“Our activities in PR”
From Last day in Puerto Rico, posted by Zhonghua Chen on 12/17/2009 (7 items)
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Comments or notes from workshops by Chen Zhonghua and others in Taijiquan.
“Here are some photos of Grandmaster Hong Junsheng doing Yilu. Grandmaster Hong Junsheng was a prominent of Grandmaster Chen Fake of Chen Style Taijiquan. He studied from Chen for 15 years and was the longest serving disciple of Chen. He lived from 1907 to 1996. Chen Zhonghua is a disciple of Grandmaster Hong Junsheng. The photos were provided by Master Chao Xiuzhen, approved by Master Hong Youyi, edited by Jerry Arsenault and copyrighted by Chen Zhonghua. ”
From Grandmaster Hong Junsheng Yilu photos, posted by Zhonghua Chen on 2/13/2010 (9 items)
- 03-1 First move of Liu Feng Si Bi: Six Sealing and Four Closing.
- 15-1. First move of Pi Shen Chui: Fist Draping Over Body.
- 22-2. Second move of Bai He Liang Chi: White Crane Spreads Its Wings.
- 24-1. First move of Shan Tong Bei: Flash Through the Back.
- 42-4. Fourth move of Bao Tou Tui Shan: Embrace the Head to Push the Mountain.
- 50-1a. First move of Tui Bu Shuang Zhen Jiao: Step Back to Double Shake Feet.
- 72-2a Second move of Zhi Dang Chui: Punch to the Groin.
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There couldn’t be better occasion than the one organized by Master Giuseppe Bon’s Kung Fu and Taijiquan School to make us moving to the best of our ability along the path that we began to follow last March. Read more
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“This is the fourth workshop on Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method of Hong Junsheng. ”
From Chen Zhonghua’s Feb. 2010 Toronto Workshop, posted by Zhonghua Chen on 2/22/2010 (5 items)
- Saturday group photo.
- Steven Chan leading the Yilu practice.
- Sunday group photo.
- Yilu routines. Charlie Gordon is at the front.
- Nick Mann and Alyssa Burrows in front of this photo.
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“Main theme was the first 21 moves of Yilu. Steve Chan from Ottawa came to assist. More info: http://practicalmethod.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/montreal-workshop-done-thank-you-2/”
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Vancouver bound in 3 hours! What's in store this weekend?
That should be enough to work on and think about!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method Workshop, Master Chen Zhonghua in Prague 11-12 April 2009
3-week package:
August 6, 2010: arrival in Beijing. Read more
Charlie Gordon and Alyssa Burrows came to join us today. Now it’s like a mini-Daqingshan reunion. Steve, Charlie and Nick are DQS graduates. Read more
We had 14 people at the workshop this time. Peter almost couldn’t make it. He went to Mexico on an emergency call on Thursday and was supposed to come back on Friday but go stuck in Houston. By lunch this morning, he made. What dedication! People came from Barrie and Brampton, Ontario. For the people in this province, this is not very far but still, To view an hour driving as nothing is indication of very serious commitment. Read more
Sitting in the airport again. The flight is delayed by an hour. Why are the delays on such a nice warm day in Edmonton? Anyway, time to sit and take a breath! Catching up on emails. Read more
This seminar was attended by three visitors/new students. Nicholas Fung, an old student of mine, is visiting from Hong Kong. Wilkin Ng is from Vancouver and he has joined us. Gino Nasato is from Victoria. He has been an active participant in my Victoria workshops and in local classes there. He is visiting this weekend also.
The main subject this weekend is on how to keep three different lines while pushing hands. This is a very difficult act to perform. I explained and experimented for students the example of how to aim at something or some place. In our push hands or applications, we often don’t push towards where we ACTUALLY intend to push!. This is a question of the mind intent not harmonized with the energy alignment. This question touches upon our basic natural disposition. It is very important for you NOT to believe that you don’t have this problem!
I have been giving this group of people seminars here for the seventh year. We started in Vancouver and moved to Fort Langley and finally settled in Maple Ridge. Currently we have three students from Seattle, one from Denver, CO who joins us occasionally, several from Victoria, and one from Nanaimo. Some have to drive more than three hours to get here; others have to take the ferry for over 5 hours. I fly here from Edmonton early in the morning. All this for Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method!
