Author Archives: abha

Tai Chi Camp, February 27th – 28th 2016 Tulsi Sadhana Kutir, Lonavla   Infusion of fresh blood is always exciting. This year’s camp was dominated by the youngsters, not just chronologically speaking either. The ambience was animated with an energy … Continue reading →

Returned to Bombay after a longish break of nearly two months. Delighted to find that our Tai Chi class at Saraswati Vidyalaya (Chembur) has grown to include several young-old and young folk. A real pleasure! Interest in this wonderful meditative … Continue reading →

Today we had the pleasure of seeing a demonstration of the Chen style Forms by Nabila who learnt it for three years when she was in the UK. Even though she has not been in regular practice for some time … Continue reading →

Ten years ago in April Rakesh Menon started the Chembur chapter of Flowing Wheel. I came across it providentially; my daughter-in-law brought home a pamphlet from her Yoga class! My journey is typical of anyone who has taken up this … Continue reading →

The past few weeks, Sundays, have been helping out at the class … still finding my sea-legs. When I learnt to drive I suddenly realised at the age of 56 that the world looked different from behind the steering wheel. … Continue reading →

V Kannan, who bears his 62 years rather lightly, belatedly celebrated his birthday at Saraswati Vidyalaya, two Sundays ago. And it was indeed a cause for celebration. Kannan has completed his chemo for intestinal cancer and his oncologist had suggested … Continue reading →

It was a regular day last Sunday, no hotter than usual but still too hot for the Yi Jin JIng that Rakesh set us to do … he had his reasons we thought and with a minimum of groans we … Continue reading →

Rakesh asked me to accompany him to the workshop that Mahesh Dattani, playwirght, but more importantly ‘faithful student’ of Rakesh, had requested him to organise. Mahesh was convinced that Tai Chi, with its emphasis on focus and co-ordination of breath, … Continue reading →

This is an appeal … will others also please contribute to the blog? I do not like the sound of my solitary voice echoing endlessly in a void. It would be so nice to read other experiences here.

What a wonderful session! We had been looking forward to the usual CM and F24 but Rakesh had other things in mind. We did some flexibility moves which he said wee the basics of chen chuan and then the vigorous … Continue reading →