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It works! According to lao-tzu and others with the same view of things.

You can learn the basics anywhere. There are books. As to learning the inner secrets, when your practice reaches a certain level, you'll meet a teacher. But you can't be in a hurry. You have to be prepared to devote your whole life to your practice. This is what's meant by religion. It's not a matter of spending money. You have to spend your life. Not many people are willing to do this. If you're ready to learn, you don't have to look for a teacher. A teacher will find you. - (Taoist) Master Hsueh in Road to Heaven by Bill Porter

Wild by Cheryl Strayed Collins Japanese Dictionary Collins Easy learning Mandarin Chinese Dictionary Road to Heaven by Bill Porter Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Chuan by Cheng Man Ching

I pretty much am in accordance with those who think that "humanity" is just wishful thinking... However, a few years back a philosophy teacher opened my horizons with this line of thought: A man is something other than an animal because if you keep an animal away from individuals of its species, it will still develop the behaviour of that species. For example, if you keep a monkey away from other monkeys for let's say, its first three years, it may develop as a neurotic monkey but can however have a life among its species. That is just not possible with human beings. If you are not made a "human" in your first living years you will never become one. So, our species depends more on education than genetics to be what it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Gu_Shui http://sixfishes.com/blog/how-to-use-zheng-gu-shui Would also advise you to read "A tooth from the tiger's mouth" by Tom Bisio Wishing you the best

“I am not strange. I am just not normal.” ― Salvador Dalí

Training Chen Village information http://www.chenbingtaiji.com/index.php/chenjiagou.html

I'll leave you the link to a great interview. Plenty for you to explore on this site concerning Chen Tai Chi. Hope it offers you some answers. http://internalfightingarts.audello.com/internal-fighting-arts-21-jan-silberstorff/

There's a post I like, laugh and thank...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuai_Shou_Gong

Proper technique for Ping Shuai Gong. There are so many testemonies of this simple qigong healing all sorts of diseases...

Which approach would you use in trying to convince an elderly ill person to start doing something for his wellbeing? The hatha-yoga or the qigong video? I practice both but very much feel that hatha-yoga is safe-cracking compared to tai chi and qigong. The subtle ways the Chinese find to achieve their goals fascinates me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=21Rwj9sPBTc Dark Night Of The Soul The Dark Night of the Soul St John Of the Cross On a dark night, Kindled in love with yearnings–oh, happy chance!– I went forth without being observed, My house being now at rest. In darkness and secure, By the secret ladder, disguised–oh, happy chance!– In darkness and in concealment, My house being now at rest. In the happy night, In secret, when none saw me, Nor I beheld aught, Without light or guide, save that which burned in my heart. This light guided me More surely than the light of noonday To the place where he (well I knew who!) was awaiting me– A place where none appeared. Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved! Upon my flowery breast, Kept wholly for himself alone, There he stayed sleeping, and I caressed him, And the fanning of the cedars made a breeze. The breeze blew from the turret As I parted his locks; With his gentle hand he wounded my neck And caused all my senses to be suspended. I remained, lost in oblivion; My face I reclined on the Beloved. All ceased and I abandoned myself, Leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies.

Alex told me he learned it reading spiderman comics! Anyway, the quote was supposed to serve as a simple homage to Stan Lee's passage through planeta Earth. May he rest in peace.

"With great power comes great responsability." Spiderman