The Practice

I was at deaths’ door when I began my T’ai Chi Chih journey in September 2012. I was very sick and tired all the time. It took everything I had just to make it to work every day. That was all I could manage. In the beginning, the movements were difficult to learn, but I just kept going to classes at the TCC Center, which became a lifeline for me. I practiced as much as I could. Gradually I began to feel alive again. I wasn’t exhausted all the time. Fatigue and irritability changed into energy, love and light. The unfolding lessons, physical vitality, mental clarity, spiritual blessings and awakenings are so sweet. Life is no longer something to dread or endure – but something to behold, something to create and something to be grateful for.

Now I am in a teacher prep class and looking forward to the accreditation process. It is my heartfelt desire to bring this practice to my patients, the mentally ill, homeless and incarcerated. This practice and these teachings of Justin Stone’s are a tremendous and a powerful gift to the world. Most of us have no idea how powerful and beautiful we truly are – especially my patients, the unwashed, unclean and forgotten. I find that if I want to keep this precious gift, I must give it away.