Podcasts about Baguazhang

Baguazhang misconceptions with Edward Hines My guest for episode 35 is Edward Hines, a long time Baguazhang student of Lou Dexiu. Ed started training Bagua in Taiwan way back in 1991, and has continued ever since. He now teaches online at I-bagua.com and has books about Baguazhang you can find on Amazon. To frame our chat we decided to cast around for the most common misconceptions you hear about Baguazhang, and address each of them, one at a time. Links: www.i-bagua.com thetaichinotebook.com

A podcast (as requested) on the topic of Baguazhang and the underlying principles of the system. Damo Mitchell discusses the similarities and differences between Baguazhang and Taijiquan. Further discussion then looks at the following principles of Baguazhang training:- Yi and Qi- The Baguazhang body- Static postures- Circle walking- Common errorsThe discussion covers the theory of developing the body prior to learning any of the forms of palm-changes which are usually what is demonstrated and what most people know as Baguazhgang. 

Yes. It is true. Through Baguazhang 八卦掌 journeying along the Taoist path, I am what I am: A real kungfu master and people like to call me Shifu 師傅 as a mark of respect. But… while it is a great honour, it comes with its own challenges like NOT abandoning this life for one of seclusion in the mountains like a lot of Taoists 道者. Or whether or not to continue podcasting, especially in light of the changes just around the corner regarding it. Anyways, there will always be Baguazhang 八卦掌 practice ❤️

