The Old Six Roads: Ancient Tai Chi Form Reveals Path to Inner Harmony

Experience the profound simplicity of the Old Six Roads - a rare Tai Chi form that develops internal power and natural movement from your very first practice. Watch as we unveil this transformative system that puts energy cultivation at the heart of your training.
🌟 Why the Old Six Roads is Different:
• More than just another form
• Develops internal energy from day one
• Allows movements to emerge naturally from your intention
• Creates harmony between spirit, body, and energy
• Adapts to your unique physical nature
🔮 Our Unique Three-Stage Learning Method:
1. Spirit & Intention
• Understand the deeper intention of each movement
• Connect with the form's internal principles
• Develop natural, comfortable expression
2. Geometric Mastery
• Learn precise movement patterns
• Understand the body's spatial harmony
• Master foundational mechanics
3. Energetic Refinement
• Harmonize spirit, body, and energy
• Experience comfort supported by universal energy
• Achieve effortless movement
✨ Perfect For:
• Complete beginners seeking an authentic start
• Experienced practitioners looking to deepen their practice
• Those interested in energy cultivation
• Anyone seeking a natural approach to Tai Chi
🎓 In This Complete Course, You'll Receive:
• Step-by-step instruction in all 37 movements
• Multiple angles of perspective to each movement
• Live coaching zoom sessions to help you fully understand
• Access to our supportive community
💫 What Makes This Form Special:
• Ancient Yang Family practice
• Emphasis on natural movement
• Focus on internal development
• Systematic teaching approach
🎓 Join Shifu Chester, with decades of experience in teaching Tai Chi as he:
• Demonstrates elements of the Old Six Roads 37 Movement Form
• Explain how this form uniquely cultivates your inner treasures
• Illustrate how this course helps practitioners of all levels succeed
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The Old Six Roads is more than a bunch of movements - it awakens the natural flow of energy within you.

[@marksack429]

What a beautiful form. Great explanation too. What is really great is you teach complete intention, energy flow and the geometry of the form on separate video's so we can watch over and over again. It's like paying for a private lesson one time and getting to relive it until we have it down.(wash, rinse, repeat). This method works for the both the experienced martial artist and newbies as well. I have 50 years martial arts experience and my wife has none. We are learning this Tai Chi together. We are both enjoying all the programs very much. They are complete and fun. I never thought it would be possible to do this remotely or with such velocity through the learning curve. But, you really make this easy. Thanks.

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

Thank you for the beautiful commentary! I especially love how your story of how the course can let a 50 year experienced practitioner and a total beginner enjoy Tai Chi together. 😃🙏

[@LightsOnMultiMediaMindArts]

I've learned the first two Roads thus far with this course. I've studied T'ai Chi for over 40 years and this has been a breakthrough that has significantly enriched my understanding and experience of T'ai Chi Ch'uan. I cannot recommend Sifu Lin's courses enough. Not only does he understand T'ai Chi and other internal martial arts at a deep level few other teachers are willing to share, he knows how to TEACH T'ai Chi so that everyone can learn. He has a warm and engaging personality and is open to questions at all time. If you want to learn T'ai Chi at a level beyond "park" T'ai Chi this is where to start.

[@DrEricRobins]

beautiful sentiments

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

Thank you for this awesome feedback! I really appreciate it! And I love hearing that you have enjoyed breakthroughs that enriched your Tai Chi understanding and experience! 😃🙏🙏

[@40JoCharles]

Very nice 🙂🙏🏼☯️

[@robertjordon1984]

Thank you Sifu Chester for making us aware of the more subtle forms of the components of teh taichi form. I just wondered when you use Peng on your opponent, do you HAVE TO first make them float first because as far as I know you dont meet force with force in taichi, so the flioat would disspitate most of their Li and then you can push them back with Ward-off. One wouldn't use ward-off straightaway on very strong Li as it would never work because that means force vs force. Is that correct

