Six Healing Sounds, by Amy Tyksinski (November 2011)

Editor’s Note: The most important resource for teaching tips is Justin Stone. Watch and listen to him on his instructional DVD. And read about and inspect his movements in the Photo Textbook. Both are available from Good Karma Publishing. His words are also available in the essential booklet, T’ai Chi Chih Teaching Tips, available through the New Mexico T’ai Chi Chih Association for a small fee (www.taichichihassociation.org and 505-299-2095.)

If the mouth gets cottonmouth, it suggests you became yin, more receptive, pliable, flexible. Can you hear the sounds inside yourself? Can you feel the sounds inside the tan t’ien? The body is a symphony. It makes a song. If one organ is giving you trouble, repeat that corresponding sound over and over.