origami_itto wrote:How do you understand and apply raising the back and sinking the chest and the qi sticking to the back?[
How do you use the back in your practice and movement?
origami_itto wrote:How do you understand and apply raising the back and sinking the chest and the qi sticking to the back?
origami_itto wrote:How do you use the back in your practice and movement?
wayne hansen wrote:I prefer hollow the chest open the back
Bao is right about the scapular
I would go further and say they are the arms
I see the arms as an enviroment that starts at the spine and includes the scapular and finnishes at the fingertips
wiesiek wrote:..."How do you understand and apply raising the back and sinking the chest and the qi sticking to the back?
How do you use the back in your practice and movement?..."
I use the breath and relaxed spinal vertebrae,
doin` it in unisono with external movement,- allow wave of qi/energy -forms and travels up thru the spine .
GrahamB wrote:If humans still had tails, and you are doing Tai Chi, is your tail out behind you or tucked under your bum?
Idea comes from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1luKAS_Xcg
wayne hansen wrote:Note she stands with locked knees most of the time
There lies the difference
Now I’m going to ask another question
Please don’t insist I answer it
What do you think the main reason we centre the coccyx from a tai chi point of view
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