by Rick Barrett | Apr 22, 2019 | Event Recaps
Many thanks to Sifu David Shaver and the Peaceful Wolf gang in Connecticut for a wonderful seminar last weekend, “Brain Coherence in the Internal Arts.” The venue shifted from David’s studio in East Haddam to the beautiful lake-front Senior...
by Rick Barrett | Feb 11, 2019 | Taiji
I have been teaching taijiquan and other Chinese internal martial arts for thirty years. If asked what is the biggest barrier to learning this stuff beyond a beginner level, I’d probably go with “muscle memory.” It’s the way we learn so many...
by Rick Barrett | Dec 31, 2018 | Consciousness, Healing, Integration
I awoke today with an urge to post something somewhat New Yearzy, some words of wisdom to raise the spirits and steel the mettle for the choppy seas that loom on the horizon. “I shall write about ‘organizing to the rightness’ in our lives,” I...
by Rick Barrett | Dec 11, 2018 | Consciousness, Integration, Taiji
Anxiety can be crippling. And persistent. Here’s how Wikipedia describes it: Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination. It...
by Rick Barrett | Aug 18, 2018 | Taiji
If you have read my recent posts (Setting the Knee, Parts 1-4) and Meditation in Action (Parts 1-3), you will already know how crucial the principle of central equilibrium is to my practice and my teaching. It is also one of the Three Pillars that I emphasize as...
