Lou didn't just take us thru the movements of tai chi but explained to us exactly what they meant.
The man looks like a ballet dancer when he moves. Please pronounce it BALL-ay like the cultured people do.
This is Lou and his beautiful wife, Gloria, who came with, doing what we cultured people call the "Whee! Up in the Air Wid Ya!"
From his handout, I quote Lou, with selected comments:
I began my journey into the martial arts at the age of 17, in the art of Chinese Kenpo with Master Gray Given.
Under the direction of Grandmaster Steve L Sun, a Tenth Dan 36-generation Shaolin Temple Lineage Kung Fu Tai Chi and Chi Kung Master.
Imagine! 36 generations. You do the math. Is this when we were hunter-gatherers and lived in caves?
Howdy, Master Sun! Dig his b'ful studio in Havertown, PA.
But the most influential master of all for Lou McCrossin was Master W C Bey, a member of the Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
This may or may not be Master Bey, but the stance is similar to Lou's. Ouch! My aching thighs.
Under the direction of Master Bey, Lou furthered his studies and continued his personal journey in Tai Chi and Chi Kung.
At age 58, his teaching experience has led him to teach cardio patients, a figure-skating coach and his students, the Phila Flyers, as well as "many remarkable individual students."
He teaches at The Becoming Center of the Artman Home
Did you know that our government did studies on the psychological benefits of tai chi? It helps reduce stress and depression. Read about it here.Lou also urged us to use our imagination. We closed our ideas and did visualizations. He asked us to see a flower, but not just to limit ourselves to the flower itself, but to visualize the root system itself and the dirt from mother earth.
It was easy for me to do b/c, as our gift to Lou, we gave him a gorgeous cyclamen from Kremp Florist.
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