The attention needs to go from very a very general and broad area to a very focused and pinpointed target.

When you practice with no pattern, your mind becomes sharp and it opens to everything around you while you are still focusing on the move.

The only thing that is constant is change. You may have to do something different to get back to normal or to the way you want to do things.

Wén Wŭ Shuāng Quán 文武双全 When we look at the symbols for Yin and Yang, we see that they represent a state of constant change. When we are faced with changes, we have to learn to keep a very clear mind. In our Taiji practice, if any part of our body changes or a movement is adjusted or the path changes and we don’t pay attention, it will cause an imbalance in our whole body. All changes have to be carefully looked at to determine how we want to adjust ourselves mentally and phy

Continuity is when the body has completely finished with a move, and the mind thinks on to the next move, and the body continues to follow..

Whatever style of Taiji you practice, the requirement to be “jing 静”, or quiet, is there. In qigong practice, whether you are doing the...

When we practice, our main goal is to move Qi. When Qi moves, the body flourishes. But if you try to force it...

The way we practice Taiji is the same as building a house: When we build a house, we build a frame first...

The character of water is that it goes where there is no resistance. If you don’t create resistance for it, it will flow quickly.

When you shoot pool, what is the goal? ...Focus on exactly what you want and where you want to go. That’s called intent.

If we don’t have points of reference, it’s easy to get lost. We have to know where we’ve been in order to plan where we’re going.

Learning is a journey and a process of growth. There are many levels or steps that we have to go through before we can say, “I understood”.