What is covered in this video is basic groundwork for the use of breath and the importance of moving from the center through Alignment.
How can we use Accessible Yoga to connect ideas of Alignment, Working with the breath, and how to work with a chair as a prop for learning weight shifting? Moves from Accessible Yoga for spinal movement and flexibility. Practicing Basic skills of sitting and standing: The basic concept of Synchronicity of movement. Use of the chair as a "Ballet bar" for weight shifting. Connecting the Right and Left Hemisphere of the brain in awareness practices like T'ai Chi Chih and Hatha Yoga, Singing includes breathing. How energy flows in the body. Connecting the breath to the blood circulation through slow movement raises the chi.. From the root chakra or abdomen to the heart. Prana is chi. The 3 part breath from Hatha Yoga and the central meridian in Tai Chi have common threads and connections for learning how to use the diaphragm and better control the speed of the movement and the slow rhythm of weight shifting.
T'ai Chi Chih moves in the chair and standing include Rocking Motion, Bird Flaps its Wings, and Around the Platter & the Variation and Intro to Bass Drum for Parts 1 and 2.
Mind Body Instruction Part 2
Expansion and Contraction from the front of the chair seat in Mountain Pose from Accessible Yoga. Rocking Motion like a figure 8, the Infinity Symbol with wrist circles. Bringing energy from "Earth" up with palms up toward "Heaven"and facing down again to earth-subtlety of wrist circling. Review of Part 1 movements and weight shifting using the back of a chair or side of chair possibilities for balance. Shifting toward the grounding leg. Complete grounding on one leg using the side of a chair for balance. Explanation of "Yinning and Yanning". Using your inner thigh muscles and abdominal muscles for support of shifting front and back. Tracing circles around the knee to develop the circles that start to inform the larger circle that starts on your left or right, while I mirror you, both of us seated. The energy of the exhale is the foundation of all sound. Your speaking voice and basic vowels can inform your practice as well as the power of exhaling.. Around the Platter sitting and standing. Moving on to Around the Platter Variation. The hands know their own pattern. The body goes forward and back.