Tai Chi: In the Beginning

Learning Tai Chi is not an easy thing. I like to say that Tai Chi is very simple but learning to be that simple is difficult. To learn Tai Chi the first thing one must do is to find a good teacher. Personally I was very lucky to find Sifu Fong Ha. A good teacher will...

Listening Jing

There are many skills we must develop as Tai Chi players. I consider the development of listening jing to be among the most important. Two months ago I wrote about the heart in Tai Chi and the need to foster quietness and openness in the heart. These two processes are...

Listening

  “the blossoming and unfolding of the individual as the experimental, doubtful, and bewildering work of the living God, to whom we have to lend our eyes and ears and discriminating mind.”  C.G. Jung   Our inner work requires cultivating the art of listening...

Four Things We Must Do

Sifu Fong Ha has said there are four things we must do if we are going to make progress in our Tai Chi work. First we must learn a form. It might be I Chuan, Chi Kung or any of the variety of Tai Chi forms. With out a form we have no place to root our practice. We are...

Coming Home to Ourselves

From Jung”s Letters: “Natural life is the nourishing soil of the soul. Anyone who fails to go along with life remains suspended stiff and rigid in midair”   The work of psychotherapy is to help us come home to ourselves. In some ways all sickness is homesickness....

Welcome to my Jungian Therapy Blog

Aloha and welcome to my new Jungian Therapy Blog. In this blog I will be discussing my approach to Jungian Therapy and the benefits it has to offer my patients. With 28 years of experience as a Jungian therapist I hope some of my insights will be helpful to you....

In the Heart of Tai Chi

Aloha All, February seems like a good month to talk about the heart. This is an aspect of Tai Chi Chuan that is often ignored. In Traditional Chinese Medicine the Shen or spirit is stored in the heart. Some forms of insomnia are caused by the Shen not being able to...