Terry Dunn's Tai Chi For Health

08/31/2026

08/14/2026

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Wudangshan is the monastery where Taoist monk Chang Sanfeng created Tai Chi Chuan during the late Sung Dynasty. This is the source progenitor's ancient form preserved and handed down across 900+ years, here demonstrated by Wudang Master Zhong Yunlong. No matter what style of Tai Chi Chuan you practice, it's always fascinating to note how one's contemporary style has evolved from one of--if not thee--original form(s) of Tai Chi:

This is a slow motion version of Zhong Yunlong's Sanfeng 28 Taiji Q...

06/11/2026

"Nothing under Heaven is more pliable than water. But when amassed, there is nothing that can withstand it That the weak overcomes the strong, and the yielding overcomes the unyielding is a fact known by all men, but utilized by none."
-- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

I am pleased to announce that directly following my 5-day Qigong workshop at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, I will be giving a 3-day (14-hour) Tai Chi intensive workshop at the beautiful Tao Estate in Catskill, NY. Just one hour's drive north of Omega Institute. So get your Qi on and learn what the ancients were talking about in works like the Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Sun Tzu's Art of War, and the Tai Chi Classics. Complete details here: https://open.substack.com/.../tai-chi-chuan-intensive...

“Concentrate, and listen not with your ears--
But with the heart.
Then, not listening with the heart,
do so with the breath.
The ear is limited to ordinary listening;
The heart (mind) to the rational.
Listening with the breath, one experiences
All things uncommittedly (in purity).”
~Chuang Tzu See less

05/21/2026

知彼知己，百戰不殆；不知彼而知己，一勝一負；不知彼，不知己，每戰必殆.

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. --Sun Tzu, The Art of War, ch.3

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🖐️ Without root, you’re in trouble.

“Fester, What are you doing?”
“Push hands… Thing has no root.”

It might be funny, but the lesson is real.
In Tai Chi, everything starts with your root. Without it, balance, power, and stability all fall apart.

✨ Stay grounded. Stay centered. Build your root.

💬 Have you felt the difference when your root is strong versus when it’s not? Share in the comments!

04/10/2026

º My Tai Chi practice 30 years ago was that of an advanced beginner. This is the Yang style Tai Chi sword (jian) form taught by my first Tai Chi teacher, the late Master and General Abraham Liu, with whom I studied from 1980 to 1992. He lived to age 102.
Although my lower back was still not quite "there"--i.e., fully "cultivated" and flat, I had a certain verve and a few forgotten nuances in this sword demo that I've just reincorporated. That's how Tai Chi works--you get better with age and diligent practice. (This practice footage was shot at my student Jay Sadofsky's warehouse in L.A. in 1996, staged for production of my Chi Kung For Health videos.)
These days, my practice is quite a bit more advanced, but I don't call myself a Tai Chi "master" (although others do) because I can't do what my present teacher, Grandmaster William C.C. Chen, can do. Not by a long shot. Being a Tai Chi "adept" is fine for now. Next year, I will begin production of my final wave of instructional Tai Chi videos on DVD, which I hope will work for generations

04/06/2026

My grand-teacher in Yang style Tai Chi Chuan, Prof. Cheng Man-ching teaching the essential fine points of the bow stance at his Shr Jung studio in NYC in the early 1970's. Since 1980, I have studied with three of Prof. Cheng's senior students from Taiwan: the late Master and General Abraham Liu (from 1980 to 1992), the late Master Benjamin Lo (13 consecutive summer retreats at La Honda, CA) during the same period; from 2013 to the present I have been studying with the great Grandmaster William C.C. Chen in NYC. It is so interesting to see in this film footage how dynamic and perfect the Professor's stances are as demonstrated, where you can see the integrated Soft Power from his toes to fingertips when he does the "Brush Knee" position, for example. I compare the Professor's perfected body mechanics to my years as a beginner in the early 1980's trying to follow Master Ben Lo's severe instructions in Form: "sitting low like in a chair--yet comfortable" in every bow stance, which required more than 8 years of his summer workshops (plus year-round homework) to begin to manifest energy "like steel wrapped in cotton"--by following 5 cardinal principles beginning with "COMPLETE BODILY RELAXATION." So intensive was Mr. Lo's form classes that NO ONE could ever prepare for them--as first forewarned by his top senior student, Master Lenzee Williams in Berkeley, CA-- where throughout Ben's week-long Tai Chi camps, the only time when one's leg muscles were not screaming-sore was when we were doing the Form.

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04/02/2026

Master Grizzly here demonstrates the secret application of the Yang style techniques of "Shoulder Stroke" and "Brush Right Knee."
Yes, its AI, but I turn every lemon I find into Tai Chi lemonade and some fun. So carefully study the "Shoulder Stroke" and "Brush right Knee" in this video and practice hard, Tai Chi acolytes!:

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