Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 305 Love and Chi I don’t believe that there is anything that fills the body with Chi as much as loving does. Do you remember when you first fell in love? What was that feeling? What does it feel like now? In Chinese Natural...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip – #304 The Yin and Yang of Tai Chi Chuan The study of Tai Chi Chuan is the study of Yin and Yang — how they relate, engage and disengage, in a never ending cycle. Every facet of our Tai Chi practice, and our life also, can be...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 303 The Mind Tai Chi means Yin and Yang – and the interaction between the two extremes. We, Tai Chi players, frame all of our physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, on finding balance between yin and yang. There is nothing that...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip – #302 A Tai Chi Journey I love hearing from my fellow Tai Chi players. Many write to ask me how long will it take to learn the forms – short, long, partner, etc. Here is my answer. It all depends. One can never guess, nor...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 301 True and False If you are like most people I know, you are very tired of hearing about “Fake news”. How about this. I have a large pasture in front of my house. There used to be Scottish Highland cattle grazing there. So...
A Milestone – Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 300 During the pandemic, most people are not moving around as much as they used to. Lots of sitting. Then, knowing one’s body needs exercise, they get out and overdo. They end up stiff and sore, and then end...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 299 The Pacific Northwest has a reputation for being cold and damp, with lots of wind. On New Years week-end we had our 180th Tai Chi session in Chetzemoka Park without missing a single meeting since we started this Covid induced...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 298 Yin Turns to Yang – Last Tip of the Year Congratulations to you and me. Me, for starting my sixth year of Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips, and you for reading them and encouraging me to keep going. I always say that it is...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 297 Knowledge and Trust Internal artists prepare daily for their death. We do not welcome nor hope for death, yet we prepare, and we do it in the same way we prepare for any encounter – with knowledge and trust. Internal...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 296 Educate Yourself It is my experience as an instructor that most students, if they are learning from an instructor in person, will just follow along until the choreography is learned. Not much outside study. That was the way...
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