What Comes After Mountains, Clouds & Waterfalls? Join Me for Forward Stance Tai Chi!

In the HeartScapes Reiki Academy 9-Month Program, our Shinpiden (Reiki III) class is framed around the themes and practice of the simple Tai Chi form Mountains, Clouds & Waterfalls. There is a longer form that follows MCW, and now is the time to share it! I'd love to introduce to you Forward Stance Tai Chi!

The video above demonstrates this 10-move Yang-style Tai Chi form. I learned this form from Norma Wong, Zen priest, former Hawai'i State legislator, social justice warrior and overall bad-ass. (Find her new book, When No Thing Works , here .) Norma teaches this beautiful internal energy-based martial arts form not only for personal development, but as a structure for helping teams of people learn to move together, to understand each other and themselves better, and connect energetically with each other.

INVITATION:

I'm inviting you to learn and practice Forward Stance with me over a 3-week learning/practicing session, which will follow on the heels of the 3-week Heart Sutra class (find it here ). We'll meet for 3 Sundays, 10-12, to connect, meditate, engage with teachings from Norma's book, and work with Forward Stance as a form that supports us to move forward in our goals and our lives, and as a form of interconnection with each other. There will also be three optional shorter practice sessions on Wednesday evenings from 5-6pm Pacific Time.

SCHEDULE:

Sundays August 3, 10 & 17, 10am - 12pm Pacific Time on Zoom

(Optional) Wednesdays August 6, 13 & 20, 5 - 6pm Pacific Time on Zoom

INVESTMENT:
Because this practice is intentionally linked to supporting social movements, rather than paying me, I ask you to make a donation to the Davis Phoenix Coalition, an organization local to me that coordinates political actions and support services for our LGBTQ community.

Register below, and make your donation to Davis Phoenix Coalition directly.

Let’s Move Together!