TAI CHI RULER
With Terry Dunn

The T'ai Chi Ruler is a very rare system of Taoist Yoga, a qigong art utilizing a specially designed curvaceous and perfectly balanced wooden dowel or "ruler" designed with sacred geometry in the shape of the ancient Chinese sword handle. T'ai Chi Ruler consists of eight sets of exercises done in repetition with deep, slow breathing and the ruler held between the palms. Each exercise coordinates breath, mental and visual concentration, and physical movement with a specific Tai Chi energy pathway.  This art is attributed to the legendary Taoist sage, yogin, and patron saint of Huashan, Chen Tuan (Chen Hsi-I), who also created the Six Harmonies & Eight Methods (Liu He Ba Fa) internal martial art. Tai Chi Ruler is an incredibly compact yet complete system of Taoist Yoga as complete as Hatha, Kundalini and Shakti yogas--that integrates mind and body to purify the human spirit and develops supreme one-pointedness to unify man with the Tai Chi, or the forming principle behind Nature. The T'ai Chi Ruler art develops internal energy for martial empowerment by coordinating eyes, mind, breath and perfect natural movement, and provides an excellent core foundation and complement to T'ai Chi Ch'uan or any Chinese martial art.

60 minutes. With score by Robert Scott Thompson.

DVD: $54.95

SPECIAL -- TAI CHI RULER KIT (dvd, wooden ruler, book): $80.00

 

SIX HARMONIES & EIGHT METHODS ("LIOU HE BA FA")
with Master York Why Loo.

Water Boxing reflects the founder's oneness with nature, as it enhances human potential through the cultivation of six "harmonies," or "cooperations":   body and mind, mind and will, will and chi, chi and spirit, and spirit and emptiness--and through the Eight Methods. The Six Harmonies/Eight Methods has less repeating patterns of movements and more changes of direction than Tai Chi forms.  It is thus a little more challenging to learn than Tai Chi (and any background in Tai Chi is helpful in learning this complete martial art).

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$49.95

T'AI CHI SWORD & BROADSWORD
with Master York Why Loo.

The straight, double-edged sword (jian) is the queen of weapons in the art of Tai Chi Chuan. Tai Chi swordplay is practiced after students attain proficiency in solo form practice. The sword becomes an extension of the Tai Chi player's energy and consciousness. A common correction by a Tai Chi master to his student practicing a Tai Chi sword form is the admonishment: "(Your) energy to the tip of the sword."

The Tai Chi oral tradition advises that after 10,000 rounds of practicing the sword form, the sword should then move like "a dragon swimming through clouds."  Master Loo demonstrates in his 77-movment Yang Sword Form superb fencing technique at just such a level.

The second half of the program features Master Loo's demonstrations of the 40-movement Yang style broadsword form--performed with the energy of "a tiger charging through the jungle"--again in accord with the classical oral teachings of Tai Chi.

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$49.95