Focus on Tai Chi Greetings. A nice week here in Port Townsend. Clear, cool, but no frost in my garden. Still have many annuals still growing. Global Warming? I never know where the stimulus for a training tip will come from. Most of the time it comes from practice, or...
Tai Chi Rocket Man Greetings. We are just coming out of a wet and gloomy period. November is usually like that. Now for some sun and outdoor activity. Hope all is well for you and yours. Our president recently called the head of North Korea “Little Rocket Man”, meant...
Don’t be Intimidated We had a visitor to the morning class – a nice young man. I asked if he had Tai Chi experience, and he answered he had some, not a lot. The first class was “Open the Gates Qigong” which he enjoyed and could easily follow along. The second...
Break 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 placed in a crib that limits our movement. All our...
Archive Training Tips Greetings Friends, I feel so good at the moment. Since the new web site is up, I have learned how to post the old Training Tips, so they will all be available to people who are just joining us now. Before this upgrade, people had no way to see...
As I said last week, most people who start Tai Chi classes never finish. They don’t see immediate results so they give up. They need motivation to keep going – that is the value of books on Tai Chi and related subjects. Stephanie Morrell has put together a...
Tai Chi Education System Learning Tai Chi is similar to moving through our educational system. Let me explain what I mean. Pre School: A majority of new students come to Tai Chi with only the most rudimentary idea of what it is. They have heard about the many health...
Three Philosophies of Tai Chi Tai Chi Chuan developed in China over the course of thousands of years. First there were the mystical seeking exercises of the Daoists, who developed the idea that the body is the temple of the soul. If you wanted to liberate the Spirit,...
I went to the wharf early this 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 like a lake, the mountains in all directions nice and clear. What a place to practice Tai Chi. I use the...
One of the skills of the internal artist is called wrapping. A perfect example of this is a spider as it wraps its live prey in a silk cocoon, or a snake that wraps its own body around the victim, both of which render the prey helpless. As a martial artist, I need to...
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