Guang Ping Yang tai chi

Kuo Lien Ying is credited with bringing Guang Ping Yang tai chi to the United States.

Yang Luchan moved his family from the Chen village to the town of Guang Ping, and developed Yang-style tai chi.

As the legend goes, one day Yang Banhou heard a noise over the fence and looked to see Wang Jiaoyu practicing the Guang Ping form.

From Wang's teaching, it is said that Kuo learned all the true skill and essence of Guang Ping Yang tai chi.

Kuo Lien Ying moved to San Francisco in the early 1960s and opened one of the first tai chi studios in America with the help of Sifu David Chin.

The Guang Ping Yang Tai Chi Association was formed In 1997 to honor the memory of Sifu Kuo Lien Ying and in commemoration of his unselfish sharing of his many skills.

Chiang, Henry Look Guang Ping Yang Tai Chi Association Past Presidents: Henry Look, Donald Rubbo, Nina (Sugawara) Deerfield, Nick D’Antoni, Dominick Ruggieri, Randy Elia, Lawrence Riddle, Lucy Bartimole, Grace Cheng, Valarie Prince Gabel Current President, Guang Ping Yang Tai Chi Association: David Chosid In 1998, Guang Ping Yang tai chi teachers, Bill Douglas and his Hong Kong born wife Angela Wong Douglas, organized what CNN News dubbed the "largest gathering of its kind outside China" in Kansas City.

200 people gathered for a mass public exhibition of the Guang Ping Yang Style Tai Chi form.

It has been covered by China's Xinhua News Agency; Agency France Presse TV; Associated Press Television; BBC Television; CNN; FOX News; The New York Times; Wall Street Journal; USA Weekend; BBC Radio; The South China Morning Post, and media worldwide.

Remember to be mindful of every single move by trying to feel its meaning, And you will eventually come into possession of the art's secrets without conscious effort.

Rivet your attention, without even a moment's interruption, onto the waist interval, and Keep your abdomen free from tension due to food or impurities, so that Your vitality flux (chi) may, as it were, boil and rise like steam.

Keep the lowest segments of your vertebrae central in relation to gravitation all the while, when Your limbs and body are gyrating with effortless nimbleness, and your head is held buoyant as if suspended from above.

As to the theory and practice, i.e., the constituents and functioning of Tai-Chi Chuan, The spirit is sovereign and the body its servant, The end purpose of these exercises is to prolong life and endow it with the youth of eternal spring.