Last time we spoke about the first Guangdong-Guangxi War. The First Anhui-Zhili War not only affected northern China, it also put into motion many events in the south. Viceroy Lu Rongting, working for Duan Qirui and his Anhui Clique was sent south to take over the position as governor of Guangdong. But those already in the Guangdong Clique wanted nothing to do with the north, nor with Lu Rongting and this led to conflict. A bitter struggle emerged between the southern cliques, all seeking to influence the Guangzhou southern government. Forces from Guizhou, Guangxi and Yunnan invaded Guangdong and it looked like they would have their way, until Chen Jiongming entered the scene. Chen Jiongming led the Guangdong Clique beside the common people of the province to rid themselves of the invaders resulting in the first Guangdong-Guangxi war. This resulted in the near annihilation of the Old Guangxi Clique and the return of Dr Sun Yat-Sen to Guangzhou.   #100 The Spirit Soldier Rebellions   Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. Hey before we jump into it, just wanted to acknowledge this is episode 100 for the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, sheesh. Thank you all for surviving this far into the wild story of China's Century of Humiliation, you are all awesome. Perhaps if you got a moment, could you do me a huge favor? Unlike Youtube with a built in comment section, its hard to get feedback for audio podcasts. If you get a second could you toss feedback, what you like, what you don't like, suggestions going forward anything. You can toss it to the Pacific War Channel Discord server or literally just comment any video over at the Pacific War Channel. Would mean a lot to me, lets get on with the show! As one can imagine, China's warlord era was not something one would refer to as stable. After the absolute mess Yuan Shikai made before his death he basically provided the perfect environment for any wannabe strongman to compete for their place amongst the warlords. The warlords fleeced their respective regions of control to pay for their private armies. They would overly tax, steal away funds and get involved in just about any means to acquire more money to pay their soldiers. Even after fleecing the population, these warlords would then allow their troops to plunder, rape and enslave. Combine this with the incredible amount of regionals wars, plus natural disasters, famine and an insane rise in banditry, it was not a great time to live in China to say the least. Some regions suffered more than others. The less developed provinces, the more remote areas of China, typically in the center, south and west were hit the worst. Here the common people were poor, more isolated and when major crises occurred, they were far less likely to see any outside assistance. The warlord armies in these regions were less equipped, less fed, less disciplined compared to their Northern or coastal counterparts. The troops of these warlords treated the citizenry especially bad. As a result of the unrelenting hardship, the peasants of these parts of China perceived the warlord soldiers, tax collectors and foreign state agents as literal parasites, hell wouldn't you? In a rather vain attempt to rid themselves of these parasites, the peasants launched a large number of uprisings, riots and protests. Some were tiny villages squabbles, others could bring down warlords. They often came directly after a bad harvest season. Some but not all saw peasants join secret societies, acting as self defense forces….yes it sounds exactly like the Yihetuan all over again. Yet in most cases these peasant groups were not coordinated enough to really make a dent, more often than naught, warlords crushed them. Now after the National Protection War against Yuan Shikai, the provinces of Hubei and Sichuan fell into miserable chaos. As we have talked about in the previous episode where I introduced the Southern Warlords, Sichuan province literally was cut up into pieces and dominated by a large number of what I would call Petty Warlords. Some of these Petty Warlords had little more than a few villages under their thumb, others led armies in the several tens of thousands. The situation in Hubei was not as bad, but comparable, seeing numerous warlords battle each other, resulting in hundreds of thousands of soldiers, militiamen and bandits roaming both provinces. To complicate things, these Petty Warlords in a means to try and bolster themselves often flirted with the Beiyang government. They did so similar to how the last episode saw figures trying to negotiate north-south resolutions, basically they would acknowledge the authority of the Beiyang government. The two provinces were also affected by socio-ethnic divisions. Within the valley and plains of Sichuan and Hubei were mostly Han Chinese, but in the highlands there were many non Han such as Miao and Tujia. For those interested, the Miao people speak Hmongic languages, a subfamily of the Hmong-Mien languages. Something notable about the Miao is how their women historically exercised more independence, especially in terms of socio-political mobility. Unlike the majority of asian cultures at the time, Miao women had the freedom to choose the men they marry. The Tujia people speak Tujia, a Sino-Tibetan language, they were at the zenith of their power under the Ming Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu basically adopted a carrot and stick approach to the Tujia, by gifting compliant chieftains and hindered non compliant ones. The Tujia resented any central body trying to exert control over them and during the Taiping Rebellion many flocked to the Taiping. These non han groups felt oppressed and historically had always resisted Han immigration into their lands. The highlanders were much more versed in organized self defense forces and thus prone more so to uprising.  The environments these people lived in were the type to foster ancestor worship and belief in magic, spiritualism, possession and such. Within the context of these people struggling for further autonomy this led to the development of “spirit soldiers”. Similar to the Yihetuan, this was the belief people could summon divine beings that would fight alongside or possess them, granting them power. These beliefs were also part of messianic and apocalyptic movements, think of the White Lotus apocalypse. There were many who believed the spirit soldiers would help establish a new and fair rule on earth. In 1920 there was a large power vacuum that hit western Hubei province. A 30,000 strong army commanded by the Warlords Li Tiancai, Bao Wenwei, Lan Tianwei and Wang Tianzong came into the area. The reason for this was because Wang Zhanyuan the governor of Hubei had evicted them from the Enshi-Hefeng area. Having suffered so greatly, the peasants of Hubei and Sichuan became increasingly discontent and in 1920, major conflicts emerged. A group of Taoist priests began a spiritual movement with a militant wing behind it. They were fighting against over taxation in Lichuan of Hubei province and the abuses upon them by warlord troops. In the beginning they were no more than 100 people chanting the slogan "Kill the Warlords and Out with Rotten Officials and Loafers". Their slogans were very appealing and as more people joined up the priests began to tell them they could bless them to become spirit soldiers through magical rituals. Again similar to the Yihetuan, these rituals consisted of acts like drinking special potions or consuming ashes of various things like burned amulets. Supposedly this would make the spirit soldiers invulnerable to gunfire and raise their bravery, so yeah it really does feel like the Boxer Movement 2.0. Of course these young males were emboldened and felt they could mount a serious rebellion against the warlord troops, who were vastly better armed. The spirit soldiers typically were armed with melee weapons such as spears or a dao. They quickly overran Lichuan county and killed the local magistrate there. Upon that success further uprisings sprang up like wildfire.  After the taking of Lichuan it is estimated the spirit soldiers numbered over 10,000 and they would only continue to grow. Given their numbers, they were gradually beginning to organize themselves seriously, though they would still operate in numerous cells, they never unified. Three main spirit armies emerged alongside countless militias. They rarely coordinated, lacked real military training, had very few firearms, no uniforms, but nonetheless tried to act like real armies. They implemented military ranks and identified as such with yellow bands around their left hands middle finger, the color yellow being their official movement color. Similar to the Taiping Rebellion, which they definitely took inspiration from. Major spirit soldier armies and militias wore distinct colors based on their region. For example in western Hubei, they wore red turbans and sashes, many also carried red flags with their leaders' names inscribed upon them or with slogans. Some of these slogans were about “heavenly kingdoms being established on earth” yes Hong Xiuquan would approve.  These spirit soldier groups did not want to seize power, nor did they have any real revolutionary ideologies. Even from a class point of view, they were not exactly championing the impoverished or anything, when they took over counties they did not change the counties social order. Typically they stormed a county, killed or replaced the magistrate with someone they deemed to be a fair person. Ironically this often led to an even more corrupt person taking the magistrate position, making the lives of people worse. But you know what, when these spirit soldiers showed up to your county, as a regular peasant you were probably pretty happy about it, because anything was better than being ruled by a warlord. The great thing about the Spirit armies was when they came to your town they fought the tax and rent collectors off alongside warlord troops and bandits. It was said, under spirit rule, the people could finally travel unarmed without fear. Now soldiers no matter what god or spirit resides within them need to eat, thus money was required. To make ends meet the Spirit armies fought bandits and warlords and seized control over salt and opium trade routes running from Sichuan and Guizhou through western Hubei. Just like the Yihetuan, the Spirit soldiers also persecuted christians and foreigners. Most of them were under the belief western modernization efforts and christianity were the reason for all of china's troubles.  Once the Spirit soldier rebellion began to see tens of thousands enlist, they gradually advanced west into Sichuan province. There lies a regional trade hub, the city of Wanzhou, lying on the upper reaches of the 3 gorges of the Yangtze River. In the late part of 1920, a spirit army from Lichuan approached Wanzhou, spreading slogans of their movement, such as "Stand Against Rents and Taxes, Kill the Grey Dogs". Gray dogs refers to warlord troops. Now they did not attack Wanzhou, instead they allowed members to infiltrate the city and the local towns to mass recruit. After a few months they managed to nearly gain 5000 new spirit soldiers. They also set up a military HQ at a local temple dedicated to Yama. For those unaware Yama is a deity shared by Hindus and Buddhists. This temple was dedicated to the Buddhist variety of Yama. Yama here is regarded as one of the 20-24 Devas, a group of protective Dharmapalas. If you were a spirit soldier, it would be an ideal location to set up shop, +20 to spirituality and such. They were armed mostly with bamboo spears when they assaulted Wanzhou on March 5th of 1921. The assault was performed in two waves of roughly 2000 spirit soldiers each. Despite being armed with firearms, the local warlord troops were terrified by the tenacity of the spirit soldiers who very much performed like Boxers. They fought bare chested, unafraid of bullets, some performed martial arts and incantations. Just like what happened to Qing militia's and green standard troops in 1900, the warlord troops were terrified the spirit soldiers might actually be wielding magic, and soon routed fleeing Wanzhou's outskirts to hide behind fortified walls in the inner city.  