The Peaceful Body and T'ai Chi Chu'an^BF

Can you stand like a mountain, and move like a river?
Can you let the mud settle, until the water is clear?


The form we teach at The Movement School, the Short Yang Form, was inspired by Cheng Man-Ch'ing and his senior students in America. The Movement School offers a modern American approach to a Classical Chinese study which embodies the principles found within the teachings of Lao Tzu.

Our orientation is three fold.

• We study Tai Chi as movement meditation, kinesthetic contemplation, proprioceptive prayer, and as a way toward sensory silence.

• We take great pleasure in the austere beauty inherent in the solo form and the sword form.

• We practice Tai Chi as a path to peace, the simple, but not always easy practice, of living a non-defensive, non-offensive life.


Change - In Accordance With Its Own Principles
How I Teach Tai Chi

an essay by Bruce Fertman

There is a famous Japanese Tea Ceremony adage. In the beginning, and for many years, a student should practice the form exactly as it has been taught to her or to him. Twenty years later, this dedicated student will begin, silently ...
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