![]() ![]() Silence has forced me to find new ways to teach the techniques. This dimension of “shared” meditation was one of the cores of the workshop “Moving the Silence”.ĭuring the workshop I taught the first part of the long form of T’ai Chi Ch’üan Yang-style, as transmitted by the renowned Master Chang Dsu Yao, composed of 108 techniques.īy teaching the form in silence, I encouraged the participants to follow it without fear of mistakes and without the pressure to remember the movements exactly: the purpose of those sessions was simply to gain confidence with the form in order to taste a combination of movement and breathing technique. Recently the ascetic and mystical aspects of T’ai Chi Ch’üan have awakened the attention of Christian theologians, who have encountered the ancient Chinese discipline as an experience of prayer and meditation, not only in isolation but also in relationship with others. After you have reached a remarkable calmness, you should start again to practice the movements of T’ai Chi Ch’üan in order to stimulate the blood circulation, freeing yourself from the bodily inactivity and relaxing the mind. Relationships between T’ai Chi Ch’üan and static meditation have been explored for hundreds of years, and they are considered by Taoist tradition two complementary aspects of the same path:Īfter the practice of T’ai Chi Ch’üan for a long period you should stop and pass to the meditation. In the “Moving the Silence” -workshop we always preceded the practice of T’ai Chi with meditation and Ch’i Kung. That is why the practice of this discipline may be helped for example by a preliminary training in simple breathing exercises from Ch’i Kung and Yoga. The breathing techniques used in T’ai Chi Ch’üan are dealing with the same energy-channels common to other oriental practices. ![]() T’ai Chi Ch’üan (太極拳) literally means “Supreme Polarity boxing”: it is therefore a martial art based on the principles of Yin-Yang, rooted in the non-violent and highly mystical philosophy of Taoism. This ancient discipline is at the same time a healthy exercise for the body, a form of dynamic meditation and a martial art. I have been widely writing about that workshop and about its following performance in previous posts, so this time I will focus exclusively on the aspects concerning T’ai Chi and silence.Ī discipline that I consider a perfect conjunction between meditation and performative arts is the T’ai Chi Ch’üan (太極拳). In this article I will describe an exciting experiment I did in 2012, throughout my “Moving the Silence” -workshop: teaching T’ai Chi without use of speech.
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