Self-training Song
Song is essential to Tai Chi. Song is releasing muscular tension so that we can shift to a different source of internal power, the intrinsic structure of the body as a unified whole.
Anxiously Awaiting the New Year
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...Two Great Seminars in November: Kripalu and Peaceful Wolf
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...Meditation in Action, Part 3: Open and Closed Systems
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...Push Hands for Lovers
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...
