Top Ten Articles

Here are the top ten ranked Internal Gong Fu articles. Enjoy!

1. Relaxing Pelvic Floor For Tai Chi And Zhan Zhuang
A lot of Tai-chi and Zhan Zhuang people talk about the need to relax the pelvic floor. This article offers some practical methods of how to relax the pelvic floor.

2. Sink the Chi - How To Sit Down While Standing
Here's a practical and functional method to help you experience the feeling of dropping your weight into your legs.

3. Lower Back: Arch, Drop, And Tuck
Tai-chi teachers who instruct students to "tuck" are violating the other Tai-chi principle of relax. Learn to distinguish which of these is congruent with relax.

4. Rounding the Crotch (圆裆) for Tai Chi And Zhan Zhuang
In Chinese culture "round" has both quantitative and qualitative properties. Learn how the bio-mechanics of rotating the femur heads forward leads to a "rounding" of the crotch and improved stability in your stances.

5. Silk Reeling Exercises
"Silk Reeling" is not about practicing silk reeling forms but rather about feeling and maintaining a particular kinesthetic quality, fascial connection, as you transition from stance to simple movements.

6. Tai Chi Principles: Muscular Quality Of Sung
Sung is not an imagined state of mind nor a belief about oneself. Sung is a palpable muscular quality!

7. Internal Gong Fu Stance Training
Stance training in and of itself will not automatically develop whole body connectedness. However, with purpose and intention, stance becomes a method used to develop internal strength.

8. Feel Your Chi Between Your Hands?
The parlor trick of "feeling a ball of chi" used in so many classes is a dead end. Change paradigms and purpose and this exercise becomes a practical first step.

9. How Do I Learn Zhan Zhuang?
A look at how your approach determines the progress you make, where you'll likely get stuck, and the results you get.

10. What Internal Strength Means To Me
Your definition determines your practice and your results. A reader asks me some very pointed questions!