You say you practice tai chi – but how are you practicing tai chi? When my children were younger and every time I would come back from Europe, I’d always bring home a collection of coins from any country I visited. My youngest son would take the coins and...
Not everyone wants to learn about chi and not everyone wants to learn to meditate. I asked my teacher why he didn’t teach meditation and he replied that most people don’t want to learn it. In later conversations he explained that it has a lot to do with...
In ancient China, the Chen village kept tai chi chuan a closely guarded secret for over a century and refused to teach it to a single outsider. Having a superior martial art such as tai chi chuan enabled the village to stay safe from marauding bandits and securely...
Tai chi is commonly referred to as moving meditation. Tai chi’s slow, graceful movements can be used as a meditation to provide relaxed focus, to quiet the monkey-mind and to engender a deep sense of relaxation that helps release inner tensions. Tai Chi as...
Making love is like cooking a three-course meal. Ideally, you want to make sure all the needed cooking utensils and ingredients are accounted for and working in the kitchen. Everything is present. First comes the appetizers, or foreplay, which can become a full meal...
By Brian Cooper I began teaching in 1989 and still have many students who started with me back then. These long-term students have not found any problem practicing on a regular basis and that’s probably why they are long-term students. In more recent times many...
