It requires some bravery and stability to question, more bravery and stability to let go of...those comforting beliefs. After all, they've kept our minds safe and secure. Wondering and questioning our early coping mechanisms can be terrifying. And risky. For some people: it's inconceivable!

Many who don't stock their wells, are eventually forced to do so because their silent spirit, deep inside, whispers the answers and hints at ways to connect more fully to life, to living, to love.

This time, the old man was impressed with Zhang's fortitude and humility, that he presented Zhang with a book...

World Tai chi and Qigong Day kicks off the local Real Taiji Community at our humble Farmstead. Stop over and socialize with great Taiji practitioners.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

Our ability to defend our personal tenderness is already built into us. In this modern world it will still help me to study martial arts, but it'll help me more to study ways to unleash my inherent skills...to get out of my own way...and to have some fun while I'm at it.