November 2004 Valley Spirit Journal
September 2004 Valley Spirit Journal
Index to the Valley Spirit Journal
October 31, Sunday, 2004
"He
- Benjamin Franklin
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 120 minutes
at midmorning (8-10 am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form. A beautiful day with clear skies,
great views of all the mountains (many with snow capped peaks), moderate
winds, and cool air.
Teach Greg Taijiquan - some emphasis upon the 13
Principles of Taijiquan.
I discuss the meanings of Peng, Lu, Ji, An as energetic movements.
Outdoor work projects: prepare dog house for winter, shed construction,
shoveling gravel.
Weightlifting at gym for 40 minutes: bench press, squats,
upright rowing,
bicep curls.
Halloween night memories of my childhood in Bandini, East Los Angeles.
We always went Trick or Treating with other children, and also went to
a community event at the Bandini Elementary School cafateria. The costumes,
the candy, walking about at night, friends, the cold night air, playing ... what
fond memories.
Reading Personal Fitness Trainer Manual by the American Council of Exercise.
October 30, Saturday, 2004
"We may think there is willpower involved, but more
likely¨ change is due to
want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting
the
new me in preference to the person I am now."
- George Sheehan
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
at dawn (6:15- am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Teach Taijiquan, Qigong and Yoga at TFFC from 9:30-12:30.
Watch the USC vs Washington State football game on television in the late afternoon.
Improve the webpage on willpower.
Reading recent issues of Yoga Journal and Tai Chi Journal.
"Greetings from Taiwan,
I came upon your Sun
style taijiquan website by happy accident the other day.
I thought you did an outstanding job bringing together all that information
on Sun style taiji. I myself practice Sun style taiji and enjoy it quite a bit.
...
I just wanted to let you know I had stopped by and was very impressed.
Also,
being over 40, I found the other section on older folks fitness to be helpful
and
interesting.
Take care,
Brian Kennedy"
October 29, Friday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
at dawn (6:15- am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Reading Personal Fitness Trainer Manual by the American Council of Exercise.
Karen and I worked in the garden
all day. We spread 22 bags of fertilizer, completely
removed the remnants of the summer garden, planted the winter garden, weeded,
closed down and covered the swamp cooler for the winter, and dug sumps and
shoveled
gravel in the driveway and in other
low areas. It was a beautiful cool autumn day -
perfect for outdoor work. Karen really enjoys working outdoors in the
garden.
"Those people who
develop
the ability
to
continuously
acquire
new
and
better
forms
of knowledge that they
can
apply
to
their
work
and
to
their
lives
will
be
the
movers
and
shakers
in
our
society
for the
indefinite
future."
- Brian Tracey
Updated a few links in the Yang
Long Form webpage. Handled over two dozen
e-mail messages.
"What a comprehensive website
you have. Well done."
From Sifu Toni Moulin, Santa
Barbara.
October 28, Thursday, 2004
Work for CUESD
7:30 - 4:00: Meetings, writing, coordination.
Weightlifting for 50 minutes, and then yoga class with
Gudrun Volpat from 5:30-6:45 at TFFC.
"Achieving goals by
themselves will never make us happy in the long term;
it's who we become, as we
overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve
our goals, that can give us the
deepest and most long-lasting sense of
fulfillment."
- Anthony Robbins
I am now reading:
Atkins
Diabetes Revolution. The Groundbreaking Approach to Preventing and
Controlling Type 2 Diabetes. Based on the teachings of Robert C. Atkins,
M.D..
By Mary C. Vernon, M.D., C. M.D. and Jacqueling A. Eberstein, R. N.
William
Morrow, Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. Index, resources,
appendices,
538 pages. ISBN: 0060540087.
Refer to my webpage on Taijiquan for Diabetes.
"Thanks for the website on staff
weapons. I've been mining it for three nights now, and have
a long way to go. A rich mine indeed."
- Tony Ramsay, 28 October 2004
October 27, Wednesday, 2004
Work for CUESD
7:30 - 4:00 - website work, Technology grant, Internet policy for Maywood.
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
in the afternoon.
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Reading Personal Fitness Trainer Manual by the American Council
of Exercise.
and the new Yoga journal.
