Last week I traveled to British Columbia to train with my Tai Chi teacher, Master Shanti. She is a woman I met sometime around 2007 at PAWMA camp, the camp put on by the Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists. From the first class I took with her, I could see she offered something differentContinue reading “Shanti System Camp 2022”
Category Archives: Physical Practice
Training Journal 10.6.19
Training Journal, D&D, 8/26/19
A Warrior Who Has Dropped Her Weapons…
A WARRIOR WHO HAS DROPPED HER WEAPONS & REMOVED HER ARMOUR To allow that demon–that pain, that hurt, that choice, that “wrong” to arise… To hold space for it. To allow it to be present. To listen to it. To be with it. To be open to it transforming into something sweet… Or not. Continue reading “A Warrior Who Has Dropped Her Weapons…”
Standing.
I’ve been training in an esoteric Tai Chi style since last April. Most of the practice is a personal practice, but recently our teacher, who lives far up in Canada from my perspective, came through the Pacific Northwest. While she was in my neck of the woods, I trained with her and a group ofContinue reading “Standing.”
Michelle Folk Johnson 