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Monthly Archives: June 2013

Summer break

21 Friday Jun 2013

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Dear Tai chi lovers,
Summer is here and most of us are planning to leave for their home country for few weeks, to spend time with relatives and friends.
This is a special moment of the year, a moment during which everybody who’s leaving will quit, for quite a long time, all the usual activities.
This break can be refreshing for someone, frustrating for others.
If you belong to the second group of people, then Tai chi can help you, because you can practice it wherever you find a quiet place. Practicing Tai chi will help you out a great deal when you suffer from jetlag, either when you arrive to your home country or when you come back to Japan.
I strongly encourage you to keep practicing without your mates and sensei; this is the moment when you deeply internalize what you have practiced during the class.
There’s no advancing in learning without personal, independent practice.

Tai chi can be your internal treasure, the source of refined and dynamic energy that you can store up and reuse whenever it is necessary.

Keep that in mind and enjoy your summer!

Many blessings.

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Mirror practice

16 Sunday Jun 2013

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Last Tuesday I proposed to my students Sofia, Doris and Mary the “mirror practice” while doing “Cloud Hands”.

“Mirror practice” means split the group into half and align people into rows, so that each one faces another person.
It’s not easy at all, one needs a lot of concentration and coordination in order to move as if you were looking at yourself in a mirror.
I myself got confused, while giving directions to my students… That was hilarious! We were all laughing but then we focused on our form and performed a perfect “mirror practice”.

My students even switched from one side to the other, challenging themselves! I am really proud of them and we had a lot of fun.

Once my students learn the 24 Yang style form, left and right side, we will all perform “mirror practice” for the whole form!

Challenging, indeed!

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