Advancing in TCC (March 1995)

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Steve Ridley

Advanced T’ai Chi Chih is realized in degrees by improving our capacity to open properly within each movement pattern while relating mindfully, sensitively in energetic rapport with the practice environment (as an overall, larger movement event in which we have included ourselves).

Each movement pattern represents a certain potential for influencing the internal circulation of chi, and each space in which we practice contributes a specialized ‘energy content’ to be accorded with for optimum energetic exchange.

In my view, advancing in T’ai Chi Chih is an ongoing process requiring that we continually empty ourselves out in order to be fuller.

In advancing we are being restored to our Original Condition, in uniquely wondrous ways.