For Love of the Game or Ego? Part 3

Tai Chi, Tai Chi Tips

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...

Birth of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan – Yang Lu Chan

Tai Chi

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 Meditation

Tai Chi Meditation

Taoist Meditation, Tai Chi

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...
The Art of the Micro-Practice

The Art of the Micro-Practice

Tai Chi, Teaching Tai Chi

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...

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