Explore the principles of Taiji with a partner through Tuishou. Learn to find your space in the relationship, to manage the invading energies of your partner by learning to recycle them to increase your own energy.
Rediscover the pleasure of playing with your body, gravity and space. Discover that the intentions, wishes and requests of your partner will no longer be a source of stress, defense and oppression but an offering of energy for the benefit of your space and balance and integrity.

In practice, two people stand face to face with their hands in constant contact, testing and exploring each other's balance.

Although finding its origins in the martial arts, with a notion of combat at the base, the way in which this practice is proposed here, emphasizes the awareness and the subtlety of the movement of course its martial effectiveness remains intact.

Tuishou free practice open to anyone new to or advanced in any style of martial arts or who has never practiced martial arts at all. 

However, it can be useful to take a course in the Tuishou courses offered if you have never done Tuishou or if you would like to find out what elements we are emphasizing here. 

During the evenings of practice, exchanges of a few minutes are done in pairs. These frequent changes of partner reveal a wide range of qualities of touch. 

As there are no lessons, it is possible to come and leave as you wish during the time slot during these evenings.

The evenings are free (donations are welcome to cover the costs of the room, among other things).

Tui Shou, also called "sticky hands", is traditionally used in Taiji and other martial arts. It is used to explore the principles learned in the form in application with a partner.

This practice for two allows us to discover how we occupy space with our body, how we manage our energy and what reflexes the dynamic sharing of a space with the partner awakens in us. It also allows us to discover how our perception works, our balance and how we can massively reduce our energy expenditure.

Thanks to the benevolent help of our partner, we can become aware of our bad habits and anchor in the body a different sensory experience. For example, we can have an excessively passive attitude by letting the partner occupy our space and ceding our physical and structural integrity to him. Or on the contrary too active, making us too rigid, resulting in a great loss of energy and great vulnerability because a rigid attitude no longer allows us to adapt to change. Being overly active blocks feeling and being too passive blocks action.

2.5 hours of Workshop in the morning and 3 hours of free push-hands by 10 minutes sessions in the afternoon

Tui Shou, also called "pushing hands", is used traditionally in Taiji and other martial arts. It promotes anchoring, listening and self-awareness in the relationship to the other and to space.

This practice helps to learn to maintain the link and movement while remaining relaxed and in balance. It allows you to manage your own energy more efficiently, to maintain the right distance, to understand the forces exercised by everyone and to use them to your advantage. The acquired principles are transposable to any situation of everyday life as well as to various bodily or therapeutic practices.

In practice, two people standing face to face with their hands in permanent contact, test and explore each other's balance. Although having its origins in the martial arts, with a notion of combat at the base, the way this practice is proposed here, emphasizes the consciousness and subtlety of the movement although its martial effectiveness remains intact.

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A workshop to get back to core. Feel the fundamental link to space. Rediscover the rhythm of life, body and environment. Trust and let the body unfold in spatiality through movement.

Refine your body awareness and find spontaneous movements, free of tension and intentions. Let the listening become the focus again and allow the stillness to reveal itself behind the movement.

We will practice various principles of effortless movement, energy recycling, in exercises alone and then in pairs. All the principles explored can be applied in everyday life as well as in your practice of Taiji, Yoga, dance or other martial arts and body practices.