Eagle's Quest Tai Chi Advanced study Reading

January, 2009 Hola! From Mexico, Happy New Year to all of you from Mexico, we were to have returned on Friday, Jan 2 but due to a flight cancellation and then airline mixup, Debbie and I will arrive home on Monday, Jan 5.  We will be having Advanced Studies this coming Saturday, January 10 from 11-6pm. We will continue our work on the Sun Style by progressing to the 2nd set of San Shou. This is a time of socializing.  Get out into the world and talk to people. Make new contacts, and create new friendships.  Act with full integrity and conduct yourself with honor. Hold the best interests of the group in mind while you do this and there will be great benefit for all. Success is the outcome that will result from this cultivation of good manners and open heartedness. Achievement comes as a result of hard work and determination.  Avoid inflexible thinking, and movement that is rigid.  Change is the great constant in the universe. Flexibility overcomes failure. Rigidity leads to disaster. We live in interesting times, so the old Chinese curse goes, so it is important that we help as many people as we can become safe. Let us all spend more time letting others know about Tai Chi Chuan and how it can benefit the people and the planet.  We must all work to increase our endurance so that we can make achievements that last. To truly follow the path of supreme integrity is to learn to respect yourself and to honor your past as well as increase your life-force, and the life-force of others as frequently and as often as you can. Find the spirit within and listen to it. There is an exciting time ahead that we must all prepare for and choose to embrace, and like the tiger that it is, it will bring us all success and benefits that will go far beyond that which has so far been achieved. Goals that are purely selfish at heart lead not to greatness of spirit but fall short of the mountaintop. To reach the pinnacle requires zest, energy, and zeal. In this New Year we want to increase the number of people in classes because they will surely need to have their energies increased. Health and vitality are necessary for everyone to get back on to a track of dynamic and heroic success that will inspire the masses to greater achievement. Now is the time to rise from the ashes like the phoenix, not sit in the hot water and stew.  I for one am beginning a project long overdue this year. I will begin my book. I plan to ask you all questions about your practice and your fondest most dynamic memories of what you have learned from my teaching so that I can glean from that what I have done so far. This will bring us all to another level of consciousness. Bring a note card with your favorite story, anecdote, teaching etc. to Advanced Studies. Thank you. Please R.S.V.P.  so we can prepare the proper amount of food for the group.  Reminder to those who were here last month and new info to those who were not:  in an effort to conserve, please bring your own dishes, eating utensils and mug to class. I will bring extra in case someone forgets so not to worry. This month a hot soup will be served as part of the meal, so please bring a bowl as well.  Thanks,  Debbie Adios, David Chandler