We are all strapped for time! Then class looms again and we realise we have done little or no practice.
My students smile and humour me as I encourage them to bring their tai chi practise in their everyday lives - when they are standing in queues at the bank or the supermarket or when they are walking along. I reassure them that no-one will think they are too strange.
So how can we build in time to practice during the week?
Few of us have the discipline to set an hour aside for tai chi and if we did something would go stray - the weather, an unexpected phone call or friend coming round...
Another way of approaching the is to set 5 minutes aside. We all have 5 minutes. Okay, 2 minutes? That is equivalent to a commercial tv ad break, waiting for the kettle to boil, waiting for someone….
My favourite is the tv ad break. I jump up, choose just one element of a movement, say the arms in Cloudy Hands, and go through it. In 10 minutes time, the next ad break is on and I'm continuing to windmill. I also find alternating doing and not doing is useful as I realise I am still processing that arm movement in my mind as I am watching tv (unless, of course, the show is gripping).
Let me know if this helps...
My students smile and humour me as I encourage them to bring their tai chi practise in their everyday lives - when they are standing in queues at the bank or the supermarket or when they are walking along. I reassure them that no-one will think they are too strange.
So how can we build in time to practice during the week?
Few of us have the discipline to set an hour aside for tai chi and if we did something would go stray - the weather, an unexpected phone call or friend coming round...
Another way of approaching the is to set 5 minutes aside. We all have 5 minutes. Okay, 2 minutes? That is equivalent to a commercial tv ad break, waiting for the kettle to boil, waiting for someone….
My favourite is the tv ad break. I jump up, choose just one element of a movement, say the arms in Cloudy Hands, and go through it. In 10 minutes time, the next ad break is on and I'm continuing to windmill. I also find alternating doing and not doing is useful as I realise I am still processing that arm movement in my mind as I am watching tv (unless, of course, the show is gripping).
Let me know if this helps...
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