Michael Shaman, Sifu
 
Sifu Michael Shaman resides in San Francisco where he offers CLASSES,
WORKSHOPS, PERSONAL INSTRUCTION & a formal APPRENTICESHIP.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • INTERACTIVE TAI CHI CHUAN
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  • COMPLEMENTARY SOLO FORMS
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  • QIGONG (Chi Kung)
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    Pacific Light & Power:
     Internal Martial Arts
    taichi@michaelshaman.com
    (415) 673-7021
    		 
    THE BIOENERGY COMPANY   since 1983
     
    The Curriculum: COMPLEMENTARY SOLO FORMS
     
    YANG STYLE TAI CHI is the most popular style of tai chi in the world. This is primarily due to its ease of learning and its health benefits as exercise.

    The Yang style of Tai Chi Chuan is also a very powerful and effective method of self defence, although those who know how to train this aspect are few and far between.

    At Pacific Light & Power - Internal Martial Arts, Yang Tai Chi Chuan is trained for both its health extending benefits and for its usefullness in defending self and other against physical assault.      VIEW VIDEO
     
     
    YANG CHENG FU, the grandson of Yang style Tai Chi Chuan fournder Yang Lu Chan, originated the continuously slow motion style of Tai Chi Chuan toward the end of the 19th Century.
     
    The 64 Movement Yang Style Short Form trained at Pacific Light & Power is right and left side balanced such that virtually all the movements are repeated to the left side as well as to the right without interfering with the flow or changing the order of their appearance. Above Sifu Michael Shaman, who originated the right/left balanced method, demonstrates "Snake Creeps Down" to the left side, and below, performing "Ward-Off (Peng) with the Right Hand".
     
    The 64 Movement Yang Tai Chi Short Form or set initially taught at Pacific Light & Power is derived from the "simplified" 42 Movement Short Form devised by Professor Cheng Man Ching for teaching Yang Tai Chi to the general public. In the 64 Movement Short Form virtually all of the postures and movements of the Yang Family Long Form (108 or 128 Movements) have been merged back while still limiting the number of repetitions.
    		 

    		 
    PROFESSOR CHENG PERFORMS HIS TAI CHI FORM 

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    The 64 Movement Yang Tai Chi Short Form or set initially taught at Pacific Light & Power is derived from the "simplified" 42 Movement Short Form devised by Professor Cheng Man Ching for teaching Yang Tai Chi to the general public. In the 64 Movement Short Form virtually all of the postures and movements of the Yang Family Long Form (108 or 128 Movements) have been merged back while still limiting the number of repetitions.
     
    		 
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