Here is a link to an article about research results of tai chi on fibromyalgia patients at Tufts University in Boaston. Unti relatively recently most research on the effects adn benefits of taijiquan have been done by researchers in China, Taiwan, Korea, which of course western research institutions don't acknowledge fully. So having this kind of research done increasingly in majore US medical schools is a big deal. Let me know what you think about the article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/tai-chi-can-ease-fibromya_n_687663.html

        

My friends and colleagues in Shanghai are putting on another training camp in November. THe Double Dragon Alliance 2010 Shanghai Training Camp, November 20-29. Great Thanksgiving opportunity.

        

People like to know the names of taiji moves and postures. it's an exotic part of the whole thing. My teacher George Xu and Susan A. Matthews have not focused on names because they believe it detracts from the essence of taiji which is not based in language but in the senses. Names are like the water's surface. It is only a sliver of the ocean depth. The light reflecting off it has a blinding quality. What lies behind? What lies below that is there and that you don't see? It has no name, yet you can know it.

        

This September 2010, I'm offering 8 90-minute classes per week at 5:30 pm Tuesday evenings, with an occasional make up class offered Sunday mornings at 9:40 am. All classes held at Trimble Spa and Natural Hot Springs on the lawn or in the Sunlight Room. Durango, Colorado of course. Many people can't make that time slot, so I offer private lessons at reasonable costs. If you had to make the choice, which would you choose health or wealth? Which is more necessary for the other to exist?

        

Have you ever put water on to boil for tea, the go and do some task while waiting, the forget about it? Do you feel odd when you realize you forgot the water boiling? Learning tai chi is a little like this in a funny way. You're either watching the water boil when you're practicing movements mindfully, or you are looking for what you forgot about yourself.

        

Blog man in his studio living his living. Thinking his thoughts, sending them out to the Net. An outlet with no destination, only set it on its journey into cyber. Message in a bottle. Anyone out there?

        

We hear about "mind-body integration" therapy a lot, but seldom about mind-body-energy practice, which identifies the core of taiji. In taiji, mind and body are not separate. Taiji movement is meditative and merges all three into a new order to being  that must be learned, or relearned, through meditative movement. Quieten the mind and knowledge comes. Little awakenings occur. Just through simple movement that disrupts the mind's chatter habit and offers solace.

        

You don't let go of the handle when you pop a whip, So don't let go of the tailbone when you move the spine...

        

if you believe that the human body knows how to make itself healthy as long as it has the tools it needs, then how do you find out what it needs? Listen to your body. It is telling you what it needs. Make it a two-way communication.

        

The one thing that makes