35 years ago, I was fortunate enough to be led to a system of health and regeneration begun by Lao Tzu, known in India as the great Siddhi Yoga Master, Boganathar. My instructor when I started Tai Chi Gung was Master Lama Rasaji. He taught out of a dance studio and had a successful career dancing on Broadway. I was working at the time as a full time symphony violinist.

We shared the path all professional performing artists walk: years of dedication, hours upon of hours of training, audition after audition. Successes. Failures. Getting back up, moving forward. I continue to work with him today. I teach live online Tai Chi Gung classes weekly and train teachers for him.

Great music, performed with sincerity and integrity can touch people’s hearts, bring people together, inspire them to move forward, to embrace life. In Tai Chi Gung we discover and work with the life force itself. It is called Chi (Prana in India) and it connects to the soul. Great music ignites the soul. I noticed that the soul chill up the spine when I heard inspiring music came more and more often as I began doing Tai Chi Gung.

Remarkable things have happened over the past 3 decades, and continue to happen. I’ll share them in posts from time to time. Every Tai Chi Gung Master (I’m the only certified Tai Chi Gung master in Lao Tzu’s order currently living in the U.S.) has a second area of expertise. I have been taught how to draw the life energy from the earth and project it through the sound when I play music.

My 3rd great passion beyond music and Tai Chi Gung is an abiding love of Nature. Lao Tzu crafted his system of regeneration immersed in Nature. The universal language of music and the language of Nature is the Chi. The meaning can be perceived through the Chi, through the energy. It has some similarities to how we see colors. Hard to describe: blue is different than green. How do you know? You know you know. They have a different frequency… and for some, you know because you feel it with your soul!

The great jazz trumpet player Miles Davis said once, “If you have to ask, you’ll never know.” He was speaking about the deep understanding, the knowing that comes through feeling with the soul, feeling the life force as you listen. For the performer, radiating life as you play music. By it’s nature, the meaning moves in places beyond words.

In my view, it’s totally o.k. to ask… what is the deep feeling of music? of Nature? of life itself? How can I feel that more? The simple music inspired by Nature here is just my way of lighting a lamp along the path in that direction.

You’re welcome to try Tai Chi Gung as well. If you’re in the local Denver area, your first class is free. Visit: DenverTaiChi.com For weekly online classes, visit CircleOfChi.com and enroll in the live class membership.

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