practice tai chi

Well, I HAVE done it, and done it seriously and for an extended amount of time. In fact, I got really good at it and if I can find a decent class, or even the written-out directions of the form I learned before, I will gladly start it up again. But for now, it does not need to be on my list. I have many, many things to do that are more interesting to me now.

L/E/M out . . . Namaste

I went last night. It was at a facility about 12 miles from my house and ended up not really being worth the drive over there.

The classroom was hot. Not just hot. Stuffy. Hot and stuffy is not a condition conducive to Chi.

The teacher talked a lot about what he believed and chose to swear to make his point. Not conducive to ME.

Then, there was no mirror in this room and he stopped talking altogether while doing the form. He was facing away from us so we couldn’t see what he was doing at all and without even a clue of instruction, it was rather pointless to be there. It was like, “let’s stand here watching him do his exercises” class.

And to top it off, he barely did suggestions of the moves. Most of what he did was merely waving back and forth.

Frustrating. Especially after looking forward to it. Hmmph.

I finally opened that CD I bought last Christmas. Unfortunately, I opened it and tried to watch it the day before my daughter was leaving for college.

She was busily tearing the house apart to find things she wanted to take with her and somehow, in all the clamour, my CD was misplaced. I haven’t even gotten to use it yet.

It came with flash cards, though, so I spent Friday morning going through them and doing the warm-up exercises. Apparently, they are not supposed to ALL be done in one session—if so, the entire form would take a couple hours!

It was nice, though, to get back into that mode, even if I was closeting my stress over having lost the CD somewhere.

I started T’ai Chi several years ago and had a weird experience with it. My teacher had only been doing it for 5 months longer than I had. In fact, when I joined her class, she wasn’t even certified yet. Over the next year, I attended class twice a week and got to be just as good at it as the teacher. On days when class consisted of just the two of us, we even dimmed the lights in the classroom and went through the routine in silence. It was awesome! Then some kids joined the class and the teacher started being really rude to me . . . ALL THE TIME. I never did figure out what her problem was, and I wasn’t comfortable asking, so I stopped going. It got to the point where I would leave class more stressed out and tense than I was after a whole week of work.

Now I am ready to try it again. I got a DVD at Christmas time that I haven’t even opened yet. Yes, I know it is now the middle of MAY! I also got a DVD for Karate. They don’t really go together, but I always wondered about Karate . . .