Taiji Stockholm

01/10/2025

The deep emotions

One of the benefits of the spiritual training of Taiji is that beyond the physical benefits of health and energy we also gain tools of emotional management as our sensitivity into the subtle functions of the nervous system gives us earlier awareness of the effects of our hormonal and psychological patterns of response on the level of the body. This gives us a gradually increasing freedom from the animal responses of the body as we get better at catching ourselves before we fall into ingrained emotional patterns of reaction.
However, the greatest emotional benefits lie in the first level of our being beyond the body, sometimes called the deep emotions.
The deep emotions are beyond the physical and chemical patterns in the nervous system and the hormonal system, beyond the animal reality of our physical bodies, and is the source of our deepest most positive emotions independent of the temporary physical body. It is by feeding, nourishing and growing stronger our deep emotions that we gain not only freedom from the negative emotions of the body, but also allowing our deepest most positive emotions to take a larger and larger place in our lives.
Gradually the animal is reined in and selfless respect, gratitude and humility can take its place in our lives.

In the photo Taiji-master Patrick Kelly practicing yuantui(round arms,圆推) with his wife Marianne

24/09/2025

Taiji Stockholm at the residential seminar with Patrick Kelly's senior student Frédéric Gilles in Dinard, France July 2025
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16/07/2025

Taiji partner exercise(推手 tuīshǒu) Ward off, pullback, press and push(掤捋挤按 penglüjian), narrated by our youngest member 🙂

15/07/2025

Taiji classes held in Swedish or English according to the needs of the students

14/07/2025

Patrick Kelly's senior student Christine Schneider from taiji-schule.at visited Taiji Stockholm June 2025 🌞☯️

22/05/2025

Patrick Kelly's senior student Guillem Bernadó of GB TAIJI demonstrating the inches of 海底針 (hǎi dĭ zhēn) Needle at sea floor(or Needle in the Ocean) from the Long Form

17/05/2025

Patrick Kelly's senior student Guillem Bernadó of GB TAIJI demonstrating the inches of 扇通背 (shàn tōng bèi) Fan Through Back and 撇身捶 (piě shēn chuí) Throw Body Blow from the Long Form

14/03/2025

Taiji Stockholm in Reichenau for the residential training with Patrick Kelly's senior student Christine Schneider February 2025

21/12/2024

Happy Midwinter!

Today on the shortest day of the year we are reminded of our connection with the Sun, the center of our solar system and source of light and life. The significance of the Sun is obvious from the perspective of life on our planet, but has an ever deeper significance for our souls beyond our temporary physical incarnation.

Just like the plants reaching up towards the light from the dark earth, so do our souls reach for the source of light that is also their source and home. Beyond the shadows of the physical world the light of the Sun shines unhindered, and the way home lies clear.

So let this day inspire us, to lift our heads momentarily from our earthly toil, in remembrance and acknowledgement of our reason, direction and aim of being, our Holy Father above, our Sun. 🌞

22/09/2024

Happy autumn equinox! 🌞

On this day as night and day balance each other in the neverending dance of opposites we are reminded to direct our thoughts for a moment to the source of life, our star, our Sun.
Just like we know the Sun never stops shining, whether hidden behind clouds or at darkest night, so we can rely on the light in the depths of our being, the lighthouse of our soul always shining, a safe harbour at the center of the storms and turbulence of life.
When life is a dark tempest the light of the soul never falters, but connects us to the source of all light, never further away than the direction of our attention and gratitude.

20/06/2024

Under vår tid på jorden, då vår tid och energi går åt till att balansera alla behov, krav, begär, rädslor och emotionella stormar som livet naturligt bjuder oss på, är varje påminnelse om ett större sammanhang bortom våra små kroppar och ideer om oss själva en gåva att tacksamt ta vara på som en skänk från ovan, och idag är det en av de återkommande stunder då jorden, solen, naturen och himlakropparnas rörelser ger oss en glimt av de ofantligt stora sammanhang våra små, små liv utspelar sig i, midsommarsolståndet.

Så lyft blicken från jordelivets mödor en stund i tacksamhet över livets gåva och vänd ansiktet mot källan av det livsgivande ljuset, i himlen som i djupet av våra hjärtan! 🌟

Glad midsommar! 🌞

29/02/2024

From Guillem Bernadó, senior student of Patrick Kelly

Taiji & Meditation, why they should work together?

Our classes always finish with a guided 15 minutes meditation. There are several reasons to finish a Taiji class with a sitting meditation. The main one is to clearly set up the direction of your effort towards Internal development.

Every Taiji class starts with the 5 loosening exercises, to direct the Mind towards the internal movements and subtle changes inside the body.
During the practice of the Taiji Form, we aim to take one step further and focus the mind into the waves of elastic forces rippling through the body as we move smoothly and continuously.
On the last part of the Taiji training, we practice with a partner to become sensitive to the energising of the nervous system and the light activations that form inside our system to connect into our training partner.
It would be possible to stop the practice there, then all the focus of the training would be on what the ancient Chinese call the Lower Dantian. That is, enhancing the body’s energy level and it’s overall condition.

Nevertheless, we pursue a higher goal, to impulse the inner growth and refinement, and that is mainly done during the practice of the Meditation and the energy transformation behind it, the refining of lead into Gold, the same goal pursued by the ancient alchemist of the past.

That’s why we finish every Taiji class with a short but intensely directed meditation, so the direction of our effort is directed towards the path of Self-development.