Pay attention and make the entire body comfortable.
Learn less, practice more.
Why I Practice T’ai Chi Ch’uan by Mark Bernhard
T’ai Chi Ch’uan as an art of self-defense must completely spurn muscular force. – Zheng Manqing
The Heart of Lightness: A 2004 Letter to My Fellow Students by Mark Bernhard
Mind Over Matter: Higher Martial Arts by Shi Ming
Presence of Mind by Greg Brodsky
The muscles must vanish. You must become a ghost to yourself, full of the power of not doing. – Richard Powers
Tai Chi Fingers by William CC Chen
In our culture, we tend to focus more on doing than being. When we want to change something of ourselves, instead of “being” our actions or “becoming” a better person in some way, we merely “do” something differently, and so remain separated from the act or change that we desire. When we adopt some external process to do, rather than a new and better way to be, the body and mind remain fundamentally unchanged. What’s needed is not the addition of a new activity, but a change in the foundation from which all our actions arise. – Peter Ralston
Feeling Yi by William CC Chen
T’ai Chi As A Path of Wisdom by Linda Myoki
Yang, Yin and the Nature of the T’ai Chi Form
Qigong as a Portal to Presence: Cultivating the Inner Energy Body
by Gunther M. Weil, Ph.D.
Taijiquan is a wordless dialogue between the limitless and the limited. – Wang Xiaopeng
What’s Good for the Brain is Good for the Body (and vice-versa)
On Practice with Master Li Yaxuan
In practicing T’ai Chi Ch’uan the whole body relaxes. Don’t let even one ounce of tension linger in the blood vessels, bones, and ligaments to cramp yourself up. – Yang Chenfu
Eight Active Ingredients of T’ai Chi Ch’uan
Tension is a way of holding onto something that isn’t there. – Zheng Manqing
Interview with and Writings of Patrick Kelly
Tai Chi And The Five Integrities by Kenneth van Sickle
How to Grasp the Bird’s Tail if You Don’t Speak Chinese
T’ai Chi and Dynamic Balance by Mark Bernhard, DC
Balance as a Predictor of Longevity
How to Improve Your Balance and Why You Should
Harvard Magazine: Easing Ills Through Tai Chi
Sitting Tai Chi exercises improved recovery outcomes for older stroke survivors
Chinese Study of Taiji and Parkinson’s Disease
Taiji Secrets by Patrick Kelly
From familiarity with the correct touch, one gradually comprehends internal energy; from the comprehension of internal energy one can reach wisdom. – T’ai Chi Classics
Five Essential T’ai Chi Skills
When learning how to practice martial arts, it starts from emptiness and returns to emptiness. When you reach this point, the notions of Xingyi, Bagua, or Taiji all disappear into nothing but waves and ripples, an undifferentiated oneness in which there can no longer be a “Taiji” or a “Xingyi” or a “Bagua”. Therefore the practice of the boxing arts does not lie in the postures, only in the spirit and energy being fully rounded and without gaps. – Che Yizhai
T’ai Chi and the Feldenkrais Method® by Ralph Strauch
The Interoceptive Turn: How we sense ourselves from within, including our bodily states, is creating a radical picture of selfhood by Noga Arikha
Interoception: the hidden sense that shapes wellbeing by David Robson
Breathing Lessons by Li Yaxuan
The Eight Gates of T’ai Chi Ch’uan
The T’ai Chi Lesson That I Can Apply to Almost Anything by James Sturm
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Victor Frankl
Health Benefits of T’ai Chi Ch’uan
Medicine in motion: How Tai Chi heals body and mind by Sandee LaMotte
Finding a Sense of Balance Within by Greg Brodsky
You must be completely relaxed, only then can you respond spontaneously and unknowably to every condition. You must be as relaxed as a bag of bones, only this can properly be called relaxation. Never forget that you’ll never be able to issue energy as long as you cling to any residual tension whatsoever. – Li Yaxuan
Compression Breathing in the Practice of T’ai Chi Ch’uan by Greg Brodsky
Staying Rooted: Insights on How to Handle Stress Using T’ai Chi by Milton Huang
The Three Treasures: Jing, Qi and Shen
Only those activities that are easy and pleasant will become part of a person’s habitual life… Actions that are hard to carry out, for which a man must force himself to overcome his inner opposition will never become part of his normal daily life.- Moshe Feldenkrais
What If It’s All Vertical? by Greg Brodsky
T’ai Chi Driving by Greg Brodsky
Well-Used Ex-Marine Finds His Way to Health, Inner Peace by Gene Ervin
T’ai Chi is the Perfect Antidote to a Digital Age by Florence Waters (in The Telegraph)
Why Does Tai Chi Feel Good? by Paul Thagard, PhD
Better Sleep and Tai Chi Reduce Inflammation Journal of Biological Psychiatry
The Remarkable Dr. Ping-Siang Tao by David Pace
The Way of the Brush by Toinette Lippe