Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 315 Tai Chi and Nerves The body and mind are interrelated, and at the core, one and the same. Both developed from one cell that was a combination of an egg and a sperm cell. It is convenient to talk about a human as composed of...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip – #314 Tai Chi And Music I went over to visit a friend, and she promptly sat me down in a comfortable chair and commenced to play me a piece of music on her piano that she was going to be performing that very night. As the...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 313 Who, What, Where, When, Why, How When I was in high school, I took a journalism class and worked on the school paper. We were taught to use the 5W’s – who, what, where, when, why, and also how. Let’s see if that...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 313 Breath and Tension Breath and tension are very closely interrelated. I see examples of this all the time. I used to do a form of body therapy, called Trager Psychophysical Integration. There is one particular movement when the...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 311 More Thoughts on the Heart Center Lately I have been reading a history of the 20th Century, written by two Americans. What strikes me most is that, but for a few brief periods, our country has been constantly involved in war...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip – #310 Tai Chi from the Heart Many, but not all, of the Internal Arts are martial arts: the study of how to defend the self without resorting to the use of excessive force. The greatest martial artists are those who do not...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 309 Sit Up Straight Master Subramuniya, my first meditation teacher and guru, made the statement, “You can never be depressed if you can sit up straight.” At first I didn’t understand this idea and sort of poo-pooed it, yet...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip – #308 Understanding Principles. I want to remind you, as I do so often, that Tai Chi is not just a qigong exercise, or simple exercise program. It is a martial qigong exercise. It evolved from a combination of kung fu and...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 307 A Few Random Thoughts and Counting Moves * Most people on the spiritual path spend much of a lifetime seeking self awareness or enlightenment. Periods of up are followed by periods of down, but the sincere seeker carries on no...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip – #306 Why 108 Moves in Tai Chi Chuan? Tai Chi study can be as simple as memorizing movements or as complex as a life-long journey into the self. It doesn’t matter what you seek with your study, Tai Chi will have plenty...
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