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Partnerwork and Pushing Hands 

"You can find out more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation" - Plato

Pushing Hands is a term given to describe a whole range of partner exercises, both choreographed and freestyle and based on the martial art that is Tai Chi Chuan. These exercises, based on principles of softening, yielding, listening and following encourage you to respond to situations creatively and along the way find out a bit more about yourself.
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WORKSHOP DATES FOR 2025
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Principles, Da Lu and Pushing Hands

Saturday 25 January  Spreyton Village Hall
Saturday 29 March  Spreyton Village Hall
Saturday 14 June    Manaton Parish Hall
Sunday 15 June   (San Shou)   Manaton Parish Hall

Saturday 27  September Spreyton Village Hall
Sunday 28 September  (San Shou) 
Spreyton Village Hall
Saturday 22 November  Spreyton Village Hall
Sunday 23 November  (San Shou)  
Spreyton Village Hall

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Email Angus to book
Cost: £45 day  /  £25 half day
PUSHING HANDS AND PARTNERWORK
Plato sums it up pretty well there, dont you think? Bearing in mind, of course, that the person you're finding out about is yourself as much as 'the other'. For me, this pretty much describes the pushing hands journey of enquiry.


If you think about how much of your life is in relationship - conversations, emails, texts, phone calls, as well as more intimate relationships, then you realise that a lot of your life-time is about relating. Pushing Hands gives us one way of exploring all of this. 
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In Pushing Hands you start by simply listening to the contact with another person and to the information that the contact gives you.
You develop your sensitivity and ability to respond as well as your sense of grounding and resilience. 
Based on the idea of 'yielding' like a reed in the wind, in pushing hands you learn to listen, to follow what is happening and create out of that. You dont respond to what you think might happen or what you want to happen; just simply what is.
It's nice and profound.


Newcomers and more experienced players are all welcome to join the classes and workshops.
This little film is from Fred Hao's workshops in Devon in 2019.
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