Self-Defense: Flowing Fun Beats Sour Seriousness
It’s true. And if you’ve experience Flow, you know. However you discovered it, do it more because it provokes a deeper kind of awareness…an awe of the energies and mysteries that surround us. It’s likely that, partly as a response to the great terrors that lurk deep inside the truth of being human and partly [...]
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Self-Defense Must Be Intimate
Whatever tool you use: you’ve got to be close enough to use it…one of the easy errors of self-defense training is being too far away…and training too far away. And when we train Taiji, or any martial art, too far away, we can create neurotic self-defense.
Radical Self-Defense is Casual
I use Taiji for daily reminding: get out of your own way and you’ll realize that you already have self-defense. No training necessary. You’re already ready.
What Does a Great Instructor Look Like?
Because I have martial arts and Taiji students lurking on the edge of instructor-hood… once immersed in Taiji, who grew fast and sunk deep.