Categories: Teacher Experiences & Reflections
Zoom from a Teacher’s Perspective
I have been doing a daily Zoom T’ai Chi Chih Practice and Guided Meditation since March 2020. The experience has no words. It only has the experience from deep within of flowing from the center easily, naturally, in connection with everyone over the wave of the Internet.
The Chi is the true teacher. No one is doing the teaching, no one is correcting, no one is doing the practice. TCC is the master of all the grace that is happening within, through and around us.
We are blessed to live in this electronic time, connecting at an energetic level, a wave of the lifeforce energy flowing from us toward the whole universe and back to us, especially through the heart.
The words of Justin Stone at the beginning of each TCC practice bring both dimensions (how to and what to) into TCC. The physical and spiritual are emmeshed without separation. You can see in the eyes of everyone the gentle daily transformation that the circulation and balancing of the Chi brings.
By March 29th, I realized that I am learning to let go of resistance in my body, at a deeper level by expanding my bones, muscles and mind, giving space for the Chi to flow and fill me up, transform me. On that day I wrote: “When there is chaos, we need to go deeper inside to find the softness, the peace, the joy that lie dormant within us.”
As the host, I am aware of the higher-self to higher-self communicating words as if whispering into their ears: softness, less arms, gentle, waist turning, looking ahead, going within, sinking deeper within, letting go, releasing resistance and tension, continuity, doing a full weight shift, connecting with the earth, bringing your awareness here and now, merging with the Chi, allowing, listening deeply. Was this communicated through the Chi without words? Or did the words, as intention, fly from me to them as a wave? Was the Chi moving us or were we moving the Chi and the words with it?
This TCC experience without words must be communicated somehow. I come out of my silence as if sharing an incredible secret about how to increase our energy, how to feel whole and so good, how to connect with our inner wisdom and listen within our stillness, our silence. This is a transformative experience in the depth of our being.
I am feeling so rich, so filled with love energy, with Joy and with gratitude for TCC and the possibility to share the Chi with others even when confined within the intimacy of my own home. Through this new way of communicating, teaching and of being, are we reaching new heights of consciousness?
Anyone who would like to join me for a silent TCC practice and guided meditation, please send me a note.
Topics: Chi and Intrinsic Energy, Daily Practice, Heightened Awareness, Kansas, Letting Go, Meditation, Teaching Online
Originally appeared in: August 2020

