T'ai Chi Workshop in Blackrock Community Centre this Saturday Long Form 10.30 -11.30 Short Form and Partner Work 11.30 - 1.30 Beginners Lesson 1-2.30

Short form from lifting hands to role back press and push in section 2 from ann on Vimeo.

''Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.'' - Mark Twain

        "Live With a Full Moon in Each Eye"





             With That Moon Language 



                Admit something. 

            

          Everyone you see, you say to them 

                    "Love me." 



          Of course you do not do this out loud: 

                    Otherwise, 

             Someone would call the cops.



           Still, though, think about this, 

           This great pull in us to connect. 



              Why not become the one 

        Who lives with a full moon in each eye 

             That is always saying, 



                With that sweet moon 

                      Language 



          What every other eye in this world 

                    Is dying to 

                       Hear?  

                                  - Hafiz 

T'ai Chi Workshop in Blackrock Community Centre this Saturday Long Form 10.30 -11.30 Short Form and Partner Work 11.30 - 1.30 Beginners Lesson 1-2.30

     Do we need to make a special effort

     to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky?

     Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it

     No, we just enjoy it.

     Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this.

     Wherever we are , any time, we have the capacity

     to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other,

     even the sensation of our breathing.

     We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky.

     We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing.

     We can be in touch with these things right now.

                                       Thich Nhat Hanh

T'ai Chi Workshop in Blackrock Community Centre this Saturday Long Form 10.30 -11.30 Short Form and Partner Work 11.30 - 1.30 Beginners Lesson 1-2.30

  If we had keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life,

it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat,

 and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

      George Eliot ( Mary Ann Evans )

It is great to have a good practice. It supports you through good times and bad.
It teaches patience and perseverance. For me Tai Chi is a true support, when I began to train I hoped to get fit while learning to meditate. I remember one of my teachers advertising posters said " Health Strength and Relaxation ". Tai Chi bestows all of these benefits and much more. Training daily you come to know both your body and your mind and slowly you begin to realise that you are not your body or your mind but something which is beyond both. This realisation is the fruit of practice and also its true purpose.

Learn to watch your thoughts without engaging.

Gradually you will begin to trust a wisdom which is much deeper
and more profound than your thinking mind.

Begin to allow this wisdom run your life, as your mind quietens
you will be amazed by the joy, the love, the peace inside of you.

             A day of silence can be a pilgrimage in itself.

                                     Hafiz