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 | Nov 5, 2018 | Event Recaps
Rick and Maria Barrett “Tai Chi Alchemy: Get Out of Your Head and Into the Game” at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Lenox, MA November 30-December 2 How do we get out of our own way—physically, mentally, energetically—and live our lives as full participants, not...
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 | May 9, 2018 | Event Recaps
A few weeks ago, April 15, I gave a seminar at David Shaver’s Peaceful Wolf T’ai Chi in East Haddam, CT. I love the folks at Peaceful Wolf. David and I go way back to the last century and we erupt into peals of laughter every time we meet. He’s a...
by Rick Barrett | May 29, 2017 | Consciousness
I will be appearing at The Society for Consciousness Studies Conference 4pm on June 3 at The Graduate Institute in New Haven. Here is Part One of my address at the Conference in 2015. And here is preview of my notes for next Saturday’s presentation. (It could...
