Hey Loura!
A woman with long dark hair is taking a selfie indoors, standing next to a wooden table with a pink garment featuring colorful floral embroidery laid out on it.

I’m getting started on my new fall project. A new embroidered tai chi uniform. Got the appliqué all laid out for the back.

Selfie a day for a year, day 9: Aug 27, 2026 edition.

Finishing up my Taijiquan Haiku

I was working on my taijiquan haiku series and then lost steam. Part of it was the double haiku’s weren’t all as strong as each other. I decided since that was holding me up to simplify and do one haiku per each. Again these are in no way meant to speak like the classics or be authoritative. But crafting them has given me time to really think and dig deep on each one. My ultimate plan is to put these to watercolor and calligraphy and hang them in my home office. Peng spine long and crown high sunk deep buoyant chi…

Continue reading

On this little island in the middle of the Atlantic, there is a little red dessert. So of course I had to do some tai chi.

Auto-generated description: A person is practicing tai chi in a landscape with red, earthen terrain and sparse vegetation.

Eight Silk Brocades

The eight silk brocades are a set of Qi Gong exercises meant to work and warm up muscles groups commonly used throughout the day. Especially the legs, hips, and back. I tend to use them as cool down exercises after a longer Tai Chi workout, see Long Yang, but the movements are also quite nice in the morning to wake up. Eight Silk Brocades Perform each exercise eight times breathing slowly. The mouth should be closed and your tongue should lightly press on the roof of your mouth. You should only take the movement to…

Continue reading

108 Long Yang Form

As my Sifu always says “This is your form” and it should feel like “coming home.” After many years of practice, it finally does. The goal for beginners is to complete this form in about 15 minutes and as you advance you should slow it down. Every movement should flow into the next one and there should never be a moment where you are not moving. Advanced practitioners should aim for 40 minutes or longer. Traditional Yang Tai Chi 108 Movement Long Form Part One YouTube Video YouTube Video Beginning form. Energy ball…

Continue reading

It was a pretty good day today. I taught tai chi in the morning, got to have some fun playing with code, went apple picking with old friends and the kids, managed to fit in yard work with much needed weeding and now I’m enjoying some time getting things set up for the upcoming week.

It was another tough week. My uncle passed away while we were on a family vacation. I loved teaching him Tai Chi over the last six years. I’ll miss those weekly moments out in nature, chatting and enjoying something so simple. He was a fantastic and brilliant man who will be missed.

I needed some Tai Chi pictures so my sister helped me out with a little photo shoot. This is one of my favorites.

Auto-generated description: A woman performs a martial arts pose on a gravel path in a wooded area.

I want to thank seventeen year old me for trying out Tai Chi. I want to thank all the versions of me that kept with it. There are few things that make me feel so at peace. I let the world pass me by and I simply move with the forms.

I finally have a chance to sit down and work on something. Choices, choices… Tai Chi, journaling, or coding. Or maybe, all three 😄

Tai Chi is getting chilly in the mornings (we practice outside). It was 19°F and frost everywhere.

I taught Tai Chi, did yard work for two hours and decorated for Halloween! Now it’s time to make apple crisp and prep some meals for the week 🍂🎃

outdoor Halloween decorations. There is a skeleton sitting on a Rockwall and a large fake spider and spiderweb in a tree.

Here was take two on my blog design. I had midjourney make the logo with the prompt of “pixel art Tai Chi girl who codes”.

parallax blog theme with rpg elements

A photo from August 2020, when Fuzzyboots was just a little kitten, and we had yet to decide where all our furniture was going.

Woman doing a tai chi sword form with a small orange tabby kitten pawing at the tip of the sword with curiosity.

New personal best 😊 42 minutes to complete the Tai Chi Form - 108 Long Yang . Moving slow + low stances = calm mind and good workout.

That was a sweaty Tai Chi class. I feel like a swamp monster.

Even though it was raining, my small Tai Chi group still showed up and practiced for an hour with me ❤️

I finally found the time and energy to make it to a Kung Fu practice last night. Lots of good stretching and sword forms in class, plus some new faces 😀.

Man and woman facing each other, swords crossed as they circle each other

Fire rises
Water falls
Wood expands
Metal contracts
Earth
Mankind
☯️

Nothing like a Tai Chi class to help let go of a stressful week. ☯️

“In Tai Chi, just like in life, if you have a way in then you need a way out.” - 💬Sifu Jamie

It’s been way too long since I’ve managed to gather up the energy to attend a Kung Fu class. But going back tonight helped remind me why I love it. ⚔️ Two Person Stick, Twin Tsun Sword, and Tai Chi Broadsword.

Tai Chi was just the thing after a long and stressful day ☯️ Old Yang, Broadsword, and 108 Yang Forms today