Weightless baggage
Who would have thought that Tai Chi had anything to do with throwing custard pies in people’s faces, carrying large bundles, swilling brandy in a glass, or driving down curvy roads? These are some of the everyday pictures Brian Cooper uses as he introduces beginners to the basics of the Wu Style.
In a soft-spoken, unassuming way, he employs this simple, but effective method used by great teachers throughout the ages in seeking to transmit invisible truth to their contemporaries. I keep attempting to retain the feeling of mental and physical well-being I brought back from this weekend. So here’s me, dropping my tail as I cut onions into the pan for spaghetti sauce, closing the kwa and squatting down low as I peel an apple into the organic refuse bin, or attempting to assume that relaxed, 10-point stance while queueing (crowding, in Germany) at a market stand.
After a year of living off a handful of principles taught by B. K. Frantzis in Darmstadt last spring, which I had been endeavouring to apply to to my own practice of the Yang Style learned elsewhere, this workshop was like restocking the pantry. Now I'll be trying to get all this across to my husband, Theo, with the aid of a video by B. K. Frantzis. It’s things like explaining the difference between corkscrewing (quote from Brian Cooper during the workshop) and screwing (in the written text we were handed to aid our memories) which will make it fun.
All in all, I've travelled back through the Tunnel packed full to the brim with weightless baggage that will take months to unpack. This trip was more than worth it.
Ursula Wiese - Moers, Germany
In a soft-spoken, unassuming way, he employs this simple, but effective method used by great teachers throughout the ages in seeking to transmit invisible truth to their contemporaries. I keep attempting to retain the feeling of mental and physical well-being I brought back from this weekend. So here’s me, dropping my tail as I cut onions into the pan for spaghetti sauce, closing the kwa and squatting down low as I peel an apple into the organic refuse bin, or attempting to assume that relaxed, 10-point stance while queueing (crowding, in Germany) at a market stand.
After a year of living off a handful of principles taught by B. K. Frantzis in Darmstadt last spring, which I had been endeavouring to apply to to my own practice of the Yang Style learned elsewhere, this workshop was like restocking the pantry. Now I'll be trying to get all this across to my husband, Theo, with the aid of a video by B. K. Frantzis. It’s things like explaining the difference between corkscrewing (quote from Brian Cooper during the workshop) and screwing (in the written text we were handed to aid our memories) which will make it fun.
All in all, I've travelled back through the Tunnel packed full to the brim with weightless baggage that will take months to unpack. This trip was more than worth it.
Ursula Wiese - Moers, Germany