Clear as Day

Recently I was reading the March T’ai Chi Chih News and noted an article from Carmen Brocklehurst written in 2007. One line really resonated: “First you learn the form, then you learn the feeling.” I used in my veterans’ class the next day because one student was really intense and getting frustrated because he wasn’t getting every movement perfectly.

When I returned to re-read the article, looking for other nuggets to share, that line wasn’t there. And yet I can still see it, about two thirds of the way through the last paragraph. Carmen was talking to me as clear as day.

I guess it was to be expected. After all, I was reading this in our T’ai Chi Chih (TCC) room. And as we know, interesting things happen in our TCC rooms.

PYRAMID POEMS
By Johnnie Lee Marquez

be

nourished

by the chi

permeating

from outside

drawn in

calm

move

smoothly

front to back

shifting the weight

side to side

gliding

free

feel

movements

floating free

elevating

vibrations

sensing

is

share

kindness 

compassion

humanity

empathy

oneness

love

sit

fasted

wandering

dimensional

energies

feeling

still