In the 7-week course, Taoist Energy Practices of Huashan Qigong for Radiant Living, you harnessed the power of a 10-part Huashan Qigong set for greater flexibility and strength, a greater range of motion, a sharper mind, and a longer life…
What’s next on your lifelong healing path?
Taoist health practices are cumulative and progressive. As you learn one level, the next one beckons, according to your teacher, philosopher, and martial arts expert Deng Ming-Dao.
To compare Taoist health practices to music, the healing Huashan Qigong movements you’ve already learned are the foundational, essential scales and chords…
When you follow Huashan Qigong with the sophisticated, powerful movements of Taijiquan (Tai Chi Ch’uan), you compose the entire song.
Your Qigong movements allow you to concentrate on specific concerns, while Taijiquan brings in the holistic and subconscious elements of the Taoist movement...
The practice of Taijiquan, often translated as “supreme ultimate” or “grand limit,” is the combination of the yin and yang set in motion, uniting all parts of who you are so you’ll feel complete, peaceful, and balanced.
Join your teacher Ming-Dao for a new 12-week course just for graduates of Taoist Energy Practices of Huashan Qigong for Radiant Living, and build on the foundational vitality, flexibility, and strength you’ve already cultivated — as you learn a new 24-part Taijiquan set to incorporate into your daily practice. With the addition of this new movement, you’ll take your accumulated Qi and circulate it throughout your body to refine spinal movements for postural, neurological, and spiritual healing benefits.
When you practice Taijiquan, you unite with the cosmos. As you put Taijiquan’s sophisticated, circular movements in motion, you turn with the planet itself, uniting your body, mind, and breath — and cultivating a gateway to profound spiritual development.
The history of the 24-part set you’ll learn in this course was created by Li Tianji in 1956, when the Chinese government wanted to improve its citizens’ health using traditional exercises. Li was tasked with creating a shortened version of Yang Family Taijiquan.
By eliminating repetitions of movements, he streamlined a set of 108 postures into a powerful 24-part Taijiquan set, retaining the core of the longer set without sacrificing any of its healing value.
For centuries, Taijiquan has been used to heal from all sorts of afflictions — from the psychological to the physical. People have recovered from health issues such as weakness in the limbs, neuropathy, heart trouble, and more.
Taijiquan is a unique movement art that imparts wellness unlike any other approach as it equips you with strength, balance, Qi flow, internal health, and serenity.
This 24-part Taijiquan set you’ll learn will serve you every day for the rest of your life. You’ll join thousands of people all over the world who practice this art.
Spiritual seekers have long turned to Taijiquan to prolong their lives and attain tranquility. Join your teacher Ming-Dao for 12 weeks to continue on your healing path with this special martial arts practice.
In this 12-week transformational intensive, Ming-Dao will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to create yin and yang in motion with a 24-part Taijiquan set to heal on a postural, neurological, and spiritual level.
You’ll connect with Ming-Dao and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Ming-Dao’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Ming-Dao. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to create yin and yang in motion with a 24-part Taijiquan set to heal on a postural, neurological, and spiritual level.
Taijiquan is the art of peace. Ming-Dao will help you begin from stillness and calm.
Like Restoring Spring from Huashan Qigong (HQ), we think of new growth and new beginnings. Form 1: Commencing, takes you from stillness into movement in the simplest way — separating your feet and raising your arms together.
Along the way, you’ll mesh your breathing with your movements. As you move from Form 1, it will extend the holding the ball movement from the HQ Peng Flying.
Form 2: Left, Right, Wild Horse Parts Mane, teaches the benefits of stance, strengthens your leg, and shows how to breathe in coordination with body movements. The form extends the opening movement and stances from the HQ Eight Trigrams. It’s the first form to demonstrate the foundational movement to all Taijiquan: the Taijiquan Walk.
In this opening module, you’ll:
As your journey continues, Ming-Dao will guide you to pause in one of the iconic Taijiquan postures, Form 3: White Crane Spreads Wings. You’ll put more weight on one leg and balance in that position, improving your balance.
The circular movements of the arms facilitate powerful breathing, and the stretching of arms relates to HQ Phoenix Spreads Wings.
The next posture, Form 4: Left, Right, Brush Knee Twist Step, resumes your forward movement and combines arm movements with the pivoting of your waist. You must transfer force from your feet to your hands while moving forward in an extension of movement such as HQ Eight Trigrams or HQ Ren Rings…
All the while, you’ll continue your training in the vital Taijiquan Walk.
In this module, you’ll:
You’ll pause with the Form 5: Play the Lute. It uses the Seven Star Stance for the first time, providing another perspective on balance. The arms squeeze inward, which forces your breath out of your torsos and helps you expel waste gases.
Then you’ll begin to move backward in Form 6: Left, Right, Reverse Rolling Arms (Monkey Retreat). The stance is different, and you’ll learn to step backward without falling.
