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Spring-Summer Living Tao Essential Tai Ji Series — Session Three
(July 2023)

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Yin Yang Sculpted by Pius Brogle

Master Huang’s teaching encourages a holistic approach to Body, Heart/Mind & Spirit practice and

study through the practice of Living Tao philosophy, metaphors, and forms.

Over the course of this Series, Master Huang will introduce new material in the following areas:

* Nature Bathing Meditations; (session two & Three) The Six Healing Sounds or Liù Zì Jué (六字訣);

* Classics, Culture & Music; (session one) “The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence

和平共处五项原则 Hépíng gòngchǔ wǔ xiàng yuánzé; (session two) QingMing (Pure Brightness) Ancestral Tomb Sweeping Festival; (session three) 陰陽Yin Yang, Ba Gua (Eight Trigrams),金花Jin Hua (Golden Flower), 外內Wai/Nei outward/ inward;

* Calligraphy & Metaphors; and

* Continued articulation & development of the Tai Ji Forms (session two & three) Balancing.

FOREST BATHING – MEDITATION

DEEPENING PRACTICE

“Practice is a way to extend into your daily living” ~ Chungliang Al Huang

運氣 Yun Qi – Qi (Chi) Flow

Inward and outward loops of motion to enhance CHI (QI) flow

Image from “Quantum Soup” by Chungliang Al Huang

八卦 Ba Gua (Eight Trigrams)

金花Jin Hua (Golden Flower)
Mǐ (Rice) Eight Calligraphic Directions
Wai (outward) Nei (Inward)

八卦 Ba Gua and 金花 Jin Hua

八卦 Ba Gua (Eight Trigrams) and 金花 Jin Hua (Golden Flower) for 8

circular inward/outward directions/inclusions/extensions of the human body’s architectural structure forms.

REMINDERS AND REVIEW

Di Sha (Earth Below)
Tian Shang (Sky/Heaven Above)

Three Levels of Consciousness

YANG            Tai Ji Flow              YIN

Zi Hui (Wisdom/Knowledge)
Ci Bei (Compassion)

Balancing Practice – Six Movements

Chen 沉 (Sinking)

Fu 浮 (floating)

 

Ti 提 (lifting)

Piao 飄 (riding the wind)

 

Fei 飛 (take flight)

Xiang 翔 (soaring)

AUTUMN SERIES – YI JING (I CHING) STUDY

Hexagram 31 (Influence /Empathy) XIAN (Lake over Mountain)

SUPPLEMENTAL REFERENCES

Music

 

  1. George Gershwin’s “Summertime” sung by Ella Fitzgerald  in “The Wonderful World of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong” (SPA CD RMB 75615 Made in Belgian by I.S.P.).

 

  1. BACH Cantata BMV 82, sung by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson — conductor Craig Smith, the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music.

 

  1. “SING, SING, SING” by Louis  Prima with Benny Goodman—LIVE at Carnegie Hall, 1938—Columbia Jazz Masterpieces.

Downloadable PDF of study notes: Study_Materials_July_2023

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