The Spirit troops stormed through Wanzhou quickly seizing most of the city, however unlike a warlord army who would have plundered and left or heavily fortified the city, well the spirit army was simply not that kind of army. As soon as they took footholds within, they began performing public incantations and rituals. Basically they were doing exactly what the Boxers had done, however the Boxers had been facing governmental forces who were not really keen on fighting back. For the spirit soldiers their enemy were warlords who relied on fleecing the population and Wanzhou was a major trade center, prime real estate. The warlord forces fortified parts of the inner city, hiding behind walls where the Spirit troops simply could not breach, nor did they try to do so. After 3 days, the Warlord leaders slapped their troops around, telling them not to be afraid of magic and they launched a counter attack on the 8th. That day saw brutal street to street fighting, which did benefit the melee wielding spirit warriors, but guns certainly would win the day. After an entire day of battle, the spirit forces were pushed out of the city. Nearly 500 were killed during the battle, the majority being spirit soldiers. On the 12th, the Warlord Chou Fu-yu after receiving distressed requests for help arrived in Wanzhou with reinforcements. Once he figured out they were holding up at the Yama temple he organized an offensive against their HQ. Chou Fu-yu's forces stormed the temple massacring over 1000 of them. Chou Fu-yu's men specifically hunted down their leadership, executing them publicly to send a message. After seeing the carnage the spirit army collapsed and fled the Wanzhou area swiftly, most would return to civilian life, though others would fight for another day. Those who chose to keep championing the cause formed small militia groups that honestly were more akin to Honghuzi. Local officials in Hubei and Sichuan would refer to them as such "the whole country districts [were] laid waste, by these rebels who plundered wherever they went". The spirit milita's did not attempt to seize any significant towns or cities, they simply stormed them hunting for christians and foreigners, before moving to the next. They would do this for years in the Hubei-Sichuan region with power bases located along their border. Now despite the major setback at Wanzhou, the spirit armies would continue to expand, but instead of heading westwards into Sichuan, they turned back to Hubei. This had a large effect on Hubei based warlords who sometimes were pushed out of their spheres of influence. Spirit armies seized Yichang, Badong, Xuan'en, Enshi and countless other counties. One Spirit leader, a farmers' work hand named Yuan declared himself the new Jade Emperor and attempted to seize most of western Hubei. From around 1920-1922, acting as an emperor he issued numerous edicts. For the most part he led a campaign against pretty much every class imaginable: students, farmers, business owners, land owners, merchants, the military, workers, missionaries, and more. He called for killing christians, placing blame upon them for all of China's problems, promising his followers once the Christians were all gone, China would be at peace. There were those amongst his flock and others who were Ming loyalists, the age old secret society types trying to restore the Ming Dynasty. Similar to the wannabe Jade Emperors belief that getting rid of Christianity would save China from her plight, the Ming loyalists saw the Ming Dynasty as a golden age that needed to be re-ushered in.  The Spirit armies were largely successful because of the fighting amongst the warlords of Hubei and to a lesser extent Sichuan. Western Hubei in particular was ripe with chaos, for there was not only Spirit armies and warlord armies, there were large groups of Honghuzi roaming the region. Now I could cut this story about the spirit soldiers here, but instead I will try to not allude to things in the future too much. But around 1921, armies of the Zhili Clique began to invade Hubei and Sichuan from their power base in Hunan province. The Zhili armies soon fought battles against both Hubei and Sichuan warlord armies and were gradually forced back north. In the process some Sichuan warlords seized Badong, Zigui and Xingshan, fleecing the populations for all they were worth before departing. The Sichuan warlord, Yang Sen, notably seized Lichuan and Jianshi in October of 1921 and would hold them until February of 1923. Yang Sen was a Taoist master and an avid polygamist. He met the Taoist Master Li Ching-yuen, who claimed he had lived to be 250 years old. He was quite famous, hell Wu Peifu while leading the Zhili clique would take Li Ching-yuen into his home trying to discover his secret method of living for so long. Li Ching-yuen died in 1933, but claimed he produced over 200 descendants and had 24 wives over the course of his very long life. Yang Sen wrote a famous book after his death titled “A Factual Account of the 250 Year-Old Good-Luck Man” Within the book he described Li Ching-yuen "He has good eyesight and a brisk stride; Li stands seven feet tall, has very long fingernails, and a ruddy complexion." Allegedly, Li was born in Qijiang county of Sichuan province back in 1677. At the age of 13 he embarked on a life of gathering herbs in the mountains amongst 3 elders of his village. At 51 years of age he served as a topography advisor in the army of General Yue Zhongqi. At 78 he retired from military service after fighting in a battle at the Golden River, whence he returned to a life of gathering herbs on Snow Mountain of Sichuan province. Due to his military service under Yue Zongqi, the government sent him a document congratulating him on his 100th birthday and this was done on his 150th and 200th. In 1908 Li co-wrote a book a disciple of his, Yang Hexuan called “the secrets of Li Qingyuns immortality”. In 1920 General Xiong Yanghe interviewed Li and published an article about him at the Nanjing university. In 1926 Wu Peifu took him under his home and Li took up a job teaching at Beijing university's Meditation Society branch. In 1927 General Yang Sen invited Li to Wanxian where the first known photograph of the man was taken, if you google him you can see it. After hearing about the famous 200+ year old man, General Chiang Kai-Shek requested he visit him in Nanjing, however when Yang Sen sent envoys to find Li at his hometown of Chenjiachang, his current wife and disciplines broke the news, he had died, the year was 1928. You might be raising an eyebrow, yes, after his supposed death, newspapers began writing pieces claiming he died in 1929, 1930, then the last report was in 1933, no one has ever verified how he died, they all just list natural cases. Now about this fascinating case of his age, Li Ching-yuen claimed he had been born in 1736, it was a professor at Chengdu University, Wu CHung-Chieh who asserted he was born in 1677. According to an article by the New York Times in 1930, Wu discovered imperial records from 1827 congratulating Li on his 150th birthday, then another one for his 200th birthday in 1877. In another New York Times article from 1928, correspondence wrote that many old men of Li's village asserted that their grandfathers all knew him as young boys and that he had been a grown man at the time. Now many researchers have pointed out his claim to be 256 years of age was a multiple of 8, considered a lucky number in Chinese culture. Many researchers also point out the prevalence of such myths as extreme old age to be very common in China and the far east. They believed he was just telling a tall tale like countless others before him. One of Li's disciplines, Master Da Liu said of his master, when Li was 130 years old he encountered an older hermit in the mountains claiming to be 500 years old. This old hermit taught him Baguazhang, that is a style of martial arts and Qigong, these are breathing, meditation and posturing exercises. Alongside dietary habits all combined was what gave the hermit his longevity. Du Liu would say “his master said that his longevity is due to the fact that he performed the exercises every day – regularly, correctly, and with sincerity – for 120 years." Sorry for the extreme side story, but I just found it fascinating haha.  So General Yang Sen had seized Lichuan and Jianshi and would be involved in numerous wars in Sichuan. He often fought the Governor of Sichuan, Xiong Kewu who was gradually defeated by 1923, where upon he took his armies into western Hubei. Yang Sen amongst other warlords exploited the absence of Xiong Kewu and invaded Sichuan. The departure of Xiong Kewu from Sichuan also allowed Petty warlord Kong Gen to seize territory and for a large Honghuzi army led by Lao Yangren to invade Yunxian. Things got so bad for Xiong Kewu, he turned to a very unlikely group to form an alliance, the Spirit Soldiers. Xiong Kewu allied the Spirit armies encamped at Enshi and Hefeng. In 1924 a large part of Xiong Kewu's army were advancing through the Wu Valley, trying to link up with him. The Wu valley was a strategic stronghold for the Spirit armies, thus in order to gain free passage he joined up with them. Chaos would reign supreme in both Hubei and Sichuan for many years, not aided much when General Yang Sen took the governorship over Sichuan. Once governor there he provoked several of his loose allies who all formed a coalition to oust him from his position by early 1925. Like Xiong Kewu, now it was Yang Sen retreating west into Hubei, eventually forming a base at Badong. One of his opponents, the Petty warlord Yuan Zuming, a member of the Guizhou clique invaded the region and seized Lichuan and Shinan, before setting his eyes on Hefeng. Meanwhile the Spirit Armies, bolstered by Xiong Kewu spread again into Sichuan where they offered protection to locals from warlord troops and Honghuzi. They fought a large battle around Wangying that allegedly turned the local river crimson red with blood. By early 1926 the Spirit movement had surged past 100,000 troops and dominated over 40 counties in Hubei. Yet they never fully centralized their organization, rarely coordinated between armies and differing groups and were not heavily armed with firearms. Honestly by becoming a larger force and by becoming more sedentary, it actually spelt their doom. While they were smaller and more mobile, they were harder to catch and less appetizing to warlord armies, now they were fully on the menu. In 1926 three divisions of warlord troops were sent against them. The Spirit armies were absolutely crushed in waves of one sided battles. Their leaders were hunted down and executed, that is if they did not die on the battlefield or simply off themselves prior to being caught. Yet 1926 would bring an entirely new element at play, it was when the Northern Expedition began and such a colossal event would save the Spirit soldiers from complete annihilation.  Don't want to give anything away, but the Northern Expedition would affect both Yang Sen and Xiong Kewu and by proxy the areas they controlled. This would cause further chaos in Hubei and Sichuan which in turn would be exploited by countless figures. For example a large Honghuzi army of Lao Yangren, perhaps 20,000 men strong or more ran rampant in both provinces. Honghuzi loved to follow behind warlord armies, exploiting areas they passed through since the rival warlords would have been kicked out. With the Northern Expedition brushing aside countless warlords in the area, both Honghuzi and Spirit soldiers expanded. Some Spirit Soldiers even decided to join up with a new group hitting the scene, Red Armies. The CCP were falling into a war with the KMT and they began to latch onto anyone who would join forces with them. Two prominent CCP figures, Xu Xiangqian and He Long worked with Spirit Soldiers. He Long came to view them as nothing more than another version of Honghuzi, but acknowledged they wanted to protect the local people which was admirable. Their quasi alliance allowed the Spirit Soldiers to expand into northern and central Sichuan, western Henan and eastern Guizhou well into the 1930s. Despite the incredible amount of wars that would occur over the decades, the last known Spirit Army rebellion would take place in February of 1959.  As you can imagine it was an anti-communist uprising, that occurred in Sizhuang county of Henan province. This was directly a result of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward enacted the year prior. For those who don't know, the Great Leap Forward encompassed a change of pretty much all aspects of Chinese society and it was disastrous to say the least. Mao sought to reconstruct the entire nation from an agrarian economy into a real industrialized society, but on fast forward mode. He did so via peoples communes, while decreeing every possible effort to increase grain yield must be done so they could bring industry to rural China. This resulted in one of the worst man made famines in history. Alongside this came an economic disaster, unbelievable governmental abuses upon the people. An estimated 15-55 million would die. Many resisted the government's actions, but the government had decreed no one could leave their village or farms, thus it made it extremely difficult to coordinate a resistance movement. Desperate peasants tried to resist, alongside countless secret societies. Numerous rebellions broke out, but they were quite small in scale. Armed resistance broke out in Henan in 1959, where large bandit groups began to steal weapons from armories and attacked major roadways. A secret society known as the “shenbingtuan / regiment of spirit soldiers” gathered 1200 fighters from hubei, Sichuan and Shaanxi and began to attack government officers in Sizhuang county. It took the red army roughly 20 days to quell the uprising. Thus ended the Spirit Soldier movement. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The Spirit Soldier Movement was a drop in the bucket for China's Warlord Era. They were a group amongst many others who tried to navigate a very cruel world. As comedic as they may come off, they were brave people who were trying to protect the population from what they deemed to be villains, many became twisted as a result.

