The Lighter Side… (December 2000)

1. When teaching seated TCC, I was showing Bob, one of the seniors, how important it is to shift from the waist.

To illustrate further, I said, “Most guys like cars, so I’ll use a car analogy. The waist is like the engine — it gets everything moving.”

Somewhat concerned, he grabbed his waist and said, “But what if you have a big belly?”

I replied, “That just means you have more horsepower!”

– Sharon Sirkis

2. One evening at the UMBC college campus, I decided to hold practice outdoors. Thirty students and I enjoyed performing the moves to the soft sounds of the birds and the cicadas. As we were doing the Six Healing Sounds, we were startled by the sudden bang and clatter of a big hubcap as it flew off a car and bounced towards us. The students tried desperately to hold back their laughter, as the hubcap kept wobbling and rolling like it had a life of its own. So, going with the flow, I said, “That was the Seventh Healing Sound.”

– Sharon Sirkis

3. Did you hear about the new Zen vacuum cleaner? It comes with no attachments.

– Sharon Sirkis

4. After mentioning how the chi is a healing current and how the body tries to balance itself, one very fit twenty-something college student who had not been getting enough sleep, embarrassedly admitted that after the previous TCC class he felt so sleepy that he had to go back to his dorm room in the mid-afternoon to take a nap!

– Sharon Sirkis

5. At the conclusion of the recent teacher training course in Columbia, PA the auditors and candidates went out to dinner on Friday night to celebrate. As we left the restaurant we noticed that a nearby park was in the midst of a fireworks show. “Isn’t our course host wonderful?” I commented to the group. “She really thought of everything!”

– Ed Altman