Professor Men Hui Feng is famous in China for his great mastering of the xingyiquan and the Sun style of taijiquan. The clearness and the progressiveness of the method of teaching in xingyiquan are quite remarkable. Professor Men Hui Feng took his inspiration from it to teach the 5 great styles of taijiquan to his close pupils. To make this teaching alive, Eric Caulier had to reappropriate and to reinterpret the deposit which was entrusted to him.

Each posture of the taijiquan comes from the matrix posture of tree, each movement of any form of taijiquan is a clever proportioning of energies of expansion/compression and rise/descent. The movement finds its origin in the not-movement, reserve of all the movements: the taiji/supreme ridge comes from the wuji/without-ridge. These few lines summarize at the same time the teaching of the wu gong (quintessence) and the procedure of the taijiquan. The practice of any form is then lived like a particular expression of these 5 paramount form-energies, like subtle and clever proportioning of the primal forces.

Ba fa/8 methods and its bu fa derivative technical in displacement constitutes an essential stage in the deployment of the bases, in the rediscovering of external and interior spaces like in the various expressions of vital energy. Each one of these 8 methods allows an exploration of the potentialities of the taijiquan in its various registers: motion study, mobilization of the breath, development of intentionality, symbolic resonance, revealing of archetypal models.

The man who speaks in paramount images speaks a thousand languages. C.G. Jung