Issue 60 January 2007
This month Gary looks at the 'taichido team' and fills us in a lot more about the tai chi ruler format - a series of exercises that we have just produced a dvd of, which be on sale...
Issue 61 February 2007
This month Gary gives details about the annual get-together, which this year includes workshops on tai chi Ruler, and Tessen (tai chi fan). He also talks about how he integrates Ruler practice into his tai chi instruction...
Issue 62 March 2007
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Issue 63 April 2007
Regular readers of this newsletter will know that I have a consultancy with regional group of the Parkinson's Disease Sufferers Society. We meet together once a month. The group is mixed about 50/50 sufferers and careers/partners. I think it is fair to say that we are all over 50 in years! Of the sufferers some are in the early stages of the onset and others far more progressed and control the disease with a drug regime that has its own 'symptomatic' side effects.
Issue 64 May 2007
I get a trickle of random emails that find themselves to me through taichido.com. I try, but I must confess, I do not, for various reasons, answer them all. Nonetheless, sooner or later, many do get a reply...
Issue 65 June 2007
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July 2007
No newsletter
Issue 66 August 2007
The Five Elements and their associations and characteristics. The elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water pervade through Eastern culture and philosophy and have a significant bearing upon the martial arts and tai chi in particular. Tai Chi makes use of the chi energy flowing through the body’s meridian lines – in many ways in the same principle to acupuncture, and in both cases the Five Elements play an important part in its cycle.
Issue 67 September 2007
Tai chi we know has many forms, many styles and Schools. It also has variations beyond the ‘standard’ concept of what tai chi is: amongst others there are tai chi Ruler, tai chi Walking, Pushing Hands, tai chi Fan, tai chi Stick and tai chi Sword. Some are meditative or for exercise, some are combative.
Issue 68 October 2007
This month Gary, in inspired by his own inbox, takes a look at the concept of Kung Fu – and almost immediately comes up with answers that you aren’t expecting. But the process applies (as you will see) to tai chi – and indeed to all arts, martial or not.
Issue 69 November 2007
The Inauguration of The Amida Buddha Shrine at the Home Dojo of the Southampton Shin Sangha. Sunday 28th October 2007
Issue 70 December 2007
Our second landmark is that we are about to go to reprint with a version 2 of The Yang Long Form 'step-by-step' booklet included with our tipple DVD package on that form... |
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