Eight Energies – 10/30/2023

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips # 443 Eight Energies Do – Re – Me – Fa – So – La – Ti – Do. From those few notes, all the songs we sing are constructed. Eight basic sounds, or since sound is nothing but waves of energy, we can say eight basic energies create an...

Embryonic Breathing – 10/23/2023

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 442 Embryonic Breathing Breath is life. Breath affects every aspect of our life – physical, emotional, spiritual. I think we can all agree that the more one breathes, the more alive one feels. Notice your breath when something...

Seeing is Believing – 10/16/23

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips # 441 Seeing is Believing I went to the wharf early one morning and it was one of those perfect, early Fall days here in Port Townsend. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, the water in the bay like a lake, the mountains in all...

Tai Chi and Mother Nature – 10/9/23

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 440 Trees Trees are beautiful and marvelous teachers if we care to listen. Trees can live thousands of years, producing countless leaves and fruits all to the purpose of continuing life on earth, and not just their own. They make...

TC Instructors – 10/2/2023

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips # 439 Tai Chi Instructors I, modestly, admit to being one of the longest serving full time Tai Chi instructors in the U.S. I am on my 50th year of teaching. Length of teaching doesn’t mean much besides persistence and a love...