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Like the Yin-Yang, Eastern Martial Arts and Western medicine are two halves of a whole. My mission is to preserve the ancient mind-body tools and pass them on to you.

 

Dana-Farber Lecture, Part 5: The Energetic System & Visualizations

Brace yourselves, mind-body students! This clip of the lecture series from Dana-Farber is longer than the other ones. (Not too much longer, just under 9 minutes.)

But! If you are patient and watch the whole thing, you'll be rewarded. There are a couple of meditative exercises to follow along with in this video in real time. You should be able to do them simply sitting on your couch or in your chair. It is also packed with good information about the energetic system and the different techniques that people use to help guide them to a better connection with their energy and spirit.

Enjoy!

Happy stretching, deep breathing, empty your mind, strengthen your energetic system, and evoke your spirit!

Dana-Farber Lecture, Part 4: The Horse Mind and the Monkey Mind

Hello again Mind-Body students! It's time for the next section of my Dana-Farber lecture. In this section, I discuss the goals of the Mind-Body approach to holistic health. I focus a lot on the goal of balance, in particular between the "horse" mind and the "monkey" mind.

I hope you enjoy!

Happy stretching, deep breathing, empty your mind, strengthen your energetic system, and evoke your spirit!

Dana-Farber Lecture, Part 3: Finding a Teacher & Introduction to Qi Gong

Welcome back students! Thank you for watching, listening to, and commenting on the past installments in my Dana-Farber lecture blog series! We love to see lots of people engaging with the blog!

We return this week with the next installment in the lecture, which covers some wisdom about finding a mind-body teacher, and also introduces the topics of Qi Gong, and how it relates to Tai Chi.

Enjoy!

Happy stretching, deep breathing, empty your mind, strengthen your energetic system, and evoke your spirit!

Dana-Farber Lecture, Part 1: Sit Up Straight and Breath Deep!

Hello mind-body students! This week is the first installment in a several week-long series of videos clipped from a lecture I have at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute back in September 2016. Boy, time flies!

The lecture was called "Mind Body - Tai Chi - Chi Kung: For Cancer" and was presented for the purpose of building awareness for and interest in my classes at Dana-Farber for cancer patients/survivors, and their caregivers.

At the beginning of the lecture I told the audience to do two simple (but very difficult) things for the duration of my talk: sit up straight and breathe deep!

Try to do both of those things as you listen to each of these videos over the next few weeks.

Happy stretching, deep breathing, empty your mind, strengthen your energetic system, and evoke your spirit!

One of the Top 25 Tai Chi Blogs on the Internet!

Welcome back mind-body students! We are glad to have you reading again, and look forward to a new year of new blogs and new readers.

We have very exciting news! In late December, our blog was named one of the Top 25 Tai Chi Blogs and Websites on the internet by Feedspot, a popular blog reader and aggregator service. We're very honored to be on this list, and we hope to qualify again if they update the list next year.

This year we have big plans for the blog and for new Tai Chi courses on my Udemy profile.

On Udemy, you can look forward to Tai Chi courses about dealing with issues as varied as chronic pain, inconsistent sleep, lack of focus, asthma, and more! These courses will be short and sweet, focused around one or two very impactful exercises, and also including a handful of supportive techniques and practices.

On the blog, we have countless possibilities! Starting next week we will be posting small sections of a talk and presentation I did at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which I hope will be helpful as an introduction to Tai Chi and Qi Gong health practices, and what they can help people accomplish.

After we've gone through that talk, we will be starting our first exercise series: Exercises to do in the car! Many people are so busy that they cannot find enough time to do energetic, exercising, and meditative practices during the day. But, many of these same people have little time because they spend a lot of time in the car. Thanks to a request by one of the blog's avid readers, we were inspired to do a series on how you can be healthier each time you drive!

By the time we're done with that, we'll probably be approaching summer time, and we'll see what else we have in store for 2018.

Happy stretching, deep breathing, empty your mind, strengthen your energetic system, and evoke your spirit!


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