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Bagua Mastery Program
Welcome to the Bagua
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Mastery Program Group Area where you will find updates, news and
information about the Bagua Mastery Program. These videos are guided practice sessions that
coordinate with the text in the written modules of the Bagua Mastery Program.
Warm Ups
The purpose of internal warm-ups is getting your chi to circulate. They
do this by linking many different aspects of your energy into one
coherent flow. In short, warm-ups allow you to perform bagua and tai chi
movements dramatically better.
Body Unification Exercises
Many people move their bodies with very little internal cohesion between
body parts. Unification exercises are designed to help address this
problem. They can also be considered warm-ups since they prepare you
to take on the more difficult practices of the internal arts, such as Bagua
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Circle Walking or tai chi solo forms.
Straight Line Walking
The importance of Circle Walking cannot be overstated. It is the central
and foundational solo exercise of bagua. The greater the skill you
develop in Circle Walking, the greater your chances of realizing bagua’s
physical, martial and spiritual value. If you want your bagua practice to
reach to the sky, then you must grow your roots very deep.
Dragon body
Dragon body is the process of turning the body ever farther to face the
center of the circle. A major point of this process is that your body must
not disconnect and your four points must not distort, but instead the
body remain one connected piece that is twisting from the inside. As one
becomes more advanced, this turning ideally comes from the central
channel.
Roll the ball
Roll the ball is a practice that is more associated with rou shou and
fighting applications than with the circle walking aspect of bagua. The
arms encase a sphere in space and the movement originates from the
lower tantien and feet, expressing itself in the arms and hands. As the
arms move, the sphere must remain stable and not be cut in any direction
or angle.
Circle Walking
Circle Walking can give your body all the aerobic exercise it needs. It
brings up a vortex of energy from the earth through your body, which
energizes, nourishes and strengthens you from the inside out. It also sets
the stage for a powerful form of moving meditation.
Changing Directions
Every chi practice is deigned to create balance. This is an absolutely
fundamental purpose of changing direction when Walking the Circle,
which enables you to perform the same movements on both sides of your
body. Regardless of whether you Walk the Circle in a clockwise or
counter-clockwise direction, every inside or outside three, four, or two-part step is exactly the
same internally and externally. In mirror-like fashion, your left foot does what your right foot
does and vice-versa.
Energy Postures
One of bagua’s most important foundation practices involves holding
your arms in a static position while straight-line walking or Circle
Walking. As you walk and change direction, your arms remain fixed in
space relative to your body. Each posture is designed to develop the eight
energy bodies in very specific ways. Practice of energy postures prepares you for doing the
more dynamic moving practices of bagua, such as the Single Palm Change
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Single Palm Change
The Single Palm Change
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(SPC) is the heart and soul of bagua, whether
practiced for health, martial arts, or as an art of I Ching
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meditation. All
of the practices taught in the previous modules are essential building
blocks for the SPC. In essence, bagua is an art of exploring change. In
any classic bagua tradition, the SPC is the first complete method of
change (i.e., changing direction) to be learned. The SPC is a complete method because your
arms, legs and torso ideally move in a completely coordinated, integrated and unified fashion.

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