On the one hand this episode could be another one about Mopai. But in the end I went back to what is really important: Baguazhang. It starts off with that age old question of how a person can measure qi? And the it goes somewhere else. Hey! It's a Saturday and the garden path leads to where it wants to go. So sit back and relax into it. Enjoy ☺️

Our tricenarian episode is rolled in with the furious clacking of Sifu Venable's PlayStation controller as Master Splinter surrogates his services against hordes of mindless mousers; a little talk of "Bagua" (ie Baguazhang) leads to some diddly riffing on how Sifu and Fode have developed each of the first few SMA Forms in their own respective curriucula, and a shout-out to our Kiwi listeners turns into an interesting open request from Sifu. Thank you for listening to SMAFcast and please SHARE if you love the 7 Forms of Saber Martial Arts!The Official Website of Saber Martial ArtsSubscribe to the SMA YouTube ChannelFollow SMA on Instagram

Let's get real: Are the 72 levels of Mopai achievable? And how do you you know you have achieved any one of those levels?

Recently I read the book ‘The Magus of Java' by author Kosta Danaos. It is a book about Mopai and its then grandmaster John Chang a.k.a John Baharudin a.k.a. Dynamo Jack from Ring of Fire fame. In part 1, I give a basic description of the difference between Baguazhang and Mopai in how qi is cultivated. ☳

Now this is an important question: Is Mopai a martial art? It reads like one in the book. And it is the source of much of the “qualified” criticism about it. Of which… I answer the question. The problem most people have and don't want to admit is that they are seeking something that blinds them to the obvious. Something which all the internal martial arts (including Baguazhang) struggle with. ☵

While in Hong Kong I wanted to do a bit of exploring and eventually I got myself, sort of, lost. Well, not really in the larger scheme of things… but it made for an interesting day out and in the end I managed to score myself a nice new black jade pendant to assist me with my Qi 氣 cultivation while doing Baguazhang 八卦掌. So why black jade? Black jade behaves energetically like a spiritual well. It draws a deposit from all the hard work put into one's self cultivation through the internal martial arts i.e. neigong 內功, ready to be drawn upon when needed as an extra source of inner vitality.

Hello from Hong Kong 香港. In this episode I am recording from my wife's home town and the birth place of Bruce Lee 李小龍. It's been an interesting experience thus far doing Baguazhang 八卦掌 and focusing on cultivating my Yin 陰修. I know that most Taoist cultivation practices focus on Yang 陽. But that is for people who's qi 氣 lacks inner strength. But Baguazhang as an internal martial art is

So recently I started my own personal journey of translating the Tao Te Ching 道德經 as part of my own Taoist experience because 1) I wanted to, and 2) because I have noticed discrepancies between what the typical English version says and what the Chinese version says. And it can get frustrating. But do not worry, I won't be publishing it. But what would like to share in the text is this… While we have essentially two branches of Taoism to choose from:

Ok… So in this episode titled: How not to do Baguazhang 如何不做八卦掌, I'm letting you know about Neidan Master Damo Mitchell's audio by the same name. Listen to it. It's in-depth and worth its weight in gold. It's about an hour long but if you try to rush it and skip sections, you will miss a great deal of important stuff that will either boost your practice or stop incorrect practices that are holding you back. And before you ask, this is not a team-up with Mitchell.

The Drunken Boxing Podcast #052 Christopher Bates is an experienced practitioner of the martial arts with an extensive background in both Burmese and Chinese systems. He was a direct disciple of Master Hong Yixiang in Taiwan since 1982 and is currently studying under Master Hong Zehan is the son of Hong Yixiang. Christopher Bates:Demo of Baguazhang - https://youtu.be/iLy8aELQTkM Taoist Whisk/Wizard Wand - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2bU_u_Fkrk Hong Zehan (Facebook):https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008756285685 Blurred Boundaries (Book): https://amzn.to/3soUZbq ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Impressions of the Stele Forest (Bei Lin) - Xi'An, China - Culture Series Ep.01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi5yR0F__OY * Dragon Body, Tiger Spirit Book available through the Mu Shin Martial Culture Website: www.mushinmartialculture.com or through Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Body-Tiger-Spirit-Translation/dp/9925800307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⚫ Support this channel and all my projects: https://www.patreon.com/mushinmartialculture ⚫ Learn martial arts from me via my Hua Jin Online Learning Program available through the above listed Patreon platform. For more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE1x_-jw-wQ ⚫ Check out my awesome merchandise!: https://www.mushinmartialculture.com/shop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Drunken Boxing Podcast Anchor: https://anchor.fm/the-drunken-boxing-podcast RSS Feed: https://anchor.fm/s/d5c0c08/podcast/rss Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Drunken-Boxing-Podcast-801368680265940 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Mushin Martial Culture: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/mushinmartialculturce Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mushinmartialculture Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mushin_Martial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mushinmartialculture/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-drunken-boxing-podcast ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro/Outro Music Information: Artist: Mujo情 Track Title: Wu Dang Mountain Pt.2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0vg08N1z9G9LrGLkG1nNDS?autoplay=true&v=A Bandcamp: https://mujobeatz.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-forest Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mujobeatz/ Used with permission from Mujo情

Question: What is it like to be a baguazhang Taoist? The answer to that question on the daily life of being a Taoist 道士 or a Baguazhang master 八卦掌大師 is… (drum roll, please) is this: You're a fucking weirdo. Most people have no idea what you are. Or why you would bother chasing a goal that leads to nowhere. Maybe in Asia somewhere, with its exotic locations, people and spices, it would all make sense. But in the Western world. Not so much. In this podcast I talk about how in daily life nothing much changes. I'm not sure who this podcast is for, but as they say in this city… It is what it is.

The urban environment is a tough place to practice, cultivate and master Baguazhang 八卦掌. No matter what people say. And for the most part, it is a lonely path

The way of the Taoist Bagua master is one of resilience. It isn't for everyone. It's a lonely

I finally did it and talked about some weird shit involving Baguazhang - environmental cultivation (of the self). And no, I don't care that to some people it's total woo-woo! I know my shit and it's grounded in experience.

