Tai Chi Connections: Advancing Your Tai Chi Experience
By (Author) John Loupos
YMAA Publication Center
YMAA Publication Center
9th August 2005
New edition
United States
General
Non Fiction
Fitness and diet
796.8
Paperback
210
Width 184mm, Height 238mm
In Tai Chi Connections, personable author John Loupos offers practical advice for really living the Tai Chi experience. With training skills on rooting, stepping and Tai Chi's mechanical nuances, you'll also learn how to slow down your life, be free of nagging body pains, and how Tai Chi can be used as a personal development modality for lifelong happiness.
"Heaven and earth are both embodied in word and spirit in this book. A remarkable work." -- Mark Mincolla, Ph.D., author "Loupos' depth of experience, derived from over three decades of practice and teaching, is abundantly clear...His love for the discipline of tai chi streams from the page." -- D. Kate Jewell NAPR ReView Magazine "With the help of Tai Chi Connections, students and teachers alike will receive practical guidance" -- Roger Jahnke, O.M.D., author "Loupos takes readers on a rich and multi-layered journey to the inner structure of Tai Chi so that we can open to the innate wisdom within our Tai Chi training." -- Jampa Mackenzie Steward, author/editor
Sifu John Loupos, M.S. Psych, C.H.S.E., began studying martial arts in 1966. As a young teen, John inherited a school of his own and has been teaching martial arts ever since. His studies include Okinawan Karate, Chinese Kung Fu (Bak Sil Lum, Choy Lay Fun, and Praying Mantis), Yang style T'ai Chi Chuan (108 move set), Liu He Ba Fa, Xingyi, and Bagua, and various Ch'i Kung and energy oriented meditation disciplines. John also has a background in Classical Homeopathy and currently maintains a private clinical practice in Hanna Somatics.