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The UCB Program consists of solo and partner exercises that develop your awareness & concentration. If you have the awareness, you can get the feel for a movement. If you have the feel and can concentrate, you can become more natural. Martial skill grows from this awareness. This practice can affect permanent change in one's condition. Our curriculum is based on Taiji (Tai Chi) Principles, drawing from both Taoist & Chan (Zen) Buddhist techniques. Practice includes:

Taiji principles applied to movement include awareness of the relationship of Yin & Yang energies within the body, profound relaxation, integrated whole body power coupled with a supple ability to change. These principles, when cultivated over time, result in improved performance and remarkably integrated core strength. 

You will begin to manifest Taiji Principles from the first day of training. The UCB Program does not waste your time. The process is simple, 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 be able to capture the internal feel of  'no advancing and no backing off' - neutral.

The UCB Program is a complete integrative system, practice ranges from gentle non-confrontational qigong & formwork to deep stretching and vigorous partner training. The Health, Fitness and Martial aspects of the system are complimentary and interest in health does not require that you pursue the martial. Teaching style is traditional, tempered by the latest brain based research.

Training emphasis cycles through 3 stages every six months. All student levels work the same material, refining over time.

  1. Tai Chi Foundations 8 Week Course. Emphasis on Curriculum, Tai Chi Philosophy, Concepts and Principles
  2. I Liq Chuan - 15 Basic Exercises and Formwork with emphasis on Jibengong (basics), Energies and Application
  3. I Liq Chuan - Spinning Hands with emphasis on 5 Elements of Application
Please see the 'videos' link at the top of the page for examples.

The UCB Program offers monthly intensive workshops and retreats. These intensive training opportunities will concern meditation, nei gung/daoyin (chi kung), formwork or any specific aspect of our curriculum. Their purpose is to help the practitioner to go deeper into the material. See the 'Upcoming Events' sidebar for details.

Please use the contact link or call for questions or more information.

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.

-The Buddha

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