Coming 8 May 2024!

Establish and grow skill in bagua with guidance and support from me each month:

• Bagua Warm-up and Unification Exercises

• Straight-line and Circle Walking

• Energy Postures and the Single Palm Change

• A Follow-along Practice

You will also receive:

• My Taoist Breathing & Meditation Series — 23 guided practices

• Access to the Bagua Area with Q&A Forum

TRAINING FROM A GENUINE BAGUA LINEAGE

Bagua has been trained for millennia by practitioners of the Water Method to contact and wake up the many layers of the body, mind and qi. Bagua gives you a method for developing excellent physical and mental health, strength and vitality, so you can live a fuller, more satisfying life — with boundless energy and confidence to pursue your interests, and follow your heart.

Bagua can be trained solely for health, fitness and/or martial arts, but it can also become a path to personal transformation for those who wish to tune in, dedicate themselves to and train at this level. Whatever your personal disposition may be, it is with gratitude to my teacher, Taoist Master Bruce Frantzis — and all the lineage holders before him, most especially his teacher, Grandmaster Liu Hung Chieh — that I fulfill my teacher’s wishes of me by sharing these teachings with you.

1) BAGUA WARM-UP & UNIFICATION EXERCISES

1 X lesson on each per month

Bagua Warm-ups — are designed to increase circulation of blood and qi to warm up the body, and make the soft tissues more supple and elastic in preparation for stronger, more demanding exercises to follow.

Bagua Unification Exercises — connect the various parts of the body into one, unified whole, allowing internal neigong to permeate the body and improve your technique.

2) STRAIGHT-LINE & CIRCLE WALKING

1 x LESSON per month

Straight-line Walking — is where you learn all the basics, allowing you to integrate progressively deeper and more complex internal techniques in a clear format with fewer angles. Without first developing exercises while walking in a straight line, Circle Walking will be far less effective and yield many errors.

Circle Walking — is the primary movement method of bagua, which allows a practitioner to develop flow, smoothness and continuum to eradicate inertia and other, unnatural, conditioned responses that manifest in the body, mind and qi. Circle Walking is the foundation upon which all more advanced aspects of bagua are built.

3) ENERGY POSTURES & THE SINGLE PALM CHANGE

1 x LESSON per month

Energy Postures — open up the full circulation of blood and qi, release superficial, deeply-bound and accumulated tensions, and connect the various layers of depth in the body and its qi into one, coherent whole.

The Single Palm Change — combines and unifies all the previous layers of bagua training into one practice. The “SPC” is the first palm change which is both the beginning of the journey and has the capacity to contain the entirety of the Water Method bagua system. The SPC is essential training for practitioners of both the monastic and bagua zhang traditions.

4) FOLLOW-ALONG PRACTICE

1 x PRACTICE per month

Follow along as I train the lessons of the month, including Walking the Circle and performing energy postures and the Single Palm Change. Embedding the choreography deep within your body-mind is what generates the flow and rhythm of bagua.

5) TAOIST BREATHING & MEDITATION

23 guided practices

As an essential aspect of Water Method training, my Taoist Breathing and Meditation series is available to stream 24/7 for the duration of your Membership. Follow along to 23 guided practices to learn and practise whole-body breathing and the Dissolving process.

6) BAGUA AREA Q&A

Post feedback and questions for me at the bottom of every Bagua Area page. I answer training questions at least once per week. All training comment strings with other students are published for the benefit of all.

HOW IT WORKS

You will receive three bagua lessons and a guided practice each month. Simply log in to your account at https://www.paulcavel.com/account/login to stream and download your content. You can link to or create an account at checkout.

Stream classes and guided practices 24/7, and download your bagua classes and practices to your devices (as MP4s) at any time for the duration of your Membership.

This is an ongoing Bagua Single Palm Change class series, which you can cancel at any time (or let us know and we’ll do it for you). You will have access to all your content for the duration of your Membership.

See our complete training policies.