Minimum Practice 6.27.15
This morning was the shortest time I have had to get ready in many years. And I still got minimum practices in, 8 min each tai chi and Alexander. The tai chi has evolved into 2 min of the CMC … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Cheng Man-ching short form
University of South Alabama Tai Chi, Spring 2015
Here is the email I sent to everybody I had an email address from past classes at South. So far there are three people signed up for the advanced class and none for the beginners class. Nobody signed up since … Continue reading →
Tai chi Mobile 3.23.15, hard palate
20 min tai chi and 14 AT this morning. Page 13 of the Cheng–Smith book, “Your tongue should be held against the hard palate (roof of the mouth) and your mouth lightly closed.” I think I will accept this as … Continue reading →
Tai chi Mobile 3.21.15, A bad one
47 min tai chi and 13 AT this morning. And I’ve always said if you can’t remember the url, the web address of the Professor’s video, just Google it. I watched a student of mine do that and he got … Continue reading →
Tai chi/Alexander Technique Mobile 3.20.15, “I suggest you do less.”
10 min tai chi, 11 min AT this morning. I have a student whose knees are shot and has sciatica. And he has decided after three lessons that he can’t do this. I suggested that he shouldn’t do it, that … Continue reading →
Tai chi Mobile 3.15.15, 4 feet square
47 min of tai chi and 13 min of AT. A good, mindful practice morning. I mentioned jailhouse tai chi yesterday. I don’t know how many teachers in different forms know it, but it seems to me it can be … Continue reading →
Tai chi Mobile 3.8.15
10 min tai chi, 12 min Alexander Technique. Got bitten by Daylight SavingsTime.
Tai chi Mobile 3.6.15 Last gasp (we hope)
Got 47 min of tai chi this morning and it is 28 degrees out there for the 5 min of sword form! This is the last gasp of winter, we hope! It was 70 degrees yesterday. 11min of Alexander Technique. … Continue reading →
Tai chi Mobile 3.3.15 Rock steady mindlessness
47 min of tai chi and 12 of Alexander Technique this morning. Very pleasant, put the rock on my head when I started my standing and it stayed there without a drop or even an adjustment for 32 minutes! Of … Continue reading →
Tai chi/Alexander Technique Mobile 3.1.15 Standing/Negative directions
Got 37 minutes tai chi and 17 of Alexander Technique this morning. I was short on time and cut the standing first. I have been saying I did not understand it, but now I think I do. I believe it … Continue reading →