How to find ‘Song’ in Tai Chi

Written By Rich Moffat

Song = release tension, absence of effort, finding space between joints

  • Song is a relaxed and open state of expansion

  • Contraction (muscles) v Expansion (fascia) – like a baby’s grip on a finger

  • Working with gravity to keep your structure

  • Joints, body fibres are open, ligaments and tendons lengthen

  • Become comfortable with force

  • Whole body feeling rather than isolated muscle activation

  • Without song you are simply moving through the forms

  • With song you become the forms

  • The feeling is of being inflatable.  Muscles are soft and disengaged.

  • We release and expand

Rich Moffat
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