Wilkes Barre Area Tai Chi Qi Gong

08/29/2025

08/25/2025

Tai Chi this week at Gather Community Space.

Thursday @ 5:30pm.

✨ It’s a busy week ahead—why not start it off with some calm? ✨
Join Kerry today at 5pm for a relaxing yoga session at Gather Community Space. 🧘‍♀️

Kerry is working toward her yoga certification, and we’d love to give her a full class to teach—so grab your mat, bring a friend, and come show your support! 💛

Class is free (donations welcome).

08/23/2025

Pain is inevitable - Suffering however is optional

08/23/2025

Reflect - Not to your detriment (as in rumination or obsessive wasteful thinking), but along the path that leads one to wisdom.

08/22/2025

🔹 The Bellows as a Metaphor

A bellows is hollow, yet it produces a powerful force—air—when in motion.
Similarly, the Tao (or the natural order of the universe) may appear empty or formless, but it is inexhaustible in its capacity to generate and sustain life.

🔹 Emptiness as Potential

In Taoist philosophy, emptiness is not a void, but a source of limitless potential.
The space between heaven and earth—nature, the cosmos—is neutral and impersonal, yet it continuously gives rise to all things.

🔹 Effortless Action (Wu Wei)

The bellows works without strain; its power comes from movement, not force.
This reflects the Taoist ideal of wu wei—effortless action, or doing without doing.

*Lao Tzu is nudging us to rethink our obsession with control, accumulation, and noise. The most powerful forces are often quiet, subtle, and empty of ego. Like the bellows, the Tao works best when we don’t try to force it. (Source: Tai Chi 360)

08/04/2025

I remember wanting to know the distinction between Tai Chi and Qi Gong.

The quote by Roger Jahnke provides the answer I was seeking simultaneously while inspiring me. 💞

“When you cultivate balance and harmony within yourself, or in the world – that is Tai Chi.

When you work & play with the essence of the energy of life, nature & the universe for healing, clarity & inner peace – that is Qigong."

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Peace & all good.