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Hello there!
We started this new year with a great talk for a group pf lovely people unveiling the Secrets of Taoist Shamanic Healing, which by the way as a annual workshop coming soon with a few places left, see below.
I call Tai Chi Shamanic theatre, and is what I love about the Tao, you see Healing and Martial Arts aren't at all strangers; actually same energy, it's all about the intention you give to it. I learned this many decades ago when transiting from my Karate to Zen Shiatsu training.
Tai Chi as shamanic theathre, celestial combat, rooted in Earth and played in the human dimension. Yang advances, Yin withdraws, Harmony prevails.
But as in the Tao, the Way, everyone as it's one. For Anamarta: Tai Chi is the essence of Feminine Empowerment, connecting with higher and lower forces on the spiritual path, for self-defense or simply to harmonise with the environment and alleviate the effects of stress.
Between us we combined experience of nearly 40 years teaching and expertise in the Healing Tao Arts, (which Tai Chi and Qigong are part of), and is always a pleasure to share it with you.
So what about my Tai Chi story, how it all began?
Shadowy movements at dawn in the park, neither dancing nor fighting though to me it looked like both. My mother danced with Margot Fonteyn and enrolled me in my aunt’s ballet school but I retired at five, so no competition for Billy. The fighting came later, first at school whacking Fatty Barnard across the ring under the smiling Irish eyes of Father Paddy Noonan, then my chum James to win the Army Garrison title in Malta before being KO’d by a Marine in Hong Kong. Karate in my forties to get fit after a hernia op but longer recovery times sparring with teens and twenties retired me after four stubborn years.
Learning the Way of the Hidden Masters gave a sense of reality to this ancient art emulating the heroes of yore, the warriors, the fighting nuns and monks. Master Ho explained it can be practiced at any age, for health, to enhance our protective energy-field, to strengthen our physical and energetic immune system, to connect with higher and lower forces on the spiritual path, for self-defense, or simply to harmonies with our environment and alleviate the effects of stress.
The double-helix spirals reunite the Yang and Yin forces of creation, to ebb and flow throughout the meridian network, feeding the organs that sustain our life. We open and stimulate the meridians, the energy-flow channels, enabling the bio-electro-magnetic force, Qi or chi, to come on full charge as we do the slow graceful form. Healers and Martial Artists improve external Qi-projection and internal rooting. Meditators develop the rootedness to keep safe when practicing kundalini or astral projection in the higher meditations.
Tai Chi comes to us as a gift from the past, a way to create our own tranquility: “to keep our cool when all about us might be losing theirs.”
Do you want to learn?
Then come on by our first Tai Chi training starting this Thursday 13th February, you can Book Your Place Now!
You can join us for the 7-week course or pay-as-go. All Welcome!
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