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From the past into the present I'm taking Astanga yoga classes again. Tai Chi freed me from back pain when I couldn't even stand on one leg, now I want to improve my strength and flexibility further and I'm enjoying how yoga makes my body feel. A more "yang" feeling than the "yin" of practicing tai chi form. Even though I'm capable of much less that I was in the "past" aging has helped with the ego and I don't even try to "achieve" but rather to "enjoy". Put in the time and stuff like this just happens Thinking of writing on the top of my mat "Do less - more often"

Awesome to hear a family playing together, much love there. Happy trails Doc "I'll meet you in that sweet bye-and-bye."

a bit related to the Bruce Frantzis' "Bagua Mastery Program"thread I bumped Our Sifu left town at the end of 2010. Before he left he taught us Tai Chi push hands but we are really getting rusty (so many things to practice and we have let this one slip too much IMO) I've asked Sifu if we can get correction from him, but that's just not going to work out. So anyone got any resources THEY PERSONALLY have LEARNT from or WORK with (cause there are a heap of vid's out there on google)

Noticing those water droplets in the morning sun while the rain falls at dusk here.

A hard/strong force "wins" abruptly, so it is easy to see and feel this a subtle force overcomes almost imperceptible, so it is much more difficult to notice this. - the actual quote was worded much better but I can't find it

Ideally yes, but after 2 years nothing is "appearing" on that front so I'm resorting to video. Cheers for the link

Bump

Thanks dawi. I see Master Liao wrote 9 nights with a taoist master, that book really resonates with me. "Single Form Series 11 - Two Person Practice" could be exactly what I'm looking for _/\_

I'm not sure if those are like "standard" tuning forks, but if so the weighted ones I've used were just weighted to product lower frequencies than you would get from an un-weighted fork of that size. And yes I can play a "C4" on a sax (apparently the difference in the timbre produced between instruments is due to the difference in overtones and their relative strengths and prevalence in the sound produced) but I can't say that I've noticed anything from going up a scale, unlike going up overtones (more of a building increasing feeling) It's the arbitrariness of a scale "C D E F G A B" equaling different chakras that puts me off, But everything is really an arbitrary approximation of the actual experience With the range of sounds available it just strikes me a well "flukey" that C = root chakra. Especially with there being many more scales than just western equal tempered tuning http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/scales.html and I just learnt that

I'm liking pictures (as well as sounds) these days

My new agenda is to evaluate diagrams of ultimate power using this chart. (actually useful as I'd wondered which one was formally "correct") the hidden agenda is

Did any TTB's manage to learn bagua from Bruce Frantzis's DVD series of know of anyone who has?

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Even played in front of a crowd? Even a small group of people having fun gives quite a buzz.

Some drones I enjoy playing along with. http://mattotto.org/?p=1273 and a chakra sound chart http://mysticbeats.com/chakra-sounds.pdf Personally I don't have enough experience with the "C" is for the root chakra etc sort of stuff yet to know how I feel about that. While colours are the divisions of visible light that we can perceive a "C" note is just a "name" My "C" playing a Bb sax or Eb sax are not the same note as a guitar "C" So I feel overtones might be a more fruitful path, or perhaps as a horn player I just I like playing around with them more I love sound to be big/full/loud/strong enough so that you feel it resonating throughout your body - rather than something you only hear.

Yes for me it's the people I've meet here that keep me checking TTB now and then. The discussion of various paths/methods holds much less value for me than the people I've come to

^ I don't have that many flowers, but here is one I'm crossing paths with at the moment as we are house siting for a few months.

In Australia we have a stick that looks like this if you track it's path over time, it can look like this best to you too

Mmm something must have changed.... deleted 2 and 1/2 pages of messages to get my mailbox back under quota. Email is better since I'm rarely here now