Acupressure Points and Tai Chi

July 6, 2011

Hi folks, I am now on the road and already in Europe. I’ll be teaching soon and look forward to seeing everyone, especially for the Wu Style Instructor Training, something I have not done for about 10 years. If you can’t make the whole training I invite you to come for a week or a ... Read More

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Upcoming Hsing-i Five Elements DVD Release

May 30, 2011

Hi Everyone, This Summer I will release a live DVD Training Program for Hsing-i, Santi and the standing postures of I Chuan. In my opinion these practices are ‘the fastest way to build your Chi and martial power’. Join the launch list to see free videos and to download a PDF on Hsing-i from my ... Read More

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Digging Wells or Dabbling

May 12, 2011

I can speak from my experience about what the traditional approach is and the eclectic way I went about it, and the essential difference between an eclectic traditional approach and the approach of the dabbler, who just knows a bit of this and a bit of that. The first issue is: why become eclectic? In ... Read More

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Archive Video: Tai Chi, Qigong and Internal Martial Arts

April 26, 2011

In this archive video from over 22 years ago I talk about the health benefits of tai chi, qigong and the internal martial arts. The message has not changed over the years – although my hair has, some say for the better. Please enjoy, like and share, Bruce   Click here to learn about the ... Read More

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Why Teach Tai Chi and Qigong?

April 6, 2011

How do you go from Tai Chi student to Tai Chi teacher? The transition from being a tai chi practitioner to a tai chi teacher or certified instructor can take lots of time and practice. Anything that has any depth usually does. Add to that the esoteric or spiritual aspect of tai chi, and there ... Read More

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Tai Chi and Traditional Chinese Medicine

March 31, 2011

Tai Chi and Traditional Chinese Medicine traditionally were connected and used together to treat patients in China. From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine you can say there are two levels of healing injury, illness and diseases. The first involves hands-on energetic healing work, which can get rather complex with the thousands of meridian lines ... Read More

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A Meditation for the Springtime

March 28, 2011

Spring is the time of the year when all is awakening, new and fresh. Having just come out of the winter, you plant the seeds that will sustain you for the whole year. So springtime gives you the energy to do. The spring brings out the energy of the liver, which can bring up one ... Read More

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How to Learn Tai Chi – Reaching Plateaus

March 11, 2011

Everest Base Camp Photo by ilkerender Very often as you learn tai chi chuan or qigong, you may feel as though you have reached a plateau. When this experience happens there often is a sense that practice is boring. The same stuff keeps on happening. We all want to have tai chi practice breakthroughs moving ... Read More

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Tai Chi for Meditation

March 8, 2011

Tai chi can be used as a meditation to calm down your nervous system and smooth out all the deeper energies of your emotions, your mind, your psyche, your karma and your essence. The energy in your body creates the energy upon which the waves of your mind ride. If the chi in your body ... Read More

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Effortlessness and Taoist Meditation: Discovering the Joy Inside Yourself

March 1, 2011

Wu wei , or effortlessness, is the very heart of the Taoist Water Method and Taoist Meditation. This concept of “doing without doing,” is very tricky to understand from a purely mental point of view. Wholly understood, wu wei is not “non-action”, but action that operates by simply following the natural course of universal energy as ... Read More

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