SIZHENG TAIJIQUAN LESSONS
Sizheng Taijiquan, the Taijiquan of the four main directions, is a contemporary movement method to counteract the health problems that modern people are exposed to due to their environment and living conditions. These range from tension and pain in the shoulders and back, imbalance and stress, to quickly tiring eyes.
Sizheng Taijiquan is divided into 20 movements, with the flow of the movement following the flow of the Taiji character. The movements are easy to learn and their execution is adapted according to age. Sizheng sword and sabre forms can also be learnt later.
The Chen Taijiquan Xiaojia of our lineage is divided into five learning levels.
If you start with Taijiquan, the first level is called jichujia 基础架, you learn the individual movement patterns of the form, the outer framework. The foundations are created here, the body is organised. You create the tools, so to speak, with which you can then continue working. It is like the skeleton of a building and its statics.
The greatest force acting on all matter on this planet, including humans, is gravity. We usually only become aware of it when we suffer major damage from it by falling and injuring ourselves.
We only notice the insidious small damages that develop into larger ones over time when something causes pain, usually the joints, especially the knees and hips, but also the spine and shoulders, basically every place in the body where bone meets bone.
Various factors in our modern lives mean that we are increasingly moving away from our natural form of movement, which is optimised to gravity, and the order of our body and its statics are disturbed.
Our body should primarily be supported by the 'hard' bones, which are best able to defy gravity and must be statically aligned in the best possible way in every little movement we make.
The path from the Romanesque church with its thick pillars, which had to be additionally supported on the ground, to the Gothic cathedral with its comparatively delicate pillars, which could support a much heavier and higher ceiling, required the learning process of allowing the line of force to run perfectly in the centre of the pillar so that the weight of the ceiling no longer pushed out sideways on the pillars.
It is the same with our pillars, the spine and legs, but also our arms, they have to carry our weight, and above all our heavy head.
The worse our bones are aligned, the more our soft parts, tendons, muscles, muscle attachments and fascia have to work to fight against gravity, and the more they harden, resulting in misalignment, friction and inflammation.
In Taijiquan, we first learn to optimise the statics of the body, which includes not only the correct alignment of each individual bone in the skeleton in every movement, but also the deep relaxation 'Fangsong', which ensures that those 'soft' parts that lie directly on the bone and are responsible for maintaining the skeletal structure can do their work.
The muscles that are 'only' there to perform a movement must therefore be relaxed, they must learn to let go, because they interfere where they feel compelled to do so, but for which they are not actually responsible, becoming tense and hardened in the process. The entire musculoskeletal system ultimately suffers as a result.
In Taijiquan, we learn again what we have forgotten through our modern everyday life, to move our body naturally in its upright position and to counter gravity in the best possible way. But this is just the beginning.
LESSONS IN MEERSBURG
SUNDAYS:
OCTOBER - MARCH: 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
APRIL - SEPTEMBER: 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
No lessons in case of rain or snow.
LOCATION: Stefan-Lochner-Str. 45, 88709 Uhr. Meersburg, in the garden behind the house.
TEACHER: Anny Leippert
TUITION FEE:
16,- €/hour (24 €/ 1,5 hours)
Free trial lesson.
INDIVIDUAL LESSONS/PERSONAL TRAINING ON REQUEST:
75,- €/hour
650,- €/10 hours
REGISTRATION: info@taijiquan-leippert.de
ANNY LEIPPERT
is a recognised teacher of the Small Frame (Xiaojia) of the Chen family, and Sizheng Taijiquan, in the lineage of Master Dietmar Stubenbaum (11th generation Chen Taijiquan), and in the lineage of Master Prof. Dr. Chen Peishan (Japan) and Master Chen Peiju (China). Both are descendants of the Taijiquan founder Chen Wangting (1600-1680), and are now the 12th generation of their family to pass on Taijiquan.
She is also a member of the board of the world association of Master Chen Peishan and Master Chen Peiju, the 'International Society of Chen Taijiquan e. V. (ISCT)', where she holds the position of ISCT Director Germany/Spain.
Video: Master Chen Peishan (20th generation of the Chen clan and 12th generation Chen Taijiquan.)
LESSONS CONTENT:
Basic exercises Chan Si Gong (unwinding the silk thread)
Taijiquan basics info>>>
Date 1:
Sizheng Taijiquan 四正太極拳 ( 陳沛山 )
1. taiji chushi 太極初勢 (opening position of taiji)
2. lanzahyi 揽擦衣 (fastening the long robe to the waistband)
3. heshi 合勢 (assembled stance)
4. shizi tuizhang 十字推掌 (Crossing the palms forward) - at the end of the movement you are turned 90° to the left
Date 2:
Sizheng Taijiquan 四正太極拳 ( 陳沛山 )
5. baihe liangchi 白鹅亮翅 (white crane spreads its wings)
6. louxi niubu 搂膝拗步 (graze knees and stride stubbornly)
7. shoushi 收勢 (receiving stance)
8. shangsanbu上三步 (advancing three steps)
9.yanshouchui 掩手捶 (Striking with the hand concealed)
10. liufeng sibi 六封四閉 (Six seals and four locks) - at the end of the movement you are turned 90° to the left)
Date 3:
Sizheng Taijiquan 四正太極拳 ( 陳沛山 )
11. danbian 单鞭 (simple whip)
12.yunshou 雲手 (cloud hands)
13. dishuishi 滴水勢 (water drop stance) - at the end of the movement you are turned 90° to the left)
Date 4:
Sizheng Taijiquan 四正太極拳 ( 陳沛山 )
14. zuoyou jinji duli 左右金鸡独立 (golden pheasant stands on one leg left/right)
15. daojuanhong 倒棬肱 (Inverted upper arms twist)
16. gao tanma 高探馬 (Stretching up on the horse) - at the end of the movement you are turned 90° to the right)
Date 5:
Sizheng Taijiquan 四正太極拳 ( 陳沛山 )
17. zuoyou cajiao 左右擦脚 (left and right foot sweep) - after the first kick with the right leg, turn 180° and kick with the left leg
18. qixing tuizhang 七星推掌 (push your palms forward in the shape of the seven stars)
19. jingang daodui 金剛搗碓 (Buddha's guardian crushes with the pestle)
20. taiji shoushi 太極收勢 (final position of the taiji)
