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Members of the Brookline Tai Chi community are invited by the Board of Directors to attend an all-school meeting on Saturday, January 9 from 2:30-4:30pm

The January-February 2010 issue of Harvard Magazine features a great survey article of current issues surrounding Tai Chi in the West. I'm excited to share it because the author has really captured the range of concerns we try to address in classes.

Robert returns this winter to teach more material from his teacher, Master Wang Hao Da. Students who attended any of this past Cloud Hands workshops will already be somewhat familiar with this material, but now Robert will teach this set in full.

Here's a great list of "Hand Warmers" for cold winter days, compiled by our instructor Ruth Schechter.

1. Invisible Finger Circles (with thanks to Kathleen Ahern)
   With hands relaxed and down at your sides, let your mind rest in your thumbs. Then gently make tiny circles with your thumbs, first one way, then the other. It doesn’t matter if your movement is imperceptible—make the circles with your mind. Then move on to index fingers, middle fingers, ring fingers, and pinkies.

Check out my latest post about Kidney Energy and Winter.

Last fall, Energy Arts Senior Instructor Craig Barnes was a teacher-in-residence at Brookline Tai Chi. Over the years he has taught many tai chi and chi gung workshops, but a clear highlight of his stay last fall was his Saturday morning meditation course.

Or "Why Florida is not on the way to California"

Last month we talked about why studying with a master is like jumping off a cliff. In that post, I was trying to remind you that all the cool new insights you had while doing the Gods Playing in the Clouds workshop with Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis were previews of what was to come if you put in the work to get there. The problem is, when you are going through the developmental process, it's hard to tell whether you are headed in the right direction.

Here’s a novel way for high-schoolers to build coordination, concentration, conscious energy regulation, and camaraderie, while having a lot of fun and earning phys ed credit to boot. BTC student Eli Gerstenlauer, drawing on his professional mentoring and mediating experience with teens, starts up this session a Saturday energy arts class with a martial flavor.