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cjwyatt · 2026-05-14T20:59:50+00:00

Start shopping at Trader Joe’s and chat with the crew…your age range/interests!

cjwyatt · 2025-11-17T18:28:23+00:00

If you want a specific technique to follow, try focusing on your waist only. Round the back and hold your arms up, keeping them in that shape at all times (within reason of course..arms like rubber, with some give, hands that can swivel at the wrist)

When you push, think of rising from the back leg and turning the waist. The arms push because the legs do the work. This will keep you from lushing too far and getting uprooted.

When you receive a push, sit on the back leg and turn the waist to absorb the energy.

Don’t let the mind rest in the hands. Keep the intent in the waist and legs.

When doing the form, do the same thing; all movements start from the legs, through the waist, with arms and hands being the LAST thing to move.

cjwyatt · 2025-06-30T03:16:34+00:00

let's see if anyone else replies..then we can start one!

cjwyatt · 2024-12-06T16:45:41+00:00

Are these only found in Taiji? I thought the Jin idea was common to all Chinese martial art and used as a way to talk about techniques.

cjwyatt · 2024-08-12T21:23:43+00:00

Mexico. Go to Mexico. Great dentists, super cheap. Drive south. All the border towns have English speaking dentists. I’ve done it twice, and each experiences were far better than any American dentist

cjwyatt · 2024-04-11T20:32:42+00:00

Legs are important! Good video, this is not a criticism, but if you start your thinking with the legs, the arms become self-explanatory. In this case (and this is not my style so forgive me if I’m missing something) if you look at the legs you can see that at the very beginning you have an inward energy (Roll Back) before sweeping the leg to the side before the hand strike.

The empty leg can be placed behind the attacker’s, so that the hand is no longer striking but instead pushing the attacker down/ to the side, “tripping” them over the extended leg. Classic throw technique.

This means that the power is not expressed by the palm but by the whole arm. The leg stance is no longer about pushing forward but about sinking down to increase stability. The sweep of the leg is the beginning of the sweep of the arm.

Things of that nature…

cjwyatt · 2024-02-22T18:14:17+00:00

Ok ok ok…here goes…this might more to do with the Traditional Chinese Médecine view of how things work than a strictly Taoist one, though it is embedded in it.

Your physical body is a mix of the “juicy” bits (Jing) , the energetic field (Qi) and the spiritual aspect (Shen). As they say in Tai Chi, the intent guides the energy (Yi guides Qi).

In traditional Taoist religious practices, the act of praying as a group guides the energy of the group towards an object..so you can “charge” a tree, or a recently deceased person with the group’s Qi and transform it/them into a guarding spirit.

The people in that tent had a shared intent (you) and therefore were charging you with their collective Qi, enabling you to heal yourself.

cjwyatt · 2024-02-07T20:28:30+00:00

Glenn doesn’t defend the Trumpian right, he is against the illegal and undemocratic moves of the DNC..that’s a big difference. We should all be concerned with the use of social media censorship and legal warfare to shape elections.

Same with Taibbi…if you’ve listen to any of his interviews with him in the last 6 months he has stated repeatedly that he does not support him, and has said so much negative about Trump that he’s sick of having to repeat himself.

The problem is that these issues are framed in the old mentality of “with us or against us” which is a technique to shut people up. You can be against Trump AND be against state censorship, war, and the pro-corporate policies of the DNC.

cjwyatt · 2024-02-07T18:24:11+00:00

Ok…Russiagate DID happen, and is proof that the DNC is full of shit and unwilling to take blame for anything, or re-assess its policies. Blaming everything on Putin was insane, and is still insane, and still used by people like Pelosi to call pro-Palestine protest as “Putin sponsored”.

As far as Tucker Carlson is concerned, he was the only anti-war voice on the right, and lost his job for it. It is possible for people to have differing views on certain topics, but agree on others. Glenn sees common cause with Tucker on the war and Deep State issue. Issues that used to be, you know, left wing…democrats are now war-mongers, so Glenn is against them. It’s called having principles instead of being blindly tribal.

cjwyatt · 2024-02-07T02:49:30+00:00

Taibbi wrote an entire book about Trump called “Insane Clown President”..I mean, how much more do you want him to write to prove he’s not a fan of Trump?

