The Old Six Roads: Ancient Tai Chi Form Reveals Path to Inner Harmony

Hello, I'm going to talk to you about the all six roles form of yang family tai chi. So these are tai chi forms that are unique and beneficial because they are taught from the very beginning of your practice as an internal practice, an internal form. Meaning from the very beginning you'll be working on your chi, your intention, and how those things guide the movement of your body through the sequences of this form. Because oftentimes tai chi form practices you're memorizing the posture, you're learning to do movements, and after you learn the movements you practice it for a long time and you'll gradually relax more and start to develop your chi, your yi, your nei jian. But this is not going to be like that. This is from the very beginning. You will learn to harness your chi, your nei jian, and your yi to create the movements of this form. So to do that the form will be taught in three ways. First you'll learn to do the form with the general intention of the form. Meaning let's say we take ward off or ward off movement. Before you worry about the details of the hand height and all that kind of postural stuff, you'll learn to feel the floating of peng and the expansion of peng and ji. So you're going to practice on your hands down. Floating, expanding, then shrinking, and sinking. Then to the other side. Floating, expanding, shrinking, and sinking. So this will give you a real sense of what is happening energetically. That whether you're floating or sinking, expanding or condensing through every movement. Every movement will be this way. Brushed into a step you'll have sinking, expanding, then shrinking, and so forth. So that's the first set of lessons you will have in this form. After you have the real sense of what the energy inside is doing and you can really experience how that begins to make your body move, without worrying about the exact details of the geometry, then we start to refine your practice by giving some of the details that whether your ward off will be at the shoulder height. Sometimes ward off is done at the shoulder height. Sometimes it's done at the waist height. And sometimes it's done at the hip height, such as a hairy tiger, hairy tiger or a striped tiger. So there's three levels of ward off. Why is there three levels? Because there's three circles of qi in our body, which you learn in qi mastery. At the shoulder, at the waist, and at the hips. So when the floating energy of peng is paired with the shoulder circle, then you'll have this. When the floating energy is paired with a waist circle rotating, then you'll naturally turn over at the waist height. And when it's paired at the hip height, then you'll have the low ward off. And see, so this is why you have different types of techniques, different movements of ward off. And you'll learn exactly what is the energy behind the movement that causes each variation. So it's more than just memorization. But once you have that, the next you'll learn the details. To know that in this movement, it's at this height. And at this movement, it's at this height. And at this movement, it's at this height. And whether your hand will be over your feet, beyond your feet, behind your feet, and these kind of details that you classically learn in your form practice. Once your basic geometry is harmonized with your essential intentions of the energetic flow inside your body, then you will learn the neijin, which is the flow of energy around your body that supports these movements. Such as how in ward off, a upward flow of energy around you. It's like a water wave that lifts you up or updraft of warm air that lifts up a paraglider, gaiza movement. And how in ji, how that wave of energy around your arm that moves your arm forward and so forth. So you'll learn each form in three stages. Each one taking you deeper into the internal masteries of this form. And anyone at any level can practice this and have good benefit of this practice. A beginner can immediately feel the expanding and shrinking flow and sink. Because we can all take deep breath and feel how that affects our body. We can relax our arms and feel how they get lighter and heavier. And if you can do that, you can begin to practice the first stage of the O6 Rose practice. And then as you improve your song in the song mastery course, then you can begin to have real beneficial meaning to the geometry. How your body wave flows and is supported by the connectedness of your body through each movement. And once you reach qi mastery and nature mastery to really feel and control the energy inside and around your body, then the next level of practice of the form becomes available, unlocked to you. So you can really get the most benefit and feel the deepest harmony and relaxation in each of your O6 Rose form movements. So this is a form that grows with you. As your internal skills deepen, you can enjoy this form at a more complete, deeper level. And as you practice this form, you'll get an opportunity to experience how these internal elements that you practice in the mastery courses can be manifested to be a part of your movement alone, every day, all the time. And that will be nice, right? So this is the O6 Rose form and the way the course is taught. And you'll see the movements in different angles. So whichever way you like to view and learn, you'll be able to access that. And you'll have access to discussions to clarify any questions you have, so that you can learn as successfully as possible, as pleasantly as possible. Because what I want to see is your success and complete enjoyment of tai chi. So thanks for watching and enjoy the course. This course is for you.