Read the testimony of Arlette, of Muriel

Dany

Confidences...

I did not know Taijiquan at all and I drew nearer in a completely fortuitous way. The company which employed me, concerned with cases of heavy depression which hurt its personnel, obliged this one, including me, to follow meetings of stress management.

These meetings had bases related to the taiji and created in my person the most pleasant effects .

Having used my body as nothing but a tool, I found myself, at these meetings, filled with new feelings such as waves of soft heat, vivid impression to radiate without any aggressiveness, on the contrary to the existential share which was until that time.
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Since the moment the idea did not leave me any more, it was necessary me to practise ! Being inclined to want a lonely learning, I bought a book about the practice. Of course it did not give the anticipated results.

Then one day I received a judicious advice about a school where I could go… So I discovered Eric Caulier Taijiquan School.

Initially I rediscovered the searched feelings, a martial interest as well, having practised in my childhood disciplines such as boxing and judo. I was only at that time a concentrate of revolt, of anger, pitiless with myself and not yielding an inch of tolerance towards the others… shortly I was completely fixed in my gangue of principles.

Wu Gong Ba Fa as well as the form of the 10 in the first year gradually relieved me of this problem. I tried not to miss any training course that brought me a supplement in the technique which I worked much, … in the absence of memory for the follow-up of formes. The next year the form of the 24 made me aware that this carcan of muscular as much as psychic contractions handicaped me, the articulations weren't free, nor the spirit.

The Chen style and the 32 of sword of next academic term unveiled me a new world, I widened my horizons. I gradually managed to control these tensions. They decreased. The roots, the axis and the space in the gestural took also shape in my spirit. The contact with the others changed positively.

It was therefore a period of liberation and comprehension. I realized that this mental liberation induced an effect on the physique. I explored a new world, a rebirth, the freed tension made the remainder of the body a little more fluid like a rivulet clearing a passage through a barrage of pebbles. It was also the moment when got answers many questions. It was the awakening : I had slept all these years.

Then the module came ! If a training course specifies already many things, the module is the issue of comprehension, also the atmosphere - convergence group of people looking for a deeper meaning in this art - the taiji -, the precision brought in its bases, such as for example, for "the tree", to feel its grip to the ground never appeared so obvious, to seek its most exact possible height and its space in its greater accuracy.

There were the stretchings on the ground, the advices such bring its conscience in practice, the notion of the respect - which I prized so much -, the external work which leads to an interior dynamics, ho so much true !

… What impressed me and confirmed what I perceived already before is the unconscious bond that can be between several people. During a test, the group was comfortably installed in the position of tree and each participant in his turn took place in front of the others in order to feel the effect of group. That was very positive for me . The spectacular side of this situation isat each change there was readjustment of the posture according to the newcomer, which himself was influenced by the group. What a demonstration of communication ! During this module, I became aware that to go down at the bottom from of myself is also a ascent and that th ennemi toughest to fight is myself. Plenitude brought… is a state that very human should be able to experience.

Dany Chaltin, Brussels
Evaluation of October 26, 2003