BA GUA

Taoist Circle walking Meditation

 

Traditionally taught in China as a high level internal practice for devoted practitioners who had no less than 10 years of gong fu training under their belt, Ba Gua is now being offered here in the Rogue Valley to all levels to promote its truly amazing internal health, meditative and martial art benefits.

 

Date: Wednesday evenings

Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Cost: $10 drop in first class- $80 for the 10 Classes.

Contact information: 

Phone: 488-9257

Email: seanjdkelly@yahoo.com

Note about class: Please call ahead or email to reserve your space and to let us know you are coming.

 

The three internal martial arts of China are tai chi, Ba Gua and Hsing-i. Even more ancient than tai chi, the circle walking techniques of ba gua were developed over four thousand years ago in Taoist monasteries as a health and meditation art.

The techniques are based on the I Ching, a 5000-year-old book that is considered to be the classic Taoist text about the nature of change and how change occurs. 

Class Format:

 

Stage one

 

Ba Gua Basics - Learned and practiced over a period of 3 to 6 months

A. Foundational stretches

B. Circle walking basics - 8 basic palm positions.

C. Ba Gua Standing meditation postures

 

Stage two

 

8 Core Palm Changes - learned over a period of 6 - 8 months after the  basics have been completed. Practiced as a foundation for the continuous linking step form

 

Stage three

 

Dragon Heart Continuous linking step form

Consiting of 8 full circles of movements that combine the 8 core palm changes with the spiraling and twisiting of the four limbs.

 

Stage four

 

Ba Gua pole, Ba Gua Push hands

Learned as a bridge to martial applications