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Senior Instructor Michael Vasquez, 30+ Yrs Exp.
Please contact at (541)201-8101 and visit him on the web at Transformationarts.org

Tao Te Ching # 12

Colors blind the eye.
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.

The Master observes the world but trusts his inner vision.
He allows things to come and go.
His heart is open as the sky.

Hsin Hsin Ming, Sen T'san, 3rd Patriarch

We started this exposure to these almost a year ago. One month is a good start for contemplating each verse. This is the 11th verse, each month we will add one more until it is complete. Check the newsletter archive at Transformationarts.org for past months.

Emptiness here, emptiness there,
but the infinite universe stands
always before your eyes.
Infinitely large and infinitely small;
no difference, for definitions have vanished and no boundaries are seen.
So too with Being and non-Being.
Don't waste time in doubts and arguments that have nothing to do with this.

Resources

For more information on the Benefits of Internal Arts; Tai Chi/QiGong/Yoga, please visit our science-Based Research and Clinical Trial Site AT: TaiChiUniversity.net

December Newsletter, 2010

Upcoming Introductions and Workshops

GROUNDING: The Single Most Useful Tool in:

RELATIONSHIPS, MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP...

The last free introduction is tonight, on:

Leadership: Tonight (Friday), Dec. 3rd 2010, @ the Ashland Library @ 6:30pm. See you there! Everyone welcome, including current students.

Tomorrow (Saturday), there will be a Workshop. Please come to the workshop if you are interested in practicing grounding at a deeper level, and to learn practices that can stay with you for your whole life and be useful in any situation.

To help us with accommodations please register online. Click here.

We will be using Tai Chi and Qigong methods/principles to expose the deeper teachings of grounding that are seemingly inaccessible by just thinking about it. Working with the way that you learn, and the way these things are shown, this workshop will benefit:

Acupuncturists (developing higher understanding TCM theory from inside-out, develop a presence that feels reassuring and safe to patients)
Medical Health Care Professionals (understand what Tai Chi and Qigong are all about, to complement your patient care practices. Learn how to feel full and embodied and not suffer from caretakers pain)
Physical Therapists (learn this way of grounding and how it relates to your existing methods of helping people recover)
Business Owners / Managers (be effective, strategic, and relational in your business decisions - learn how to work with employees in a win-win way)
Tai Chi and Qigong Practitioners (develop a higher capacity to ground - "instant on switch" to drop in)
Anyone that has an interest in grounding.

If you plan on showing up without registering online, please call us first. Or you can register online, and choose "Pay when you arrive" here.

Saturday, Dec. 4th 2010, @ Agile Healing Arts
842 A St, Ashland
9:00am-12:00pm
Cost: $50

Part 2: Grounding & Relationships
by Michael Vasquez

This past week we have had a couple of Free-talks on Grounding and the inter-active aspects that support functional relationships. When we consider our social skills and our ability to have lasting relationships and sincere connections to friends and family, we may become aware of our own boundaries, limitations, what's appropriate, inner feelings and thought-dialogue, motives, willingness, and our own relationship to self. Relationships and our ability to accommodate the many variables of individual expression, give direct reflection into our own psyche. This can dredge-up feelings that may lead to in-sight and remind us that we are fused with the rhythm of Life's lessons and learning- no coincidences. If we understand this, we are able to learn from our experiences and refine our inter-actions, see the areas that need adjusting/attention, and return to our original state of continuous learning.

We can begin to understand all of this by seeing our individual cells as a type of community. With-in our cellular community, we have governing bodies or large cell-groups that manage vital life-support systems such as the Heart and the brain. The secondary levels of management is the other bodily organs, carrying out the needs and changes necessary for survival and adapting to life's changes; protection, hunger, elimination, cleansing, harmonizing, temperature control, rest etc. These larger cell groups that maintain life support have and un-dying commitment to perform, and a higher capacity to regulate and disperse; they are the elite leader-cell-groups of the body, just as communities have leaders and managers responsible for societal functions.

Click here to read the full article.