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Blue Heron Tai Chi and Tai Chi Healthways offer Tai Chi Rulers and Instructional Videos
Blue Heron Tai Chi, of Longmont, Colorado, and Tai Chi Healthways of San Diego, California, have created a partnership to promote the benefits and provide training for the use of the Tai Chi Ruler. The Tai Chi Ruler is a traditional wooden device, approximately a foot...
read moreAnatomy for Tai Chi Meetup Report 8/3/18
Last Friday intrepid student Sharon Hale and I braved Denver rush hour traffic to attend the Anatomy in Clay© Center Meetup event: Anatomy for Tai Chi. Anatomy in Clay© is the brainchild of Jon Zahourek, who invented the MANIKEN® skeleton model. You learn...
read moreCamp Report 2018
I attended two Tai Chi camps this year, each a week long. Very different settings and subjects. Grand Master Sam Tam's Summer Camp Grand Master Sam Tam's camp was held in a junior college outside of Vancouver, BC We stayed in dorms, worked out in the gym, and ate in...
read moreBlue Heron Tai Chi and Tai Chi Healthways announce partnership
Blue Heron Tai Chi, of Longmont, Colorado, and Tai Chi Healthways of San Diego, California, have created a partnership to promote the benefits and provide training for the use of the Tai Chi Ruler. The Tai Chi Ruler is a...
read moreThe Chart of Inner Luminosity
It took me a while to track this down. The Chinese names for this image have been variously translated as: Diagram of the Internal Texture of Man Diagram of the Inner Scripture Chart of the Inner Passageways Diagram of Internal Pathways Chart of the Inner...
read moreHow to Practice Tai Chi
These suggestions come from the booklet ‘An Introduction to Tai Chi’ by the Harvard Medical School. I have edited and condensed the material here. For the full text, I recommend you harass the Longmont Public Library into providing you a free copy. Failing that, it is...
read moreScience Catches Up to Tai chi
Today, I received a copy of a Harvard Medical School special health report called: ‘An Introduction to Tai Chi.’ This is a 46 page booklet that recommends Tai Chi as an exercise program for mental and physical well-being. The Harvard Medical School doesn’t make...
read moreConsumer Reports Study on Back Pain
The June 2017 issue of the Consumer Reports Magazine took a look at back pain. Causes, remedies, costs, and how back pain affects quality of life. They interviewed 3,562 back pain sufferers and found the most satisfying relief came from regular Yoga or Tai Chi...
read moreVestal Virgins – an insight into daily Roman life
Colleen McCoulough, Author of the Thorne Birds, also wrote a five book series on Caesar. I read them, and attended a book signing where she said: “Thorn Birds gave me the means to go to Rome and do the research I always wanted to do.” The books are a delightful...
read moreWhat’s a Body to Do?
How many body's do you have? You can think about this as various bodies, or as various aspects of your body. If you can gather all your bodies/aspects, and convince them to all live together harmoniously in the being called you, then life is good. And long. And...
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