Series: Central Pillar

None of the lesson in this series have been reviewed.

Below are the descriptions for each of the lessons included in the series:

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -8/22/11- Attention Brings Order

  In this class Sang discussed the principle of how attention brings order and when there’s attention, it allows you to notice the order that’s forming. He explained how the mind leads the energy and the energy leads the body.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -8/23/11- Energy and Emotion

  In this class Sang covered the central column again in great detail and the connection between energy and emotion. He discussed how we have a mind, energy and body and that in this cycle we are covering the energy system.

  The central column is actually for enlightenment, as well as the human being's central processing system.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -8/24/11- Third-Eye Chakra

  In this class Sang covered the third-eye Chakra in detail, and explained the rest of the Chakras in the beginning of the class.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -8/25/11- Heart Chakra

  In this class Sang talked about the heart Chakra, went into a deep discussion and much detail about the heart Chakra.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -8/26/11- Dan-Tian Chakra

  In this class Sang introduced the second Chakra, the Dan-Tian, and described it in great detail.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/2/11- Dan-Tian Breathing

  In this class Sang reviewed the practice and went further on the Dan-Tian breathing, and also covered Brush Knee as the move that we’ll be covering for this term.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/5/11- Crown & Perineum

  In this class Sang covered the Dan-Tian in contrast to the crown and the perineum, or heaven and earth, and provided the full context for practice.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/6/11- Main Practice

  In this class Sang went through the whole main practice extensively.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/7/11- Physical Connection

  In this class Sang covered the physical portion of the Dan-Tian after having covered the energetic aspects, and the relation to all the different Chakras.

  He showed how the connection starts from the big toe, to your index fingers, and connects from your whole foot to the pinky finger, and how that actually forms the basis of standing meditation and eventually leads to the rest of the form. This is the beginning of the form.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/9/11- Smiling Practice

  In this class Sang reviewed the entire meditation, starting from the warm-up exercise, the shaking through the hitting, through breathing and meditation.

  The special theme was the practice of smiling, as a means to invite the energy in.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/12/11- Dan-Tian Meditation

  In this class Sang reviewed the Dan-Tian meditation and added more detail.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/14/11- Plug into Universal Chi

  In this class Sang taught how to connect to the universal Chi by plugging in directly, instead of working off the battery model, and constantly having to recharge oneself. In this way, a person learns to have sustainable energy supplies, instead of accumulating energy and then using it up. Through this practice, the Dan-Tian also expands.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/16/11- Breathing & Meditation

  In this class Sang covered Dan-Tian breathing, and many new details on the meditation practice.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/19/11- Dan-Tian Energy Flow

  In this class we continued on to cover the Dan-Tian, introducing the actual sense of energy flowing in to your Dan-Tian, through the interaction between the front and the back, where you feel the energy interaction as if they were between the palms like in the energy sensing exercises. We reviewed the meditation exercises from all the loosening up exercises, the tapping, the rubbing, into the breathing, and all the way into the main meditation.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/22/11-

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/23/11- Dan-Tian Breathing

  This class focused in detail on the Dan-Tian breathing, from multiple perspectives: the bones, the front and the back of the stomach wall, the pelvis and the diaphragm. Feeling the center of the Dan-Tian by feeling the whole body, learning the bone density breathing, and bringing the Dan-Tian breathing to a fuller perspective, from two dimensional to three dimensional.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/26/11- Pre-Meditation Exercise

  In this class Sang covered the importance of the pre-meditation Qi-Gong warm-up exercises, the shaking, the rubbing, the smacking, scalp massage and explained how the body needs to be to do it properly. How the mind needs to be in the body since you are entering into a mind-body exercise, what happens if you go straight into meditation without actually having slowed your body down and relaxed it, and the sign that you’re in your body. We covered the correlation between the Dan-Tian and the anus today for the actual Dan-Tian breathing exercises, and the significance of the triple warmer.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/28/11- Qi-Gong and Breathing

  In this class Sang covered in detail the practice and benefits of the tapping aspect of the Qi-Gong warm-up exercise. He also covered the Dan-Tian breathing from the perspective of how to connect from the other points around the Dan-Tian, from the perspective of the anus, and how to connect from everything from the anus out. As you go through this, your awareness of your Dan-Tian heightens and your body relaxation deepens. Also covered is how the breathing to the bone amplifies the energy.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

• SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi -9/30/11- Qi-Gong Warm-up

  This class covered the concept of the shaking and the tapping in the Qi-Gong warm-up exercise, what it does with the body and its purpose. Sang explained the shoulder girdle and the pelvic girdle, and how the shaking loosens up the outside and the tapping opens up the inside. He covered the breathing exercise in which you draw up through the perineum all the way to the crown.

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  The focus of this cycle is the Central Pillar, which is your internal source of Enlightenment and Wisdom. It contains energy gateways called Chakras, which are the doors to your inner life, to your deepest emotions and profound sources of energy.

  When these gateways are blocked, you can feel disconnected, confused, lonely, and tense. When open, You feel trust, joy, and courage. You are always connected with the Source, your mind has profound clarity, your heart is ever loving, and your body is relaxed and sensitive, yet strong.

  We went through these centers to learn meditation, breathing, and physical techniques so that you can feel when they are closed, and open them up on your own. With these tools, you can heal yourself and find everything you need inside.

  DojoKitchen
  School of SUN-SHEN Tai-Chi
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.dojokitchen.com

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