Your tai chi is like garden soil – the more balanced nutrients it contains, the more nourishing will be your harvest. So learn ways to “power up” your tai chi so that you can get all the good health, wisdom, qi and self-defense (both physical and “psychic”) training from it that you possibly can! Below, I use an example of how to power up the Yang Tai Chi opening move. You can use these basic ideas and alter them to accommodate any tai chi postures that you practice. Enjoy the video and feel free to share your comments: