No Tai Chi in the Park until 2023

Posted by on Dec 17, 2022 in Health Blog | 0 comments Due to the holidays, we will not be doing Tai Chi Easy in the French Creek Metroparks until after the first of the year, 2023. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my Tai Chi Easy participants who show up Saturday mornings at 10:30 am. You all are the wind beneath my wings and my motivation. Thank you for your dedication, kindness and love. Right back at you! See you all in 2023....
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Hanging Around On the Hara Line

Posted by on Dec 5, 2022 in Health Blog | 0 comments   The Hara Line is right in the center of you. It is the center of our energy source. From above, upper and lower. Energy enters through top of the top of the head and rides down the electrical cord (spine) and exits through soles of feet and and palms of hands.  the point between your perineum and tip of spine. This is where the hara line is located. The hara line is a laser-like line that...
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The Eight Brocades

Posted by on Nov 12, 2022 in Health Blog | 0 comments   The Baduanjin qigong(八段錦) is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise.[1] Variously translated as Eight Pieces of Brocade, Eight-Section Brocade, Eight Silken Movements or Eight Silk Weaving, the name of the form generally refers to how the eight individual movements of the form characterize and impart a silken quality (like that of a piece of brocade) to the body...
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My Experience with a Qigong Teacher

Posted by on Oct 29, 2022 in Health Blog | 0 comments After surviving a deadly virus early in 2020, I felt compelled to teach Tai Chi. I became a Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader in 2018 and began teaching in 2021. Today, I teach several times per week in parks, schools, assisted living facilities and one on one. Age ranges from 5 to 95 with a variety of physical abilities and dis-abilities. I love Tai Chi, it has changed my crazy life and brought...
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The 10 Tai Chi Principles

Posted by on Oct 29, 2022 in Health Blog | 0 comments The 10 Tai Chi Principles: 1.Straightening the head. Stand straight, relax your neck and suspend the head naturally erect from the crown point without strain or tension. The image to model is “hanging by a string from the top of one’s head” such that the head and neck align by the force of gravity alone. Correct position of chest and back. The chest is kept slightly depressed inward which helps...
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