After cultivating 基 Ji, 精 Jing, 氣 Qi, 神 Shen and the 心 Xin (heart-mind) the next cultivation stage is 德 Te (inner power). With the Tao Te Ching 道德經 it is usually referred to as virtue but this a Confucian ideal. And when read as such, it leaves a lot of people confused

Do you want to be a baguazhang immortal? Do you want to be a baguazhang xian? 1. 仙 2. 僊 3. 仚 4. 㒨 5. 僲 6. 屳 7. 佡 Above are the 7 Chinese characters in which to write the word: Xian. Xian means immortal. And then so much more. In this podcast #288 I discuss their different “deeper” meanings in relation to the #taoist #internal_martial_art #cultivation path of #baguazhang #xian #道 #八卦掌 #八卦 #仙

For those of you too impatient to listen to my #baguazhang #八卦掌 podcast, yi 意 is your will or intention. That's it. For the rest of you, I finally delve deeper into the mystical side of baguazhang. This is a stage of Taoist cultivation that's rarely openly discussed because it's usually a very private and/or personal journey that a practitioner has to confront alone. I have also added a special message to Frank regarding Bruce. And while I normally don't get involved in other people's issues, this one involves Baguazhang directly, so that makes it an ongoing concern for me. Not the issue itself, but rather as part of cultivating their Tao 道…

My first episode on the Taoist Heart-Mind of Xin 心 (episode 281), doesn't fair too well with listeners because it's not the rosy blissful description that people want to hear or experience. But if you are a baguazhang 八卦掌 practitioners or cultivator, you'd be wise to listen because without facing certain experiential truths, it will be nigh impossible to cultivate one's Yi 意 or come to grasp the full significance of Wu 無. That's what this episode is about!

Tonight I'm keeping it short and discussing the mysteries of Wu 無 or nothingness. And in particular I will discuss this Taoist concept through the lens of baguazhang 八卦掌. While in this podcast I provide a few real life examples of what it looks like experientially, the sad fact is for most people those examples are what people try their darnedest to avoid. And that is what makes it so hard as a stage to cultivate.

The Drunken Boxing Podcast #046 Yu-Kai Chang is the Chair research professor of the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University. He is also the Director of the Physical Activity and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory; the president of the Society for Sport and Exercise Psychology of Taiwan; the Vice President of the Asian-South Pacific Association of Sport Psychology and the Mental Consultant for the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL)He holds multiple honors and awards from distinguished universities in both Taiwan and the USA for his work and has over 200 publications to his name. He has based much of his work on his background in Chinese martial arts which includes: - Baguazhang: 8th Generation (Dingzi generation), the 6th Generation of Gao Style of Cheng School Baguazhang - Taijiquan: Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan (Yang Sau-Chung and Yang Zhenji Lineages) - Xingyiquan: Hebei Style Xingyi-quan (Zhang Hongqing's lineage) - Northern Shaolin: Cha-Quan, Chang-Quan, Sunbin-Quan - Southern School: Three-Step and Pointing Long Staff (He Shan-Fa) Yu-Kai Chang: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaKtg5ln0W03-wX5N4icRjw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PACNLBGDY/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Richard Amos - The Spirit of Shotokan - Senki - Episode 17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWcHITwjOAQ * Vincent Mei - Baji Tradition for Tomorrow - Senki - Episode 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hKV33wSVLg * Dong Haichuan Poster:https://mu-shin-martial-culture.creator-spring.com/listing/dong-haichuan-masters-series ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Mushin Merchandise Store: https://teespring.com/stores/mu-shin-martial-culture ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⚫ Support this channel and all my projects: https://www.patreon.com/mushinmartialculture ⚫ Learn martial arts from me via my Hua Jin Online Learning Program available through the above listed Patreon platform. For more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE1x_-jw-wQ ⚫ Check out my awesome merchandise!: https://teespring.com/stores/mu-shin-martial-culture ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Drunken Boxing Podcast Anchor: https://anchor.fm/the-drunken-boxing-podcast RSS Feed: https://anchor.fm/s/d5c0c08/podcast/rss Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ The-Drunken-Boxing-Podcast-801368680265940 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Mushin Martial Culture: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/mushinmartialculturce Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mushinmartialculture Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mushin_Martial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mushinmartialculture/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-drunken-boxing-podcast ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro/Outro Music Information: Artist: Mujo情 Track Title: Wu Dang Mountain Pt.2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0vg08N1z9G9LrGLkG1nNDS?autoplay=true&v=A Bandcamp: https://mujobeatz.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-forest Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mujobeatz/ Used with permission from Mujo情

Again and again, it is a repeated comment that in order to cultivate the Taoist path, a practitioner of the way must have virtue or Te 德, or it is all for nought! But what is Te and how do I get some? Is it the same Te as in the Tao Te Ching 道德經？ Yes it is. And as a baguazhang 八卦掌 practitioner I will explain it to you in a way that the urban mind can know it (because you already do) and do something useful with it, without becoming a hermit in the woods.

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True Baguazhang 八卦掌 cultivation can produce in the body, over time, trauma in the mind and body. The ritual of practicing Chazen 茶禪 is about more than just mindfulness. Without a way to cleanse ourselves and consolidate our “gains” we can get stuck in our progression in self-cultivation, especially if our Tao 道 is more or less locked into an urban environment. By listening to this podcast, hopefully, the listener will get a better appreciation of my earlier podcasts around the art of making and drinking tea.

Well, I'm finally doing it and I'm gonna talk about Baguazhang master Sun Lutang 孫祿堂 (1860 – 1933). Disciple of master Cheng Tinghua 程廷華. Master Sun is important because he was the first to produce baguazhang manuals (which are still available today): Baguaquan xue (A study of eight trigrams boxing) published 1916; Baguajian xue (A study of eight trigrams straight sword) published 1927.

Whether you are a traditional Taoist cultivator or you are ascending through the baguazhang path, there is a stage that must be confronted in order to truly grasp the true significance of what you are doing. And that is the stage of Xin 心. In Taoism it is traditionally referred to as the heart-mind or mind-heart, and is sometimes interchanged with either the stages of Shen 神 or Tao 道. But that is because not everything in Taoism is universally agreed upon. So in this episode, I will talk about my own experiences and how Xin 心 relates to Baguazhang 八卦掌.

Revision of the 5 baguazhang cultivation stages of Ji 基, Li 力, Qi 氣, Yi 意 and Shen 神. Actually there are other levels, but for most Baguazhang practitioners these are the most important and exist like a alternative path or version to the Taoist one. Here I discusss the similarities between the two…

Before a person even attempts to cultivate the three Taoist treasures of Jingqishen 精氣神, there is the beginning of Xing 形 or form/shape. The baguazhang equivalent is called Ji 基, and it is the foundation of all that is to come next. In this podcast I introduce the listener to this much neglected stepping stone.

Taoism has its self cultivation path of the three treasures: Jing Qi Shen 精氣神. And sometimes they add a fourth level of Tao 道. The internal martial art of baguazhang 八卦掌 also has its parallel equivalents of Li, Qi, Yi and Shen 力氣意神. In this podcast I will be discussing (lightly) what they are and how they match up to the Taoist version of things.