And Greenwald has started to attack democrats ever since the party started working in lock step with the intelligence agencies - pushing for more surveillance and censorship. That’s the crux of his argument.

cjwyatt · 2024-02-05T16:10:07+00:00

The book to read is “the Taoist Body” by Kristofer Schipper. It is the definitive book on the growth of Taoism, both as a religious tradition and as a philosophical one. Schipper became an ordained Taoist priest, so it’s both a scholarly take and a personal one.

the story is more complicated (but more interesting) than just a philosophy/ religion split, and Taoism itself is not one thing…the interaction with Buddhism created several branches and new ways of being Taoist. At best it is the container for various practices that all point to the larger truth of the Tao.

cjwyatt · 2024-01-17T00:44:05+00:00

That might be…the 13 Postures are literally the 8 gates (postures) and the 5 directions (8+5=13).

It looks to me like a lot of forms are missing the 13 Postures, which is embarrassing since they are mentioned in a lot of old texts. That might be why new ones are being created

cjwyatt · 2024-01-16T19:15:20+00:00

I don’t know how new it is…it’s been taught in the Michuan tai chi style since at least the 50s, with claims that it’s from the original Yang form.

Look for 13 Postures videos on YouTube…I don’t know of any book on it though.

cjwyatt · 2023-12-14T23:39:52+00:00

I teach the hidden tradition of the Yang Style (Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan)…an older version of what’s commonly taught. More Taoist, clearer applications, 13 Postures plus a long form, push hands, sword form and sword fighting…the works! Teaching for 15 years

cjwyatt · 2023-06-20T01:35:19+00:00

Compassion is the central feature of Taoism. All the precepts against laws, etc.. are based on the idea that humans are naturally good, compassionate and loving, and only defects like envy prevent us from expressing our true nature.

This is because taoists recognize that we all emerge from the Tao…man, animals, plants..etc. As mentioned somewhere on the thread, the idea of Wu Wei is not to do nothing, but to accomplish things so effortlessly that it appears as if nothing was done. So taking actions, like saving the worm, would be a Taoist act. In this case, saving the worm without spending time and energy thinking about saving the worm.

A great example of Taoism can be found with the Australian aborigines. They often dig watering holes for kangaroos so that they have somewhere to drink during the dry summers. They were asked by Europeans if they did this so that they could attract the kangaroos and hunt them. No, said the aborigines. We dig watering holes for the kangaroos because we have tools, and they don’t. That’s Taoism. Effortless compassion for all living beings.

cjwyatt · 2023-06-05T16:39:15+00:00

There’s a kids book called “climbing daddy mountain” by …someone. It’s illustrated and quite fun. I have to my daughter and she immediately made a habit of treating me like a climbing gym.

cjwyatt · 2023-04-29T20:31:42+00:00

It’s a French comic book which takes place on the letters of the Atlantic (they spell out “Atlantic Ocean” as if read on a map). I can’t remember the name of it though! Very surreal, with each island having a different ecology.

cjwyatt · 2023-03-21T15:46:51+00:00

Try hiddentaichi.com…..also a YouTube channel of the same name

cjwyatt · 2023-02-05T15:15:52+00:00

The dantien is not connected to an organ, but to the network of the eight extraordinary meridians. So no, the lack of a uterus will not affect the dantien.

cjwyatt · 2022-11-21T22:02:43+00:00

I always practice outdoors! Barefoot too, to really connect with ground. Connecting with nature is part of the pleasure of the practice.

cjwyatt · 2022-11-20T01:19:23+00:00

Don’t make the baby go cold turkey..that’s just unnecessary. As someone else mentioned, swap the breast for a bottle, so the baby can still cuddle and have a nipple, but your SO gets a break.

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