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Taichi camp 2017 Feb Lonavala
This year, impending board exams drastically reduced our numbers at the camp in Tulsi Sadhana Kutir, Lonavla. Duty calls need to be answered and protective parents of aspiring children dropped out; it was a meagre group of twenty-two instead of … Continue reading
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Tai Chi Camp, 2016.
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
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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. … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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