Tai Chi Chuan - Long and Short Forms

In order to benefit from the still, slow and soft movements of the Tai

Chi Chuan form, it is necessary for one to have cultivated an awareness

of Chi and internal power through the Opening of the Microcosmic

Orbit and Tai Chi Chi Kung. The Tai Chi Chuan form further

educates the body to serve the mind through relaxing and

strengthening. In addition, Tai Chi Chuan can be used as a selfdefense

technique, but only if one is able to properly circulate and

utilize the intrinsic energy called Chi so that every movement of

the body is guided by internal power.

Before beginning to study the Tai Chi Chuan form, the student

must have completed:

1) Opening of the Microcosmic Orbit;

2) Tai Chi Chi Kung ( 13 movements);

3) Iron Shirt Chi Kung Level I;

4) Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu Level l.

(Course Nos. 11 and 12)

The staff includes western M.D.s, nutritionists etc. Master Chia

regularly visits each center to lecture and individually counsel Taoist

practitioners. He also aides all students in increasing their circulation

of Chi by “passing energy”, especially to those who for

whatever reason feel blocked. This is not “instant enlightenment”,

only an experience of higher Chi flow so that the student may better

learn to create it on his own.

Future volumes of the Esoteric Taoist Yoga Encyclopedia will

explore in depth these other ancient disciplines whose methods

have largely been kept secret from westerners.