For the final podcast episode of 2022, I ask this simple question: Is doing Xingyiquan the same as doing Baguazhang internal martial arts? Both styles are Taoist in origin and both styles fall under the category of internal martial arts, but are they the same? And the answer to both questions is NO! While FaJin 化勁 may be a Xingyiquan and Taichi concept, it does not exist in baguazhang philosophy or training. What we have is called Jingong 勁功, and you can learn all about it in my book: The Baguazhang Jin of War.

In this episode I answer the question: Must I be or do I need to be a Taoist to do or practice the internal martial art of baguazhang? Listen to it, to learn further on what you signed up for. Some of you already have your answer but for others it may be enlightening, even if only in a tiny hum-drum sort of way.

What's the difference between having rituals and having habits in Baguazhang? And does it affect my neigong practice?

Both are internal martial arts styles, but is doing baguazhang the same as doing taichi? And the answer is… NO! A lot of people, who don't know any better, make this mistake all the time. If you are listening to this podcast, you probably already know the difference but it doesn't hurt to go over it again.

The biggest question I get asked repeatedly is: Is the story real or true? And that's a good question to ask and it all depends on what you are actually wanting to experience. Let the Tao 道 be your guide.

Last night I finished reading the biography ‘The Chronicles of Tao' by author Deng Ming-Dao. Whom, some of you on the spiritual Taoist path, would already be familiar with. This book is supposed to be a loose biography of his spiritual teacher Kwan Saihung. As a lesson in Taoist spirituality and in what the followers of the Huashan sect did to attain immortality, I enjoyed it thoroughly. And it was for me a kind of revision of my own journey: How far I have come and how far I still have to go. As a book on martial arts, basically chronicles how much martial arts in general has changed with the modern times. What we are learning now sometimes feels like we are all just a bunch of overweight middle-aged men with delusions of by-gone grandeur. And for those of you wondering where the baguazhang fits into this book? It only really appears as a brief style of fighting Kwan Saihung's own spiritual teacher uses to defeat a Xingyiquan master. This book is not really a book about martial arts and most people will find it either boring or implausible. But that line of thought is for the skeptics. For someone like me, however, I got to cross-check events in the book with my own weird shit! And if you are a person who is keen to walk the path of an immortal, you are just going to have to accept that there are somethings in this world that do not and will never fit into the current version of reality that modern civilisation holds so dear. While at the same time to be fair on ourselves, from a western background, some ideas in the book are not really Taoist, but are coming from a typical Chinese mindset of what Taoism is without really knowing the full scope of Chinese civilisational history. For example, if you go back to the Zhou Dynasty, there was essentially no such thing as Taoism as we know it because “all” the Chinese schools of thought were natively Taoist. Lao Tzu 老子 and Chuang Tzu 莊子 only professed one particular version of it. The main difference between Lao Tzu and Confucius, was that Confucius tried to bring order out of perceived chaos while Lao Tzu accepted that chaos was already a form of order in itself. Most of the other ancient sages tended to specialise their Taoist ways towards the particular field of study that they were expert in. Since then Taoism had been shaped and reshaped many times by outside influences. Internal Alchemy or Neidan 內丹術 developed during the late Han Dynasty with the arrival of Buddhism. Meditation, reincarnation and karma are all Buddhist ideas. Before Buddhism, Taoism was (and still us based upon) a mix of shamanism, animism and Chinese folk beliefs. And then during the Tang Dynasty – Christianity arrived in China. Called the religion of Light 景教, it is the reason why in Taoism there is now a Chinese hell presided over by the Ox headed devil. And that the Goddess of Mercy is the Virgin Mary with Chinese characteristics. The Three Pure ones are a reworked version of the Holy Trinity. And that the last supper with the holy grail is essentially the Elixir of Immortality, that if one is holy enough, the Jade Emperor can bestow on them. But I don't bring all this history up to shock anybody. Rather it is to enlighten the baguazhang practitioner that baguazhang is not just a martial art, but a form of being in church and being in communion with the Divine. I give this book 5 stars out of 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. CHRONICLES OF TAO - The secret life of a Taoist Master By Deng Ming-Dao, author of ‘365 Tao' HarperOne ISBN: 978-0-06-250219-3

The proof is in the pudding. As they say. So you say I'm full of shit with my stories, even though the Genchitaofu Baguazhang was my proving ground as a baguazhang master. Rather than dismissing what I am about, I challenge others to go and have their own Baguazhang adventure and prove it to themselves what it means to be a master of this art. In this episode, I discuss how far I still have to go before I even remotely can say my life has been awesome.

When's the best time to learn baguazhang? Well, not 5 minutes before you to go out and fight. As a martial art it takes years to master it. It looks s unrealistic to think you can learn it over night.

We have all asked the question: When is the best time to practice baguazhang? And typically you'll get an answer that the Shifu wants you to follow. But few people ask why, and fewer still know why. But it is important to know why if one truly wants to progress further. In this podcast you will hear my answer to this question. You may have heard it before but I strongly suspect that a lot of baguazhang practitioners have only a surface comprehension of when.

Scott Park Phillips teaches traditional Chinese Martial Arts in a non-traditional way. His goal is to access the original intent of the creators of Chinese Internal Martial Arts to get at the core of their inspiration. He is the author of two books: Possible Origins, Chinese Martial Arts, Theater and Religion, And, Tai Chi, Baguazhang and The Golden Elixir, Internal Martial Arts Before the Boxer Uprising. He lives in Boulder, Colorado and has been teaching for over 30 years.At the age ten Scott Park Phillips began studying the traditional opera style of Northern Shaolin with Bing Gong a noted disciple of Kuo Lien-ying, one of the first teachers of Chinese Martial Arts in the West. He was a disciple of the late Daoist master Liu Ming who transmitted the Orthodox Daoist methods of the Golden Elixir (Jindan), Non-conceptual Meditation (Zuowang), Daoyin (emptying and transforming), and Dreaming. Scott first studied improvisational theater at age fifteen with the legendary Keith Johnstone. In his twenties, performing modern Dance, Scott was drawn to apprentice in the exquisite high arts of North Indian Dance with Pandit Chitresh Das, and Congolese Dance with Malonga Casquelourd. Living in San Francisco during the height of the ethnic dance explosion, he danced with masters of traditions from all over the world.In this Episode we discuss:History of DaoyinHistory of Wester SomaticsTheater & The Martial Arts in ChinaRitual in Traditional Chinese Martial ArtsThe Golden ElixirPedagogy in Traditional Chinese ArtsScott is teaching a workshop listeners to the podcast might be interested in: Exploring the Origins of Chinese Internal Martial Arts JUN 27, 2022 - JUL 01, 2022  The Golden Elixir in Movement, Meditation, Daoyin, Dance, Theater and Games . It is at Eastover Estates in Massachusetts. Scott also teaches monthly Meditations and Daodejing studies online. Information is at https://scottparkphillips.substack.com/

