Vital Self Help Information – 12/27/21

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 348 Vital Self Help Information To Stay Safe in The New Year The chances for injuries while practicing Tai Chi are very small. If you stay in your body, (meaning that your awareness is on the activity you are engaged in at the...

Purpose of Training – 12/20/21

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip #347 Purpose of Training For those of you who are just joining in, I want to remind you that these Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips are mostly directed at “why to practice”, not so much “details of form structure”. This weeks...

Pleasure – 12/13/21

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip #346 Pleasure Funktionshust is a German term for the pleasure taken in what one can do best. This pleasure – this happiness – may increase the tendency to continue to do these things. This is nature’s way of creating...

East vs West Bodies – 12/06/21

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip #345 East vs. West Bodies    I want to share with you a look at the Tai Chi body and compare it to the more traditional Western view of beauty and function.    The Western ideal for a man is sometimes represented by Hercules. Huge,...

Philosophical Evolution – 11/29/21

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip #344 Philosophical Evolution Tai Chi Chuan developed in China over the course of thousands of years. First there were the mystical seeking exercises of the Daoists, who developed the idea that the body is the temple of the soul. If...