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Tai Chi Arts & Sciences

Robert Chuckrow, Ph.D.

Yin Yang

T’ai-Chi Short and Long Forms, Push-Hands, Sword, Broadsword, Staff, Two-Person Form, and Ch’i Kung

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Nutrition, Diet, and Other Health-Related Subjects


Robert Chuckrow’s Youtube.com Taiji/Qigong Videos (over 100 titles with links) Click here for page.


Articles on T’ai Chi (Taiji) and Ch’i Kung (Qigong):
• Traditional Chinese Medicine Herbs
• About and Yin Yang
• Achieving Sōng (Relax)
• Is Taiji Becoming Too Diluted?
• “Seek the Straight from the Curve.”
• Dòng and Dàng: Optimal Timing of Shifting and Turning in Taiji Movement.
• Clarifications of Perplexing Taiji Sayings and Admonitions
• Non-Action in T’ai-Chi Movement
• Analysis of Individual Movements of the T’ai-Chi form
• T’ai-Chi Practice
• T’ai-Chi Push-Hands Demos: Real or Fake
• Knee, Ankle, and Arch Alignment (Now with an illustrative video.)
• “Swimming on Land” (revised 7/3/18).
• Tucking the Tailbone in T’ai-Chi-Form Practice: Good or Bad?
• “Use the Mind and Not Force”
• Muscular Strength: Advantages of Expansion Over Contraction in T’ai Chi
• Seven Ways of Validating Your Progress in T’ai Chi
• Is it Possible for Muscles to Actively Extend?
• Cultivating the Correct Internal State in T’ai-Chi Movement
• An Analysis of “Rooting and Redirecting”
• “A Hand is Not a Hand”
• Stepping Like a Cat
• Non-Intention and Being in the Moment
• Circular Modalities in T’ai-Chi Movement
• The Cheng Man-ch’ing Short Form Versus The Yang-Style Long Form
• A Biological Interpretation of Ch’i
• The Head and Eyes During T’ai-Chi-Form Practice: Three Modalities
• A Clarification of “Secret” Teachings Revealed by Cheng Man-ch’ing
• Why Study T’ai Chi?
• How to Recognize Jin
• Additional Articles on T’ai Chi and Ch’i Kung


T’ai-Chi Classes and Events with Robert Chuckrow in Westchester County, NY and on Zoom:
• Description
• Times, Locations, Directions, and Cancelations (New in-person and zoom classes are now active)

Note: Interactive T’ai-Chi Presentation with Robert Chuckrow, sponsored by the Briarcliff Manor Recreation Department, Thursday, September 19 to December 5, 2024, from 10:00 to 11:00 A.M., at William J. Vescio Community Center, Upper Level, 3 Library Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY (next to Briarcliff Library, off Pleasantville Road). Phone to sign up: 914-941-6560.



New T’ai-Chi Class starts a week later at the above location, Thursdays 10:00am to 11:00 A.M.

• New T’ai-Chi Class with Robert Chuckrow:

Eleven Thursdays from 10:00 to 11:00 A.M., sponsored by the Briarcliff Manor Recreation Department, at the Briarcliff Manor Youth Center, 5 Van Lu Van Road (formerly School Road), off Pleasantville Road. Phone to sign up: 914-941-6560. Email: Seniors@briarcliffmanor.gov.

Dates: : March 27 to June 12, 2025. No Class on April 17.
Fees: Village Residents: $50.00. Non-Residents: $60.00.


T’ai-Chi Forms:
• Descriptions, Photos, Video Clips, and Names of Movements


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• About Robert Chuckrow


Articles on Nutrition and Health:
• Therapeutic Fasting
• Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners (updated)
• Traditional Chinese Medicine Herbs
• Causes and Prevention of Leg Cramps
• How Much Protein Should One Consume?
• Water and Other Beverages
• Hunger Pangs—What They are and How to Alleviate Them
• Vegetarianism Pros and Cons
• Why Diets Fail
• Overweight: its Causes and How it Can be Reversed by Natural Means
• True and False Hunger
• Heartburn and Acid Reflux
• A Possible Link Between Digestion and Arthritis and Allergies
• Therapeutic Fasting
• Are Double-Blind Experiments Valid?
• Red Wine?
• Are Supplements a Waste of Money?
• Problems with the Food Pyramid
• Therapeutic Magnets—A Possible Mechanism for Their Alleged Benefits
• Is Canned Mackerel a Natural Source of Omega 3?
• Is High-Fructose Corn Syrup More Fattening Than Cane Sugar?
• Additional Articles on Nutrition and Health


Articles on Kinetic Awareness® (KA):
• Recognizing and Attaining Optimal Alignment of Knees, Ankles, and Arches
• How to Educate and Improve Your Lower Back
• Relieving a Stiff Neck Using Kinetic Awareness Principles
• Is it Possible for Muscles to Actively Extend?
• Extending the Adductor Muscles (Video)


• Books and MP4 and DVD Videos Available for Purchase


• Links to Other T’ai-Chi, Ch’i-Kung, and Movement-Arts Websites


• Sayings—By Famous People, Fortune Cookies, and Others


• Index of Articles and Key Words


• View Site Map


• Visit Robert Chuckrow’s Website on Historical Tuning of Keyboard Instruments, which explains why Bach rejected equal temperament and clarifies the structure of equal temperament and other important tuning systems.


• See Robert Chuckrow’s youtube.com videos: https://www.youtube.com/@dsfgnk4.

• email Robert Chuckrow at: rmp (at) bestweb (dot) net.

• This website was created and designed by Robert Chuckrow, with technical assistance from Jeff Moore, and updated on April 9, 2026.

©2008 by Robert Chuckrow.