Why do a standing meditation posture for a movement based art?
Whang Xian Zhai.
The zhan zhuang posture will provide:
- Better feeling of balance.
- Improvement of hanmi posture in Aikido.
- Relaxation of the muscles.
- Opening of the joints.
- Provide structural alignment in your movements.
- Improvement of will power.
These are just a few of the benefits I encountered while practicing this unique excercise. A lot if martial arts have stillness training but in the Chinese martial arts there's been a martial art which used the zhan zhuang posture as their prime excercise. This martial art is called I Chuan. The originator Whang Xiang Zhai developed his method from Xing Yi, one of the three main schools of internal martial arts.
I would encourage every Aikido practitioner to study this posture and add it to your daily routine.
A few books I recommend would be.
The way of power by Lam Kam Chuen. Also available in Dutch as Da Cheng Chuan.
Warriors of stillness by Jan Diepersloot.
Enjoy practice.
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