Warriors of Stillness Meditative Traditions in the Chinese Martial Arts

Jan Diepersloot has been studying the mediatative martial arts, since 1975. His teachers have been among the best known and most respected in the field, including Fong Ha, Han Xingyuan, Yu Penxi, Cai Songfang, and Sam Tam. He has been teaching the internal martial arts since 1981, and is the

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founder and Director of the Contra Costa Center For Healing & The Arts in Walnut Creek, CA.

I just finished reading Warriors of Stillness. I believe it's the most detailed book to date on internal martial arts. It's an excellent read and a great reference. I very much appreaciate you sharing your knowledge as you have. It's so difficult to find martial arts books with any substance. Your book has already influenced the way I'm doing my martial arts. Thank you and keep writing!-Carl Peck, Emory University

Your book, Warriors of Stillness V.1, has proven to be extremely helpful to me in my meditation and energy training. Thank you so much for our marvelous work!-LInda Barbely, Picataway, New Jersey.

I read Warriors of Stillness and would like to thank you for the quality and insight it gave me in my own practice!-Sai'ah Mohammed, Paris, France

Thank you for your book warriors of Stillness. In enjoyed reasding it anddd would like to order three more copies.-Ian Fok, Hong Kong.

I am really impressed that you attain such high level in Chinese Martial art in a foreign country and have written a book that can so intensively cover Tai chi and Qigong-Lo Soi Hon, Macau.

I was impressed witht eh attention to detaiil and with thea amouthnt of informatin offered to students of many levels. The focus on intent was especially exciting because, except for a brief mention here or there, it is rarely addressed in writings on Tai chi chuan-John Adams, Fairbanks, Alaska

Thank you for your excellent book Warriors of Stillness V.1-Bernard Lee, Sydney, Australia

Congratulations on this profound piece of work! I look forward to volume II and III and other material.-Gerhard Ackerman, Vienna, Austria

Your book Warriors of Stillness, V.1 is wonderful! Its wealth of information will keep me absorbed in the coming months and years. The depth of konwledge as generously offered in the book, synthesizing eastern mysticism with psychophysiological explanations, gives an admirable and useful guide to me.-Jow Yuzo, Los Angeles, CA

Contents

Author's introduction: Warriors of Stillness
Part 1 Being mindful of the center How to cultivate relaxation and integration for health
Chapter 1 Cultivating the center point
Historical and philosophical notes
The geography of the lower torso
Wuji center as center of gravity
Wuji center as biological center
Wuji center as center of awareness
Chapter 2 Cultivating the ceentereline
Sinking the qi and raising the spirit
The foundation
The upper torso
Advanced standing & closing practice
Chapter 3 Wuji qigong as healing art
The Chinese view
Questions and answers
Thoughts on the breath & breathing
A Western rationale
Part II Being mindful of the foundatin & sphere How to cultivate relaxation and integration for martial arts
Chapter 4 Cultivating the foundation
Archer step
Shifting
Rotating (Opening and closing)
Stepping and walking forward
Stepping and walking backward
Chapter 5 Cultivating the sphere
Structure & types of spheres
Vertical circle
Horizontal circle
Diagonal circling
Circling with folding extending
Stages of practice
Chapter 6 Combining centerline, foundation and sphere
Threading the nine pearls, continued
Grasping the bird's tail sequence
Master Cai's grasping the bird's tail
Spiral energy force
Pure yin and yang exercises
Part III Being mindful of the connectin How to use relaxation and integration for martial arts
Chapter 7 Using energy and stength in partnered practice
The sphere of Peng
Pile stance wooden man exercise
Two person vertical circle exercise
Two person horizontal circle exercise
Working with strength
Neutralizing by shifting
Neutralizing by rotation
Chapter 8 Using movement & stilness to neutralize
The uses of stilness and movemnt
Nine pearls double exercise
Description of circle pushing
Neutralizing in free play
The principle of relative motion
Advanced methods of neutralization
Strategies in pushhands
Chapter 9 Using stillness & integration to discharge
Master Cai's use of stillness
Cultivating Jin
Neutalize by hopping with the frame
First level: Integration & cylindricality
Second livel: Sphericity & unitary expansion
Third level: Spherical awareness & peripheral intentinality
Fourth level: Empty force & interacting fields of awareness

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