Phoenix Mountain Tai Chi – Foundation Course 1: Fascia Mastery

Fascia Mastery – Transcending Force With Effortless Sensitivity

Discover the inner fascia web that guides our every movement. Develop the Tai Chi sensitivity to tap into this connection with your awareness. Instantly control another person’s balance to overcome greater forces with the lightest effort.

Fascia

Where it all comes together

Beneath our skin, and alongside our muscles and tendons, a connective tissue called Fascia runs all through our body. It connects every corner of our body to help us control our every movement.

The Key to Effortless Control

An Ancient Secret Advantage

Ancient masters of Kung Fu and Shuai Jiao (Chinese Wrestling), always striving for improvements to their skill, discovered a surprising secret. By directing your force along certain paths on a person’s body, you can powerfully limit their movement and impact their balance. They deeply investigated these methods. These techniques became what we now call Fascia Control, or Fascia Tapping.

By mastering this skill, you can let go of habits of hard struggling, and replace it with a powerful method of a soft & effortless influence. This shift in mindset will prepare you for the more subtle skills in Tai Chi internal practice, and allow you to extract even deeper benefits from your Tai Chi practice. Because when you are always relaxed and soft, your body can feel, heal, and function better, can it not?

For these reasons, we call Fascia Mastery a Pre-Internal skills. And because of these reasons, it is the best first step into the practice of Tai Chi Internal Power.

What You’ll Learn In Foundation Course 1: Fascia Mastery

Course Objectives

• Discover Jin – Make use of your body’s natural elastic quality to effortlessly receive and generate force.
• Utilize Tensegrity – Activate the power of the Fascia spring in your body that forms the physical basis of Peng.
• Develop Ting Jin – Open your awareness of Fascia and how forces travel along them in another person’s body.
• Fascia Tapping – Instantly find another person’s center and seize control of their force and balance.
• Applications – Unlock Tai Chi movement applications to throw your opponent and control with joint locks while neutralizing their resistance to your technique.

Course curriculum

• Welcome
• Module 1: Fascia and Fajin, the Elastic Power of Your Fascia
• Module 2: Awareness of Other People’s Fascia
• Module 3: Developing Dantien, the Control Center of Fascia
• Module 4: Controlling movement through Fascia
• Module 5: Applications in Tai Chi and Push Hands
• What’s Next?
• Supplemental Material

About Shifu Lin

Shifu Lin is a lineage holder in Yang Tai Chi, Chen Tai Chi, Yin Bagua, Plum Flower Mantis, Eight Step Mantis, and Nanjing Guoshuguan Shaolin with more than two decades of teaching experience.

He was awarded medals for swordsmanship, Shaolin, and Northern Chinese martial arts internationally in Shandong and has developed numerous martial arts training and health treatment programs combining Western medical science, Qigong healing, spiritual healing, and traditional Chinese martial arts.

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