Justin’s Gift To Teachers

I’m deeply grateful for Justin’s gift of T’ai Chi Chih to the world. I’m especially grateful for Seijaku, Justin’s gift to TCC teachers. Seijaku is usually referred to as the advanced form of TCC, and unfortunately, most people stop after learning the basic TCC form. They don’t know what they are missing. The consensus among attendees at the Seijaku Teacher Training in August was that Seijaku is really an integral part of TCC practice, not an optional “extra.” In visioning the future, we saw the TCC Community at large learning, practicing, teaching and benefiting fully from Seijaku, as Justin intended.

Although Justin gave Seijaku to teachers for our own evolution, it is also to be shared with our serious students. It is especially valuable in today’s world of increasingly fast-paced change. Have you noticed how life seems to be speeding up? In Seijaku, the practice of alternating between “holding fast” and “letting go” makes it easier to adapt to change in our lives. Softness means “letting go,” and Seijaku certainly deepens one’s experience of softness and also develops the ability to let go of that which no longer serves us. Seijaku has helped me through a divorce 14 years ago, as well as the death of both parents.

Seijaku cultivates stillness in the midst of activity and focuses the mind, developing one-pointed concentration so you can be in the present moment rather than worrying about the future or regretting the past. Seijaku offers accelerated health benefits, increased intuition and creativity, heightened awareness and release from unwanted habit energies. Most of all, Seijaku helps us make progress in learning who and what we really are, and according with Reality.

If you want to go to the next level in your TCC practice, I invite you to do Seijaku. Get Justin’s Seijaku DVD. If you already have it, get it out and practice with it. Work with an accredited Seijaku teacher. You can find them marked with a “yes” in the Seijaku column of the online teacher directory. If you are a TCC teacher, I invite you to learn, practice and be accredited to teach Seijaku. There are two accreditations planned for 2011: in the spring in Southern California and after the summer conference in Ohio. If you have respect for Justin as the originator of TCC, and he has given you another gift, do you think you would be wise to accept it?