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Hey Everybody, I'm sharing this video with my teacher Bruce with good info for those of you who attended our Art of the Spiral:Â Embodying Twisting Neigong in Tai Chi & Bagua course or who watched my free webinar on the subject.
I hope you enjoy it! The seminar was profound to say the least, trans...
Tung Hai Chuan, known as the modern progenitor of bagua, taught each of his disciples differently, depending on their specific talents and needs. This is the basis of the main bagua lines and schools that have followed.
Liu Hung Chieh, my teacher Bruce Frantzis' teacher, had the honour of attending...
In this video, I discuss Bagua's Double (Earth) Palm Change and Earth energy from the I Ching trigram (as opposed to the 5 Elements), as well as the Single Palm Change: Earth Version.
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By Paul Cavel
In Part 1, we looked at how Circle Walking is the minimalist’s paradise. Once you have some understanding of and become proficient in Circle Walking, you can progress to the Single Palm Change, the core of both the monastic bagua and bagua zhang taditions.
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The Single Palm Cha...
By Paul Cavel
With my new bagua online course starting today, I’ve had a handful of people who’ve asked about bagua for meditation. I suspect there are more of you out there who might want to train bagua as a form of moving meditation, as classically trained for millennia in the monastic tradition....
I’ve trained the monastic bagua tradition (focusing on the Single Palm Change) AND the bagua zhang (martial) tradition — including learning all Eight Bagua Mother Palms — from my teacher, Bagua Master Bruce Frantzis, in private and public tuition since 1994.
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 By Paul Cavel
Most internal arts have a specific learning progression, which begins with a set of six or more movements in qigong, and up to 108 moves in tai chi. Then, as you practise the form over weeks, months and years, you sink into your body, mind and qi by adding layers of internal con...
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Bagua is a pure energy art originally practised by those interested in the I Ching or Taoism — having been derived as a physical manifestation to realise the teachings of the I Ching. In this way, bagua is an embodiment of the universal principles of change.
It is also a high-level martial ar...
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