What is UCB Program Training Like?

UCB Program training is immersive and will require your very best efforts. We are unique in that we're training awareness itself - the 'cause' - rather than 'side effects' of accomplishment. Sustained efforts are explicitly mental and physical, not just physical, and can lead to profound insights.

First, we overwhelm the ego to get to the body, then we exhaust the body to get to the mind. This approach helps the student to capture the feeling of 'neutral'... no advancing and no backing off. This is the first understanding of Tai Chi Principles in the body.

You will change, if you train sincerely. We say that:

"You do the training and it does you... Just do what teacher says."

It is important to note that our process is NOT one of further accumulation and imitation. These are just different words for 'habits'.

Practice generally follows this sequence:

Brief questions and answers.
Warmup
First hour is stretching and light exercises.
Second hour is light partner training, nei gong, medium intensity exercises, postural training.
Third hour is heavy partner training and more intense work.
Standing postures or QiGong
Warmdown

Tuesday and Thursdays generally include form practice.

Hope to see you there.

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Kalama Sutta (Kalama Sutra)

Do not simply believe what you hear just because you have heard it for a long time.
Do no follow tradition blindly merely because it has been practiced that way for many generations.
Do not be quick to listen to rumors.
Do not confirm anything just because it agrees with your scriptures.
Do not foolishly make assumptions.
Do not abruptly draw conclusions by what you see and hear.
Do not be fooled by outward appearances.
Do not hold on tightly to any view or idea just because you are comfortable with it.
Do not accept as fact anything that you yourself find to be illogical.
Do not be convinced of anything out of respect and deference to your spiritual teachers.

You should go beyond opinion and belief. You can rightly reject anything which when accepted, practiced and perfected leads to more aversion, more craving and more delusion. They are not beneficial and are to be avoided. Conversely, you can rightly accept anything which when accepted and practiced leads to unconditional love, contentment and wisdom. These things allow you time and space to develop a happy and peaceful mind. This should be your criteria on what is and what is not the truth; on what should be and what should not be the spiritual practice.