Video: Tai Chi Breathing

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Tai chi breathing techniques are more commonly related to the martial applications of tai chi. Learn more about tai chi breathing from a tai chi expert in this free martial arts video.

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Hi, my name is Bob Linde and I'm going to tell you a little bit about the 24 Yang Style of Tai Chi set. I've actually been practicing Tai Chi for about thirteen years now. So one of the more important things that people ask about is how do we breathe with the Tai Chi. So in the beginning I ask my students not really to emphasize it, but different teachers have different ways to emphasize it. The basic way that we learn to understand where our breath comes in and out in the Tai Chi set is actually based on the Martial applications. So in general, when we come out and we're actually performing a strike in the set, we're going to exhale. When we're going to bring ourselves back in, we're going to inhale. So, there's also not only the Martial application that the exhale hopes to establish a great amount of power and force into our strike, but there's also an energetic idea that as we gather up the energy and we bring it back into our body, we're going to bring that chi in with the breath. That's one of our major sources of chi. So, there's an exercise that we use sometimes to teach how to establish that breathing rhythm in Tai Chi called Silk Reeling, where we're in a good Tai Chi set and we're able to just kind of practise the flow of Tai Chi with it. So I'm going to over emphasize the breath and we don't need to loud sounds when we're breathing in Tai Chi, but just so you can hear what's going on, I'm going to inhale and exhale. So the breath actually in this set, will allow us to set the pace for our Tai Chi set. So different people will actually do the Tai Chi set at different speeds. So, make sure you practice your breath as you get more professional that your Tai Chi was working with your instructor in your local area. So have a great time and play Tai Chi.

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