by Steve Elliott | Aug 28, 2017 | Steve’s Musings
The June 2017 issue of the Consumer Reports Magazine took a look at back pain. Causes, remedies, costs, and how back pain affects quality of life. They interviewed 3,562 back pain sufferers and found the most satisfying relief came from regular Yoga or Tai Chi...
by Steve Elliott | Jul 19, 2017 | Steve’s Musings
Colleen McCoulough, Author of the Thorne Birds, also wrote a five book series on Caesar. I read them, and attended a book signing where she said: “Thorn Birds gave me the means to go to Rome and do the research I always wanted to do.” The books are a delightful...
by Steve Elliott | Feb 24, 2017 | Steve’s Musings
How many body’s do you have? You can think about this as various bodies, or as various aspects of your body. If you can gather all your bodies/aspects, and convince them to all live together harmoniously in the being called you, then life is good. And long. And...
by Steve Elliott | Jan 2, 2017 | Steve’s Musings
Sticking Jing is an almost magnetic feeling. That is, your opponent should feel as if you are stuck on them like chewing gum. Once you can stick to someone, you can control their speed, their direction and when the opportunity presents itself, you uproot them...
by Steve Elliott | Nov 10, 2016 | Steve’s Musings
The other day, during a class, when we would start to practice our form, I noticed a student moving left & right to get into the right spot. I asked him what he was doing, and he replied: “I’m getting to the place where I can see the mirror.” Aha! Your Tai Chi...
by Steve Elliott | Sep 14, 2016 | Trip to China 2016
Shanghai is a lot like Chinatown. Only bigger. 20 Million people bigger. Traffic lights are few & far between, so you just have to work things out and negotiate who goes next. Mostly this is determined by who has the loudest horn. Right-of way, in order, goes to:...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 31, 2016 | Steve’s Musings
The other day, Jaqui reminded me that years ago I referred to Chen Man-Ching’s T’ai Chi form as Inferior T’ai Chi. I apologize profusely. I can only hope that Jaqui can forgive said comment as the off hand remark of a testosterone laden and obviously...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 25, 2016 | Steve’s Musings
The four enemies. (Loosely liberated from Carlos Castenada) The first enemy is fear. Fear paralyzes you. For fear, you don’t act. There are several forms of fear. One of the lesser manifestations of fear is worrying. If you are constantly imagining bad things in...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 24, 2016 | Trip to China 2016
Pre-take-off de-briefing. So far my research into traveling to China has revealed: Bring your own toilet paper. Public restrooms don’t provide same. No shorts. Boil water. Twice. (I procured a travel water filter that claims to eliminate 99.9% of all bad stuff.)...
