Introduction To Tai Chi: Guan Yin Prayer For Manifestation

This beginner-friendly introduction to Tai Chi explores simple, flowing movements to cultivate balance, presence, and connection within the body. You’ll be guided through foundational Tai Chi principles before moving into a Guan Yin Prayer for Manifestation, bringing movement, breath, and intention together. This practice invites you to slow down, connect with your inner stillness, and consciously direct your energy toward what you wish to create. No prior experience is needed, just an open mind and a willingness to move.

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So we're going to start to move into the second part of the Qigong, Which overlaps with Tai Chi. So. So we're going to start with the very basic movement. It's called showering the chi. It's very simple, So you can implement. The principles easier, Okay? So the first thing is that we're starting to do Tai Chi, So everything is round. Yes good we start moving good very simple okay what does that mean is your elbow is always soft it's it's not this you're too brittle Okay? It's not, It's not this. So, The same thing with legs, Always a little soft. You move from a softness. And the other thing is you wanted to move in between in and young so when you're too young you're too aggressive too masculine When you're too in, You're too loopy. You have no boundary. When you're too young you're too brittle you're very easy to break so you want to find that within yourself what is What is the balance of yin and yang? Again, This work comes out of the Taoist tradition. So Qigong and Tai Chi, You know that symbol, That round black and white symbol? You're the middle line. You're fluid. You're in and out at the same time, Okay? And that changes from person to person, From day to day. So I will maybe call out, That's too in or that's too out. I don't know, I'll have a look. Or you're just perfect, Right? So that's another thing. And the other thing is that Qigong at this place, Which is starting to move into Tai Chi, Is considered a moving meditation. So for example, I'll give you one simple exercise. We're going to step. So you're going to pick it up. Good, And you're gonna land. What does that mean is that I'm not trying to get it done. Poof, Finished. I am shifting my weight so this can be free and I'm I am trying to smooth out my movement. Everything is even speed at the same time. Yes, You want to try to slow it down. Yeah, We just do this right now. Good job. Okay, Good job. We'll just do stepping. That's the first thing we'll do. Okay, Good. So I'm going to give you a few pointers. Because my legs are jocked. So when I move away, Realize the word I say is move. I am not leaning into the other leg. I am moving, I'm shifting my weight and I lift up My one leg. And look, I am straight, I am not tilted. There is a couple of this going on, Right? I'm always centered. And then until this is made contact, Then Move my weight around does it make sense? I don't just do this because that will make me lose balance This is not what I am doing. I am doing this my weight is here. I My wait is here. Only when my leg made contact, My weight started to move, And my weight moves in this way. Not this way. Easy enough. Let's try, Okay? We start with stepping. So easy. You can always do it with your arms to the back. I lift, I'm shifting my weight away, I lift up. Good and slow So moving meditation, Yeah, Good. Good job. And I land and I shift. That's it. Slow down, Breathe. So when you're stepping, One trick is that you really want to milk. The middle. You want to enjoy This part, You want to milk it. This is the work, And you land here. And you settle down. Beautiful work. Now the final piece. You want to do it relaxed. You're not holding your breath trying to get it down. Relax. Breathing that beautiful breath we talked about. And you settle down. Everything from this point on is with the same principle, But you want to get it, You want to understand it when it's still simple. Nori, I understand for you it's about balance. You're easy to lose balance. So for you, I will start a small step. You know what I mean? Start small so you can get this right. And your job. So you don't need to go far. If your balance cannot have you do this. Okay? So you just do this. And you shift. So the whole time you breathe nice and supple into your belly. You're not stressed about it. Like Masha. So you want it to reach the place that you just naturally smooth, Naturally, Effortlessly graceful. Because you will look stressed. Stress. You're not in and young, Right? You're too young. Good job. That's it. That's it. Relax a little more. You're so good. First time is a little hard. Relax. Relax. So easy. We're literally just stepping. It's not that hard. Look at that one! Masha is really. . . Yeah, Good job. That's it, That's it, That's it. Okay, We're gonna shake it up a little bit, Shake it up. It's a lot. It's actually. . . Kwai lo lo. Yeah, Shake it up. A little tapping, A little, Yeah, The things we did earlier. Shake