It's 57 at the house. The sunrise was at 6:25.
The Practice:
I had Jack, Nancy, Lucy and Read in class this morning.
We started with working The Dance I talked about
1. The sequence - is important but it's not 'it'
2. Embodying Taiji Principles into the sequence
3. Developing the skills necessary to use the posture for martial arts training and eventually for self-defense.
I worked with Jack to get the internal skills part in his sequence and pointed out how you would have to go about training 'it' in order to develop the skills that are the essence of martial arts training.
Next we did a Round of Taiji (right side) focused on the principle of using Neutral Postures throughout the form.
"Neither Deficiency Nor Excess, Hollow Nor Projection"
We did a Standing Post Session using all 8 basic postures
We ended with Healing Qigong
I had to leave promptly at 9:30 to get my Volvo to Cherry Rum Auto for it's timing belt.
