Last Nights lessons Repulse The Monkey, application with Simon and Embrase Tiger And Return To The Mountain.

Love is the Way

I re-tell this story as I heard it from a good friend.
Lucy's father died when she was very young and still in primary school. Her mother was brokenhearted and so it seemed to this little girl that she had lost both parents.
In school she would ask to be allowed out to the bathroom and on the way she would steal some money from the teachers purse. Then on her way home, she would buy a bar of chocolate for her mother in the hopes of cheering her up.
One day at the end of school the teacher said, "Lucy, wait for me and I will walk home with you today". So Lucy waited and they walked home together. When they got to the shop Lucy went in and bought the bar of chocolate. The teacher asked Lucy "Who is the bar of chocolate for?" Lucy said "It is for my Mum to cheer her up". Then the teacher said "And how about you Lucy? Would you like a bar of chocolate too ?" , "Yes please", the little girl said. This little girl (now a woman) told my friend that she never again stole from her teacher. So for this teacher too," Love is the Way."

Thanks to David Nelson for these great photos taken in the library.

I will never forget my first image of T'ai Chi. It was of two people in Roll Back posture, the serenity and peace in their faces and the calm aura surrounding them captured me then and the practice continues to enrich delight and challenge me still twenty years later. That image was in a book I found in Mallow library an image that changed my life.
How wonderful then to bring the practice of T'ai Chi to life there in the celebration of International T'ai Chi Day. We did that last Saturday and were delighted with the warm reception we received. It was great to practice with long term practitioners like myself and people who got their first taste last Saturday.
Ruari the librarian said he had never experienced anything as "loud" as the silence that descended when we began the T'ai Chi Form. So T'ai Chi really did come to life in the Library ! Many thanks to everyone who made it possible.

International Tai Chi and Qigong Day Saturday April 25th

We will have Tai Chi practice in Mallow Library on Saturday to celebrate Tai Chi Day.
All welcome to join us between 3 and 4 pm.

The mind tells us that peace comes from letting it figure things out for us. But have you noticed that peace comes from letting go of the mind and being present.

T'ai Chi Workshop with Steven Moore

“Use energy not force” is the instruction I remember most from my first Tai Chi

lesson in September 1984. It appealed to me instantly – I loved its poetry – but I

had no idea what it really meant: it stimulated my imagination to run riot with

possibility whilst meaning next to nothing to the small part of me rooted in solid

experience. So in these workshops we will be looking at its deep practical meaning –

what it means to use all our knowledge, wisdom and spirituality to maintain an

energetic system – namely ourselves, upon the Earth, with the Heavens above,

interacting with others.

T'ai Chi Workshop with Steven Moore next weekend.
Details on Brendan Mc Elroy's wbbsite see link above.