Phoenix Mountain Tai Chi – Foundation Course 1: Fascia Mastery

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.

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.

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

Welcome

• Recent Updates (10/22/2024)
• Tai Chi Tune-Up: Live Coaching on Zoom
• A Message from the Instructor
• Learning Resources

Module 1: Fascia and Fajin, the Elastic Power of Your Fascia

• Shengong for Aligning Your Mind For Learning
• Lesson 1: Feel and Use Your Fascia
• Tips: How to be a helpful practice partner
• Lesson 2: Fascia Receive and Send through your Arm

Module 2: Awareness of Other People’s Fascia

• Lesson 3A: Sense Another Person’s Fascia
• Lesson 3B: Details of Fascia Depth and Awareness
• Lesson 4: Solo Exercises for Fascia Sensitivity
• Lesson 5: Application – Moving Someone Who Resists – Using Your Fingers
• Lesson 6: Application – Student Demo of Moving Someone Who Resists – Using Fingers
• Shengong For Removing Obstacles To Successful Learning
• Lesson 7A: About Party Tricks in Kung Fu and Tai Chi
• Lesson 7B: Party Trick – Pinky Kungfu

Module 3: Developing Dantien, the Control Center of Fascia

• Lesson 8: Activate Your Lower Dantien
• Lesson 9: Activate Your Middle Dantien
• Lesson 10: Discussion on the Upper Dantien

Module 4: Controlling movement through Fascia

• Lesson 11A: Application – Neutralizing a Push – Using Your Fingers
• Lesson 11B – About Neutralizing a Push
• Lesson 12: Application – Student Demo of Neutralizing a Push – Using Fingers
• Lesson 13: Fascia Control Through Your Palms
• Lesson 14: Yielding and Countering Fascia Control
• Lesson 15: Moving Someone Who Resists Using Your Palms
• Lesson 16: Application – Neutralizing a Push – Borrowing Force Against Them
• Lesson 17: Application – Neutralizing a Push – Redirecting Using Palms
• Lesson 18: Fascia Control Through Your Wrist and Forearm
• Lesson 19: Application – Creating Sticking – Using Wrists

Module 5: Applications in Tai Chi and Push Hands

• Lesson 20: Application – Fascia in Tai Chi Rollback
• Lesson 21: Application – Fascia in Splitting & Diagonal Flying, Joint Locking
• Lesson 22A: Introduction to Tai Chi Push Hand
• Lesson 22B: Using Fascia in Tai Chi Push Hands
• Lesson 23: Push Hands and the Power of Superior Awareness
• Lesson 24: Sensing the Fascia Line for Throws & Take Downs

What’s Next?

• Course Completion
• What’s Ahead

Supplemental Material

• Tai Chi Tune-Up: Live Coaching Livestream from July 13th, 2024
• Tai Chi Tune-Up: Live Coaching Livestream from Oct 19, 2024

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