Welcome to my workshop archive. These have been taught online in a condensed format. They are not training classes, but a effort to communicate what I have learned to hopefully be of use to others.

The practice of Tai Chi Chuan is very much one of self-study. As the poem says “The Teacher can show you the gate, but the way through is through self-study.” My teacher (Sifu Eddie Wu) has shown me many gates. With my western, scientific mind, and my sedentary, behind a desk life-style, it has been an effort of many years to walk through them. He has been very patient and the value of the gifts he has passed on to me are beyond what I can express. In my own small way, I hope to pass some of this on to others, in the hopes that ‘western mind’ to ‘western mind’ may make it a little bit easier.

What I am trying to communicate is hard to put into words. Words are pointers at best, but they can also be veils created by assumptions created by the words themselves. For that reason, these ‘workshops’ are quite long – 12 hrs or so. I apologize for that. What I am trying to communicate is a feeling and a perception. This is so different from our normal way of moving I call in ‘inside-out’. It’s also called ‘internal power’.