Tai Chi (Taiji) as a Way of Living
A practice for coming home to your steady center.
Two Ways of Exploring Taiji
I teach Taiji in two related ways, both rooted in the Guang Ping Yang tradition that has been part of my practice since the late 1990s.
Taiji For Balance grew from my years of teaching Guang Ping Yang Taijiquan and from wanting to make the principles of Taiji more accessible in everyday life. The movements are adapted and simplified so we can explore balance, awareness, the Five Elements, and the relationship between body, breath, and mind without needing to learn a longer traditional form.
Guang Ping Yang Taijiquan is the traditional practice itself. This is the form I have studied, practiced, taught, and continued to explore for decades. The 64 movements offer a much deeper physical and energetic vocabulary, and over time the form has become much more than a sequence to remember. It is one of the ways I continue to study how we move, respond, listen, and stay connected to our center.
You don't have to choose between them. They offer different ways into the same larger exploration: using movement to become more aware of ourselves and how we meet life.
Explore Taiji More Deeply
Online courses in offer a self-paced experience of the practice, with time to learn, practice, review, and discover what Taiji has to teach you without pressure. For those who prefer live online classes offer a weekly community anchor, with accountability, and 24/7 video review and support.
Taiji Brings Us Back
Taiji offers a way to explore greater harmony within ourselves and with the world around us. Through mindful movement, we learn to soften without collapsing, become more present without forcing, and listen to what is happening within us before we react.
Over time, these qualities can begin to travel beyond our practice. We become more familiar with a steadier center within ourselves, and more able to meet the movement and challenges of everyday life with awareness, curiosity, and ease.
This is at the heart of how I teach Taiji: not simply learning movements, but discovering what they can teach us about how we live.
