Chi is the life force energy of all beings.
Just like us, our horse has Chi flowing in his body. It circulates in channels deep inside his body, as well as in the meridians nearer the surface of his body.
Reducing our filters helps us to be in the moment with our horse
Reducing our filters helps us to be in the moment with our horse.
Being in the moment with your horse happens when what is everlasting in you, connects with what is everlasting in your horse.
Your body is not everlasting, neither are your thoughts or your emotions. Neither are your horse’s body, thoughts or emotions.
You can’t force being in the moment it’s something that just happens.
But one thing we can do to help is to reduce the layers of filters we have.
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The Hill and The Mountain
Connecting with nature
I was at a Chi Gung seminar on Crete last week. We were in a really beautiful wild part of south west Crete. Mostly we practiced in the olive grove just across the road from the hotel, but for a few of the days it was too windy, so we practiced in a big room inside which had a lovely sea view.
I Ching – The Book Of Changes
Early Taoists studied the planets and the stars, they observed the cyclical changes and flows in Nature and they studied the relationships among all Beings.
They discovered that there was a Universal Law –
Everything is in a continuous process of change.
The I Ching is called The Book of Changes because it offers the reader a way of understanding the nature of the flow of change in The Universe.
It guides the reader through ways to harmonize with the flow of change, rather than finding themselves resisting change.
Part of the Taoist spiritual quest is to –
understand the underlying energy of a situation, so that we can flow with the energy of it and not against it.
Taoists thought it was very important for people to know this. Their lives would be less painful if they could accept the situations they were in, to understand the energy of them and then move forward in the best possible way.
All of the movements in Tai Chi have Yin qualities and Yang qualities, that merge and change, flowing easily from one to the other.
When we learn Tai Chi, we embody and realise the wisdom of the I Ching in ourselves.
We learn to accept change in our lives, to adapt to it and to turn it to our advantage if possible.
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The Harmony of Opposites, Yin Yang the root of Equestrian Tai Chi
Yin Yang is the theory of the harmony of opposites.
The fundamental principle running through the whole of Chinese Culture is the theory of Yin Yang. All things in life, as well as all activities, have two opposing aspects, a Yin aspect and a Yang aspect.
Yin is associated with shade, cold, contraction, The Moon, water, inactivity and female. Yang is associated with brightness heat, expansion, The Sun, fire, activity and male.