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We just posted the first of a series of informal videos in which I will discuss aspects of Taijiquan that do not require demonstration or advanced understanding on the part of viewers to understand and appreciate. These may be of either a technical or philosophical nature, the kind of topics that might come up and […]

Three weeks in a Moscow winter should qualify me for lots of sympathy – should, but then I’d have to get in line behind all those Russians. I was very impressed with the condition of the school and the Russian students, who have proven to me once more that their passion. When called in the

I once wrote a poem called “A Dream of California.” I seem to have lost the poem, and it was longer, but it went something like this: I dreamed one night That life was long And roamed through golden hills Like fog I was a man I had a tan I moved easily Across the

I have just this hour received word of the death of my “big brother” and former teacher, Ben Lo. When this famous student of my first teacher, Zheng Manching, arrived in San Francisco, I went to see him and declared that I would not continue to teach at my San Francisco School, The Inner Research

I am very excited about the release of my new book, Taijiquan Meditations for the Solo Form. In the course of my fifty years of teaching, there is a question that I have been asked many times: “what should I meditate on while doing the form?” This usually indicates a concept of the form as

Summer 2018

June 22 – June 24 2018 Taijiquan school Taiji Pod Lupou (Czech Republic) (http://www.taijipodlupou.cz) Penglujian and Da Lu variations, Yang Style Sword Form led by Olesya Amacker.    In this seminar we explored Penglujian and Da Lu variations, such as cloudy hands, elbow, slanting flight, looked for connections between Penglujian and Da Lu exercises.