Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 363 Comfortable Stance The only stance that is correct in Tai Chi, as well as other internal arts, is a natural, comfortable stance. If it is not natural and comfortable, you will lose relaxation, causing tension, which will...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 362 Duai La – Natural Balance There is a term in the Chinese Internal Arts – Duai La – which means counter balance of energy. Every effective force issued from our body is met with an equal and opposite force. If we want to...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 361 Teaching There will come a time, and I hope not too far in the future, when a person will be judged not by what he has, but what he gives! There needs to be a shift in thinking about what is valued and important. In our...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 360 Spirituality Most people have a belief in, and desire for, something greater than themselves. Groups of like minded “seekers” have been organized into what is called “a religion”. Religions have a belief in someone, or...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 359 More on Tai Chi Meditation We have been examining meditation from the Tai Chi perspective for the last several weeks. Since most students of Tai Chi are seeking meditative exercise, let’s look one more time at this...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 358 Learning to Learn Sequence “Monkey See – Monkey Do” Most of the people worldwide who learn Tai Chi do so by following someone who knows what they are doing. It is how I learned. I have evolved it a bit into a...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 357 Tai Chi Meditative Sequence Most students approach Tai Chi with the final goal being health of mind and body and use Tai Chi as a meditative art. Every instructor has his or her own sequence to follow. Mine is fairly straight...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 356 Thinking About The Pelvis The pelvis contains the center of the body. The pelvis should be kept level during most of our Tai Chi practice. We do that for several reasons. First and foremost, the pelvis is the base for the...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 355 Push Hands (Tui Shou)Videos After a practice in the Park, Stephanie (an instructor at the Studio) said that she had just watched the Push Hands video series that we produced for PTTV (public television) around the year 2000....
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 354 Meditation- Yoga and Tai Chi The process of meditation in yoga and tai chi are quite similar – to build up energy in the lower belly, and send it up to the top of the head, refining it along the way. In yoga, the energy of the...
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