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

You are right to think that directly opposing their force would not be optimal. It’s possible to go 180 degrees in the direction of their force if your Song is deep enough and your awareness domain has captured their awareness and intention. In Qi and Neijin Mastery you learn to float as well as sink, or Peng as well as An. These give you options so you do not have to clash, so that your Tai Chi can be efficient and elegant. Pluck, Split, these Neijins add other options for interacting with their force and intention too. And in Yi Mastery you explore the intention path’s that can redirect them no matter what the directions are. Thanks for asking the thoughtful question! Good topic! 😃🙏

[@kmusicjohnsen7127]

I can see learning these principles in this form will help deepen my practice of tai chi, but I'm a little concern from watching this about the possible complexity of learning all the details the form itself as a focus before being able to focus on the more internal energies in order to cultivate those more. I'm currently learning several other forms simultaneously in both bagua and xingyi while also refining the tai chi long form, and this would be one more potential complex form to the pile. :) But I have been much more moving into that whole body energetic connection in my tai chi practice, and this looks like a perfect fit at this time to help deepen what's been opening for me in my practice right now.

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

Haha sounds like you really like learning the depths of the internal arts! If you want to master the internal connections and skills without being inundated by complex forms the mastery classes are exactly designed for that. In this Old Six Roads course we actually don’t worry about the complexity of the form details all that much. The emphasis is on experiencing on float and sink, inflate and deflate, activates your energy to move your body. It does make sense to not have too many open ended projects going on at once though! So perhaps you will be able to focus and enjoy more after you finish some of the other forms. Or maybe inside of the process of learning them are some unresolved difficulties about the process that you haven’t fully realized. When you discover how to deepen your whole body connection, beyond the ways you have explored yet, how much easier will it be to learn and perform the forms that are interesting to you? It’ll be fun to find out! And I’m happy to help you whenever you realize it is the right time for you. 😃🙏

[@kmusicjohnsen7127]

​@@phoenixmountaintaichi Thank you. I had decided to enroll yesterday as I realized that I'm already focusing on many of these internal energies in all the forms already, but your explanations help to refine and put better focus on these than what I am intuitively doing already, having tapped into that from practicing the long form standing in the lake when I was swimming. The buoyancy of the water, the senses of currents on the skin, the sinking into the soft sand, etc., really shifted my focus to that internal body awareness. As I heard you giving terms to these, "gather and release", "float and sink", I could tell giving a language to these like this will be enormously helpful in further cultivating these as well as finding areas of blockage where tensions and poor alignments exists. As I looked through the curriculum last night on this, I can see ahead that the postures are really what I do know already, with the sparrows tail sequence, single whip, white crane, brush knee, and play guitar, right out of the first section of the long form. I'm not seeing this now to be that much as taking on yet another form to learn as much as about the focus on the internal aspects. Like you say, I think it will make everything else I'm learning that much easier.

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

@@kmusicjohnsen7127yes you’re exactly right! They are not so much new movements if you’ve learned any Yang Tai Chi form before. Because what you will really be experiencing is a deeper exploration of the internal connection and motivations, which are indeed like you say, like floating in a lake, feet gently sinking into soft sand. We are formed in water, learn to be one with the earth, and aspire to fly. And when you harmonize with the energy inside and out and it is like floating again in water, and light like being in the air, yet stable as we sink into the earth. How much fun can our physical experience be when it’s like that, to the extent like how we like swimming, surfing, skiing, and other activities of dynamic lightness? Welcome to the program and I look forward to your stories about your growth and successes! 😃🙌

[@outerlast]

that's an interesting form. it seems similar to one variant of yang form that i've seen in a demo some time ago, although it was weighted more on the back leg instead of front leg. i thought it was a mix of taiji and xingyi. one question, is there a prerequisite or requirement before learning this form? there was a teacher of yang variant forms who asked the student to at least know the standard yang cheng fu form first before learning the variant forms. most people back then only knew cheng man ching form or simplified 24 form, so it was a pretty demanding requirement :/

