Proper Postural Alignment in Tai Chi and Good Posture for Everyday Life 

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Thank you for your excellent question. We do not twist. In brush knee, we still rotate the entire spine. You can test it out. Do Brush knee while twisting and have someone push on you from different directions. 1. Check where your breath is. 2. Feel how you are more easily uprooted. Now try it again and rotate from the hips, keeping your spine aligned. Test 1. and 2. and compare. I have a video on how to do Yang brush knee properly. Check my Yang playlist. It might shed more light on this. Otherwise, I can (and should) make a video to this point and demonstrate it. I appreciate your insight, perspective and being so respectful in your comment!

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Generally speaking this is a solid principle and applies to most all styles of Tai Chi and forms. If you have been taught to cross midline it may be that you were taught incorrectly. We can cross our wrists AT midline, but we do not take both wrists or especially elbows, PAST midline. You can test it out. Assume the posture you are referring to, having crossed past midline with an arm, elbow or wrist and have someone push on you gently. Are you stable? Also where is your breathing? Is it up high? How open up the arms a bit, so that the wrists and elbows are on either side of midline (or the wrists can be crossed at midline, touching wrists together aligned at midline) and then have them push on you. Also check where your breathing is. It is likely you are much more stable in the second position and your breathing is lower. If our armpits are closed and squished, then we are also crowded ourselves and it is analogous to crossing midline. Good luck and thanks for the comments!

I think the easier way to explain it is that you don't ever close the space under your armpit. You can think of it as holding an orange under your armpit. The hands and wrists do cross the midline during the form but need to avoid making orange squash!

Thank you for the positive feedback. You are correct and you're thinking. We should rotate not twist in Tai Chi and Qigong. The principal is the same for both arts. If you really want the cheese to flow, it is best to keep everything aligned and move as one unit. It should not work the knees. If your knees are twerking, then you are attempting to turn too much. The rotation is generally only about 45°. If you are in a square room, you would rotate from the front left corner to the front right corner, at least when you're first starting out. I hope this helps. Feel free to email me or post more questions and comments as you journey along. Soon I will be posting a new video on four common mistakes. Make sure you take a look at that one. I think it is scheduled to release next week or the following week. Thanks again.

@Flowingmobility thanks so much for this reply - I definitely been doing stuff incorrectly - I would maybe like to try out your live stream class, can I just pay for one on your website and see how I go? Also what time zone are you in (I'm in UK) cheers

@@julesb1421 You can certainly attend one of my live streaming classes. I will let you attend one for free to see if you like it first. If you could please send me an email request, I will send you the link. You can find my email address under the about section on my RU-vid channel. If you have trouble finding it message me here, and I will help you. I am on the road for 2 days, I will be able to provide the link to you by Saturday evening. I have a wonderful group of people, and even someone else from UK! I think you will really enjoy it.

@@InternalTaiChi thanks! Will get on it and email you - appreciate it