tai chi in the park

This isn't Lake Nox. It's a file photo from the Lehigh River near Rockport.

Saturday Pam, Lisa, Connie and I joined the L.L/ Beam Discovery School at Lake Nockamixion for a tai chi class. (The photo is from my archives. I didn't take any photos Saturday. We were a little late.)

It was sunny and hot and humid and there was minimum shade. The class was good. It was part instruction, part lecture and then putting it together into one large sequence. Tai Chi use a series of prescribed and sequenced positions, or forms. These positions are performed in sequential sets of movements. And there are a lot of them. We did a set of 18. And each had a name. I remember none of them. It did, however, make me remember how much I enjoyed doing tai chi. I looked in this blog and my first experience was in June of 2010! I was shocked that it was this long ago.

The class was advertised as tai chi, but I found it interesting Alice, the instructor referred to it as tai qi gong.

After class I brought watermelon, so we snacked on some melon and went back to our cars. I car pooled with Lisa so we stopped at a yard sale on the way home. But just one. Lisa is a real yard sale junkie, so only stopping at one must have been hard for her.

I'm thinking about looking into walk-in classes again. The instructors studio is in Wescoesville. That's too far. I'll have to start looking again. Or maybe testing the waters of Chi Walking. I need to do something to kick start my metabolism.

Miles/Steps:  minimal
Weather:       low 80s, sunny, humid