Cook Ding's Kitchen: What Motivates Fakes Martial Artists

Cook Ding's Kitchen: What Motivates Fakes Martial Artists: Today we have another guest post by Jonathan Bluestein . Jonathan discusses the motivation behind fake martial artists. The Real Rea...

One Mindful Breath:Minimum Viable Commitment

This post from Devon Boorman's Blog is equally applicable to our study of T'ai Chi.

Read the post here

Exercise for the Spine and Shoulder Blades

This is an old clip but it's a great exercise to work on sinuosity in the spine and loosen the shoulder blades 

The eyes

Love this


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San Ti Shi - Core Stability

Really good article about standing in San Ti posture

Taoist Standing Practice

When shifting...

When shifting weight from leg to leg, relax the hip in the weighted leg so you sink into the other one.

In this way you do not disperse the kinetic energy by bobbing up and down or by just shifting laterally.

Reclaiming the Scapula

Over on the Thoughts on Tai Chi blog there is this very interesting post on the scapula. Freeing up the shoulder blades is an essential part of Tai Chi so the energy can come up and through the back and not from the hands.

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