Posted in Qigong, Tai Chi, The Outside World, Training on 10/01/2010 10:31 am by katiewright
Autumn is well and truly here! Here are the schedules for the next month for each club.
Joys Green: Mondays 10-11am – Clubs as usual right up until Christmas. the only thing to think about is whether there should be a session on 20th December.
Ross on Wye: Mondays 7-8pm – Same as Joys Green, with clubs as usual. Whether we have a session on 20th December is up to students. There is one point. From 11th October I will have to be ending the sessions as promptly on 8pm as possible as I have another engagement to go to afterwards. I will therefore be starting ON TIME (!) if students could try and arrive 5 minutes early it would be a great help.
Woolaston: Tuesdays 7-8pm – The club is a usual with no session on 19th October for the WI, then 16th November. December is a little more complicated but we will get to that later!
As an aside for all clubs, Chinese New Year is on 3rd February 2011. Would students like another meal? If so can anyone suggest somewhere nice in the middle or shall we go back to the great place at Monmouth that we went to last year.
Posted in Tai Chi, Training on 02/11/2010 07:35 pm by katiewright
I will be holding two Fan Form workshops at Woolaston Memorial Hall, nr Lydney on Saturdays 20th February and 13th March 2010. Everyone is welcome as we will be practicing the basics of this great form and starting from the beginning. Cost is £5.00 per current student of £7.50 if you don’t train with me at the moment. Session starts at 12.15 and runs until 1.45pm. Please contact me for further details.
Posted in Stories and Poems, Tai Chi on 02/04/2010 10:37 pm by katiewright
Tai Chi
With eyes closed
I could be anywhere, yet I am everywhere and nowhere.
I am the pigeon, the wild goose
I push the waves, touch sea and sky
and I am nothing.
I march with the ball of the sun
I am the blackness of space.
Empty with the eternity of stars within me
and yet I hold the ball of the Earth
and I am the suns rays
filling all, illuminating all
with the untouchable nothingness of light.
The energy flows
from Dantien to hands
which carry magnets in the palms.
Balanced soul, body and mind.
The music plays to deaf ears
the light plays upon blind eyes
I am here in this room
yet I am a million miles away.
2005
A poem written by myself when I first started training ’seriously’ in Tai chi, based mainly on the 18 movements of Tai Chi and Qigong (ShiBaShi).
