Author Archives: Yang Yang

Push-hands: A Means To Increase Your Gong

[From The Master] Push Hands: A Means For Increasing Your Gong by Yang Yang, Ph.D Push-hands is a measure of a person’s gong. In the meantime, push-hands can also be a safe and efficient means to enhance the gong. Below … Continue reading

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From The Master – The Relationship Between Wuji, Taiji and Qigong

[From The Master] The Relationship Between Wuji, Taiji and Qigong by Yang Yang, Ph.D © 2012 Center for Taiji & Qigong Studies –used by permission Practitioners frequently ask about the relationship between taiji and qigong. Different people have differing opinions. … Continue reading

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From The Master – Organizing Daily Practice

Organizing Daily Practice by Yang Yang, Ph. D If you have limited time for your daily Taiji practice, can you still benefit? The answer is yes—if you practice efficiently. This training tip describes how. Most Taiji and Qigong practitioners have … Continue reading

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A Training Tip for the New Year: On Meditation

From the Master A Training Tip for the New Year: On Meditation by Yang Yang A  few weeks ago I taught my last workshop of 2011 at Kripalu Yoga Center. In the past few days, I have been contemplating some … Continue reading

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Method of Better Meditation

Training Tips for Going Deeper Into Tranquility by Yang Yang, Ph.D.   Taiji insights sometimes come from unexpected places.  It happened to me earlier this year on a visit back home to Illinois. The occasion was a conversation with a … Continue reading

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Overview of Best Practices in Taiji

From the Master Overview of Best Practices in Taiji by © Yang Yang 事半功倍: shi ban gong bei If you study something—anything—in an efficient way, you can learn it in a fraction of the time.   (-Chinese Proverb, literally “half the … Continue reading

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A Taiji hedgehog or a Taiji fox?

From The Master A Taiji hedgehog or a Taiji fox? by Yang Yang, Ph.D. You may have heard the Greek story of the hedgehog and the fox. In this story the fox knows many small things whereas the hedgehog knows … Continue reading

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Santi Standing: Setting Up and Refining

From the Master Santi Standing: Setting Up and Refining by Yang Yang, Ph.D. Santi Standing is an important part of the wisdom we inherit from Taiji and other Chinese martial art training. It can effectively improve posture, balance, and daily … Continue reading

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From the Master

    Why Standing Meditation? by Yang Yang, Ph.D. Why do we do standing meditation (standing wuji)? This is one of the most frequently asked questions, and it comes both from beginners as well as long time Taiji form practitioners. … Continue reading

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From the Master

How to Maintain Energy Yang Yang, Ph.D. People often ask me: “How do I improve my Gong,” or “How do I improve my pushhands by improving my Gong?” How do we improve our martial arts skills? And I like this … Continue reading

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