Category: Key Concepts and Skills

Pounding mortar anyone?  Maybe your white crane needs to spread it's wings.  I know, you want to hear the sound of one hand clapping.  There is something both wonderful and maddening...

New research on how to use tai chi for depression continues to come out. This is great news not only for people suffering from depression but for all of us who deal with sadness, loneliness, or bad...

I want to tell you about possibly the best way to improve your tai chi: learn one of the tai chi weapons forms. Each tai chi weapon teaches a different way to balance, generate force, move, and hold...

Silk Reeling is an extremely misunderstood and mystified set of movements. On one hand, they are indeed a fairly simple and repetitive part of tai chi practice. For this, they suffer a reputation of...

We have all experienced times in life when everything seems to easily go well. We get the new job, we graduate, or we work towards achieving some larger goal and things in life support our efforts...

Davidine Sim and David Gaffney have put together a new book which shares interviews with 8 of the greatest (and currently living) tai chi grand masters.  Chen Taijiquan: Masters and Methods contains...