Working on the Tai Chi course…

So today I spent hours working on lessons 6 and 7 of the most important course of my life. It will take me six months to create it…52 lessons comprising 108 movements, plus context, instructions, exercises, notes…all manner of things to make an online experience as powerful as live teaching. There are things I cannot do without being in the student’s presence, but there are things I cannot do easily in a class that I CAN do in a virtual format. I have to focus there.

The trick is that the Tai Chi form is martial art, chi gong exercise, stress relief, fitness, standing “open chain” yoga, and more. I can teach the movements, and give exercises to find the “feeling” but only if the students actually practice can they learn. I know that some of those who enter the course WILL actually finish it, and those have to be my targets, as well as working to make each week as educational, inspirational, and entertaining as possible. What a challenge!