Both postures expand on the possibilities of Huashan Qigong.
In this module, you’ll:
Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail, which consists of four parts, is considered the most essential of all Yang Style Taijiquan postures.
Forms 7 and 8 are Grasp the Sparrow’s Tail, left and right styles, and the names of the four parts are: Ward Off, Rollback, Press, and Push…
You’ll discover the four kinds of energy that make this the most important movement in all Taijiquan.
Grasp the Sparrow’s Tail is unique to Taijiquan and isn’t well-explored even in other styles of Chinese martial arts or Qigong. However, it does move energy from the Lower Dantian and it circulates energy, so it’s an extension of the purpose of Qigong in general. Its footwork relates especially to HQ 3 The Eight Trigrams and HQ 9 Ren Rings.
In this module, you’ll:
After moving forward and backward, you’ll move sideways.
As Ming-Dao will share, this initial part of Taijiquan teaches you how to move in all four directions. It’s reminiscent of HQ Ren Rings and gives you more insight into how you position yourself…
Form 9: Single Whip stretches the body and expands the chest, which helps breathing. Single Whip teaches how to move from the circularity of both Huashan Qigong and other parts of Taijiquan to straight lines.
In the process, you can see how circular and straight are related, a concept partly introduced by HQ Phoenix Spreads Wings.
Form 10: Cloud Hands picks up on the circular movements of Huashan Qigong. You’ll learn to step sideways and experience the relationship between circular arm movements and breathing.
Cloud hands is related to HQ The Eight Trigrams and HQ The Swimming Frog.
In this module, you’ll:
Form 11: Single Whip repeats Form 9. You’ll gain the benefits of stretching your arms out, making more room for breathing.
Form 12: High Pat on Horse requires standing upright and shifting one’s weight, and it adds new possibilities in relationship to Huashan Qigong. Like HQ Ren Rings, Taijiquan joins acupuncture meridians and moves energy throughout all the channels. This includes the Taoist Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Orbits.
At this halfway point of the course, you’ll review moving through the entire first half of the set. Ming-Dao will also introduce kicking to prepare for upcoming postures.
In this module, you’ll:
At this point on your journey, Ming-Dao has guided you to move in all four directions.
Now it’s time to turn to balance, core stability, coordination, and flexibility.
Form 13: Right Heel Kick… Form 14: Twin Mountains Strike Ears… and Form 15: Turn Body and Left Heel Kick are challenging movements. That’s a measure of their value, and you can successfully reach for the abilities that they give you.
You’ll learn how kicking helps balance… strengthens the legs, hips, and low back… and gently increases circulation. As you get older, fall risks become more pronounced...
With regular practice, you can avoid this problem. Your legs will get stronger and less stiff. You can acquire an essential ballistic form of stretching.
Antecedents for these postures don’t link directly to Huashan Qigong, so they represent the necessary addition of other movements to your practice. Even so, Huashan Qigong that rises onto the balls of the feet, such as HQ Returning Spring, HQ The Swimming and Smiling Dragon, and HQ The Swimming Frog have introduced easy approaches to balance….
Kicking takes it to a far higher level.
In this module, you’ll:
Forms 16 and 17: Left Lower Body and Stand on One Leg teaches you greater flexibility, the strength of a one-legged squat, breath control, and balance...
Standing on one leg is the maximal balance point of this set. It’s a demanding movement and so it’s the most stimulating technique for strengthening your legs. Huashan Qigong doesn’t have these movements, so these are an important expansion of your potential.
In this module, you’ll:
The set changes again here to offer new directions: diagonal movements.
Form 18: Right, Left Jade Maiden Passes Shuttle shows how to push across the body in one of the most famous postures of Taijiquan. Form 19: Needle at Sea Bottom, gives us another variation on stepping backward and another variation on a one-legged squat. It’s also a good way to stretch your back.
Jade Maiden is most similar to movements such as HQ The Eight Trigrams and HQ Ren Rings. Needle at Sea Bottom represents the bending movements explored in HQ Turtle Retracting Its Head.
In this module, you’ll:
The set changes direction once again, and this item addresses how to turn in a stable, efficient way.
Form 20: Fan Through Back, adds to the stretching benefits of Single Whip. In its origins as a means of turning to face an attacker from behind, you’ll get a glimpse of Taijiquan’s history as a martial art.
Form 21: Turn Body, Deflect, Parry, and Punch, is a martial arts movement that goes beyond Huashan Qigong. As you learn how to generate force for a punch, you’ll discover how to manifest Qi in your movements.
Fan Through Back as well as Turn Body, Deflect, Parry, and Punch show ways to shift and turn the body, much like HQ The Eight Trigrams and HQ Ren Rings. The overhead movement is reminiscent of HQ Heaven Circles and Earth Circles.
