Martin Mellish

A Tai Chi Imagery Workbook (eBook, ePUB)

Spirit, Intent, and Motion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book makes the benefits of Tai Chi directly available to Westerners by communicating its essence in poetic, evocative, and humorous images that apply not only to movement practices of all kinds but to daily life. The book does not assume any knowledge of Tai Chi forms.

The images in this book - drawn from a wide variety of sources, both Chinese and Western, ancient and modern - are easy to understand, fun to work with, and embody the true inner spirit of Tai Chi's timeless tradition. The book contains hundreds of photos and line drawings illustrating the images, detailed explanations of the biomechanical realities that underlie the images, and a summary of the latest scientific research on the benefits of Tai Chi.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857010131
• Artikelnr.: 49658447

Autorenporträt

Martin Mellish has been studying and teaching Tai Chi for over thirty years. He is a certified hypnotherapist and Yoga teacher and teaches Tai Chi in Seattle, USA. He holds a Master's degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University, and has published articles with both 'Qi' Magazine and 'Tai Chi' Magazine. In addition to his Tai Chi practice, Martin Mellish is a technical rock climber, dancer and martial artist. He has travelled extensively in China to practice Tai Chi, and to explore the sacred mountains and minority cultures of Western China and Tibet. He resides in Port Townsend, Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Photo Credits. Introduction. Letting Go. A Key to
Relaxation: Commitment. Letting Go of Muscular Tension. Power Through
Letting Go. Letting Go of 'Doing'. Letting Go of Thought. Letting Go of
Limitation. Stance, Rooting, and Stepping. The Importance of Balance. Using
Imagery for Balance. The 'Empty Step'. The Iliopsoas Muscle Complex and its
Role in Stepping. Transferring Your Weight. Feet Like an Ape's Feet that
can Hold on to Branches. Riding a Horse. Stance Like a Mountain. Your Body
is just the Tip of the Iceberg. Your Reflection is Underneath the Ground.
Lines of Magnetic Force. Stance is an Arch. Sitting on an Exercise Ball.
Stance like a Car Suspension System. Being Carried in a Sedan Chair. Doing
the Form Under a Low Ceiling. Skating. The Pelvis Opens and Closes Like a
Book. The Center. Life, Emotion, Power, and Breath. Sinking the
Consciousness into the Center. The Eye of the Storm. Pelvic Floor like a
Trampoline. Psoas and Iliopsoas. Sitting in a Chair. Climbing Harness.
Hydraulic Jacks Lift Your Ribcage Off Your Hipbones. Trapping a Sheet of
Paper in the Crease of the Hip. Sweeping Beer Bottles off a Table. The Trim
of the Pelvis. Hipbones Resting in one Horizontal Track. Hipbones like
Headlamps. Feel the Pelvis as a Large Cup with a Handle. Pelvis like a Bowl
of Fruit. Circuits Around the Center. The Process of Developing Awareness
of your Center. Your Spine and Your Line. Anatomy and Musculature of the
Spine. The Jade Pillow - Gateway Between Mind and Body. The Golden Cord.
Sitting on a Window-ledge. Feel the Spine like a Snake. The Pin of a
Vertical Hinge. A Downward-pointing Spear. A Golf Ball Resting on a Tee.
Feather Extends Upward from Back of Head to Paint the Sky. You have a
Dinosaur Tail. As if Balancing a Book on your Head. One Line Through Back
of Head, Tailbone, and Heel of Support Foot. Three Circles in the Torso.
Radiance. The Inner Smile. Breathing into Every Cell in your Body. Bursting
with Energy like the Michelin Man. An Aura Surrounds Your Body. Like
Watering a Flower. Light Shining out from all your Energy Centres. Lights
Shining out to and Beyond the Horizon. Shoulders, Arms, and Hands. Relaxing
the Arms. Relaxing the Shoulders. Energetic Openness. Connection. Flow and
Rhythm. Rhythm. Flow. Combating Evil Spirits. Dancing with the Spirits. The
Five Elements. Power. Mechanical Disadvantage and how we get Around it.
Static Power. Bracing of the Small of the Back. Dynamic Power. Wave Energy.
Explosive Power. Self and Other: Push Hands. Notes on Word Choices. Push
Hands is for Everyone. Intention, Relationship, and Push Hands. Push Hands
'Light'. Push Hands as a Formal Practice. Effectiveness of Imagery for Push
Hands. Some Basic Images for Push Hands 'Light'. Stick, Connect, Absorb,
and Displace. Imagery for Level 1: Sticking. Imagery for Level 2:
Connecting. Imagery for Level 3: Absorbing. Imagery for Level 4:
Displacing. Tai Chi Straight Sword and Other Weapons. Tip of Weapon Passes
through a Tiny Hole without Touching the Sides. Tip of the Sword is
'Sucked' out into Space. The Sword is an Extension of your own Body.
Dissecting the Air as if it were Solid. Slicing a Pillow. Imagine your
Empty Hand as Another Sword. The Overhead Chop - Like Unrolling a Red
Carpet - or like an Ice Skater going into a Spin. Imagery in Daily Life.
Appendix A: Mathematics and Mechanics of Tai Chi. Open Curves and
Mechanical Advantage. Gravity, the Ground Force, and the Balance of Forces.
Elastic and Inelastic Collisions. Appendix B: Scientific Research on Tai
Chi. Confounding Effects in Tai Chi Research. Research Reviews by Subject.
How to Research the Research. Bibliography. The Tai Chi Classics. Imagery
and Movement. Imagery and the Mind. The Five Elements.