Monday Morning Tai Chi Training Tips #454 Exploring the Moves One of the best exercises to increase your awareness of each movement in Tai Chi Chuan is to break it down, one movement at a time, and explore all possibilities for that one movement. Do it slow, do it...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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