When Master Chen was at my school in April he had us explore emptiness. Emptiness in the leg from the knee downward. Emptiness in the spine from the head down through to the coccyx. It was a challenging process.
He told us that, as human beings, we do all we can not to go there as we experience this as death. This emptiness is a space before muscles get involved.
To help my students move closer to this state as best as possible I spent one evening doing Mentastics. Mentastics means mental gymnastics. It was developed by Dr. Milton Trager, a former American professional acrobatic dancer, boxer, and physician. It is a companion method to the form of massage he also created and that bears his name. To find more about him just google his name. He had a beautiful book that is only available on e-Bay or Amazon as used copies, as far as I could find out. The title is: “Movement As a Way to Agelessness: A Guide to Trager Mentastics,” 1995, 176 pp., Station Hill Press, Barrytown, N.Y., ISBN 0-88268-167-2.
With Mentastics one wants to do as little as possible. Movement is minimal and pleasant. Each time one does a movement, the goal is to do 50% less the next time around, always asking the mind to answer a question that only it would answer in its own way without any need to bring the answer to consciousness.
It goes like this: How could this be free? How could this be freer? How could this be even freer? And even freer than this freer?
Mentastics is an approach. Not a goal. A way towards a state of freedom, wellness, happiness. Towards Oneness.
We explored breathing this way, walking this way, moving our arms this way, shifting from one leg to the other, and then front and back. (In our leg shifting we wanted to stop moving just before our small tight muscles in our spines would engage, relaxing them with the help from our sensors under the soles of our feet.)
We reached a state of “hook-up,” as Trager called it. We were in the zone as others would say. Or as the calligraphy that taiji master Al Chung-liang Huang designed for The Trager Institute says in Chinese, we were a “Dancing Cloud.”
So we danced for an evening. It helped moving closer to where we do not move anymore, yet are more alive than ever. More present than presence itself. Have overcome the fear of death that stops us from being before muscles move.
We have not reached that stage yet. We have just moved closer to not moving. We now have one more tool to help us along. It worked. It laid the ground for the next step that was taken on the first Monday in June. More about this in the next issue.
Master Chen Zhonghua conducted a series of teaching sessions in Puerto Rico on this trip, including a weekend workshop at the Zen center, evening lessons for the San Juan group of Raul Pujol and private lessons. At the Zen Center weekend seminar, Master Chen taught the Hunyuan Qigong system at the beginning. He instructed on all the 12 forms and then gave a step by step detailed instruction of the movements of each form.
Master Chen also gave a brief introduction to the Daoist theories in order to enhance student’s understanding of the lectures. The main portion of the time was devoted to the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method system foundations. Master Chen was assisted by Humberto Pomales (New Jersey) and Raul Pujol in his teachings of the foundational exercises. Master Chen paid a great deal of attention to the positive and negative circles as they are fundamental to the entire Practical Method system. Each action was explained in angles, weight distribution, application and intentions.
The topics will include:
- Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method Advanced Foundations.
Moving step exercises. - Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method Yilu Applications.
- Taiji Free Applications: Sanshou.
- Cannon Fist 1
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As for training, we are doing the things you showed us and I feel as though we are starting to
Hong Junsheng’s International Standard Bearer master Chen Zhonghua and Standard Bearer Master Li Enjiu are planning a series of celebrations in North American in 2007 to mark the 100 birthday of Grandmaster Hong Junsheng. Read more
Ed Zolpis
Points to remember re: Circle exercise-
-position of feet is so that when step to the side the feet are approximately 4.5 foot lengths apart with the back of the forward heel on the same line as the front of the toes of the back foot. Read more
Reviewed by Daniel Mroz
On November 26 and 27, 2005, I took part in a two-day workshop on Hong Junsheng’s Practical Method of Chen style taijiquan, offered by Mr. Chen Zhong Hua in Ottawa, Canada. The workshop was arranged by Mr. Chen’s students and attracted about a dozen participants. Read more
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Honourable Mark Norris
Minister of Economic Development
MLA Edmonton-McClung
Message from the Minister
I am pleased to welcome competitors and judges of the Hunyuan World Taiji and Wushu Competition to Read more
