Reflections: Teacher Training Albuquerque, NM

Newly-Accredited Teacher

Honor the Journey: Each of us — student, candidate, teacher — embarks on a transformative journey through T’ai Chi Chih Joy Thru Movement. May I acknowledge and respect each person’s unique journey without assumption or intrusion. May I be with a person in that person’s journey if invited so I may allow, validate, learn from and be touched by the experience.

Honor the form: T’ai Chi Chih Joy Thru Movement, as given to us, carries a power and a gift that is not ours to modify, interpret, impose or analyze. May I deepen my own inner self-knowledge with dedicated practice and ongoing renewal. May I teach the form and its essentials, allowing each student to enter the form and receive the benefits that will be uniquely theirs. May I trust that the inner wisdom discovered through my own practice will guide me in my teaching.

Honor the Disturbances: Each of us — student, candidate, teacher — experiences periods of doubt, discomfort, darkness and devastation, in our practice and in our lives. It is not ours to predict when these periods will occur or to know when they might end. May I have the trust to accept these periods, to be open to their message, to receive their gifts. May I realize that — by breaking apart — I become open to accept more grace, more love and more of the universal life force. May I know that the duality of deterioration/renewal, darkness/light, letting go/holding on will come back to one-ness, the one-ness of the spirit in me, in each living being and in the universe.