it up! Shake it up! Shukra. Huh, Yeah, Yeah, She's doing this, Yeah. We can also airborne, Right, Really shake it up. Shake it up that tension Sound, Yes. Good job. Good, Good, Good. We'll play another movement. This time we're going to use our arms. The same idea, Even speed. Relaxed, Right? Not too strict, Not too loopy. Okay. We start with you holding a qi ball. This is called showering the qi. You want to feel your qi ball. You want to feel what feels right to you. It's a real thing. There's a ball of energy. So, If you want to feel what's the most sufficient way to hold this ball of energy. If I hold it here, I feel a little too tucked in, No? Right? So, Here is dripping me, Dragging me. So, Here feels the best, Right? You want to feel. So, It's not here. It makes me tight, Right? So, Here. Make sense? Right? Good job. Good. And you want to just play with your qibao. So you're not paying attention to your hands, You're paying attention to the invisible stuff. Is pulsing. It will become more palpable as you do more. Good job. That's it. Okay, Now I'm going to hold it side to side. I do this a lot. I sort of give it myself a little shake. It helps my body to come back to the most efficient way of holding itself. Good. Okay, Good. I take an inhale. I take an X off. Good. On the inhale I expand. I expand my qi ball and let that push my arm open. Nice and even speed. Exhale. I calm down. Even speed, Even speed. Inhale, I go up one more time. Nice and easy. Don't rush. Nice even speed. And exhale. Nice and easy, Nice and easy. Even speed all the way through. That's it, That's the move. You hold it like this. Voila. We'll do it again. So easy. Okay? So you expand the qi ball, You let this qi ball pushes your arm open. Exhale, I collapse a little bit. Inhale, I come up. Yes, You got it. Nice and easy, Even speed. Exhale, I send what's no longer needed. Down to the ground. And I run my cheat board one more time Good, We'll do it one more time and I'll add a little bit, Okay? But it's still, You're starting to, It's fairly easy, Right? Okay, Inhale, Expand. Make sure you breathe nice and soft because it's so easy and you're so naturally just graceful. You're not stressed about it. Good job, That's it, You got it. Something came through, Yeah. Nice, Easy, Yes, Yes. And settle down. Nice and easy. Breathe. Settle down. Good job. Look at that. Good job. All right, So we're going to add a little bit. So you're going to add your legs. So what that does is that when you inhale, Your legs are going to come up. Raise. And make sure your leg is going to go down. Good job. Easy, Easy. And your whole body is even speed. See, Your leg was faster than your arms. That's okay. That's how you learn. Yeah, Even speed coming up. Yes. And even speed coming down. The leg at the same time. A lot of time we drop too fast, Right? Even speed coming down. And Chi Ba. So do it again. Even speed. My whole body even speaks. And exhale. Even speak. Good job. You got it. You got it. And settle down. Now you get it. This is the sequence. That's it. So you wanted to. . . If you want, You can literally do a close your eyes, Meditate. Really get into that meditative state. And let your presence drop into. . . I'll tell you this, I always say this. Our nerve system is so used to be so stressed out. It can't handle how easy it is. It's really, It's too easy. We were like, Let's be stressed. Why is this too easy? So you're going to drop into the peace and ease. It's so easy. Okay, Good. Let's do a little wipe it out, Wipe it out. We're going to get into it like in meditation form. Yeah, Wipe it out. Okay. If you feel confident, Close your eyes. So I'm going to not instruct much. We're going to meditate. It's a moving meditation. We'll do three rounds. Settle down. Inhale, Open up. Excel Japan Yen. Inhale coming up. Exhale coming in. And chew bar. Start again, Inhale, Expand. Exhale, Contract. Inhale, Expand. Exhale contract. Good job. Last round see if you can slow down even more without letting it stress you out. Marriage hair. And start smiling to this moment. Because it's so good, So easy, So delicious. And smile to your body, Your organs. What a magic life. What a magic body. And comment. Good. One hand over heart, One hand over belly. Keep your eyes closed and feel what's happening inside. It's possible to feel energized and at peace. At the same time. Just feel that you're grounded. But you're also very energized. Yeah, Feel that feeling. I'm here and it's safe. And everything is beautiful. Feel the simplicity. That's good. We're going to moving into the final. Practice, It's called Guanyin Prayer. So we're going to use the time, As I mentioned earlier, We are upon the new moon, Also a new year in Hebrew calendar. We're going to use every holiday we can get. Why not? So Guanyin Prayer is you, It's a. . . You get this idea from above and you bring that into your body, You manifest. So at new moon, New year, It's a time for manifestation. It's a—-the portal is open. You can—-it's a time to plant seeds. Okay. And then you consider this