Tai Chi Chuan

Tai Chi is a time-tested system of exercises that gently improves internal organ health while fostering greater balance and mind-body connection. Beyond being a form of moving meditation, Tai Chi Chuan is also an effective self-defense system. Through proper body alignment, breath control, and focused intention, Tai Chi helps restore the suppleness and energy of youth while cultivating adult wisdom and awareness.

Basic Curriculum

Yang Style Tai Chi

Yang Style Tai Chi is the world's most popular Tai Chi style. Its creator, Yang Lu Chan, earned the title "Yang the Invincible" through his exceptional martial skill—neutralizing any attack with control and sensitivity so advanced he could defeat famous masters without injuring them.

Core Training Progression:

• 88-Movement Large Frame Form - Traditional long form

• 24-Movement Yang Short Form - Accessible introduction

• 40-Posture Traditional Form - Detailed classical version

• Yang Straight Sword Form - Elegant weapons training

• Yang Broad Sword Form - Dynamic weapons work

• Push Hands - Partner sensitivity training

• Internal Self-Defense - Practical applications

These forms improve balance, timing, centeredness, breath control, and visualization skills. Internally, they enhance blood circulation and Qi (life-force) flow, removing energetic blockages while allowing organs and vessels to relax, open, and function more efficiently. This naturally reduces blood pressure and creates feelings of ease and relaxation.

Our Complete Approach

Unlike schools that teach only choreographed routines, Wu Shen Tao recognizes that choreography represents only 20% of traditional Tai Chi. Our comprehensive program includes weapons training, history, theory, push hands, self-defense, and energy cultivation.

Personalized Learning: Instruction pace adapts to each student's learning ability. Whether you learn slowly or quickly, our goal is substantial understanding at every level, not just physical skill accumulation.

Advanced Curriculum

Wudang Style Tai Chi

(By Permission Only)

Wudang refers to one of China's "five sacred peaks," where Taoist masters gathered to study and meditate. Our Wudang Tai Chi descends through the Wudang Long Men (Dragon Gate) lineage, passed down for several hundred years.

Historical Lineage: In 1929, Pei Xi Rong was officially inducted as the 17th Generation successor of the Wudang Long Men (Dragon Gate) lineage under Abbot Xu Ben Shan of Wudang Temple. He later established himself as the secular Grandmaster of the lineage, based in Shanghai, China.

Training Includes:

• Wudang Yuan Gong (Original Skills) form

• Long Wudang Tai Chi form

• Wudang Tai Chi Sword forms

• Theory, principles, and energy cultivation

• Weapons training and push hands

• Self-defense applications

Available only through semi-private and private instruction for experienced, serious practitioners.

Chen Style Tai Chi

Chen Style is Yang Style Tai Chi's predecessor, taught and refined in Chen Jia Gou village, Henan Province, since the 17th century. Master Chen Wang Ting (9th generation) codified existing forms into seven concise training methods, integrating Taoist medical, philosophical, and martial concepts.

Dynamic Training: Chen Style appears more vigorous than typical Tai Chi, moving fluidly from slow to fast, soft to hard, embracing the complete spectrum of Yin-Yang transformations.

Comprehensive Program:

• Stance training and silk reeling

• Empty hand and weapons forms

• Theory, history, and principles

• Push hands and self-defense applications

• Conditioning and body quality training

Usually requires prior grounding in other Tai Chi or internal martial arts systems.