To learn more about Tevia and about White Tiger Qigong, visithttps://whitetigerqigong.comTevia Feng is the Master Instructor and founder of White Tiger Qigong.Born with chronic illness and suffering, he began practicing martial arts, qigong and meditation at the age of 7 to heal himself. Tevia Feng was a qigong student of Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming in the early 2000s and credits master Yang for putting him on a path of synthesizing qigong with modern sports therapy and medical research.As a student of qigong, he journeyed all around China and the world seeking the greatest masters including northwestern part of Hubei, Beijing and Southern China, where he met and trained extensively with several true qigong masters. Throughout his journey, he has met many qigong masters around the world, acquiring rare skills, from unique breathing techniques and exercises to delving into the heart of qi energy. Each master has shaped the Qigong training he teaches today.He has since been published featured articles in the largest qigong magazine in the world. He has self-published three books on qigong and has books translated into multiple languages. He has been named one of the top 3 qigong masters in Indonesia.As the master instructor of White Tiger Qigong, he has taught over 4,000 students from around the world, in countries including China, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the US. White Tiger has almost 60,000 members. He has worked closely with terminally ill individuals to professional athletes, ballet dancers, the North American Muay Thai champion, the 2019 female Karate world champion, martial arts champions, yoga instructors, hedge fund managers, political figures, military elite, UHNWI, circus performers, health care professionals, psychologists, medical doctors and more.Through White Tiger Qigong, his mission is to open the pathway for people to ignite transformation and maximize potential, scaling across communities to create a global movement for a shift in consciousness and promote global healing.A Lifelong Practitioner of Qigong and Internal Martial ArtsTevia Feng has lived and traveled throughout China from Beijing to Taiwan studying in various martial art forms including rare forms of Martial Qigong, Medical Qigong, Xuan Wu Quan, Xing Yi Quan. and Taiji QuanVarious styles of Baguazhang including Wudangshan Baguazhang, Bagua Lian Huan Zhang, Yin Baguazhang, Cheng Bagua, Emei Shan Bagua and more.While in China he also studied at multiple Taoist monasteries and temples. He learned additional martial art forms with various masters, hermits and Taoist masters studying:Golden Elixir QigongWhite Tiger/ Green Dragon Breath5 Element QigongMedical Qigong8 Trigram QigongTraditional Microcosmic OrbitEsoteric BaguazhangPrimordial BreathVarious Forms of Nei Dan (Internal Alchemy)5 Animal Qigong (Hua Tuo)Tevia Feng has trained with these Masters of Qigong and Internal Martial ArtsTevia Feng has since studied with a variety of masters including, but not limited to:Daoist Abbot Luo Pin Cho of the Tian Ji Dao Sect (Wuyi Mountain, China)Daoist Abbot Xu Zhong of the Zhi Zhi An Temple (Wuyi Mountain, China)Luo Jin Hua of Sha Guo Zheng (Yunnan, China)Mao Jing Song of Sha Guo Zheng (Yunnan, China)Master Yuan Xiu Gang of the Sang Feng Sect (Wudang Mountain, China)Dr. Ming Wu (20th Generation Fengyang Taoist Chinese Medicine and Qigong)Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (USA)Master Chen Si Xing of the Sang Feng Sect (Wudang Mountain, China)Master Kenneth Cohen (USA)Master Zhang Yuxuan (Beijing, China)Master Li Chun Ling (Beijing, China)Master Mantak Chia (Thailand)Master Edy Suwita (Sumatra, Indonesia)

To learn more about Tevia and about White Tiger Qigong, visithttps://whitetigerqigong.comTevia Feng is the Master Instructor and founder of White Tiger Qigong.Born with chronic illness and suffering, he began practicing martial arts, qigong and meditation at the age of 7 to heal himself. Tevia Feng was a qigong student of Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming in the early 2000s and credits master Yang for putting him on a path of synthesizing qigong with modern sports therapy and medical research.As a student of qigong, he journeyed all around China and the world seeking the greatest masters including northwestern part of Hubei, Beijing and Southern China, where he met and trained extensively with several true qigong masters. Throughout his journey, he has met many qigong masters around the world, acquiring rare skills, from unique breathing techniques and exercises to delving into the heart of qi energy. Each master has shaped the Qigong training he teaches today.He has since been published featured articles in the largest qigong magazine in the world. He has self-published three books on qigong and has books translated into multiple languages. He has been named one of the top 3 qigong masters in Indonesia.As the master instructor of White Tiger Qigong, he has taught over 4,000 students from around the world, in countries including China, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the US. White Tiger has almost 60,000 members. He has worked closely with terminally ill individuals to professional athletes, ballet dancers, the North American Muay Thai champion, the 2019 female Karate world champion, martial arts champions, yoga instructors, hedge fund managers, political figures, military elite, UHNWI, circus performers, health care professionals, psychologists, medical doctors and more.Through White Tiger Qigong, his mission is to open the pathway for people to ignite transformation and maximize potential, scaling across communities to create a global movement for a shift in consciousness and promote global healing.A Lifelong Practitioner of Qigong and Internal Martial ArtsTevia Feng has lived and traveled throughout China from Beijing to Taiwan studying in various martial art forms including rare forms of Martial Qigong, Medical Qigong, Xuan Wu Quan, Xing Yi Quan. and Taiji QuanVarious styles of Baguazhang including Wudangshan Baguazhang, Bagua Lian Huan Zhang, Yin Baguazhang, Cheng Bagua, Emei Shan Bagua and more.While in China he also studied at multiple Taoist monasteries and temples. He learned additional martial art forms with various masters, hermits and Taoist masters studying:Golden Elixir QigongWhite Tiger/ Green Dragon Breath5 Element QigongMedical Qigong8 Trigram QigongTraditional Microcosmic OrbitEsoteric BaguazhangPrimordial BreathVarious Forms of Nei Dan (Internal Alchemy)5 Animal Qigong (Hua Tuo)Tevia Feng has trained with these Masters of Qigong and Internal Martial ArtsTevia Feng has since studied with a variety of masters including, but not limited to:Daoist Abbot Luo Pin Cho of the Tian Ji Dao Sect (Wuyi Mountain, China)Daoist Abbot Xu Zhong of the Zhi Zhi An Temple (Wuyi Mountain, China)Luo Jin Hua of Sha Guo Zheng (Yunnan, China)Mao Jing Song of Sha Guo Zheng (Yunnan, China)Master Yuan Xiu Gang of the Sang Feng Sect (Wudang Mountain, China)Dr. Ming Wu (20th Generation Fengyang Taoist Chinese Medicine and Qigong)Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (USA)Master Chen Si Xing of the Sang Feng Sect (Wudang Mountain, China)Master Kenneth Cohen (USA)Master Zhang Yuxuan (Beijing, China)Master Li Chun Ling (Beijing, China)Master Mantak Chia (Thailand)Master Edy Suwita (Sumatra, Indonesia)

