Every year, two different modules are presented. These modules offer opportunity of deepening an already memorized/integrated matter or of discovering a form or a confidential style. For the teaching practitioners/, they make it possible to feel more at ease with a topic which they teach or wish to teach. These modules help to understand how to integrate the principles of the taijiquan in multiple forms by respecting the nature and the singularities of each practitioner. A special attention is given to respiratory work, to the perception of energy, the exercises with partner, the description of the “operating process of the things”, to the transposition in the daily life.
The modules alternate in a cyclic way:
- Style Yang (full movements privileging the azimuths): forms of the 10,24,40,32 sword, 13 sabre, small stick.
- Style Chen (alternation of slow and fast movements): forms of the 36,56.
- Style Sun (mobility and lightness): form of the 73.
- Style Wu (full movements privileging the horizontal circles): form of the 45.
- Style Wu Hao (compact movements): form of the 46.
- Composite style: form of the 42,42 sword.
- Pushing hands: 1 hand (fixed and mobile steps), 2 hands (fixed and mobile steps), great displacement, etc.
- Xingyiquan (linear and dynamic movements): 5 elements, combination of the 5 elements, 12 animals.
- Baguazhang (movements in circle): 8 palms, 8 changes of palm.
During his formation in China, Eric Caulier studied many forms of taijiquan directly with the originators of these forms.
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