Distracted,Mindful,Mindless – 7/23/18

Distracted, Mindful, Mindless A majority of people who study Tai Chi do so for meditative exercise. There are plenty of wonderful exercise programs, and plenty of wonderful meditation programs. Tai Chi combines the two and that is why we love it so. There are three...

The Rack/Congratulations – 7/16/18

Congratulations I want to welcome our newest Tai Chi Chuan instructor , Paul Andrew Chambers, into our Studio family. Since he lives in Lincoln, United Kingdom, he did the training over distance. He already has lots of experience in martial arts, as he runs an Aikido...

Tai Chi Instructors – 7/9/18

Tai Chi Instructors I, modestly, admit to being one of the longest serving full time Tai Chi instructors in the U.S. This is going on my 47th year of teaching. Length of teaching doesn’t mean much besides persistence and a love of the art. Speaking for myself...

Tai Chi Lineage/Tai Chi Weapons – 7/2/18

Lineage and the Form The known universe is made up of one thing and one thing only – energy or chi. This chi is influenced into different shapes, components, functions, actions by some overriding direction. This unknowable is called Tao or God or some other term...

Spring Fed Lake/Schedule Update 6/25/18

Spring Fed Lake – 6/25/18 Our body is like a spring fed lake. The lake gets Yang Chi from the heavens in the form of rain, and Yin Chi from the earth in the form of an underground spring. They mix to form the lake. Our bodies get heavenly or Yang Chi through the...

Yin and Yang of Practice/Schedule Update – 6/18/18

Shared Use of the Park I went to the Park this morning for practice. As I entered the grass covered field, morning dew still creating jewell like sparkles, two swallows came speeding towards me, only to veer off at the last second. As I walked to my favorite spot,...