A full moon underwent a full eclipse tonight. Another will not occur to 2007.
"When the will is ready the feet are light."
- Proverb
October 26, Tuesday, 2004
Work for CUESD
7:30 - 4:00 - writing grants, communication, budgets.
Weightlifting for 20 minutes, and then yoga class with
Gudrun Volpat from 5:30-6:45 at TFFC.
Raining most of the day. A hard hailstorm and lightening hit the area
around 4 pm.
Lights were off at the TFFC gym for 30 minutes.
Very sore from the Monday workout.
"The world is full of willing people - some willing to
work, the rest willing to let them."
- Robert Frost
October 25, Monday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
at dawn (6:15- am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Reading Personal Fitness Trainer Manual by the American Council of Exercise.
Weightlifting at gym for 40 minutes: bench press, squats,
upright rowing,
bicep curls. Visit Dr. Swaim, podiatrist. Trip to Redding with Karen
for
Japanese food dinner, bookstore browsing, shopping for garden products
at Home Depot.
"A man can do all things if he but wills them."
- Leon Battista Alberti
I am now reading:
Free
Your Breath, Free Your Life. How Conscious Breathing Can Relieve
Stress,
Increase Vitality, and Help You Live More Fully. By Dennis
Lewis. Boston,
Shambhala Press, 2004. Index, recommended reading, 193 pages.
ISBN: 1590301331.
Refer also to my webpage on Breathing Practices.
October 24, Sunday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
at dawn (6:15- am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Beautiful clear skies, cool, and fresh smelling from the rain.
Taught Greg Taijiquan from 10-11am.
Work on interior shelving in garage and main shed. Winterize outdoor
areas. Relax most of the afternoon.
Reading Personal Fitness Trainer Manual by the American Council of Exercise.
"Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is
willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose."
- Benjamin Disraeli
October 23, Saturday, 2004
Taught Taijiquan and Qigong from 9-11:30 and my second yoga
class from 11:30 - 12:30.
Work in garage and prepare outdoor sheds and equipment for
more rain. We have had 3.5 inches of rain in the last five
days.
"What you have to do and the way you have to do it is
incredibly simple.
Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter."
- Peter F. Drucker
October 22, Friday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
at dawn (6:15- am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
"People do not lack strength, they lack will."
- Victor Hugo
October 21, Thursday, 2004
Work for CUESD 7:30 - 4:00.
Weightlifting for 40 minutes, and then yoga class with
Gudrun Volpat from 5:30-6:45 at TFFC.
"Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily.
If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow."
- Eknath Easwaran
October 20, Wednesday, 2004
Work for CUESD
7:30 - 4:00. Presentation to all teachers at Maywood,
meeting with Olive View principal, and writing the Special Education
Referral Reduction grant.
"Expect nothing and the
little you get will feel like millions."
- Kumar Dindial
October 19, Tuesday, 2004
Work for CUESD
7:30 - 4:00. I need to focus more on writing, rather than
coordinating.
The second day of a big rainstorm was impressive. We have gotten 2.5
inches
in two days - a large amount for us. Our yard was a loblolly of mud and
huge
puddles. What a great benefit for our trees and shrubs to get such a good
deep rain this early in our rainy
season: October - April.
Walking on an inclined treadmill for 20 minutes, weightlifting
for 40 minutes, and then yoga class with Gudrun Volpat from 5:30-6:45 at TFFC.
After I left the gym it had stopped raining. The air was so very fresh and
pure and
energizing.
"They must change often, who would be constant in happiness."
- Confucius
October 18, Monday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
at dawn (6:15- am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Work around the house: reading, study, writing, projects.
Gerber School Board Meeting in the evening. One more to go!! In some
ways
I will miss the opportunity to lead on important matters of educating our local
children. I learned a lot from the experience, and was able to help the
Gerber
Elementary School District in many ways. Nevertheless, it is time for
others
to take a leadership role.
"No one is wise by birth. Wisdom results from one's own
efforts."
- Krishnamacharya
October 17, Sunday, 2004
Prepare yard and outdoor sheds for the coming rain. It was very
cool, overcast,
windy and threatening rain all morning.
Teach Greg Taijiquan in the morning.
