Complete Body Method

Discover the internal mechanics, fascial development, and structural principles of authentic Chen-style Tai Chi

Fascial Remodelling

The loading patterns of Chen practice remodel connective tissue in ways conventional training cannot replicate

Chenjiagou Taijiquan 

The complete art as transmitted from its birthplace in Chen village, unmodified, undiluted, and taught in full

About the Course

Build the Body Method is a comprehensive online course in authentic Chen-style Taijiquan, designed to develop the internal mechanics, fascial architecture, and structural principles that make this art genuinely transformative, and genuinely different from anything else available. The course covers the complete foundational system: standing practice, silk reeling exercises, and the Laojia Yilu form taught in full, alongside the underlying principles of body method, energy mechanics, and internal development that give the movements their meaning. This is not a course in choreography. It is a course in building a body that moves, recovers, and ages differently. The curriculum is structured to take you from the foundational principles through to a complete working practice, with enough depth at each stage that the material can be returned to and mined further as your embodied understanding develops. Every section is taught with attention to the internal mechanics, what is actually happening in the connective tissue, the nervous system, and the structural organisation of the body, bridged to contemporary fascia science and exercise physiology where the research illuminates what the classical tradition has always known.  Whether you are completely new to Taijiquan or an existing practitioner looking for a more rigorous and scientifically grounded transmission, this course is designed to give you a practice that compounds in value the longer and more seriously you engage with it.

Living Course

New content added continuously , a course the grows and deepens alongside your practice

Traditional Pedagogy

Taught the way the art has always been transmitted, as a system to be embodied, not a syllabus to be completed

Modern Framework

Explained through biomechanics and fascia science, without the linguistic and pedagogical barriers that can cause progress to stall

What the Practice Develops

Stretch Fascia, Not Just Muscle

The slow, spiral tension of Chen practice loads and remodels the fascial network in ways that conventional muscle-focused training cannot replicate.

Autonomic Adaptation

Chen Taijiquan trains the autonomic nervous system directly, developing parasympathetic tone, recovery capacity, and the physiological regulation that conventional training cannot reach.

Refined Movement Efficiency

Not a bigger engine, but a more efficient one. Whole-body coordination and fascial elasticity that generates more force with less muscular effort.

Meet Your Instructor

I have been training Chen-style Taijiquan with Wang Haijun for close to twenty years, beginning in my mid-twenties after a background in Capoeira. That background gave me certain advantages: coordination, body awareness, a comfort with physical learning, but it did not spare me from the fundamental challenge that most adult starters face. I began with significant structural restrictions, particularly in my shoulders, and in the early years developed knee problems serious enough to take me out of practice entirely for three years. The path back into the art, and through it, has been a long process of resolving structural compensations, remodelling fascial tissue, and developing the interoceptive clarity to feel what was actually happening in my body. Having navigated that path is an asset to my teaching. Teaching adults who come to the practice later in life, often with bodies that have already accumulated years of compensatory patterns and fossilised fascial tissue, requires a teacher who understands that learning path from the inside. I do. Combined with a framework for explaining the internal principles in biomechanical and movement science terms that make them accessible without diluting them, I am well placed to guide students through a learning path that produces real, embodied development rather than a superficial familiarity with the external choreography. The internal mechanics of the art are not theoretical knowledge. They are embodied reality, something I can feel, demonstrate, and transmit.

Course Curriculum

13 Chapters · 121 Lessons

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    Preview Lessons

    1. Preview of Loosen and Stretch the Shoulders by Circling the Elbows Free preview
    2. Preview of 14. Hidden Thrust Punch and Whirling Upper Arms Free preview
    3. Preview of 15. Temple Guard Pounds Mortar Free preview
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    Introduction to Chen Style Taijiquan

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      Important Notice

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      What is a Body Method?

