Internet Marketing and Taoist Tai Chi

Both things from the title are important in my life.
Internet Marketing (IM) — because it makes money and keeps me busy. (Sometimes too busy…)
The art of the Taoist Tai Chi — because it gives health, balance, inner peace, harmony and helps to switch your mind from the narrow-focused IM to more universal thoughts…

Lat week when the Warrior Forum (WF) Event happened I missed a 2-day National Workshop at the place where I practice Tai Chi.

What you learn from Taoist Tai Chi? How to apply to IM?

They teach you the 108 moves in about 3 – 3.5 months. You think now you are done, you are OK.
Then you start to attend the advanced classes. You don’t learn new moves, you just practice the 108 you already know. One day the instructor shows you a little bit of detail related to one or two moves. You have an “aha”-moment. Next day you start practicing keeping in mind the little detail you just learned and you discover that it makes that specific move smoother, easier, more enjoyable.

And then again you learn something at a weekend intensive or a regional workshop. Just fine-tuning a few details. A better synchronization of your hands and your legs. A more relaxed approach to that ‘darned” move that always caused you headache. Suddenly it just flows and the principles in it make sense.

We have an instructor practicing Taoist Tai Chi for almost 30 years. She started with the founder of the society, Master Moy. Yet she’s there at every workshop, intensive course etc.

Isn’t the same with IM? It is easy to learn the “108 moves”. Making it an art – comes with practice. And practice again.

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4 Responses to “Internet Marketing and Taoist Tai Chi”

  1. Larry Rivera  on February 3rd, 2010

    Great article!

    Tai Chi (The Grand Ultimate Fist) is one of the most mis-understood martial arts on the planet. What I love about Tai Chi is that your understanding grows as you study longer.

  2. admin  on February 7th, 2010

    Actually, what we are practicing is not really martial. It is the so called Taoist Tai Chi:
    http://www.taoist.org/

  3. Taijiman  on July 25th, 2010

    Actually, it was a martial art until Moy got his hands on it. Real Taoist in China still practice tai chi as a Taoist art and as a martial art. Look up Daoist taijiquan or “daoist tai chi”. I knew Moy Lin Shin. He learned Yang Style in Vancouver before moving to Toronto and creating his own style. First he called it classical yang style, then classical yang style with “modifications”, then modified yang style, then “Taoist Tai Chi” , much to the chagrign of those practising the original Taoist tai chi in Wudang. He started saying that it wasn’t a martial art in the 1980′s when the FLK brothers pushed him to make more money. They couldn’t get the same charitable donations for a martial art. That’s the view from my corner of the world anyway. Taoist tai chi is to Taoism and tai chi what McDonald’s Restaurants are to Scottish culture and cuisine.

  4. Istvan Horvath  on July 25th, 2010

    Now I know all of that. At the time of posting I knew less..


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