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27/06/2013 13:31
Paraphrased (as I’m recalling from memory)
“As I was sitting on the deck relaxing, I started to follow my breath and I noticed how it formed this tight rotational vortex on the inhale and the exhale”
“I was able to notice the different energies between the...
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25/06/2013 11:09
Last night at class one of my students presented the following analogy...
"At my previous club it was like I had to squeeze and squeeze the orange to get just a single drop of juice to drink. But here, with you, it's like... here's a whole glass, drink up... do you want another?"
I...
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24/06/2013 11:20
Peter Russell, Spirit of Now
Source: Waking Times
Much of our thinking takes the form of self-talk—conversations we have with ourselves, inside our minds.
Clearly, the original root of this verbal thinking is speech. Speech gave humans the ability to communicate...
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11/06/2013 07:09
Congrats to Kelly on loosing her shoulders last night!
This will be a day you will always remember!
It took me about 3 - 3.5 years to loose my shoulders, so you must be on the fats track!
Just goes to show what patience, perseverence and dedication will do for you.
Rod
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10/06/2013 15:53
We held another session for our qigong instructor training yesterday... six hours of intensive qigong theory and practical.
The theme to this session was - "How to set yourself and your students up for successful qigong training."
As I am so fond of saying "Qigong is not about flapping your arms...
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06/06/2013 15:54
I was teaching an intermediate student "grasp the sparrow's tail sequence" last night and it was interesting to hear her say - "it's like I'm learning it all over again".
This is what happens in tai chi. You get to a comfortable spot regarding your form technique and then you learn that you still...
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03/06/2013 14:21
Playing free form push hands in the park on Sunday the two concepts that kept popping up were
1 - Listen
2 - Follow
Why is it that we always (at least at some point) want to go against the flow?
What is it in our legacy programming that triggers us to try to force something to happen?
There...
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30/05/2013 14:04
We have been talking about four of the eight essential energies in class this week and last night I asked the students in attendance to “show” me these energies. I asked that they demonstrate these energies to me without vocalizing anything.
They attempted to do so and often got quite...
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21/05/2013 12:46
Here's a great video that sums up a huge part of what Tai Chi & Qigong can do for us. It IS ALL about awareness and self mastery.
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10/05/2013 10:55
Kelly and I presented to the patrons of Gilda’s Club last night here in Barrie.
We initiated the participants by demonstrating the 16 forms and the 1st Shibashi set. We then spent quite a bit of time talking about the health benefits one can derive from a serious internal...
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