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      History of Taijiquan

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      The Preservation of the Original Art

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      Laojia Yi Lu - The Cornerstone of the Body Method

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      Yi - Intent and Awareness

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      Dantien

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      The Eight Energies

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      The Two Meanings of Peng

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      Fajin - Issuing Energy

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      Structuring Your Practice

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      The Importance of Hands on Correction

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    Fundamentals

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      Basic Hand Positions

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      Basic Leg Stances

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      Stance Depth in Your Practice

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      Looking After Your Knees

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      Activating the Feet

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      Breathing

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      Tongue Position

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      A Note on Turning

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    Warm Up / Joint Loosening Exercises

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      Loosen the Wrists by Forward Rotation

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      Loosen and Stretch the Back, Arms, Shoulders, and Legs

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      Loosen the Neck by Circling the Head

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      Loosen and Stretch the Shoulders by Circling the Elbows

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      Loosen and Stretch the Spine and Chest

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      Loosen and Stretch the Waist Horizontally + Slap the Body

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      Loosen and Stretch the Hips

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      Loosen and Stretch the Knees

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      Loosen the Ankles

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      Stretch the Hips and Groin - Bow Stance

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      Stretch the Hips and Groin - Low Stance

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      Follow Along - Loosening the Joints

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      Follow Along - Stretch the Hips and Groin

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    Stepping

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      Side Stepping

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      Diagonal Stepping

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      Forward Stepping

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      Backwards Stepping

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      Borrowed Stepping

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      Borrowed Stepping - Forwards

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      Borrowed Stepping - Backwards

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    Foundational Principles

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      Ding

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      Fang Song

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      Song Kua

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      Peng Jin

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      Dang

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    Standing Post

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      Standing Post (Zhan Zhuang)

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      Standing Post (Zhan Zhuang)

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      Standing Foot Position

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      Breathing While Standing

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      Standing Weight Distribution

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    Laojia Yi Lu - Settling Postures

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      Settling Postures

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      Settling Postures

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      Finding Peng in Settling Postures

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      Settling and Rooting

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      Settling and Winding

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    Silk Reeling 1

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      Silk Reeling Exercises

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      Figure 8 with the Hips

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      Figure 8 Details

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      Single Hand Front Silk Reeling (Arms)

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      Single Hand Front Silk Reeling

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      Double Hand Front Silk Reeling (Arms)

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      Double Hand Front Silk Reeling

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      Peng Lu Silk Reeling

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    Silk Reeling Follow Alongs

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      Follow Along - Single Hand Front Silk Reeling

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      Follow Along - Double Hand Front Silk Reeling

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      Follow Along - Peng Lu Silk Reeling

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    Laojia Yi Lu (Old Frame First Road) - First Section

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      Learning the Frame

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      1. Preparation Posture

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      2. Temple Guard Pounds Mortar

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      Follow Along with Counting - First Two Movements

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      3. Lazily Tying Coat

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      4. Six Sealing and Four Closing

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      5. Single Whip

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      Follow Along with Counting - Movements 1-5

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      A Note on the First Five Postures

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      6. Temple Guard Pounds Mortar

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      6a. Stamp with Gravity

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      7. White Crane Spreads Wings

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      8. Walking Obliquely

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      Follow Along with Counting - Movements 7 - 8

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      9. Brushing Knees

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      10. Stepping Lightly

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      11. Walking Obliquely

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      12. Brushing Knees

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      13. Stepping Lightly

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      14. Hidden Thrust Punch and Whirling Upper Arms

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      15. Temple Guard Pounds Mortar

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      A Note on the Third Temple Guard Pounds Mortar

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      Follow Along with Counting - Movements 7 - 15

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      16. Flinging the Body

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      17. Green Dragon Emerging from Water

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      18. Double Pushing Hands

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      Follow Along with Counting - Movements 16 - 18

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    Laojia Yi Lu (Old Frame First Road) - Second Section

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      19. Fist Under Elbow

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      20a. Whirling Upper Arms (Upper Body)

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      20b. Whirling Upper Arms

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      21. White Crane Spreads Wings

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      22. Walking Obliquely

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      23. Flashing the Arm

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      Follow Along with Counting - Movements 19 - 23

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      24a. Turning on the heel

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      24. Hidden Thrust Punch and Whirling Upper Arms

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      25. Six Sealing and Four Closing

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      26. Single Whip

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      27. Cloud Hands

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      28 High Pat on Horse

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      Follow Along with Counting - Movements 24 - 28

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    Laojia Yi Lu (Old Frame First Road) - Third Section

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      29. Brushing the Right Foot

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      30. Brushing the Left Foot

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      31. Kicking With the Left Heel and Following

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      32. Forward Twist Step

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      33. Punch the Ground

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      34. Kicking with Two Heels

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      35. Protecting the Heart

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      36a. Whirlwind Foot

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      36. Whirlwind Foot

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      37. Kicking with the Right Heel and Following

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      38. Hidden Thrust Punch and Whirling Upper Arms

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