"Where there's a will, there's a way. "
- English proverb
"Moving to the Edge Play" from 4 - 10 pm, a night session, and 5-8 in
the morning.
My shoulders were very sore.
October 16, Saturday, 2004
Taught Taijiquan and Qigong from 9-11:30 and my first yoga
class from 11:30 - 12:30. Seven students, three new students,
and
four advanced regulars took the yoga class. I made a few mistakes,
e.g.,
did not do the arms correctly in Eagle pose, forgot the names of some poses,
may not have closed as well. Cindy, an advanced yogini and 4th grade
teacher,
said I did well doing the long stretches. Janeth, an advanced yogini, said
I did
very well. I was confindent and encouraged and know I can do better each
time.
"Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making
any dream come true. "I can't" often
means "I won't." You can change "I won't" to "I
will" with will power."
- Marcia Wieder
Developing notes on Willpower.
Mow lawns, water, weed, work on outdoor shed. We watered all day
and night from
Thursday afternoon until late Saturday night. Both the rice farm and
Slades cow pasture
where being watered so the irrigation ditch as really flowing. We only ran
three pumps.
Karen and I enjoy a visit to the Dairyville Orchard Festival and lunch at the Green Barn.
A lovely autumn day with temperatures in the high 70's.
I am reading:
Moving
Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee. By Rodney
Yee with Nina Zolotow. Photographs by Michael Venera. Emmaus, PA,
Rodale Press, Gaiam Books, 2004. Index, 394 pages. MPG.
ISBN: 0875969216. An excellent program for developing a home
yoga practice.
October 15, Friday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
at dawn (6:15- am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Work for CUESD 7:30 - 4:00.
"There is not great
talent without great will power."
- Honore de Balzac
October 14, Thursday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
at dawn (6:15- am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Work for CUESD 7:30 - 4:00.
Weightlifting for 40 minutes, and then yoga class with
Gudrun Volpat from 5:30-6:45 at TFFC.
Updated my Tai Chi Chuan class webpage.
"It's not that some
people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are
ready to change and others are not."
- James Gordon
October 13, Wednesday, 2004
Work for CUESD
8 -11. Lunch with my friend, Ann Gleeson. Reading
and writing in the afternoon. Gardening and watering.
Correspondence with Master Carmen Farruggia.
There is always a time and place for doing nothing.
Updated my Yoga Class webpage. Prepared a handout for class.
Blow and you can extinguish a flame. Blow and you can make a flame.
When you blow, what will happen?
- A Kapalbhati Koan
"The true goal
of yoga is the permanent and unbroken awareness of the deepest
joy and happiness possible (called ananda or bliss). This bliss is not the
result
of some progressive path, based on techniques and elaborate practices. It
is
our very nature right now - and always".
- Steve Roth
October 12, Tuesday, 2004
Work for CUESD 7:30 - 4:00.
Weightlifting for 40 minutes, and then yoga class with
Gudrun Volpat from 5:30-6:45 at TFFC.
"For me, yoga is not just a workout - it's about working
on yourself."
- Mary Glover
October 11, Monday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
at dawn (6:15- am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Updated a number of the yoga webpages.
"A photographer gets people to pose for him. A
yoga instructor gets
people to pose for themselves."
- Terri Guillemets
October 10, Sunday, 2004
We practiced and rehearsed our YogaFit routines, enjoyed a beginner's class, and
learned
about many aspects of teaching yoga. The teacher, Rose Zahnn, was
energetic,
enthusiastic, very knowledgeable, articulate, a tremendous yoga athlete, and an
outstanding motivator. I enjoyed meeting a number of great yoga students
and
teachers in this seminar for future yoga teachers.
As I drove home from Sacramento, I was physically tired and
mentally energized.
What a delicious combination.
"Before you've practiced, the
theory is useless.
After you've practiced, the theory is obvious."
- David Williams
October 9, Saturday, 2004
I walked around the Healthy Habits studio on J Street in Sacramento. It is
a
lovely area of small businesses, churches, homes and many
apartments. Large
trees line all the streets and yards. I walked the labyrinth at the
Pioneer Congregational
Church directly across from Sutter's Fort (circa 1848). It was a
beautiful, cool,
windy morning after a light shower last night.
