![]() ![]() Professional Development – Including teaching agreement.Tai Chi Chuan Form (3 semesters to complete).As part of the certification, a student must have completed basic, intermediate and advanced training which include: Students can request an application after completing 1 year/3 semesters and by appointment with Master Young. They can however feel letting go and the sense that gravity and the breath can aide in the process of letting go.The Tai Chi Chuan Certification Track is approximately 3 years. ![]() For example: Scanning the body downward letting tension dissolve – a imagery blind student can feel the tension, but cannot imagine tension dissolving. Some students are imagery blind which requires more of a mechanical approach. I have also found that when I explain the martial application, those who are in it for the relaxation cannot relate, so I offer them a benign image for them to access the motion or shape. One style of imagery can work for one student, but may not work for another, so I pull a different one out of the hat. The classics on tai chi is riddled with imagery. Sometimes an image dawns, has been passed down from one of my instructors, or comes from a student. Over the 45 years of teaching, my database of imageries has developed. There are many styles to the type of imagery you can use from the martial application to what the motion or shape resembles. When I was a student teacher, I asked one of my instructors, “How much imagery should I use when teaching?” To which she replied, “As many as you can.” Student 2: “When do you do the ‘squirrel on the tree’?” Student 1: “You do the ‘windshield wiper and go around the world, then you row the boat and then comes the zombie.” Today, while preparing to teach I over heard students talking… More by Master Young How Much Imagery Do You Use? ![]()
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