The ambition of the School Eric Caulier is to grow in a right way. The setting of new centers of practice cannot be carried out to the prejudice of the quality of the courses which are given there.
We never yielded to the effects of fashion, nor to the appeal of exoticism. We never conceded the most little place to the prettiness of the external posture, we unceasingly encouraged the accuracy of the interior gesture. The search of essence put us in contact, not with the contingent aspects of the taijiquan, but on the contrary with its universal dimension. So our taijiquan is truly archetypic. It is however atypical. The important thing is not to believe : the practice is not a mystical way, it is not enough to believe, to imagine while waiting for the grace. What is important is to grow : to progress in practice of Taijiquan is to travel in the middle of yourself, it is to go searching of your center. The Individual (the indivisible one) who has found his center restructures himself, reunifies himself, reorientates and anews a direction to his life. Agitation is replaced by the action. Waking up, the spectator becomes actor.
This long and at the same time individual and collective path starts with a digging, continues with an raising and flourishes in an amplification. Patiently, during years, our taijiquan school has explored all the nooks of the technique while helping itself with the biomechanical and cybernetic models. The constant concern of human integrated in its cultural space and in phase with its time enabled us to work out clear and coherent training strategies, carrying ethical values. A fair number of factors are now in place (structure, frames) so that the spirit of our school can appear and its own genius to reveal itself. It is the time of fructification, the centers multiply in a tempered way. When a new center opens, it is necessary to assume what there is behind. It is like the keys giving access to our various potentialities. When we had opened the door giving access to a specific potentiality we must be ready to assume what is behind.
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