This level is to gain more knowledge, understanding and expertise into the domain of mental focus, contemplation and inner work, in contrast to external form.

This next course of learning is to focus to awaken to your internal self and internal body movement. To achieve this, the student will also be taught to access this via two routes his solo practice and the partner practice. Solo practices on forms will only take you so far; you need the internal guide. And to progress even further the student has to have partner practices.

What some experienced Tai chi practitioners say about the Tai chi Intensive coaching:

Suggested Curriculum

• Adding breathing to Tai Chi set.
  
• Development of Flow: further refinement. Function of Mind in flow.
• How to have fullness of chi flowing everwhere in the body.
  
• Internalizing. Understand foreground, background and inner ground.
  
• Circling. Big and small.
• How to use internal movements to generate external power (also known as fajing)
  
• Legs and not Arms - How to correctly "root", being un-movable and stable to being pushed.
  
• Acceptance vs Resistance. Accepting and Rooting.
• Six harmonies. And its uses.
  
• Study of Separation and Unity in partner practice.
  
• Yielding : Sitting back correctly. Use of elbow. Use of finger. Use of knee.
  
• Breathing and stillness.
  
• Quieting the mind. De-clutter, and reprogram the mind towards calmness.
  
• Sensitivity Training: sensitive Hands, activated body.
  
• Responses to forces.
• The Internal Martial arts approach to defending one self against forces. Yielding and neutralising.
• Push Hands Curriculum
• Relaxation response in the face of stress and incoming forces.
  
• Nature of simple direct force, and its inherent weakness within its fierceness. Splitting Forces.
• Moving from techniques to listening to forces.
• Stationary vs Mobile Push Hands.