Oct 23, 2009 | General
An Introduction by Rene Goris Introduction of the topic and my personal involvement with the topic. The dilemma (maodun) between remaining mysterious and attractive, or being clear, open and plain but easily overlooked. The lecture 1 Why is health important? - Every...
Jul 15, 2009 | General
Yesterday, I attended a lecture for a group of American students, visiting Shanghai as part of the “2009 SDSU China Summer Study Abroad Programme” jointly organized by ECNU and San Diego State University (SDSU). This workshop, organized by East China Normal...
Jun 22, 2009 | General
The Advent of Spring (Li Chun) and Spring Festival In ancient China, there were two ways to tell time, the solar calendar and the lunar calendar. The solar calendar is calculated by the earth’s revolution around the sun, while the lunar calendar is calculated by the...
Apr 22, 2009 | General
It was my tremendous honor to join this meaningful event on April 7th. I was very happy to see all the foreign guests from Britain. As a Chinese girl, I have not only learned a little Chinese medicine, since I am currently helping to translate for a nice young English...
Apr 15, 2009 | General
It was my great honor to have attended the workshop on “Traditional Chinese Medicine for Health Maintenance” with the guests from Britain on the April 7th. I was fortunate to be invited by my English teacher, Rose Oliver to come to that event and I worked as an...
Apr 10, 2009 | General
It's my pleasure to join in the activity. It was a very exciting night. Although the activity only lasted a few hours, it offered me an opportunity to start to know about Chinese medicine and tuina. I used to feel that Chinese medicine is really mysterious and hard to...
Apr 10, 2009 | General
Last night I went to Conjoint Health Advisory Centre to take part in an activity about Traditional Chinese Medicine. There I met some foreign teachers from England. They were all very interested in the profound Chinese Medicine. The activity began at 19:00. During the...
Feb 23, 2009 | General
外面有两种解释：一种是指神气带动骨肉，另外是意气均匀骨肉沉，还有是意气是君骨肉是臣，你认为是哪种比较恰当。...
Feb 23, 2009 | General
环观多数学者，似皆处于盲炼之状。只是学会一套动作算了，不求其究竟，拘谨为健身出发，则亦无可厚非，唯欲有所成就者，未免欠缺甚矣，应该有自觉扫盲似的精神弄明拳理，办法是勤于自问自答，多问几个为什么。 例如为什么拳的名称叫太极，为什么动作是缓慢的，为什么要用意不用力，为什么要不顶不抗，舍己为人，为什么会百战不殆，常胜不败，为什么要法乎自然，不能已我为主，等等，等等。事无巨细，皆宜自我想个明白，答个明白，且要重复常问常答，因为初问之答，未必正确。常问之下，则能恍然开悟。...
Feb 23, 2009 | General
要以鸡蛋对石头的心态，是太极拳应敌的法则，鸡蛋碰石头，一碰就碎。将己看作鸡蛋。视对方为石头。决不能碰，鸡蛋视弱者，若与之碰，以弱去抗强，以卵去击石，则注定必败无疑，然而太极之艺，虽旨在健身和自卫，苟一旦遇到持强者之无理之欺凌，总宜自卫。自卫者，乃使强暴者达不到欺人之目的，相反却被我所制也，维须能以弱胜强，才能真正达到自卫之效果，既然视己如鸡蛋，是弱者，能做到以弱胜强吗？...
Feb 23, 2009 | General
Comments From 2007 camp participant - Jon Kilgarriff Hello Rose, Thank you for one of the best times I've had in my life. The people I've meet, the places I've seen, it has been wonderful. I have so much now to think about and try my best to put into practice, but...
Feb 23, 2009 | General
How many of us have really met teachers who can truly utilize this principle in push hands? There seem to be many masters who can throw students around effortlessly, but how often do you see an opponent who is truly committed to pushing a teacher over, only to have...