BREATH-SOUND-MOVEMENT • CHI GUNG The Principles of T'ai Chi and
The Art of Slowing Down |
Karina brings to her 30 years of teaching and extensive background and training in T'ai Chi Chu'an, dance, physical theater, music, voice and art. She has coached many artists, unleashing creative potential by exploring the “hidden.” Her teaching focuses on listening deeply and cultivating awareness. Past workshops include: Finding Our Voices and River of Breath, her Chi Flow class at the Claremont Spa, and 6 years of Creative Expression at drug rehab facilities and a federal women's prison. Her workshop Walking in Balance is an outdoor practice. Karina is featured in Stephanie Hoppe’s “Sharp Spear, Crystal Mirror: Martial Arts in Women’s Lives.” For almost thirty years, I have allowed the practice of T’ai Chi Ch’uan to work on me and through me. As it merged over the years with other skills and interests of mine, I increasingly saw myself teaching from the perspective of a woman born into Western culture. For me, T’ai Chi as the “mother of all” is a musical sphere that embraces the melodies of yin and yang, the pulse of full and empty, the breath of in and out. When this ancient philosophy is experienced in the body along with gentle awareness, a song arises, we remember, and new pathways open, as well as forgotten possibilities. We dare to unlearn.
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Be still as a mountain, move like a great river |