A powerful and skill-enhancing experience!
On 25 May 2025, Professor Lily welcomed students from across Greater Melbourne for our first special workshop for 2025 — a sold-out encore of our most popular event to date - Push Hands and Yang 9 Duel.
Professor Lily focused her teaching on the martial arts techniques of tai chi Push Hands (Tui Shou) and the Yang 9 Duel Routine, helping students to deepen their understanding of tai chi martial applications, increase coordination especially hand eye coordination, reaction and response time, and connect mind and body.
Push Hands: Feeling, Flow, and Foundation
Push Hands two-person training links theory to practical application. Participants explored the dynamic interaction between attack and defense, learning to sense transitions and respond with relaxed alertness.
As Professor Lily explained:
“Push hands is a powerful method for tai chi students to increase their understanding of the martial applications of tai chi.
You can get a new feeling for your tai chi practice. Really understand what it means for interaction with an opponent. Feeling and responding to the direction and strength of a partner's action brings greater alertness, concentration and mindfulness to your practice.
Continued practice of push hands has benefits for core strength, balance, flexibility, cardiovascular health and energy circulation.”
Yang 9 Duel Routine: From Solo to Synergy
The Yang 9 Duel Routine brings new depth and vitality to the solo routine taught in class. Learning and practising push hands and the duel routine is an important opportunity for enhancing your tai chi practice.
Partner work introduces an opponent for improving martial application. For sensing and feeling an opponent’s. intention. For understanding the coordination, timing and suitable application needed to respond to an opponent’s actions.
As always, Professor Lily’s teaching emphasized correct technique, martial application, and personal growth. Her warm and generous instruction was supported by Candice and Kathy, whose demonstrations and assistance were invaluable throughout the day.
Professor Lily was impressed by the dedication and enthusiasm of all participants. Photos and highlights from the workshop will be shared soon. Be sure to follow us on social media and check our website for updates on future events.
