Margaret Emerson / T'ai Chi Author
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Essays

  • Awareness of the Dan Tian
  • T’ai Chi Principles and Concepts
  • T’ai Chi: A Mind/Body Healer
  • Sitting Meditation and Healing Colors
  • 4-7-8 Breathing Exercise
  • Openness and Flexibility in Training
  • Studying T’ai Chi in South Korea
    • 10 Tips for Studying a Martial Art in an Asian Country
  • Out of Nowhere
  • Anger
  • It Doesn’t Matter
  • Morality
  • Belonging
  • Letter to Bill Thompson
  • Self-Reliance and Community
  • Feather Walking
  • Knee Warm-Up
  • Qigong Face Massage
  • Taoist Breathing Exercise
  • Prayer Wheel
  • Push Hands
  • Traditional Warm-Ups for T’ai Chi Ch’uan
  • Wu Style T’ai Chi Sequence Background
  • Wu Style T’ai Chi Sequence List (with original numbering – 97)
  • Wu Style T’ai Chi Sequence List (with revised numbering – 104)

~ Taoist Breathing Exercise ~

(with modification by Margaret Emerson)

     Focused breathing and imagery builds qi in the primary abdominal dan tian, then circulates it to the heart and finally to the third eye. All three dan tians are energized and connected.

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