Parry and Punch relates to generating force from the legs, so it represents an expansion of your potential beyond the Qigong.
In this module, you’ll:
As you arrive at the final postures of this 24-part set, Ming-Dao will guide you to return to your starting point.
You’ve experienced peaceful stillness at the beginning, turned through a range of movements, and are now headed toward a vital stillness once again.
Form 22: Apparent Close briefly teaches how to yield in place. Rather than the full stepping back of Reverse Rolling Arms, you’ll give way while also standing your ground.
Form 23: Cross Hands gives us a deep squat followed by the rejoining of your energy to channel it to your Lower Dantian. Form 24: Closing, is the transition back to calm stillness.
Qigong usually depends on other movements as well as meditation to return energy to the Lower Dantian. Here, Apparent Close and Cross Hands are a built-in method of reuniting your energy and channeling it to the Lower Dantian for storage. This demonstrates the completeness of Taijiquan.
In this module, you’ll:
In this final module, Ming-Dao will review the set as a whole and discuss why you should give yourself over to moving steadily through all the postures.
Ming-Dao will guide you to work out your technical issues in Qigong and drills. Once you acquire the whole set, you’ll concentrate on flow — integration with nature and unity of body, mind, and spirit.
As Ming-Dao will explain, Qigong is designed to focus on one specific element at a time. Taijiquan allows you to work on the holistic and subconscious elements of Taoist movement...
Qigong provides raw power and removes blockages, while Taijiquan features whole-body, connected movements that move like heaven and Earth.
You’ll learn the importance of slow, relaxed, and gentle movement, and acquire an excellent foundation for meditation and spiritual inquiry.
In this final module, you’ll:
In addition to Ming-Dao’s transformative 12-week virtual course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Delve into the Taoist background of your Qigong and Taijiquan practice with this digital guide. Ming-Dao will share how Qigong and Taijiquan have evolved as spiritual arts over many centuries. This fascinating background material includes selections from Ming-Dao’s books, The Wisdom of the Tao and Each Journey Begins With a Single Step.
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Taijiquan, like all Chinese martial arts, is built on the five classical stances: horse, bow, empty, drop, and resting. As Ming-Dao will share in this video teaching, understanding and practicing these stances is the basis of any successful Taijiquan practice. Training in these practices can produce strong legs and good balance. As Ming-Dao will explain, the Taijiquan Walk will guide you to integrate a moving method into all Taijiquan styles.
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Ming-Dao will spotlight the subtle abdominal movements that make up Huashan Qigong’s traditional three seated meditations. As you’ll discover in this video teaching, practicing these meditations builds energy in the Lower Dantian. Ming-Dao will also demonstrate the connection between meditation, movement, and Qigong.
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In my past, I was a fighter. Unfortunately, I’ve become disabled. Movements, especially standing, are painful and difficult. As a result, I thought I’d never be able to participate in martial arts and the like ever again. So it’s with joy and appreciation that I can say that Ming-Dao changed that for me. His classes follow a comfortable pace. They are filled with insight, explanation, and wisdom. And most surprising for me, he took the time and effort to address people’s limitations and include variations that allow someone like me to participate and gain from the experience. I cannot recommend Ming-Dao’s teachings enough. You will gain greatly, whoever you are and whatever your situation!
— Zack I.
I just completed the Fire and Silk workshop with Deng Ming-Dao. I learned much from this series, and I so appreciate the excellent level of presentation. I appreciate the careful planning and progressive development of the materials, the handouts, and the themes for each class. I had a basic level of skill in the Chen style, but his workshop has taken my understanding and practice of this art significantly deeper. The singles, the drills, and Qigong practices that tied it all together were so helpful — the dantian circling practices in particular. Deng Ming-Dao’s teaching and explanations of the variations in movements and why to do them was enlightening. I appreciated his kind, patient, and detailed style of teaching.
— Tammy B.
I find Deng Ming-Dao’s courses are truly helpful for me to improve my daily practice of Qigong and Taijiquan. Since taking two of them, I felt a steady increase of connection between my body, mind, and spirit as a whole. I appreciate his teaching and guidance through the courses. I enjoyed reading his handouts as well, which I usually do not get from other classes or workshops that I participate in. Both of the courses were organized very well, and were informative, knowledgeable, and inspiring.
— Julie S.
Deng Ming-Dao is an author, artist, and teacher. He is the author of Chronicles of Tao… Everyday Tao… The Living I Ching… The Wisdom of the Tao, and The Way of Heart and Beauty. His books have been translated into 18 languages in Europe and Asia.
Deng Ming-Dao has trained in a variety of Chinese martial arts since 1975. His main styles are Taijiquan, Xingyiquan, and Baguazhang. He’s studied with teachers from Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Husahan, and Wudangshan, and has given many workshops to introduce Chinese martial arts and Taoist wellness techniques.
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