Teachings,+Introduction+to+Tai-Chi

Introduction to Tai-Chi
(Silmerion Skywalker)

Tai-Chi Chuan was born as a Martial Art that allows everyone to defend himself/herself. Tai-Chi appeared in a China full of danger where everyone had to fight to survive, even the old persons and the children. Tai-Chi is different from any Martial Art seen before in this: because it doesn't use physical strength, it uses the Force, as an Ally.

Until then, two solutions had been adopted when an opponent gave a punch or a kick: -Submit to it (and lose the fight) -Fight it with aggressivity (and harm the opponent or be harmed) Tai-Chi offers a third way: accept the energy of the opponent and re-direct it with round and relax moves.

However, working with the Force as an Ally, requires time, training, repeating the Forms again and again. More than anything it requires inner peace, relaxation, calm, listening to our body and to the other. With Tai-Chi we don't fight an opponent, we work with him, we allow a dialogue of energy to happen.

Nowaydays, we mostly repeat the Tai-Chi Forms, the 4 Lu, alone, as a moving meditation. Well, this practice can become a dialogue with the Force, almost a prayer.

We practice Tai-Chi immersed in the ocean of energy, we can visualize it, feel it around us and inside of us. Sometimes we move this energy and our thought directs it- it is good to remember that where our thought goes, there goes also the energy. Other times, it is important to let the energy move our body- Master Mescola says "We are not living, life uses our systems to manifest itself".

That is why it is always important to start Tai-Chi sessions with some meditation: Standing with our feet shoulder width apart Weight slightly on our heels Knees slightly bent- legs relaxed Pelvis that slightly pulls ahead/down relaxed Back straight Chest slightly re-entered Arms rounded at the level of the Dan-Tien (below the navel) with fingers tips facing each other, palms facing upwards/womb Head that is pulled up by an invisible string Chin slightly re-entered

You are a channel between heaven and earth. You can feel your energy axis.

Relax, close your eyes, listen... After a while the Force will move your womb, let this movement be, it is the movement of life.

Master Silmerion Skywalker