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Instructor Steve Elliott Awarded New Teaching Certificate
Steve Elliott has been awarded a certificate to teach Dr. Paul Lam’s Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention. This program is endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and has been shown in evidence-based studies to reduce pain, increase mobility and reduce falls....
Welcome Dao Shr Suzy Balliett
We are excited to welcome Dao Shr Suzy Balliett as an instructor with Blue Heron Tai Chi. Dao Shr Suzy Balliett is a Medical Qigong Doctor, researcher, and author who studied in Nanjing, China. She is the founder of the Biomagnetic Therapy Association. She is an...
We Have A New Venue
Blue Heron Tai Chi has partnered with The Therapy Center to offer Tai Chi classes twice a week. For more information about the Therapy Center, go to mytherapycenteronline.com. Patricia Vickland, D.P.T., heads up the Therapy Center and she and the staff are happy to...
Preaching To The Choir
John Haskovec sent me a link to a video called The Science of Yoga. If you replace the label Yoga with Tai Chi throughout the article, it still rings true. I know this is preaching to the choir, but sometimes it is good to remind ourselves why we want to keep on this...
Posture and Breathing
I've been reading up on posture, breathing, and their relationship to well-being in the book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. It may come as a surprise, but you can get healthier by standing up straight and breathing through your nose. Better...
Chemical Changes During Meditation
During a recent online class, I dispensed some erroneous information about how chemicals change in your body during meditation. Thanks, John for helping me set the record straight. And for anyone else who catches me in such an inexactitude (I love my thesaurus),...
The Daoyin Manuscripts
In 1973 a tomb was unearthed in the Hunan province of China, which was originally sealed in 168 B.C. In it were the bodies of the Marquis of Dai, his wife, and his son. The tomb also contained thirty manuscripts, including two versions of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Jing,...
How to Get to Carnegie Hall
We all know the old joke: A tourist stops an old man on the street in downtown Manhattan.He asks: “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?”The old man wags a finger and replies: “Practice, practice, practice!” One may ask, “Why practice? It’s just the same old stuff over &...
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...
Anatomy 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...