The practice of zhan zhuang, tai-chi, tai-chi nei gung or meditation can be dauntingly mythical. When I was a kid first learning the art, I...

Isometric exercise or isometrics are a type of strength training in which the joint angle and muscle length do not change during contraction...

Recently I heard much about the Golden Turtle, or Tortoise, around me (24 styles tai-chi nei gung Golden Turtle stance). Some of my acquain...

In the preface of Wang DiXian's tai chi Nei Gung 24 styles, he wrote (my translation): All (tai-chi) lineages have their own systems o...

Iron Shirt (鉄布衫 in Chinese) simply put is the ability to take punches. The term has been mystified, and magnified, in various Chinese marti...

Tai chi is a discipline that offers highly flexible and adaptive objectives, from patients recovering from major illness (like cancer, strok...

Tai-chi stretching is called silk-reeling 纏絲功 in Chen-style tai-chi, and it is also called as such in Wu-style tai-chi, which also has a mor...

In tai-chi 24 styles nei gung, there are some styles that are mirror image in nature.  One pair is Embracing One (抱一式) and Holding Golden Ur...

In 24 styles tai-chi, there are two advanced combat stance: Golden Turtle （金龜式) and Rhino gazing the Moon (犀牛望月).  Both are advanced stances...

Whereas a tai-chi practitioner may not (and for most will not) aspire to train himself for ring-combat, it is a good idea that he understand...

Some students of chi-kung or other chi-related disciplines (like tai-chi or Taoist meditation) can experience chi in the first lesson, which...

The gist of the matter is, opening one's ball-and-socket joints at shoulders and hips/pelvis (松肩，松胯) represents much of tai-chi Nei Gong...

Peng 棚 meaning "Holding up" is the most important Jing in tai-chi. By Jing I mean power generated through incorporating the contra...

In my previous post, I talked about an aggressive spiritual attack-cum-protection method as formulated by a well-known Japanese practitioner...

This is a post for tai-chi enthusiasts. There are some styles in 24 styles Tai-chi Nei-gong (ref: Wang DiXian: 太極内功陰陽24式) meant for power tr...

This is a practice note for Tai-chi enthusiasts only. In this post I shall explain the inner mechanism and training objective of the 7th st...

Tai chi Nei-gung (太極内功) invented by a prominent Taoist has strong affinity with Taoist meditation. In a previous post ( Doing microcosmic w...

The beauty of zhan zhuang and tai-chi is the simplicity of their stance and form. One can easily grasp the mechanics of a stance (for examp...

The Taoist way of doing microcosmic circulation is through mobilizing one's pelvic floor muscles, and using sublimation of sexual energy...

Tai-chi Nei Gung (太極内功) consists of stationary stances and moving forms. The objective is to build a strong body structure with good alignm...