One lunch break, around 12 years ago, I turned up at the Isobel Dunn dance school and attended my first lesson in taiji with Bob France. It was a wierd and wonderful experience, not least because of Bob’s incongruous combining of genuine teaching with off-colour anecdotes. It felt good and seemed to fit pretty well with the Alexander Technique I had done before, especially the Zhan Zhuang (standing post) exercises. So I decided to come back again the following week.
I didn’t realise it then but I was starting out on a 12 year journey into taiji. It didn’t turn out to be the most magnificent trek but it certainly had it’s ups, downs, stalls and restarts.
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