As a long-time practitioner of Muay Thai, I was led to believe that Tai Chi and Muay Thai could not mix. But last week-- training both helped me immensely-- perhaps this was the balance I needed.

The woman who taught the neighborhood kids when we were small would tell us, "There is vibration in stillness, to find the energy in tai chi think of each thought like a ripple on the calm waters before you act; see it glide smoothly over the surface of the pool of your mind, then move like that."

My gosh, this is beautiful.

Thank you, I always loved when Grandma Tae would share such wisdom, combining lessons of the nature/nurture relationship of her Tao upbringing with the tai chi that all her family knew and taught.