Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 383 Bowl of Soup Meditation It has been so glorious – weather wise – here in Port Townsend. The Park is the perfect place to play Tai Chi. This is 42 years we’ve been coming here. This last Wednesday, we did a moving...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 382 Bully When I was in my first year of high school, my friend from across the street and I would walk to and from school, about two miles. Our route took us through an area we never used to go to before this. We soon discovered,...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 381 Workshop Lesson There was a poster up on the bulletin board at the Food Co-op advertising a free Tai Chi workshop scheduled for Memorial Day weekend. Kan and Li, both long time students, decided it would be worth the effort,...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 380 More on Kan and Li Kan and Li decided to cook dinner together. They agreed on rice and veggies. “Let’s cook up a pot of rice, and while that is cooking, we can prep up the veggies,” suggested Li. Kan put two cups of...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 379 Kan and Li One of Tai Chi’s guiding principles is the idea of balance – always balance for me and never balance for the opponent. One of the terms to describe this balance so it can be more easily understood is Kan...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 378 Jay and Hummers Up on the top of the Summer House. Perfect weather – low 70’s, clear blue skies. I put out peanuts, and along came a singular Stellar Jay. It was almost ready to pick one out of the 20 I placed on the...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 377 Summer House Thoughts As I have shared with you in the past, I so enjoy sitting on the top of the outbuilding, at our house, which we call the Summer House, feeding the Stellar Jays, and letting my thoughts run around like the...
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 376 Simple Words of Advice/Tai Chi Chuan Class Sequence Simple Words of Advice: Imitate (learn carefully from your teacher and those that have gone before). Assimilate (practice diligently and take the principles into your core)....
Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tip # 375 Fourth of July Memories When I was about 13, my best buddy, Mark, who lived across the street form me, and I heard there was a shop in Chinatown, San Francisco, where we could buy fireworks, which was illegal in San Francisco...
Greetings. This week I want to share something special with you. Sam Hamill, a good friend of the Studio and creator of Cooper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, translated this ancient poem from the Chinese. It seems to me to reflect the spirit of a life that includes...
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