Guanyin prayer as a ritual. So when you pray with all aspects of you, Your emotional body, Your spiritual body, And your physical body, You engage all aspects of our being. So we do it once, And you just have to follow me. Very simple. Okay? Yeah. Just follow me. So we start with you hold your belly. This is the seat of our awareness, Dantian. You hold your belly and you find your qi ball one more time. Okay, Drop into your knees. So I'm not going to be too strict with the position because we're moving into sort of a praying. Ritual part of the work. And we finish today's session with this. So you find your Qi ball, Good. In the beginning, It's the same. You inhale, You expand, You play with your qi. Exhale, You contract. Inhale, You exhale one more time. Yes, Nice and easy. This time my palms gonna meet. Like I'm grabbing something from above and I hold it like this, Okay? And I close my eyes. And I see myself. As a cosmic being. The extension of my arm representing the part of me extend into the astral realm. And then between my palms, I'm holding a seed of which I want to manifest. So see that, What is it? That right now is just an idea. And you taking it from above. Take your time. What is it you want? To bring into the physical. And you want to watch for three levels. The first level, What do you want from the world? How do you see? How do you feel the world should be? Take your time. You want it for everybody, For us. For the collective. See that. See that in your mind's eye. And what does that taste like? What does that sound like? Engage your senses. Good, That's it. The first wish is for the collective. That's it. And the second wish, We wish it for someone else. Find someone in your life might need a little help. Worship for someone else. What does that look like? What does that taste like? That's it. Yeah. And keep smiling because it's such a beautiful process. Yes, And the third wish is for yourself. What do you want? What do you want? What are the elements? What are the feelings? That's it. And see the seed shining with light in between your palms. And you want to hold it ever so slightly lighter, Meaning create a space around it just in case the divine wants to give you better than what you can imagine. Give it a space. That's it. And see the seed. Alive. Shiny good now you want to watch me for this bit You're going to take this C from above which is only idea. You're going to take that through the central thread, Bring that into the realm, Bring that into the feeling. In front of your heart. Now you're gonna infuse your love. You're gonna love your seed. Love it. Just for you. We all want different things. This one is for you. Love it, See it, How alive. How tangible, How beautiful, Just admire, Oh. What a beautiful seed. Yes, And keep smiling because you're so happy. Nice, Good job, Okay. Now you want to watch me for the next step. You're going to turn your palms down. You're going to glide the seat down into your dantian, Your womb space. Man has it too. Your creative center, Your palms. Is touching your navel, Your index finger creates a triangle. And you just send the seed into your body. And open. Your dantian, Your weng. To receive it. And just see the seed plant into your being, Into the physical realm. See it's tugged in, It's safe. And you know. When the time is right. It would just become. . . The reality that it is. And you smile into that knowing. Good okay next step look at me You're gonna turn your palms. Back to back. From this knowing, From this seed, Comes beam of light, Which becomes your offering to the world. You give it back to the world. You bow. You give away. Nice. When you're ready, You're going to turn back up. You're going to turn your palms down. You're going to hold the planet Earth. You're going to love the entire planet. Every tree. Every monkey, Every frog, Every river. Love. Every human being. Especially the ones you deem hard to love. Just love. Nice. Good job. When you're ready, Bring your arms back together. For women, Left over right. For men, Right over left. And then you hold your belly one more time. Take an inhale. Pull your perineum up. Exhale. Chop it down. Good job. And stay inside for another moment and just feel what just created, What just happened. You brought an idea down with your body. You create a ritual. Good, Good. And you're going to rub your belly. It doesn't matter which direction, Just one way. So you want to start with the center towards the outside. About nine times to reach the outside. Once you get there, You're gonna reverse. And send it back into the center. You can do it multiple times. From the center, Go outside. Good, When you're finished, Reverse and send it back. We do a last check-in of the body. Again, Feel your energy, Feel your relationship with your body. Feel your state of being. Ah, So good, So good. Delicious. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for letting me record it. Yes. Any questions, Comments? How are you guys feeling, First timer? Yeah, Okay, Good, Good. Maybe I'll see you guys again.