Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 236 Lao Kung Point I want to share with you something I was playing with during this morning’s practice session. It is in regard to an energy center called the Lao Kung point. It reaches the surface of the body in the center...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 235 Varied Tai Chi Forms How beautiful and wondrous the varied styles and forms of Tai Chi! The current trend toward the standardization of Tai Chi forms for competition and ease of teaching is so limiting that I feel saddened....
Tai Chi Greeting Shaking Hands got its start because two strangers would show their empty right hand (the usual hand to hold a weapon) and this evolved into clasping hands as we do today in the West. In the East people are much more reserved, so they either hold up...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 233 Playing Tai Chi With Steller Jays I live in a small town, and my home sits among many tall firs trees. There are some dense woods right behind my house and there are a group (band, cast, party, scold) of Steller Jays...
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