The method is what teaches us to learn. Our method, although it includes methodologies, is not limited to technical receipts. Special emphasis is given to the discovery, strategy and creativity. Taijiquan is a pathway that acts by subtraction. This is to release muscle tension, to undo the emotional knots and abandon prejudices in order to access its deep resources ("the anterior Sky" of the Taoists).
Our method is inspired as much from traditional ways of transmit as it feeds on the latest discoveries in cognitive sciences.
Like in calligraphy, the student, at first mimics than follows the internal dynamics. By copying the works of the ancients, he explored its potential, it finds itself. When at last he is entirely within his movement, it has a special influence. |