T'ai Chi Chih Movements

T’ai Chi Chih® consists of 19 movements and one pose

:

• Rocking Motion
• Bird Flaps Its Wings
• Around the Platter
• Around the Platter Variation
• Bass Drum
• Daughter on the Mountaintop
• Daughter in the Valley
• Carry the Ball to the Side
• Push Pull
• Pulling in the Energy
• Pulling Taffy
• Pulling Taffy, Variation #1,  Anchor
• Pulling Taffy, Variation #2, Wrist Circles
• Pulling Taffy, Variation #3, Perpetual Motion
• Working the Pulley
• Light at the Top of the Head / Light at the Temple
• Joyous Breath
• Passing Clouds
• Six Healing Sounds (and the corresponding organ): HO (heart), HU (spleen), SZU (liver), HSU (lungs), HSI (3 heaters: below the navel, in the abdomen & between the eyes) CHUI (kidneys)
• Cosmic Consciousness Pose

Birds Flap Their Wings?

How is it possible that birds can fly together effortlessly? How can they stay in sync, in perfect formation, and evenly spaced? How hard do they practice to get this good? Or do birds just fly? Is this what is meant by the effort of "no effort"?

Do we have to practice to move together effortlessly? Or is it the harder you practice the harder it becomes? What happens when you let go? Will it become softer? Does the chi keep us in sync?  Is this what is meant by the effort of "no effort"?