I did exactly as described. I got the floating arms feeling. BUT I don't know if I do pushing the wall properly after a broken back pushing the wall seems to put a great deal of strain on it. (hurts) I did enjoy and will continue. Perhaps I will find something to help the back.

Deserttree - Just as I mentioned above, with any kind of health concerns, take it easy with this exercise. If you got the floating arms feeling, then you did it right, and you did it enough, and you don't need to do it more. We have LOTS of students with all kinds of back injuries and compromises. Most of them join us in our Complete Course because of these problems and the healing we provide. We'll have more information coming up soon that will help: about the 70% and 40% or less rule, about how to deal with pain and injury in your practice, and specifically about working with the spine and back. Once you have that information, you'll be able to make an informed decision about whether our training is right for you.

This is new to me but I like it and eager to learn. Thank you

Mr.Simon, Thank you very much,

just found your website,it looks interesting.i,ve tried the lifting water routine and the wall pressing,it feels great.looking forward to other lessons.thanks.

thanks for this wonder full lessons

Is there a cost to do the online Tai Chi? I am a T'ai Chi Chih Teacher wanting to learn the Yang Style Short Form kinestically for my personal use. Would this be a hinderance or help? Thank you for taking the time to respond.

As you've seen, read, and experienced, we're all about Chi Development for health and stress relief in our course. We are not focused on performance or choreography. So on a practical basis in our course, you'll have about 10 to 20 minutes of ChiFusion material to practice on a daily basis. It does consist of movements, but mostly single movements from Tai Chi and Qigong, not forms. Most of these movements are intense - full of details that need to be observed. These are details that most instructors skip over in order to get to choreography. However, in Level 4 of the course, it does all come together at the end into a Tai Chi form. But we don't do this by combining movements from the previous levels. (It's not practical to combine all of the movements. Because, if you practiced ALL of the exercises in the Complete Course - all at one time, one after another - you'd have several *hours* worth of exercises.) Keep in mind, the movements in Levels 1 through 3 are there to teach you certain skills. So, instead of combining movements, it comes together in Level 4 by combining all of the *skills* you've learned in the previous levels. We don't teach the Yang Style short form, but the "Four Elements" set we teach in Level 4 is built on just four basic repeated movements and energy patterns. But by the time you've finished, you will be performing more than 40 Tai Chi patterns with the appropriate breathing, mental concentration, and Chi Development. This form takes every detail you've learned up to that point in the ChiFusion program - body openings, structural alignments, positioning, energetic awareness, rooting, silk-reeling, etc. - and applies them while actively stepping and turning in an interlocking fashion. Students who have practiced other longer forms have commented that this form is much more intense than the longer forms they already knew - that there seems to be a "lot more" happening in each movement. As a matter of fact, you'll be doing so much energy work within each movement, that on average, it takes an experienced Tai Chi student or teacher about four to six months or longer to "work up" to this "Four Elements Tai Chi" set.

Hi, I`ve just had surgery on my shoulder and have very limited movement in my left arm, will tai chi be of any help and if so how do I get around the mobility problem? Regards Bob

I've had a few people in the comments on this web page ask me about shoulder problems and surgeries. Just look at the comment just above yours on this web page for my suggestions. Best wishes, Al