{"product_id":"tai-chi-push-hands-david-w-grantham-9781594398605","title":"Tai Chi Push Hands","description":"Push Hands is the “other” part of tai chi that makes your practice a true living art\n \nTai chi push hands practice is a necessary next step for tai chi practitioners who wish to make their art come alive. Push hands practice requires two people to engage in a variety of “light touch” moving and walking routines. By practicing these movements, practitioners begin to develop tai chi’s sensing, listening, and yielding skills. Combined, these skills are the first step for developing your tai chi as a martial art.\n \nThe Dao De Jing classic reminds us that knowing others (an opponent) is important for knowing ourselves. By develop tai chi push hand skills, one begins to obtain a profound sense of feeling of your own body and mind. This ability aids greatly in regulating and controlling body, balance, health, perseverance, compassion, and overall spirit.\n \nIt is no mistake that tai chi offers a lifetime of continued learning and progress; the goal is a deep understanding of yourself and your role in nature.\n \nIn this book, you will learn\n \n \nThe theory of tai chi pushing hands\n \nTai chi qigong foundation practice\n \nTai chi jing (power) practice\n \nTwo-person stationary push hands practice\n \nTwo-person moving push hands practice\n \nTai chi rollback and press push hands practice\n \nInternational standard push hands routine\n \nTwo-person free style push hands\n \nMartial art applications in tai chi push hands practice\n \n \nDr. Yang reminds us “tai chi chuan was created based on the martial applications which were used for self-defense. Every movement of tai chi chuan has its unique martial purpose. Without this martial root, tai chi chuan practice will limited to a dance, lacking a deeper meaning or a deeper feeling.”\n\n\n\n\nThis book is complemented by two companion videos sold separately.\n\n\nTai Chi Pushing Hands 1 - Yang Style Single and Double Pushing Hands\n\nTai Chi Pushing Hands 2 - Yang Style Single and Double Pushing Hands\n\n\nAvailable wherever DVD and Streaming videos are sold.","brand":"YMAA Publication Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51097365872928,"sku":"9781594398605","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781594398605.jpg?v=1781111949","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/tai-chi-push-hands-david-w-grantham-9781594398605","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}