Workshops,
Regular classes &
practice meetings
Workshops :
Severin offers workshops all year long in Vevey, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. Around The International meeting, Ghislain will be in Europe and will give workshops with Severin in Vevey and other places in Europe. You will find a non-exhaustive list of these workshops below.
Saturday, 24 February 2024
Fribourg
Switzerland
13:00 – 16:00
Free price
Tuishou Workshop
Workshop by Severin Berz
13:00 - 14:30 Workshop | 14:30 - 16:00 Free practice
This workshop is accessible to anyone, beginner or more experienced.
Weekend, 6-7 April 2024
Belfort
France
not announced yet
n/a
Tuishou Workshop
Workshop by Severin Berz
Free the potential of the Dantien
The Dantien must be differentiated, free and connected with our shoulders and our Kwa to take advantage of its full potential.
We will see what their relationships are, how to differentiate and connect them and why the Dantien can only truly serve as a central balance if the shoulder and pelvic girdle are free and flexible.
We will do exercises alone and in pairs in order to regain the autonomy and collaboration of these body regions and to have a sharper awareness of them. We will also see these principles used in Tuishou and for martial application.
Sunday, 9 June 2024
Freiburg
Germany
not announced yet
n/a
INTERNATIONAL PUSH-HANDS MEETING
Workshop by Severin Berz
A free Kwa as a prerequisite for central balance
The Dantien must be differentiated, free and connected with our shoulders and our Kwa to take advantage of its full potential. We will see what their relationships are, how to differentiate and connect them and why the Dantien can only truly serve as a central balance if the shoulder and pelvic girdle are free and flexible. We will do exercises alone and in pairs in order to regain the autonomy and collaboration of these body regions and to have a sharper awareness of them. We will also see these principles used in Tuishou and for martial application.
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Weekend, 22-23 June 2024
Wettingen
Schweiz
10:00 – 17:00
120 CHF / Session
Tuishou Workshop
Workshop by Ghislain de Taillandier (USA) & Severin Berz
Semi-Private Workshop - The magic of the Kwa
Structure:
– Duration of a semi-Private Workshop session: 2hours*
– Price for 1 Semi-Private Workshop session: 120.-
– Max Semi-Private Workshop sessions a day: 2
– Freestyle Push-Hands or practice exchanges: All day**
– Attending only for freestyle practice is allowed: 10.-***
This is a Semi-Private Workshop, it is open for everyone.
Severin and Ghislain will teach together to small groups of 4 people maximum per teacher. This allow a deep learning process with a lot of corrections for everybody and a lot of possibilities to feel the Taiji principles in your body and and the one of the teachers.
The people which are not currently in a teaching session can practice freestyle push-hands or practice the material learned in the Semi-Private Workshop.
Content:
In this workshop we are going to look on how to listen and change with awareness.
Some of the processes we’ll look at:
– How to meet partner’s force at the point of contact
– Cultivate the Central Equilibrium
– Learn to release the Kwa to find balance, comfort and being able to manage external force with ease
* Can be split in 2 times 1h
** The group will be splitt and some will receive the teaching while others practice freestyle or the exercices already learned with the other available attendees.
*** Only if the location is big enough – subscribing is mandatory
4 days, 5-8 July 2024
Vevey
Switzerland
10:30 – 12:30
120 CHF /session
Push-Hands Workshops
Workshop by Ghislain de Taillandier (USA) & Severin Berz
8x 2h sessions of Semi-Private Workshops
In this workshop we are going to look on how to listen and change with awareness.
Some of the processes we’ll look at:
– How to meet partner’s force at the point of contact
– Cultivate the Central Equilibrium
– Learn to release the Kwa to find balance, comfort and being able to manage external force with ease
Regular classes :
Severin offers regular Tuishou classes and open free push-hands meetings all year long in Vevey, Switzerland.
Tuishou class
Vevey
Switzerland
Th 18:30 – 20:00
30€
Every Thursday
by Severin Berz
Tui Shou, also called “sticky hands”, is traditionally used in Taiji and other martial arts...
It is used to explore the principles learned in the form in application with a partner.
This practice for two allows us to discover how we occupy space with our body, how we manage our energy and what reflexes the dynamic sharing of a space with the partner awakens in us. It also allows us to discover how our perception works, our balance and how we can massively reduce our energy expenditure.
Thanks to the benevolent help of our partner, we can become aware of our bad habits and anchor in the body a different sensory experience. For example, we can have an excessively passive attitude by letting the partner occupy our space and ceding our physical and structural integrity to him. Or on the contrary too active, making us too rigid, resulting in a great loss of energy and great vulnerability because a rigid attitude no longer allows us to adapt to change. Being overly active blocks feeling and being too passive blocks action.
Open practice meeting
Vevey
Switzerland
Th 20:00 – 21:30
free
Every Thursday
everybody is welcome to come and practice with us
Free Push-Hands practice
Explore the principles of Taiji with a partner through Tuishou. Learn to find your space in the relationship, to manage the invading energies of your partner by learning to recycle them to increase your own energy.
Rediscover the pleasure of playing with your body, gravity and space. Discover that the intentions, wishes and requests of your partner will no longer be a source of stress, defense and oppression but an offering of energy for the benefit of your space and balance and integrity.
In practice, two people stand face to face with their hands in constant contact, testing and exploring each other’s balance.
Although finding its origins in the martial arts, with a notion of combat at the base, the way in which this practice is proposed here, emphasizes the awareness and the subtlety of the movement of course its martial effectiveness remains intact.
Adresse:
Dojo du Guintzet
Av. Jean-Paul II 13
1752 Villars-sur-Glâne
http://www.dojo-guintzet.ch/
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