To learn more about Tevia and about White Tiger Qigong, visithttps://whitetigerqigong.comTevia Feng is the Master Instructor and founder of White Tiger Qigong.Born with chronic illness and suffering, he began practicing martial arts, qigong and meditation at the age of 7 to heal himself. Tevia Feng was a qigong student of Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming in the early 2000s and credits master Yang for putting him on a path of synthesizing qigong with modern sports therapy and medical research.As a student of qigong, he journeyed all around China and the world seeking the greatest masters including northwestern part of Hubei, Beijing and Southern China, where he met and trained extensively with several true qigong masters. Throughout his journey, he has met many qigong masters around the world, acquiring rare skills, from unique breathing techniques and exercises to delving into the heart of qi energy. Each master has shaped the Qigong training he teaches today.He has since been published featured articles in the largest qigong magazine in the world. He has self-published three books on qigong and has books translated into multiple languages. He has been named one of the top 3 qigong masters in Indonesia.As the master instructor of White Tiger Qigong, he has taught over 4,000 students from around the world, in countries including China, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the US. White Tiger has almost 60,000 members. He has worked closely with terminally ill individuals to professional athletes, ballet dancers, the North American Muay Thai champion, the 2019 female Karate world champion, martial arts champions, yoga instructors, hedge fund managers, political figures, military elite, UHNWI, circus performers, health care professionals, psychologists, medical doctors and more.Through White Tiger Qigong, his mission is to open the pathway for people to ignite transformation and maximize potential, scaling across communities to create a global movement for a shift in consciousness and promote global healing.A Lifelong Practitioner of Qigong and Internal Martial ArtsTevia Feng has lived and traveled throughout China from Beijing to Taiwan studying in various martial art forms including rare forms of Martial Qigong, Medical Qigong, Xuan Wu Quan, Xing Yi Quan. and Taiji QuanVarious styles of Baguazhang including Wudangshan Baguazhang, Bagua Lian Huan Zhang, Yin Baguazhang, Cheng Bagua, Emei Shan Bagua and more.While in China he also studied at multiple Taoist monasteries and temples. He learned additional martial art forms with various masters, hermits and Taoist masters studying:Golden Elixir QigongWhite Tiger/ Green Dragon Breath5 Element QigongMedical Qigong8 Trigram QigongTraditional Microcosmic OrbitEsoteric BaguazhangPrimordial BreathVarious Forms of Nei Dan (Internal Alchemy)5 Animal Qigong (Hua Tuo)Tevia Feng has trained with these Masters of Qigong and Internal Martial ArtsTevia Feng has since studied with a variety of masters including, but not limited to:Daoist Abbot Luo Pin Cho of the Tian Ji Dao Sect (Wuyi Mountain, China)Daoist Abbot Xu Zhong of the Zhi Zhi An Temple (Wuyi Mountain, China)Luo Jin Hua of Sha Guo Zheng (Yunnan, China)Mao Jing Song of Sha Guo Zheng (Yunnan, China)Master Yuan Xiu Gang of the Sang Feng Sect (Wudang Mountain, China)Dr. Ming Wu (20th Generation Fengyang Taoist Chinese Medicine and Qigong)Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (USA)Master Chen Si Xing of the Sang Feng Sect (Wudang Mountain, China)Master Kenneth Cohen (USA)Master Zhang Yuxuan (Beijing, China)Master Li Chun Ling (Beijing, China)Master Mantak Chia (Thailand)Master Edy Suwita (Sumatra, Indonesia)

In this episode Will and Tj discuss what set ups in sparring and combat are or are not. We also discuss some of our favorites and some that we have seen that we like. Please, if you are not, follow us on fb, ig and patreon!Thanks for listening!Support the show (https://cash.app/$coffeefu)

This episode of the Somatic Primer Podcast features Tim Cartmell. Tim  has over 30 years of experience in martial arts including Kung Fu San Su, Xing Yi Quan , Ba Gua Zhang, Tai Ji Quan, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Tim is the author of the best selling book "Effortless Combat Throws," and "Passing the Guard." He is the translator of the several books including  "The Method of Chinese Wrestling" and "Chin Na Fa: Traditional Chinese Submission Grappling."  He teaches full time in Huntington Beach CA, where he has combined the stand-up fighting of Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, and Taijiquan with the ground work of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to create his Shen Wu curriculum.Tim and Bryson discuss:History and development of health concepts and traditional marital arts in ChinaTim's studies in China Biomechanics in the martial arts and the similarities to Western Somatic practicesTraditional approaches to teaching and studying different disciplinesThe interconnectedness of meditation and somatic practices Remember to subscribe to the Somatic Primer Podcast  for more engaging conversations. Please give us a 5-star rating in Apple Podcasts if you enjoy our show. You can find out more about Tim at http://www.shenwu.com/index.html. Thank you for listening!

In a stunning dual role, international star Jet Li portrays Gabriel Yulaw, a police officer confronted with a sinister form of himself escaped from an advanced, parallel universe and intent on killing Gabriel. His alter ego's hunt culminates in a fateful battle between good and evil that changes Gab… MORERelease date: November 2, 2001 (USA)Director: James WongStarring: Jet Li; Delroy Lindo; Carla Gugino; Jason StathamMusic by: Trevor RabinBox office: $72.7 millionProduction companies: Columbia Pictures; Revolution Studios; Hard Eight PicturesYour Dad's Action Movies please Like Share and Subscribe All Links and Platforms herehttps://lnk.bio/angrydadpodcastPodcast SponsorsThe Sponsor of Angry Dad Podcast IFBB Pro Jon Andersen Instagram @thejonandersen https://www.instagram.com/thejonandersen/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jon.s.andersen.3Twitter https://twitter.com/THEJONANDERSENTHRIVE TransformationsChange your physique in 90 DAYS! Results in one week!https://www.jonandersencoaching.com/copy-of-fb-landing-page Hemp Bombs CBD@Hempbombs hempbombs.pxf.io/angrydadpodcastStart Your Own Podcast With Spreaker @spreaker https://spreaker.pxf.io/angrydad CH Concrete Servicing the San Francisco Bay Area Offering concrete and landscaping services. Paving and concrete stampsPlus sidewalks, driveways, patios and walkways and all concrete custom workInstagram @ch_concrete_bayarea https://instagram.com/ch_concrete_bayarea?igshid=ka0z80g7222c Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CHHConcrete/Gmail cathconcrete@gmail.comContact +1 (510) 314-5343Sleep Terror ClothingIG @sleepterrorclothing Twitter @SleepTerrorClothingCoWebsite www.sleepterrorclothing.comFeast Mode Instagram @feastmodeflavorsWedsite https://feastmodeflavors.com?sca_ref=1002565.4gbeCWqBtG10% off with Promo Code AngryDad Death Wish Coffee IG @deathwishcoffeehttps://imp.i224272.net/x9Q1n3angrydad10% off with Promo Code AngryDad #YourDadsActionMovies #AngryDad #JetLi

Hello people of the world! Oh how I have missed you all so much. I am pumped to be back with an incredible interview to share this week with Mimi Kuo-Deemer. Mimi is an author and teacher of both students and other teachers of qigong, internal martial arts (6th generation Baguazhang), mindfulness and yoga. I got the chance to pick her brain for an hour about Qigong, Chinese medicine, the connection between our organs and the elements outside, and so much more. I learned a lot and I can't wait to share. Enjoy!   Follow me: IG: @jackieg.tv Twitter: @jackieeg7 Support this Podcast: Patreon.com/jackiegtv Buy My Book: Gumroad.com/l/findinghome     Follow Mimi: IG: @mimikuodeemer www.mkdeemer.com  

In this episode we discuss the great Xingyi master Single Saber Li Cunyi. We discuss Li's early life, some fight stories and Li's mission later in life to spread the gospel of xingyiquan and martial arts for national pride. In part two we will talk more about Li's connections to Baguazhang. Then we discuss the neigong principle of bending and stretching.  theneijiaquanpodcast.com