Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip #412 Balloon Breathing Qigong Breath is the source of life. The more we breathe, the more we are alive. Here is a simple, yet powerful exercise that can be done anywhere, anytime. If you can’t do the whole exercise, you will...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip #411 Famous Tai Chi Master Some years ago, I heard there was a fellow moving to Port Townsend who had been a student of many famous Tai Chi Masters and was authorized to teach. I had never heard his name mentioned in the Tai Chi...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 410 Remembering Master Choy A long forgotten incident emerged recently. I thought you might enjoy hearing a bit of history relating to Master Choy and my early Tai Chi studies This event occurred in 1972. Master Choy asked if I...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips #409 Tai Chi and Qigong Reading List 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...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips #408 Tai Chi Chuan Thoughts – #2 I hope one or more of these turns you onto a new way of thinking about Tai Chi. 24. Tai Chi is natural. It is fast movement done slowly, not just slow movements. 25. Pantomime real movements....
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips #407 Tai Chi ChuanThoughts – #1 This is a random collection of thoughts about the practice of Tai Chi. They all might not mean something to you at this moment, but they are important to contemplate. This list is included in...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips #406 Turkey With the Earthquake so much in the news, it brings to mind my time spent in one of the earth’s most interesting countries, Turkey, and how it relates to Tai Chi. As I’ve shared with you before, I was a...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips #405 Seeds of Greatness Forever Thich Nhat Hanh, in his lovely book Peace is Every Step, talks about consciousness existing on two levels: as seeds and as manifestations of those seeds. Let me share this idea with you and how it...
Monday Morning Training Tip #404 Tai Chi Learning Sequence 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...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 403 Calm and Relax I have been a student of Tai Chi Chuan for 55 years and an instructor for 50. One of the most important ideas to keep in mind is that there is a lesson in everything we do if we just take the time to look. Tai...
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