I followed my own advice this morning, and did the tai chi form eight times. Each time I concentrated on one of the key elements of movement: breathwork, footwork, outward motion, inward, upward, downward, splitting, and moving through water.
It was terrible. But it was an interesting beginning. More about this when I’m not waiting for a friend.
[…] Then breathwork. Here, you’re concentrating on the reverse or inverse breathwork; squeezing the abdomen tight on the inhale, and expanding the belly on the exhale. I’m much better at the expansion than the abdominal squeeze, but this is improvin.g. Today was a marked improvement over my last effort. […]