News from Brighton Beach Bluff, Durban, South Africa

. . . Here are a few comments from the women’s group that I teach on a Wednesday evening:

T’ai Chi Chih has brought me to a sense of being centered and balanced. Going through the exercises makes me aware of reaching out beyond myself, touching into friends far away, the universe and deep within myself. Through all of these I feel more in touch with God, creator and centre of all.

– Sr. Annette St. Amour I.H.M.

I first experienced T.C.C. at a Healing Prayer Workshop given by Sr. Marie-Ann. I liked it straight away. I then helped to form a group and asked if Sister would teach us the whole thing as she only gave us a taste of what it was about. We started on coming together once a week and then after four months came and are still coming together every fortnight [every two weeks] due to other commitments. I found the exercises healing, renewing and calming. I am, I feel, energized after doing the movements after a draining day. Sometimes, as a workaholic, I waste a lot of energy and feel quite dead. T.C.C. revives my burnout state and heals me from deep within. I feel refreshed, peaceful and relaxed. T.C.C. gives me the balance and wholeness which I have been seeking in a prayerful physical moving form. I find it very powerful doing it in the group. It is so wonderful to have a T.C.C. teacher in our midst.

– Rosemary Sutton

We enjoy doing T.C.C. in places of Atmosphere — serene, quiet and relaxing. My life has become changed ever since I have been doing it. I am extremely grateful to the times that we can spend together.

– Maggie Nel

I have now come into contact with a Sr. Theresita Kriener O.P. who did a Sabbatical in St. Paul [MN] and did T.C.C. She was on a retreat here at the Bluff. We did T.C.C. together and it was great. . . . She said that she met [Ed] at the [Teachers’] Conference in St. Paul [1999]. So it just shows how small the world really is.

– Sr. Marie-Ann Main