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| Master Liang's Praying Mantis teacher, Fan Shudong, seated. Fan taught Liang at his high school, kung-fu being the PE! |
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
-Albert Einstein
November already? Where have I been? What have I been
doing? Taiji of course! Although we’ve moved indoors, classes are still amazing
and fun. The dance studio is a great indoor space, and I invite you to attend
class.
Tuesday 6-8PM at St Sahag, Solo Form, Sanshou, solo
and two-person Taiji Cane, Bagua
Wednesday zoom 630-730PM Solo Form Review and Taiji
Qigong
Thursday 6-8PM at St Sahag, Solo Form, Sanshou, solo
and two-person Taiji Cane, Xingyi
Saturday 900-1030AM at St Sahag, Solo Form, Advanced
Pushing Hands Drills, solo and two-person Taiji Cane
Beginners class are Saturdays 11-12 at St Sahag,
Monday November 11th 630-730 Monthly zoom
Pushing Hands- Wang’s Dalu
We’ll be closed Thursday, November 23rd.
There will be zoom class on the 22nd, and in person classes on the
25th.
I taught a seminar and classes in Delaware last month
at Twin Willows Taiji Studio. Plans are in place for a retreat next June. The venue is reserved, people have paid deposits, and there are only two spaces
left. I’ll post more info and the curriculum next month.
My pushing hands book is getting closer to the finish
line! I’ve got great help in all the different processes like editing, photos,
and layout. Here is an excerpt from the introduction.
“To be perfectly clear, we must know what we are
training for. Are we training for health, stress relief, and well-being? Are we
training for fighting and competition, or self-defense? Are we training for
meditation and spiritual growth? Or a combination, or all the above? These
different components of Taiji: health, self-defense, philosophy, and
meditation, have different training methods and mindsets.
For instance, for fighting and competition, you know
when it is going to happen, when you’re going to get into the ring. Mental
attitude and training are just as important as your physical training and
conditioning. For self-defense, you don’t know when an attack will come, and
you will have no rational response. This is where your instincts take over. You
react to how you train. For self-defense you fight with reaction. For
competition you fight with skill and mindset.
You are probably not going to get attacked by a ninja, ever! I think it's safe to say no one will be swinging a Kwan Do or 9-section chain whip at you in your everyday
life. You will be attacked daily with stress, worry, fear, other people’s attitudes and
energy, and all kinds of perceived threats. To stay relaxed, grounded, healthy,
and happy throughout your day, and life, takes embracing the lessons of Taiji
and applying them directly to your inner and outer world. To not get mad,
stressed, or tense as your knee jerk reaction takes time and consistent
training to change your temperament.”
I was watching the final episode of the final season
of Mad Men. The lead character was on retreat and doing yoga and Taiji. I
thought the Taiji looked good, and familiar. Then during sitting meditation, as
the camera panned the group, there was my beloved disciple, Micah Lopez! Micah
was the Taiji teacher for the cast and had a non-speaking role as a retreat
participant! I jumped out of my seat screaming “It’s Micah!” Wow, I’m just so
proud!
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Micah with Don Draper
Paul Brennan Translation- Chen Yanling’s Sanshou
Thank you to my subs who filled in for me while I was
out East. Julie, Karen, Paul I, John S, a bow from the waist!
Book suggestion= Mastery by Robert Greene
My student Martin Ebelhardt is opening an Egoscue
practice in the cities. Here is a write up and contact info.
Healing Movement LLC
Whether you are suffering with chronic pain and muscle
tightness, recovering from an injury, surgery, want to improve athletic
performance or are just interested in improving how you feel, move, and
look, “Healing-Movement” can help.
Healing-Movement is client-centered therapy practice that
synthesizes concepts and methods from a variety of somatic and human movement
approaches. Marty Ebelhardt developed the practice in order to teach clients
how to use their bodies more effectively in order to overcome posture and
movement patterns that result in chronic pain, muscle tightness, and limited
mobility.
The method differs from many other therapy approaches in
that it empowers the individual client by giving them tools to work with in
order to learn to gain mastery over their own body. Each client brings
innate knowledge and experiences about their own bodies, which are an essential
part of the process. In that way, the therapy is a team effort.
The process begins with a postural assessment, and
functional testing in order to identify dysfunctional movement patterns, then
proceeds with the teaching of exercises, self-massage, and mobility practices
in order to restore function through engagement of the nervous system in
re-patterning posture and movement.
Sessions proceed on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis
based on the client’s needs, until the client feels they have met their goals.
For more information or to schedule a session you can
reach Marty at
or call 612-760-9935.
Thank you all for your continued support,
appreciation, and assistance, in this amazing art, Taiji Quan!
-Sifu Ray
“The need for certainty is the greatest
disease the mind faces.”
-Robert Greene
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