Today is a teaching day. I’ll be teaching Tai Chi today from about 12:15pm until 1:15pm. It’ll be OK.
I’m aware that for several days now I’ve not had a good practice, or rather, they’ve been good, just not long or heavy. So this morning, I did four iterations of the form. I’ll save my qi gong practice for the practice session this afternoon, along with 20 push-ups and so on. But this morning I did four tai chi forms, facing the four directions of the compass.
I’ve noticed, when I do this, that South and West are actually the most difficult directions to start in. South is associated (in druidry) with Fire, and West (in druidry) with Water. I made a fair number of mistakes in my iteration of the form while starting (and ending) in these two directions. It’s kind of like being told, in a general sort of way, that there’s not enough energy in your practice, and not enough fluidity.
I’ll buy that. Good things to be working on, generally.
