Li Chi Hsiang Tai Chi Chuan
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Australasian Qi / Chi / Ki Arts Festival |
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The inaugural Australasian Qi / Chi / Ki Arts Festival was held at Bangalow in Northern NSW recently to coincide with the global event, World Tai Chi Day. The weekend festival was held to explore the diverse range of ways that we can cultivate Chi (also known as Qi or Ki) and infuse it into our everyday life. The Festival was held by the QiFull Network, a community of Qigong, Tai Chi and Aikido practitioners from northern NSW and southern Queensland. |
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Sifu Roman (front) addresses the push hands class |
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Roman offers some hands-on instruction |
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| Special guest trainer/speaker was Li Chi Hsiang's own Sifu Roman Czerniawsky, who presented a workshop and seminar. Sifu Roman's presentation explored how Tai Chi Chuan can help us find and maintain balance in our lives. Pushing hands (also known as sensing hands) works to undo a person's natural instinct to resist force with force, teaching the body to yield to force and redirect it. It also allows the development of sensitivity to feel the direction and strength of a partner's force and thereby avoid, neutralise or redirect it. 'Push hands' cultivates and conditions one's reflexes to meet any incoming force in softness, to move with it until one determines its intent and then to allow it to exhaust itself or redirect it into a harmless direction. This physical practice can be applied on all levels of physical, and the mental and emotional aspects of our lives. |
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