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 entirely different from the steady reserve of earlier years. To …
Saraswati Vidyalaya, Chembur
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 healing once-martial art is steadily spreading. The youngest new member …
Demo of Chen Style Forms
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 now, her movements were fluent. Her style was very different …
A decade
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 discipline … beneficial changes in varying degrees on all levels, …
Learning to teach
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. Everything takes on a different perspective when you begin to …
Belatedly celebrating …
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 he should learn Tai Chi to help restore his body’s …
Celebrations at Saraswati Vidyalaya
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 practiced. We realised it was Anitha’s birthday and soon also …
Workshop with ‘Play Pen’
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, mind and energy would greatly benefit people who are into …
Company, please!
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.
This evening at Saraswati
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 10 … great fun and I was most pleased that …