Are You Getting All Of The Essence Of TCC In Your Practice?

When I first encountered the advanced form of T’ai Chi Chih (directly with its originator in 1997), I was not ready for what I would be learning. At that time, any accredited TCC teacher learning Seijaku from its Originator was accredited to teach it at the same time. Now, any TCC student or teacher can learn it from any accredited Seijaku teacher.

I am left to wonder why more folks do not learn it; why more TCC teachers do not study it (repeatedly to keep it fresh); and why more accredited Seijaku teachers do not teach it.

It took me 10 years to understand this advanced form fully enough to experience its benefits and feel it. Today there are many more experienced Seijaku teachers who can impart Seijaku more efficiently, so that a student will get it more quickly (provided they are practicing it regularly on their own). As Justin Stone so often quoted, “You cannot appease the hunger by reading the menu.” (If you want nutrition, you have to eat the food.)

With another opportunity in July (following teacher conference) to study, review and become accredited in Seijaku, it behooves me to make some points:

• Advanced does not mean for experts. It refers to advanced levels of benefits through exponentially increased activation, balancing and circulation of Chi through Seijaku. Why would any serious TCC practitioner not want to access these advanced benefits? Maybe, if we’ve been eating the sandwich without the protein, we don’t miss it until we’ve eaten it and felt the difference?

• Seijaku has been presented at teacher conferences to emphasize that Seijaku is part of the fullness of the essence of TCC. It is not meant to be a mysterious fringe option for the few.

• Accredited Seijaku teachers don’t have to offer a specific course exclusively in Seijaku in order to teach it. Many teachers offer continuing classes for experienced TCC students. These are excellent opportunities to introduce the Seijaku principle of how to move.

There is perhaps no better way for students to feel flowing from the t’an tien.