 – Clear’s Internal Push Hands, Part 2

1. Bow Stance Push Hands showing how you can easily cheat by changing the physical position and have a great affect on their ability to push or affect you. 3 Lessons

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a. This is why our primary Push Hands play is Clear’s Internal Push Hands

b. Use Turning, Shifting & Rocking to negate their push &/or Uproot “float” them.

c. You want to make it internal and build it to the point that only someone else with knowledge and skill would know you are doing something.

2. Proper & Full Single Weighted Use 2 Lessons

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a. In Small Bow/Kun Tao Stance

b. In Clear’s Internal Push Hands – Feed the Root to build proper pathways to ground

3. Clear’s Internal Push Hands 6 Lessons

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a. Work from the position you are in

b. Use Turning, Shifting & Rocking

c. Use the physical position to have a great affect on their ability to push or affect me.

d. Using Breath – To Negate, To Enhance, While Breathing Out & While Breathing In

e. Utilize Sung and continuously Pour the Root

f. Practice with Underwater Jing

4. Walk around Single weighted with Root Drop

5. Practice single weighted versions of the form – Walking, Rocking, switching, Dropping Root, Pouring, Crushing, Shackled

6. Normalize with Carry the Cauldron & Grand Tai Chi

Review 8 Lessons | 1 Quiz

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Review 01 – Beating Common Push Hands Tricks

Review 02 – Effortless Power (Advanced Uses of Electric / Magnetic)

Review 03 – Ground Path Training Secrets

Review 04 – Stacking Internal Skills (The Smart Way)

Review 05 – Power From Something You Already Do (All The Time!) part 2

Review 06 – Root-ing (Not Root-ed)

Review 07 – Secrets Of Sensitivity, Power & Flow

Review 08 – Single Leg Rooting

Class 04 – Clear’s Internal Push Hands, Part 2

Module 1: Review

Class 1A Review 23 Lessons

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Review 01 – Wu Chi

Review 02 – Posture/10 Points Should All Be Correct

Review 03 – Belly Breathing & Gentle Bullet Proof Breathing

Review 04 – Vision – Mind’s Eye Turmed Inward

Review 05 – Vision – Melt, Root, Sink, Relax – Let Go & Find Sung With The Body

Review 06 – Melt, Root, Sink, Relax – Let Go & Find Sung With The Energy

Review 07 – Melt, Root, Sink, Relax – Let Go & Find Sung With The Root

Review 08 – Melt, Root, Sink, Relax – Let Go & Find Sung With The Breath

Review 09 – Melt, Root, Sink, Relax – Let Go & Find Sung With The Mind

Review 10 – Be Here Now – Standing – Quiet Listening

Review 11 – One-arm stationary (No Stepping) Push Hands

Review 11.5 – Solo Stationary Fixed Push Hands position & movement without partner

Review 12 – Central Equilibrium – Find The Motion In Stillness & Make It Quiet While Standing

Review 13 – Central Equilibrium – Find The Motion In Stillness & Make It Quiet With Tai Chi Walk

Review 14 – Hang From The Bungee Cord

Review 15 – Walk Around While Hanging From The Bungee Cord

Review 16 – Wu Chi With Hands Over Belly & Vision Turned Inwards to Recharge

Review 17 – Wu Chi With Internal Alignment

Review 18 – 8 Move Set With Wu Chi & Internal Alignment

Review 19 – 8 Move Set As 1 Soft Continuous Flow From Beginning To End

Review 20 – Push Hands With Continuous Motion

Review 21 – Their Move Becomes My Next Move

Review 22 – 8 Move Set With Internal Body Connection From Your Center

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