Control Tower – 1/8/2024

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 453 Control Tower  Let’s look at the spine, neck, and head. If we were to think of our body as an airport, the head would be the control tower. The tower is the highest point so it can observe the planes as they come and go....

Breaking Free – 1/1/2024

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips #452 Breaking Free From the first moment of our lives, we are given boundaries. When we cry, the boundary might appear in the form of a pacifier. The boundary says, “Stop crying”. If we crawl around too actively, maybe we are...

Various Tai Chi Practices – 12/25//23

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 451 VariousTai Chi Practices What is now called Tai Chi Chuan has its roots in the WuTang mountain area of China in the T’ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906). This system had evolved from the earlier martial art now known as Sholin...

Very Wise Teachers – 12/18/2023

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips #450 Very Wise Teachers One never knows when something someone says will resonate and have a nice, positive affect. These spoke to me and I hope they will for you. Enjoy. Alan Watts Alan Watts was very instrumental in popularizing...

Forward and Reverse – 12/11/2023

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 449 Reverse Thrusters I live in a community surrounded by water. We have a ferry that connects us to the longest island in the U.S. I ride this ferry on occasion and one day found it a source of Tai Chi enlightenment. Let me share...

Fiji Practice – 12/4/2023

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 448 Excuse Me Sir In 1978, I was on my way to New Zealand to teach a series of Tai Chi classes, and stopped along the way in Fiji. A beautiful country. I was staying in a small guest house in a quiet part of Suva, one of the main...

Tai Chi and Jazz – 11/27/2023

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips # 447  Tai Chi and Jazz The more one plays with Tai Chi, the more one’s mind sees Tai Chi in everything. Someone was talking about a jazz instructor who had put his philosophy for learning to play jazz up on a blackboard....

Tissues and Roses – 11/20/23

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 446 In the Summer, I had a call from a woman in Illinois. She wanted to order some DVDs. In chatting, she shared that the temperatures were in the 90’s and quite humid. I told her it was in the 60’s here, and she...

Tai Chi Body -11/13/23

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips # 445 Tai Chi Body We want to take a look at the Tai Chi body and compare it to the more traditional Western view of beauty and health. The Western ideal for a man is sometimes represented by Hercules. Huge, powerful arms, chest...

External or Internal – 11/6/23

Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 444 Internal or External Most Tai Chi instructors and players are proud to say Tai Chi is an “Internal Martial Art”, and bad mouth Kung Fu, Karate, etc. referring to them as “External Martial Arts.” What is it that makes an...