Re: Pshychoanalysis anyone?

[Anonymous]

Tai Chi doesn’t really resonate with me, but I do some chi gong exercises that our teacher taught us. He says it’s good for balancing the energy in the body, we have to do it every morning without fail. The one we do is called “Eight Pieces of Brocade”. But I know people that do tai chi and I do think it’s a good practice. I just have a lot of trouble remembering the moves, with the 8 pieces there are only 8 movements and I gave a label to each, even then I still forget and mix them up from time to time.

When I was teaching yoga, I did have a few mother/daughter combinations – usually the daughter is too timid to come to a group class alone so the mom is along for moral support, but actually they both really benefit from it. Most yoga classes will have a little bit of meditation at the end, how much depends on the group and the teacher. There are a wide variety of yoga styles out there, I taught a very gentle style that is good for older adults and also worked with prison inmates, seniors, and paraplegics.

I do like the idea of tai chi and chi gong not requiring any special equipment, you just show up as you are and do what you can. Yoga can also be like that, but sometimes it tends to get competitive (our nature, we always want to be like someone else, or better than we were last week).

Now, I brought up the yoga classes because there is a new style out there called NIA, it’s yoga dance, I don’t like dance so I have never been to a class, but one of my former students says she really loves it, she has fibromyalgia and says it’s helpful for that. Since your daughter loves dance, you might look for something like that in your hometown. Usually the nia teachers also teach yoga, so it might be a way to get her interested in that as well. You can usually get a class pass which allows you to go to any classes offered in the studio’s schedule.

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