Da Mo Wai Dan Wai Dan is the practice of increasing Chi circulation by stimulating one area of the body until a large enough energy potential builds up and overflows through the Chi channel system. In moving Wai Dan, a specific muscle or part of the body is repeatedly...
Distracted, Mindful, Mindless A majority of people who study Tai Chi do so for meditative exercise. There are plenty of wonderful exercise programs, and plenty of wonderful meditation programs. Tai Chi combines the two and that is why we love it so. There are three...
Congratulations I want to welcome our newest Tai Chi Chuan instructor , Paul Andrew Chambers, into our Studio family. Since he lives in Lincoln, United Kingdom, he did the training over distance. He already has lots of experience in martial arts, as he runs an Aikido...
Tai Chi Instructors I, modestly, admit to being one of the longest serving full time Tai Chi instructors in the U.S. This is going on my 47th year of teaching. Length of teaching doesn’t mean much besides persistence and a love of the art. Speaking for myself...
Lineage and the Form The known universe is made up of one thing and one thing only – energy or chi. This chi is influenced into different shapes, components, functions, actions by some overriding direction. This unknowable is called Tao or God or some other term...
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