BAGUA

CIRCLE WALKING &
THE SINGLE PALM CHANGE

ONLINE CLASSES

A GENUINE BAGUA LINEAGE

Bagua has been trained for millennia by practitioners of the Water Method to contact and wake up the many layers of the body, mind and qi. Bagua gives you a method for developing excellent physical and mental health, strength and vitality, so you can live a fuller, more satisfying life — with boundless energy and confidence to pursue your interests, and follow your heart.

Bagua can be trained solely for health, fitness and/or martial arts, but it can also become a path to personal transformation for those who wish to tune in, dedicate themselves to and train at this level. Whatever your personal disposition may be, it is with gratitude to my teacher, Taoist Master Bruce Frantzis — and all the lineage holders before him, most especially his teacher, Grandmaster Liu Hung Chieh — that I fulfill my teacher’s wishes of me by sharing these teachings with you.

WHAT’S IN THE COURSE

Establish and grow skill in bagua with guidance and support from me on:

• Bagua Warm-up and Unification Exercises

• Straight-line and Circle Walking

• Energy Postures and the Single Palm Change

• Follow-along Practices

When you sign up, you’ll also receive instant access to:

• My Taoist Breathing & Meditation Series — 23 guided practices on whole-body breathing and Outer Dissolving to stream 24/7.

• Q&A Forum, where I answer questions 1 x week.

1) BAGUA WARM-UP &
UNIFICATION EXERCISES

1 x lesson on each per month

Bagua Warm-ups — are designed to increase circulation of blood and qi to warm up the body, and make the soft tissues more supple and elastic in preparation for stronger, more demanding exercises to follow.

Bagua Unification Exercises — connect the various parts of the body into one, unified whole, allowing internal neigong to permeate the body and improve your technique.

2) STRAIGHT-LINE &
CIRCLE WALKING

1 x lesson per month

Straight-line Walking — is where you learn all the basics, allowing you to integrate progressively deeper and more complex internal techniques in a clear format with fewer angles. Without first developing exercises while walking in a straight line, Circle Walking will be far less effective and yield many errors.

Circle Walking — is the primary movement method of bagua, which allows a practitioner to develop flow, smoothness and continuum to eradicate inertia and other, unnatural, conditioned responses that manifest in the body, mind and qi. Circle Walking is the foundation upon which all more advanced aspects of bagua are built.

3) ENERGY POSTURES &
THE SINGLE PALM CHANGE

1 x lesson month

Energy Postures — open up the full circulation of blood and qi, release superficial, deeply-bound and accumulated tensions, and connect the various layers of depth in the body and its qi into one, coherent whole.

The Single Palm Change — combines and unifies all the previous layers of bagua training into one practice. The “SPC” is the first palm change which is both the beginning of the journey and has the capacity to contain the entirety of the Water Method bagua system. The SPC is essential training for practitioners of both the monastic and bagua zhang traditions.

4) FOLLOW-ALONG PRACTICE

1 x practice per month

Follow along as I train the lessons of the month, including Walking the Circle and performing energy postures and the Single Palm Change. Embedding the choreography deep within your body-mind is what generates the flow and rhythm of bagua.

DOUBLE PALM CHANGE

COMING MAY 2025

We will transition into the Bagua Double Palm Change and Single Palm Change (Earth Energy Version) in May 2025.

COURSE ACCESS

Stream bagua videos 24/7 and download them as MP4s.

One annual payment: You will receive instant access to stream and download months 1-12 if you pay by card or Apple Pay. For payments by bank, you will receive access by email once your payment clears, during business hours (Pacific Time).

Monthly Membership: You will receive three bagua lessons and a guided practice each month. Simply log in to your account at https://www.paulcavel.com/account/login to stream and download your content.

This is an ongoing Bagua series, which you can cancel at any time (or let us know and we’ll do it for you). You will have access to all your content for the duration of your Bagua Membership.

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