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PatrickKelly PatricksArticles PatricksBooks worldwideWay The purpose of taiji is the great purpose of Life itself – internal evolution. Patrick teaches an intelligent synthesis of Daoist, Sufi & Yogic internal work. Immersed 50yrs in these 3 great esoteric streams Patrick's true contact enlivens this teaching which leads deeply inside towards the one formless Source – which has no name.

Patrick has authored 4 books on taiji & meditation (in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese). He guides a world network of 100 teachers and 1000s of students.

yinyangyong taijiPrinciples taijiPractice

太極三儀 TàijíSānYí

太極圖进化 Taiji Diagram Evolved

陰陽雍 yīn yáng yōng

receiving responding reconciling

《道德經》 – Dao De Jing:
"道生一 Dao gave rise to one
一生二 one produced two
二生三 two produced three
三生萬物 three produced myriads
萬物負陰而抱陽 myriads bear Yin, embrace Yang
沖氣以為和 harmonised by immaterial Qi

taijiShanghai taijiLondon taijiChiangMai taijiAuckland taijiZurich The further back in time we look the more obscure the history of Taiji becomes. Yet studying this past, 2 things become clear. Taiji's inner essence flows down from genuine teachers to sincere pupils in unbroken chains. Each teacher devises a personal system to express and pass on the impersonal inner teaching. The teaching must evolve outwardly or die inwardly.

WorldwideSeminars WorldwideSchools We Train
Huang Xingxian 5 Loosenings
ZhengManqing (郑曼青) 37Form
YangChengfu (杨澄甫) 108Form
HuangXingxian (黃性賢) FastForm
8 fixed-step Pushing-Hands
8 moving-step Pushing-Hands
15min guided meditation

huangxingxian taijiTransmission Huang Xingxian (黄性贤大师 1910–1992) was born near Fuzhou. From the age of 14 he trained Fujian White Crane (白鶴拳 Baihequan), 18 Buddha boxing (罗汉拳 Luohanquan) and Neigong (Internal Alchemy), under Old Master Pan YuBa (潘屿八), Pan's famous disciple Xie Zhongxian (謝宗祥 1852–1930), and later Pan Zhuangnian (潘桩年). He also studied taiji and Natural Boxing (自然门 Ziranmen) with Wan Laisheng (万赖声).

ZhengManqing Huang Xingxian began taiji with Zheng Manqing (郑曼青 1901–1975) in 1947. Huang is generally regarded as Zheng's most accomplished disciple. From 1958 on, following Zheng's advice, Huang established 40 schools and taught 10,000 people in Singapore and Malaysia. He moved to New Zealand shortly before his death in 1992.

YangChengfu Zheng Manqing was a disciple of Yang Chengfu (杨澄甫 1883–1936). Yang studied taiji with his father Yang Jianhou (楊健侯 1839–1917) and uncle Yang Banhou (楊班侯 1837–1890), along with other senior students of his grandfather Yang Luchan.

YangLuchan 1799-1872. Founder of Yang Taiji

YangLuchan YangHistory The name "taiji" was first given to the art of Yang Luchan (杨露禅, 1799–1872), according to imperial records, by the famous Qing Dynasty scholar Weng Tonghe (翁同龢, 1830–1904). Previously Yang’s art had been referred to as Mian Quan (綿拳 Continuous Fist) or Hua Quan (化拳 Neutralising Fist). He was famous for never losing a match or seriously injuring his opponents. Having refined his art to an extremely high level, he came to be known as Yang Wudi (楊無敵, Yang the Invincible).

精Jing 氣Qi 神Shen 九霄雲外Beyond There are 3 energy realms of human existence
– Deep Body or Physical-Etheric realm
– Deep Emotional or Astral realm
– Deep Mental or Celestial realm.

Internally these correspond to the energies of the Lower, Middle and Upper Dantian (精Jing, 氣Qi, 神Shen). Each of these has 3 sub-levels, giving the nineclouds (九霄).

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Taiji is in practice what 'Dao de Jing' expresses in principle. These principles remain universal throughout the known worlds, undiminished by their common reduction to intellectual ideas, emotional values, or religious rules, by the various races of the Earth.