Wu (Hao) Tai Chi Class

We are still meeting in Cuesta Park, Mountain View, on Sundays at 9AM, weather permitting, at or near the volleyball court. If nobody is there exactly at 9, wait a little bit. Anyone who shows up two weeks in a row can have free beginner lessons. Comment to me if you want more information.

What a beautiful day! The last storm of the season is now past, they say. Join us Sundays from 9AM to 10:30AM in Cuesta Park, Mountain View. We practice at or near the volleyball court, just off the main parking lot. Beginners are welcome, and it's free.

We are still practicing in Cuesta Park, Mountain View, on Sundays, 9am to 10:30am, weather permitting. Practice and training for beginners is free. Come on down and see.

Kevin should be back at Cuesta Park this Sunday, 8/27, if all goes as planned, and available to teach beginning Wu Hao Tai Chi. It's free! Try to get there by 9AM. We usually practice on or near the volleyball court.

Since we have been posting beginner training as Facebook events, we have yet to see a single signup, although they appear to have brought out a few of our more advanced friends, and this is itself an excellent result. However we will suspend posting as FB events for the next few weeks. Beginners are still and always welcome. This one will be present next Sunday, 7/30 if all goes as planned, and available to introduce other beginners to Wu Hao. However this one will be absent Sunday 8/6. The other, even awesomer practitioners should be there however, so do come on down, if so moved. Peace.

Advanced Wu Hao practitioner Jack Liou (at least, they are more advanced than your humble correspondent) gave us some "pointers" last Sunday that this one wants to share. We noticed that he points his "empty" toe each time before out-stepping or kicking, and he explained that this helps slow down the action and put focus on the "full" leg, such that we can "sink" into the full foot, and feel our stable strength, with head lined up directly over foot, before stepping out or kicking. Excellent advice, Jack. This one is devoting personal practice this week to understanding and attempting to build this habit. It has been challenging. It is so tempting to use momentum, when what we really want is to use Qi. Best wishes to all who practice.

Here is something your humble correspondent wishes someone had explained (or probably that they had listened to better) sooner. The simplest way to experience the flow of qi is to relax, because qi flows to the parts we relax, and it's easier to feel it in the part relaxed. So, to move qi from neck to hands, relax the neck, then the shoulders, then the upper arms, then the lower arms and finally the hands and fingers, and repeat. Further, by imagining that something is flowing in and/or out of our hands, we can feel qi even more. It's not all in our heads! But it might be in our hands, which are especially sensitive. The study of qi should commence in the hands, Sifu says. Good qi to you!

It's been a lovely start to Summer in Cuesta Park, Mountain View, CA. We practice Sunday mornings, weather permitting, and every Sunday for the past month or so has been beautiful. Shout outs to old-timers Jack and Henry, who both showed up last Sunday. We have started posting free Facebook events to invite beginners to come and learn with us. Best wishes and luck to all practitioners and seekers, of every kind, around the world.

We are still meeting Sundays, around 9 AM, in Cuesta Park, Mountain View, weather permitting. And the weather has been awesome recently. Come on down and learn or practice.

Practice starts 9am Sundays, weather permitting, and usually goes until about 10:30. We are a student-led practice group and it's free to join us. Beginners are welcome. There's a map in a post, below.

If you are interested in Qi, you may find this infographic interesting.
http://www.pointfinder.org/health-infographics/jedi-force-sensitivity-test/

Are you Jedi? Take this 5 minute Force sensitivity test | PointFinder Health Infographics With the hands, study of The Force begins. Hold out both hands, or at least the dominant hand, loosely, relaxed, palm out, fingers up.

Practice has resumed in Cuesta Park, Sundays 9am to about 11am, weather permitting. We usually practice on the Volleyball Court or the Horseshoe Pitch.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cuesta+Park
Park in the Nilda Ave. parking lot, then straight ahead to the left.

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