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Browsing Archive: October, 2013

fantasy, feelings, reality

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Thursday, October 31, 2013,
Recently I took on a new group of students, who told me about one of their previous tai chi instructors.... they had apparently been sitting down doing visualisations as the main part of the session. Visualisations in the sense of eyes closed while being verbally guided to take a mind walk through various scenery.

I was absolutely gobsmacked by this - I  can't think of anything more opposite to tai chi. I was of course polite and kind about this, while just skimming over it quickly to go on wi...
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Wow! moments

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Monday, October 28, 2013,
Tai chi is full of wow! moments.... Yesterday was another new revelation, and this after 7 years training - tai chi continues to come up with new stuff.  Keep on persisting with your training and these moments can be yours too.

My first wow! moment was when I was told I was improving - having been a klutz and a sport-avoider, the concept of improving hadn't been in me at all. Then, after months of training, I was graded to my first belt. I'd always thought grading was something for other talen...
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Why do warm ups ?

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Saturday, October 26, 2013,
Why do warm ups?
Well, they get the body warm, it's true,  but there's more to it than that...

Each tai chi warm up is designed to help loosen particular joints of the body, so that as the years progress, the body becomes much looser, the tendons softer, everything moves more easily. If you look at older people in the street, an overwhelming number are stiffened up, with people having difficulty moving and walking.

The importance of warm ups for health, then, is overwhelming... the longer you ca...
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Living in the moment

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Tuesday, October 8, 2013,
People talk a lot about "living in the moment", but what does it mean, why would you want to and how do you do it?

Living in the moment means being aware of the things that are happening in that moment, in yourself, in your environment, while letting go of all other thoughts and cares. Most people have an internal voice, which the Chinese call the "monkey mind", due to all the thoughts chattering away all the time.

Practising living in the moment slows down the "monkey thoughts" and allows you ...
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