T'ai chi ch'uan

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Tai chi and music

I like music, especially soft music, because it is in a human being's nature. It can relieve one's tension and anxiety, produce happiness and relaxation, improve harmony and coordination.

The Library

There is a library of books I like on taoism, taichi and other things. Please visit and add some titles.

How did I get here

I signed up for a 4 week course at the Santa Rosa Recreation Centre, figuring I'd learn t'ai chi. Six years later I was going to class 3 times a week (well, most weeks) and still learning.

I now "know" the choreography for the form, push hands and sword.

And now that I live in Boulder I am taking classes with the Rocky Mountain School, Jane and Bataan Faigao are the teachers. So now I'm studying with a Great Aunt and Uncle.

Added 16 October, 2001
Jane died on Febraury 25. There is a memorial web page.

I find that changing teachers (even staying within the CMC tradition) has involved some "investment in loss" and a deeper focus on the principles. Sigh.

(A few months later) What I am focusing on is more the relaxation and inner structure and less the outward appearance. I think I still did it in the "right" order: I still have in mind the end objective.

From other folks...

Wolfe Lowenthal is running an electric taiji journal

Taichi Thoughts is a semi-monthly, e-mail-internet publication of 24 issues, which has just completed its first year of distribution. This publication is based on my new writing, as well as questions and observations from my fellow students, the subscriber/contributors. Starting the project I described it as "a book in process," an experiment in using the internet to help support book publishing, or as an alternative to it.

" There is an evergreen tree in my body,
A bright mirror in my mind,
I wipe them everyday
so the dust will not gather." Master Chi proudly claimed.

" There is no tree in your body,
Nor a mirror in your mind,
keep it empty
the dust will have nowhere to land." King Tao smiled.

from:
" My Tai-ChiJourney with Professor CMC." by Wu Guo-Chong. Page 249. Published in March, 1997 in Taiwan, by Shen-Long TaiChi Association. ISBN-957-9273-06-5
thanks to David Chen.

there is a Rogue's Gallery started with Tom Krapu. Pictures of tai chi folk and links.

Lineage

I am a student of Steve Rose.

Steve Rose studied with Tam Gibbs. (He studied with other people too; but Tam is his teacher)

Tam Gibbs studied with Cheng Man Ch'ing.

Cheng Man Ch'ing studied with Yang Cheng-fu

T'ai Chi Relatives

I've been to Carol Yamasaki's class in Michigan and I now study with Bataan Faigao of the Naropa Institute in Boulder.

And I have taken a couple of workshops with and gotten to know Wolfe Lowenthal, another great uncle.

I've started a "family tree".

Just as doing the form with people in class provides a nourishing environment which feels to me like a web, knowing T'ai chi people all over the place provides a [Outrageous Pun Alert] world-wide web.

Speaking of which, may I recommend my t'ai chi brother Carl Hendel. His page has, among other things, some nice disucssion of the etymology of some T'ai chi terminology.

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