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    Love and Tai Chi
    Love and Tai Chi
    Love and Tai Chi
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    Love and Tai Chi

    By Karen Glotzer

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    The practice of tai chi is an embodiment of poetry, with its peaceful, balanced forms. Karen Glotzer, who is both a poet and a tai chi instructor, compares it to moving through gentle water, lifting off the ground like a bird in flight, or standing like a tree with the wind gently blowing through its leaves.

    Through poetry, Love and Tai Chi relates the philosophy of tai chi to many different aspects of human existence. It provides simple explanations about the multiple benefits of the art, one that few Westerners are familiar with, despite the fact that it is lauded by Harvard Medical School for its meditative and health aspects. Glotzer also applies the yin and yang theory of opposites upon which tai chi is based toward a variety of subjects. These verses consider romantic love, animals, nature, life, death, and friendship, all through the lens of tai chi.

    This collection of poetry seeks to express in verse the feelings experienced in tai chi—what it feels like to walk upon clouds, move like water, take root like a tree, or fly like a crane.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 19, 2018
    ISBN9781532058233
    Love and Tai Chi
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    Karen Glotzer

    Karen Glotzer is a retired teacher who fell in love with the art of tai chi when she acted as a chaperone for a group of students going to the People’s Republic of China. She holds a black sash for mastery in tai chi chuan and teacher qualification certificates in tai chi. This is her second published collection of poetry. She is married, has three children, and divides her time between New York and Florida. She is also the author of Emotional Explosions.

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      Love and Tai Chi - Karen Glotzer

      Copyright © 2018 Karen Glotzer.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-5320-5822-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5320-5823-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018911263

      iUniverse rev. date: 10/12/2018

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      Love and Tai Chi

      by

      Karen L. Glotzer

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      Table of Contents

      Gratitude

      Introduction

      Thirty-seven Yang Form Postures

      First Glimpse

      The Magic of the Tai Chi Energy Ball

      I Swim in Morning Air

      Why

      Touched by Tai Chi

      Meditation

      What is Tai Chi

      Bagua, Memory of 9/11/2001

      Doctor John Painter’s Lesson

      Dragon Eats Sun

      Sonnet to Jet Li

      What is the Black White Circle Thing

      Wuxi

      Tai Chi is a Martial Art

      On Dragon Hill

      Return to Readiness

      The Anhinga, the Snake Bird

      Seeking Stillness

      The Two Pools

      Tiger Iris

      Friendship

      Lesson for the Advanced Tai Chi Practitioner

      Fibromyalgia

      The Anemone

      Poker Face

      The Memory of You

      Return to Wind

      Pre-Birth Meditation

      Camp is for Making Friends

      For Love of Water

      Prayer to Buddha

      Dreaming the Palms of Bagua

      Seven Stars

      The Elements

      My First Friend

      Part the Wild Horse’s Mane

      Sonnet to Bruce Lee

      Gratitude

      Karen has truly embraced her journey in the practice and beauty of tai chi both externally and internally. It has been a pleasure to watch her develop from a beginning player to a dedicated student of the art.

      Sifu Linda Morrissey - elitechinesemartialarts.com - Rockland County, New York

      Karen Glotzer is a dedicated tai chi student and poet. She consistently practices the principles of harmony; expressing herself poetically with calmness, patience and balance. She is a poet at heart, and tai chi is poetry in motion; an expression of one’s true self.

      Sifu Gary Tong – atouchofchi.com - Palm Beach County, Florida

      "Karen Glotzer is a true Taiji poet. Her works bring much to the table for one to contemplate. Karen’s poems are as descriptive as a video in your mind. I personally like them very much. We will be featuring her

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