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Taijiquan Workshop - Launceston Tasmania April 2018

4/27/2018

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Thank you all who attended our memorable 2 day Mindful Walking Methods workshop 21-22nd of April in Tasmania. People traveled from Sydney, Lismore, Adelaide, New Zealand and areas across Tasmania to attend. Much appreciation to our generous host Sifu Darren Cox of Li Chi Hsiang Inner Health Tai Chi Chuan Tasmania. I also acknowledge Sifu Steve Duncombe and Felicity Way of Inner Health Taijiquan Sydney for their tireless support and ALL things admin. In closing,I thank all who attended with deep gratitude, I am happy we made it through all three modules of our practice and look forward to playing Taiji with you all again in the future. Our workshop support videos depicting all the areas we covered will be posted up on our web in the not too distant future. 
Stay Well
Warm Regards
John Hartley
Click here to view Inner Health Taijiquan Adelaide website
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Mindful Walking and Workshops

4/16/2018

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Although rooted in Taijiquan and aged old Taoist body work philosophy and principles. It can be easy to underestimate, perhaps due to the simplistic nature of our practice, the direct effects and the potential of the daily act of Mindful walking has in regards to our spiritual, mental, emotional and physical stability and health.
Mindful walking is about being present, focused and aware. It is the quietening of oneself. It begins by ‘turning the ear inwards’ and listening to the internal changes occurring within the body when both idle, and in motion. It is the appreciation and the cultivation of the simple and the near in the here and now, it is, reacquainting oneself with an old friend long hidden amidst the hustle and bustle of “modernity”.
After having learned the physical parameters of Mindful walking and we begin to soften and relax into our practice, our posture, balance and blood-flow will improve. Ease of movement and joint-health will become noticeable, and our breath will become soft, deep and even and the mind will have a deepened sense of ease and calm.
I do not know this from a book, a video or, chasing after an ideal. I know this viscerally, through my own daily practice.
John Hartley
Inner Health Taijiquan
2018.

This is a quote from my teacher Sifu John Hartley about the mindful walking system he has developed. It is transferable to any style of Tai Chi as it follows the taijiquan principles.
​For more details about mindful walking workshops, please click on the link be
  • MINDFUL WALKING
  • MINDFUL WALKING WORKSHOPS


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Practicing an Art Effectively - Taijiquan

4/7/2018

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The next few video clips are explaining effective methods of practice that have been posted before on my facebook site a while ago. I find these interesting to review from time to time. Enjoy :-)

Chinese Gong Fu Visual Essay from Derek Lieu on Vimeo.

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Practicing taijiquan - Part One: Setting up a routine.

4/3/2018

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I can remember the first few taijiquan lessons many years ago. It felt great attending class and I was bubbling with enthusiasm looking forward to my next lesson. Over the next few years I observed many students come and go. Many start taijiquan with the best of intentions and see the value of practicing the Art. However, along the way for various reasons many students eventually fade out from attending lessons. Some reasons are that they don’t have time to practice or it’s difficult to remember the moves. Taijiquan looks easy but without establishing a routine right away, your chances of perseverance is greatly reduced.

These are some recommendations from my own up and downs in practice that I will share over the next few blogs


  1. Establishing a Routine: It is most important to establish a routine as quickly as possible while you are enthusiastic about practice. Otherwise, you will soon lose perseverance.
  2. Take something out of your life’s routine: This is an important consideration and often overlooked and becomes our biggest mistake that stops practice. Like most of us, we already have a full life routine. Decide right now, what you are going to give up or take out of your daily routine. Therefore, you can put taijiquan practise into your life’s routine. Otherwise, you will quickly find you do not have the time to do what you initially set out to enjoy and quit!
  3. Time: Mornings are the best as opposed to night. As you are more likely at night to tell yourself you are tired and will do practice tomorrow. Tomorrow’s practice will never happen if you do not start now. However, if you are definitely a night person then set a night time routine and stick to it. E.G. Finish whatever you are doing at say 10:30 pm then practice for 15 minutes. If your feeling very tired then you should stop what you are doing around 10 pm and then practice. Tell yourself that you are only going to do a maximum of 15 minutes. Set an alarm the moment you begin and finish when it goes off. That way, regardless of how good you feel, you have set up in your mind that this is a good thing to do. This sets up positive conditioning so you are more likely to be motivated to keep up your routinely practice sessions. *
  4. Place: It’s important to have a place away from distractions and a little spacious so you don’t have to rearrange the furniture. Otherwise, it can be a block for practice in the future. This should not be too much of a problem, as you initially do not need a lot of room. If practicing in the outdoors do not practice in windy conditions. Head (if you’re bald like me), neck, kidney area and feet need to be warmly covered. Obviously if practising in a hot climate you do not need to be rugged up but these areas still need to feel warm and not cold during practice.  
* In one to two months, when you are in your routine you should practice mornings and night for 15 minutes so you are winding down in the evenings and nourishing your spirit in the mornings. Then in 3 months increase to half an hour.


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