by Tom Forsythe | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog Posts
All Tai Chi is for seniors because all Tai Chi works through relaxed coordination and harmony rather than through rigid postures. The Sun style is particularly suited to our aging bodies because its natural expression requires only a gentle knee flex. It relies on...
by Tom Forsythe | Jun 19, 2018 | Blog Posts
In practicing Tai Chi coordinate your upper with your lower body, your inner with your outer being. By coordinating you enhance your body awareness. Body awareness helps you understand the physical reality of your being. It helps you notice where you hurt, where you...
by Tom Forsythe | May 29, 2018 | Blog Posts
In practicing Tai Chi seek your center through circles. We start practice with circular exercises to begin feeling and visualizing both our own physical circles and the circles that make up so many systems in our universe. Circles characterize systems from small to...
by Tom Forsythe | May 7, 2018 | Blog Posts
In Tai Chi Chuan practice we move from our center. This is both a physical and a philosophical expression of Taoist philosophy. Even from the beginning of our class, we embody our centers. In our Relaxed Standing Posture, we first feel a string running from our center...
by Tom Forsythe | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog Posts
From the first moment that you arrive on earth until the moment you die, you breathe. The Tao Te Ching notes in Chapter 55 that an infant can cry all day without getting hoarse because its breath is in balance. We were born breathing naturally but over time most of us...
