Double Fan Form with Sue Hix at Healing Tao Teacher Training

Описание: Double Fan Form

'As graceful as dance, as deadly as martial art!' Sue Hix.

You can learn this beautiful form by familiarising yourself with the movements and studying the descriptions, marked below at time-points in the video.

The Story of Tai Chi Fan

Both men and women can use Tai Chi fans, but they were particularly effective for women during the Ming dynasty, between 1368 and 1644. Fans had been regarded as a feminine object, and this one was of no exception. Unlike other weapons, the fan and the martial art that accompanies it were seen as less aggressive, thereby making them more suitable for graceful women.

During the early 1700s, the second Qing Dynasty emperor took a particular interest in the Tai Chi fan and called out to all practitioners with any knowledge regarding the usage of the weapon. He was able to summon the most skilled users, and began to observe and learn from them. Once he had studied all that he could, he issued a ban in China on the weapon for further usage in its martial art. Anyone caught practicing or demonstrating with a fan was sentenced to death.

1. Commencing form
0.02s

2. Guan Yin points the way Guan Yin is the deity associated with mercy and compassion and is known for perceiving the cries(sounds) of the world
0.15s

3. Step up to see the Path
0.30 seconds

4. Turn to push Right
0.38 seconds

5. Lotus Flower opens lotus flowers represent ultimate beauty and perfection, the golden flower of Taoism and the crystallisation of our experience of light
0.42 seconds

6. Cloud Hands x3 represents the cyclical search for the invisible and invincible, no beginning and no ending
0.56 seconds

7. Turn to push Left
1.08 seconds

8. Play the Pi Pa traditional stringed lute renowned for sweet sounds, symbolises harmony and friendship, dispelling evil passions corrects balance of emotions
1.10 seconds

9. Closing the door
1.12 seconds

10. Waves rolling in left and right
1.13 seconds

11. Over the mountain, through the valley
1.20 s

12. Phoenix sings in the morning sun mythical bird reprents long life and rebirth with huge capacity for distant vision. Collects sensory information about the environment and stimulates beauty, excitement and deathless inspiration.
1.25 seconds

13. Turn to look right
1.27 seconds

14. Leaves rolling in the wind
1.30 seconds

15. Turn to look left
1.34 seconds

16. White snake turns over snakes are closely associated with dragons and represent capacity for healing, cunning, knowledge and learning and transformation by shedding their skin
1.38s

17. Fans crossed
1.42s

18. Brush Knee twist step follow your on path and do not fight to go forward, the willow survives in the wind while the oak falls.
1.44s

19. Turn for grasp birds tail the bird is a messenger between heaven and earth symbolises air and spirit, birth and commitment
1.48s

20. Step parry and punch
1.58s

21. Crossing the sea
2.04s

22. Serial steps
2.20s

23. The Hawk turns over bird associated with the sun and royalty, gives higher perspective, vision and intuition.
2.52s

24. Pointing into the Valley
2.59s

25. Obstructing the fog
3.05s

26. Walking the Bagua opening left and right eight basic energy changes that underlie the I Ching, the 8 divisions in the body and the 8 directions
3.20s

27. Distribute the Qi left, right, left
3.57s

28. Crossing the fans return to harmony
4.16s

29. Closing the form
4.18s

Grateful thanks to Sue Hix of the Rosewell Center for the Demonstration and Notes. http://www.rosewellcentre.co.uk/

Video by Kris Deva North Healing Tao UK http://healing-tao.co.uk/