T'ai Chi Empower - The Energy Sequence

I tried to portray the flow of chi - life energy - in this video. My camera is simple, my editing tool is basic. But I felt I could do so, and let light, color and motion somehow 'paint' chi.

T'ai Chi Empower - 13 Postures

The `13 Postures are the foundation movements of T'ai Chi. The style and complexity may vary - from one school, family or individual, to another - but the entire form revolves around these core movements.

These `13 Postures are from the 1st Part of the Yang Long Form. I do an Overview, Closer Look, and Review, so you can follow along and learn it, if you like :)

T'ai Chi Empower - Form and Flow

T'ai Chi Empower - Form and Flow

I do the entire 1st Part of the Yang Long Form, and film it from the front and the back. This way, you can follow it better, and learn it, if you like :)

T'ai Chi Empower - The Road, Taken {1}

I choose selected movements from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Parts of the Yang Long Form. Done slowly, these three parts take up to two hours. In this short video, I hope I've given you a good sense for the beauty, energy and complexity of the form.

`The Road, Taken alludes to the poem by Robert Frost - "The Road Not Taken":

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

There are many exercise options at our disposal, as far as health, self defense and spirituality are concerned. T'ai Chi was the road I took.