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

There isn’t any prerequisite! If you can stand and walk you can practice this. If you have limitations with that, you can still practice it sitting. 😃 This course is designed for beginners to immerse themselves in Tai Chi form and the essence of Tai Chi movements that are rooted in the awareness of our internal energy. And it just becomes more fun and beneficial as your awareness of the internals grow through practice of the form. 😃🙏

[@outerlast]

@@phoenixmountaintaichi sounds good, thank you for the answer :)

[@spike8674]

thank you Sifu Lin for making this video pratically for me 😂 we talked about it just yesterday! very fast! just two more questions. I suppose this form is done from the prospective of song - qi - neijin masteries? what about fascia mastery? I suppose no form actually includes it directly right? the yi taught in the OSR is the yi of the energy and not the same yi of the mastery course, right? F. B.

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

Great questions! And yes thank you for inspiring me to clarify things for everyone! Yes the fascia mastery is primarily about moving your awareness to the surface of the body and how to interact with another person’s force and resistance. What you bring from that to this form practice is the sense that you are a hollow balloon. Light and moving easily. This lightness is further refined in Song Mastery. Good observation about the Yi of the form. Here indeed Yi refers to the inflation deflation, float and sink of the spirit and spiritual body. You can consider it the general movement of the energy within your body. In Yi Mastery you are working with the location and trajectory of consciousness and its focus. I may add these questions to the FAQ section of the website. Thanks for the great questions! 😃🙏

[@spike8674]

@phoenixmountaintaichi thank you for always being clear!

[@andrewearlwu554]

Ooo, the performance at the start was like as if you were in a form competition. You usually do it in a manner that feels like sleeves fluthering in the wind. 3rd Road will be release soon? "Finish" learning the 2nd one. Need to work shoulder level energy field among other things. Moving up the arm from waist to shoulder isn't as floaty yet as with hip to waist.

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

You are incredibly observant! Beyond the usual performance where I let the Qi take me as I float through the movements, in this one I performed with a deeper integration of Yi’s clarity and Neijin’s feel of floating in wind and water. This integration is based on our school’s own goals on inner harmonization, outside of what was explicitly stated by the Yang family’s instructions. I feel that this is a satisfying direction of total integration that this form can move towards. And it may be that they did do this back then and did not publicly speak of it, or it may be this is my personal preference. I’m inclined to think they experimented with everything possible. 😃 The 3rd road should be out tonight or tomorrow morning! I’m finishing the videos as we speak. 😃🙏

[@andrewearlwu554]

@@phoenixmountaintaichi the usual performance style in the course makes it easier to follow, here the movement circles are much tighter.

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

@@andrewearlwu554that’s exactly right! The usual performance and the videos from the course are to help all of you learn as easily as possible. This performance is to show how you may evolve as your mastery grows. 😃🙏

[@andrewearlwu554]

@@phoenixmountaintaichi "This integration is based on our school’s own goals on inner harmonization, outside of what was explicitly stated by the Yang family’s instructions. I feel that this is a satisfying direction of total integration that this form can move towards. And it may be that they did do this back then and did not publicly speak of it, or it may be this is my personal preference. I’m inclined to think they experimented with everything possible. 😃" This occurred to me after waking up from sleep... Will this integration process/protocol be taught in a future course module or as a course in itself?

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

@@andrewearlwu554yes it will definitely be taught. 😃🙌

[@mikeweller2124]

Contact on Your Website. I tried the contact us on your website, but got an error message. I am interested in your old six roads course, but I don't trust your website to protect my credit card info (occupational hazard for system security engineers). Could I pay with a check? Is the course available on DVD? I've been looking for ways to become more internal with my taiji. Thanks.

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

Okay I think the web email as well as direct email are working as intended now! Thanks for pointing out the issue. Let me know if you have any further error messages and what those messages are. Email me and we can help you work out a payment method that is secure for you. 😃🙏

[@andrewearlwu554]

First 😄

[@phoenixmountaintaichi]

Reclaim the throne! 😄🙌