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...
by Rick Barrett | Aug 8, 2018 | Event Recaps
It’s August and I’m really getting pumped for next month’s 24th Annual Tai Chi Alchemy in Sedona. It’s such a wonderful opportunity to spend some concentrated time with the most delightful people you’ll ever meet in an atmosphere of...
by Rick Barrett | Jul 31, 2018 | Consciousness, Meditation, Taiji
In class last week one student was asking about “storing qi” in the dantian (the lower abdomen; aka: “the elixir field;” aka: “the sea of vitality.”) Another student had heard that we should do standing meditation to get the feet...
by Rick Barrett | Jul 11, 2018 | Consciousness, Meditation, Taiji
Let’s pick up from where we left off in Meditation in Action-Part One. If we can agree that meditation is any practice designed to bring the mind temporarily into non-conceptual awareness, the gap between thoughts, Pure awareness…or as I prefer,...
