Ah, que c’est jolie, la France!

Tai Chi Chih is alive and well in France. The men and women there who are practising TCC are very sincere and committed people. Catherine Brieussel Boillot (she has gone back to her maiden name) and I practiced every day, whether it was on a snow-capped mountain in Seynod, a vineyard at Die, a backyard, a TCC studio with the sun streaming in the south windows, a home perched on a hill and the fireplace in the corner crackling merrily in Saint Offenge, or looking out at a beautiful old tree in the front yard of a home in Lyons. The group picture is at the home of TCC teacher Florence Germain Robin in Le Chambon Sur Lignon in the south of France. Florence has a TCC studio on the second floor of her home. You can tell by looking at her homemade quilts on the walls how special this room is to her and her students. The women who came to practice with us Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. were a friendly, happy group of women with a lot in common, not the least being a love for T’ai Chi Chih.