Tai chi teacher Dan Docherty joins the show and tells us about his journey from the Hong Kong police, to full-contact championships to being a tai chi teacher with Parkinson’s. He describes what tai chi is (including the martial and internal aspects), talks internal strength, hard and soft, yin-yang, going with the flow, why people are exhausted, what the hands show, …
Explore the Chinese “internal” martial and healing arts in this episode with Derek Notman. We explore what “chi” is, vitality, health vs. martial applications, relaxation, jin shin Jyutsu, standing meditating, forms, ying and yang, tai chi in daily life, Taoism, different models of exercise, freedom and interception. A touch of the poetic Chinese in an …
Senior karate and tai chi teacher Steve Rowe joins Mark to discuss martial arts as character education. They chat about the attraction of the exotic and of violence, yin and yang, “earning” peace, bullying, tai chi history and philosophy, what real health is, the 4 elements, taoism, Chinese classics, the seasons, online learn, “McDojos” and …
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