Group practices unite students

In January 2000, I decided to find some way for my T’ai Chi Chih students from all the classes to meet each other. A place was found at the State Bank of the Lakes in Grayslake. It has a large carpeted room and the bank does not charge us for its use. So I made 200+ phone calls. In February, 35 students from a dozen different locations came together to do T’ai Chi Chih! We have been meeting once or twice a month since then. The dates are not compatible with everyone’s schedule, but we average 25-30 students a meeting. The idea was to get the students from the different towns to meet one another.

We do a refinement for a movement or emphasize softness or patience, etc. Then we do the set. The energy level of that many students has taken some getting used to. But with each meeting we all are more in tune with T’ai Chi Chih and the chi feelings each receives. We have meetings planned through December.

T’ai Chi Chih in the bank is not the same as T’ai Chi Chih in the park but it’s either very cold, snowing, too windy or there are too many mosquitoes for planning monthly events outside in our area. If anyone is going to be in this area on September 16, October 21 or November 18, we meet at 10:15am on each of those days, and you are welcome to join us. We will do a full practice of T’ai Chi Chih. My number is. The location is northeast Illinois, 10 miles south of the Wisconsin line.