Basic Qigong and Tai Chi exercises?
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 7:53 am
Hopefully this will be my last new thread of the evening..
I've attempted contacting just about every dojo in my area, and none of the good ones reply to my emails. The ones who reply give me information that I really don't want to hear.
From how things are going, it looks like I'll never be able to properly learn any type of meditative martial art, under an instructor.
The net has also been very misleading, and the texts I've found vary between many styles of practice.
I'm seriously about to just start waving my arms around while moving energy. That seems to be the only real basics I've managed to get out of it. I've already learned the basics of energy work, so that's like, 5 years of normal-man Tai Chi exercise out of the way.
Does anyone have any good books or links, or videos, or something that I can use to self-initiate into some form of moving internal mediation?
Seriously.. *ALL* of my meditation has me sitting still, unmoving. I can't perform any ecstatic trance meditation normally either, because of my location and home style.
I'm seriously just looking for like, one or two sets of movements (something that flows into itself, that I can do repeatedly) and the appropriate mental visualizations to go along with it (or rather, lack thereof. I still call it visualizing, even though most texts explicitly say *not* to visualize. It's more like "feeling", or whatever. "Sensing the Dragon's Pulse.")
Any help and links would be greatly appreciated. I've been putting this off for a long time, and now, I'm just ending up in a poor situation. I'm trying to make my physical body better, because I'm sick of things breaking.
Thanks ahead of time for your assistance.
EDIT: Also, no one online seems to takes this from any type of mystical perspective. For as many people there are out there with the understanding of how to utilize Qi, very few of them seem to truly comprehend what it is they're doing, how it works, or why they do what they do.
I've found that a lot with Western practitioners of energy-related martial arts. It's like, they can use their Qi, but they don't actually believe they're using it.
I don't know. I guess I'm just nitpicky about how people explain things.
I've attempted contacting just about every dojo in my area, and none of the good ones reply to my emails. The ones who reply give me information that I really don't want to hear.
From how things are going, it looks like I'll never be able to properly learn any type of meditative martial art, under an instructor.
The net has also been very misleading, and the texts I've found vary between many styles of practice.
I'm seriously about to just start waving my arms around while moving energy. That seems to be the only real basics I've managed to get out of it. I've already learned the basics of energy work, so that's like, 5 years of normal-man Tai Chi exercise out of the way.
Does anyone have any good books or links, or videos, or something that I can use to self-initiate into some form of moving internal mediation?
Seriously.. *ALL* of my meditation has me sitting still, unmoving. I can't perform any ecstatic trance meditation normally either, because of my location and home style.
I'm seriously just looking for like, one or two sets of movements (something that flows into itself, that I can do repeatedly) and the appropriate mental visualizations to go along with it (or rather, lack thereof. I still call it visualizing, even though most texts explicitly say *not* to visualize. It's more like "feeling", or whatever. "Sensing the Dragon's Pulse.")
Any help and links would be greatly appreciated. I've been putting this off for a long time, and now, I'm just ending up in a poor situation. I'm trying to make my physical body better, because I'm sick of things breaking.
Thanks ahead of time for your assistance.
EDIT: Also, no one online seems to takes this from any type of mystical perspective. For as many people there are out there with the understanding of how to utilize Qi, very few of them seem to truly comprehend what it is they're doing, how it works, or why they do what they do.
I've found that a lot with Western practitioners of energy-related martial arts. It's like, they can use their Qi, but they don't actually believe they're using it.
I don't know. I guess I'm just nitpicky about how people explain things.