Skeletal alignment facilitates peng.
Without peng your tai chi and baguazhang will simply not work and you will be
essentially training externally.
The rounded, flexible shape of peng is present in every single movement.
It provides protection, enables stickiness and allows you to roll around a line
of force instead of blocking it.
Alignment is pointless if you do not have peng.
It must be there in every single thing you do and is never lost or broken.
The possession of means that you never have to tense-up.
The skeleton acts as a structural conduit, and the tendons, ligaments, fascia
and relaxed muscles provide the springiness.
