Daoland short introducing taijiquan
Channel: Daoland Everywhere by Rene Goris
Date: 01/05/2019

This video is the short version of patreaon's daoland_healthcare channel on taijiquan. It introduces taijiquan as a skill encompassing art, spirituality, health, fighting skill, etc. In this Daoland Short video the focus is on the stages of learning and how forms come about in relationship to space and time. The full video on patreon also discusses the neidan aspect of taijiquan, the relationship with Zhenwu perfect spiritual warrior cult in daoism, and the larger cosmological mythology told and experienced through practicing a form when trained as a daoist in taijiquan.
Taijiquan is a popular form of exercises in the west. In China itself it has been going through cycles of formation and revival over the last 100+ years so it isn't always clear what is actually studied in taijiquan. Is it art or is it science? is it fighting skills or for health? This video tries to answer thaat question by giving a daoist alchemical perspective as in introduction to the bachelor-master study program for future teachers, and hopefully masters, but also to instructors in the IOC Daoland fasttrack program, and to lay students who have a wide variety of reasons to study Taijiquan. Like it was stated in many texts from the Han dynasty forward: there is only one dao, and many ways to express it. The problem is that most studies only represent a part of the program, and thus many false statments about the use or uselessness of taijiquan come about, such as about taijiquan as a fighting art. The master of something shows in its ability to apply it. It is not the art that is at fault, but the skill. 

This video is part of the explanatory program explaining the Daoland Healthcare project and how this might work in your life. It is rooted in daoist animism and ceremonial lifestyle, neidan alchemy, yangsheng self care and neo-confucian spirituality.
Daoland Healthcare is an extensive non-profit grassroot program to assist people in the self-healing process or who seek a career in a morally sound profession. This video builds on the subject of transcultural science. You can help this project by signing up at https://www.patreon.com/Daoland_Healthcare. You’ll find access to classes of high level practice, career opportunities and other things for non-profit prices. 
https://www.patreon.com/join/Daoland_Healthcare is the entrance to membership. More members does mean lower prices to study, so help us to get people into the program to finance it all. Also join if you like the video.
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