Newsletter   •   Jun 2, 2024

Softness is Strength

June 2024

May has been a busy month with all our Tai Chi and Qi Gong classes and everyone is making progress towards their inner-self, strength, and flow.

Take our Swimming Dragon Qi Gong practice as an example. We mimic dragon through the air and water. Imagine a youthful dragon is flying towards the sky and diving into the ocean with his body turning and rotating. All movements aim at loosening and strengthening our spine and joints. By lengthening the whole body, we can greatly improve muscular strength and flexibility, gut health, internal organ’s balance and blood circulation, not to mention how fun it is to feel like a water dragon!

Everyone is taking necessary time to make self-paced progress, constantly and persistently, but no rush, going with the flow. When I am in the class of flow, I really feel the collective energy and tranquillity in the air. Some students are saying “you sort of float your way out of the class, it’s fantastic”.

Bruce Lee once said “…open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.” And “…be like water…empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water.”

Tai Chi is like the moving meditation. You don’t have to sit there and meditate. Get into a correct posture, breathe, be open to it and allow the flow to happen. One of my students loves the video “Softness is Strength”. Share with you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgEkvmMtA_E.

I was invited by Tai Chi Association of Australia (TCAA) as the annual national competition judge in May. It was a great honour to meet Tai Chi instructors and enthusiasts from all over Australia as well as our international participants from Japan. A wonderful event to meet Tai Chi people to share quantity time and skills together. Check out TCAA international competition engagement for more inspiration at http://taichiaustralia.com.

Peter Eves from NSW, shared his Tai Chi for Dementia teaching experience https://www.taichiaustralia.com/docs/ARTICLE_FOR_TCAA_NEWSLETTER_DEMENTIA.pdf where he talks about the success and challenge. However the encouraging fact that Tai Chi can help people with dementia and their caregivers to gain more strength, balance and reduce stress prevails at the end.

Last but not least, Tai Chi workshop is going to our Regional at Crystal Brook.

Workshop information as below

Sunday 16th June 2024
10am to 4pm
Crystal Brook Institute

This event is free of charge courtesy of Office for Ageing Well. Pease contact Lorraine 0400291598 for booking and catering purposes. I must thank Lorraine for her effort and love in Tai Chi to make all this possible. If you are nearby or have friends in the neighbouring towns, share the information, share the love!

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Stay well,
Fang & the team