Teaching the Tai Chi Way

Driving to class, be grateful for a body to practice Tai Chi with, for people who will show up full of curiosity, full of hope that Tai Chi will help them with their balance, arthritis, stiff shoulders, and tension.

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Lineage

My son’s got Mike Tyson on the burner tonight. He only knows the champ from training videos and highlight reels and wants to watch a few early fights to see where it started.

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SHIFTING WEIGHT: Forty Years on the Dojo Floor

I haven’t often written of this thing inhabiting my body, its claws and feathers, its dragon breath pacing the circuit of my spine. It caught me when I was seventeen, though it had been stalking me since long before that. Each time it had neared, my mother had draped herself between us, and I never even got a good look at it. But when I…

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