Metaphors & Analogies

Life’s stresses collect as a snowball grows while rolling down the mountain. T’ai Chi Chih is the sun that melts the snowball away. – Maurisa L.

TCC is water in a lake, controlled by the steady currents. The soft wind creates ripples along the water’s surface, stirring gently in effortless motion. And when the wind stops, the water quivers until it gradually eases down. – Veronica V.

Back home I sit on my porch and watch as the trains pass on the tracks. Everyday of every year the trains pass. There are no signs on them, no directions, just the trains. I love to watch the trains because I never know where they’re going; I just have peaceful daydreams and thoughts of the million possible destinations. TCC is the train. I never know where the art will take me; I only know peaceful thoughts that pull me away from the outside world, away from the chaos, the clutter and the madness. TCC allows my body to sit on the porch as my mind catches the trains. – Lauren M.

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If we are to be balanced, we are to be in touch with our Chi, the vital force flowing through us. Chi is energy and allows for health and balance. Repetitious and various movements of TCC allows for us to be inspired with life energy. The balance of life’s energies is omnipresent:

The solar cycle / day and night

Knowledge accumulation / learn and teach

Loving others / give and take

Life’s essence / exhale and inhale

Musical improvs / call and response

Family unions / growth and nurture

Earth’s elements / fire and ice

Ocean’s currents / crash and recoil

Ultimate balance / ‘Yin’ and ‘Yang’

– Desiree A.