I was a bit sore from last nights workout. I attended a beginner's yoga
class at the
studio in the morning.
Our class focused on a thorough review of all the postures used in a
beginning
YogaFit style of class. The teacher did an excellent job of explaining,
modeling,
and reviewing important points, including modifications, about each of the
many postures.
I was the oldest person in the class; and working along with 17 other fine
and
intelligent women in the class, I was the only man in the group. Why don't
more
men get into yoga?
"Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to
learn to control your breath; that's
the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in
my practice
and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of
injuries I suffered.
As preventative medicine, it's unequaled."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
October 8, Friday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
at dawn (6:15- am).
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Drive to Sacramento to attend a three day YogaFit teacher training
program.
The YogaFit Level 1 Teacher Training was led by Rose Zahnn. The
workshop
was held at the Healthy Habits Studio on J Street in Sacramento.
We began the evening with an overview of the manual. We did a long
and
intense intermediate power yoga workout. Finally, we talked about teaching
and
postures.
"To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of
questions."
- Sam Keen
October 7, Thursday, 2004
Work for CUESD
7:30 - 4:00.
Weightlifting for 40 minutes, and then yoga class with
Gudrun Volpat from 5:30-6:40 at TFFC.
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can
find in our
travels is an honest friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
October 6, Wednesday, 2004
Work for CUESD
7:30 - 4:00.
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes
in the afternoon after work. .
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
"As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never
left his own
doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to
scrutinize more
steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own."
- Margaret Mead
October 5, Tuesday, 2004
Work for CUESD 7:30 - 4:00.
Weightlifting for 40 minutes, and then yoga class with
Gudrun Volpat from 5:30-6:40 at TFFC.
I gave Gudrun a number of special gifts tonight. I have
studied with her
two or three times each week for one whole year. What a pleasure! I
was
saddened to learn of the poor health of her mother. She generously offered
me the use of her yoga books, and loaned me a audio CD on healing
sounds.
"Heaven for climate. Hell for
company."
- Mark Twain
A person wrote to me after reading my comments about Paramhansa Yogananda:
"Hello Mike,
Read your views on "AY" and the Paramhansa.
With full respect I must say that although you
practice different yoga techniques your maturity of
the mind seems still to be in infancy and most
definitely you have never been in close association of
an enlightened being.
What you are trying to do is an act of measuring the
ocean with a cup.
Do you even realize you are trying to judge someone
with whatever limited knowledge you have -- not the
bookish knowledge I mean but knowledge of experience.
I am at awe to see at those comments made by you --
quiet child-like isn't it ? They are indeed truly funnny!!
- Chetan"
I'm pleased Chetan found something "truly funny" in my
writing.
I'm just a little teacup, short and stout ....
The Paramhansa is just a big goose, short and stout.
Silly childish immature ignorant me for questioning the values of the
Paramhansa,
or other Kriya saints and divinities.
October 4, Monday, 2004
Walking, Qigong, and
Taijiquan for 90 minutes at dawn.
Review Part III of Yang
Style Long Form.
Worked all day around the house today: mowed lawns, watered, weeded, and
worked on new outdoor electrical lines.
Reading all day in the ACE Personal Fitness training manual.
"A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go
to new places.
One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to
change."
- Katharin Butler Hathaway
October 3, Sunday, 2004
Enjoyed a foggy morning walk at Salt Point State Park. Then I drove home
via
the Russian River Valley, Guernville, Calistoga, Clear Lake, Williams, and up
I5.
Put camping gear away and relaxed in the afternoon.
"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was
through
travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."
- Eudora Welty
October 2, Saturday, 2004
Longs walks along the coast at Pt. Reyes and then in the woods and along
the
rocky shoreline at Salt Point State Park. Lunch in Gualala. Camped
at Salt Point
State Park in the Woodside campground. A beautiful clear day.
"A child on a farm sees a plane fly by overhead and dreams of a faraway
place.
A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home"
- Carl Burns
October 1, Friday, 2004
Drove to San Francisco Bay, through Petaluma, and Pt. Reyes station, and then
to
Samuel P. Taylor State Park. I took some long walks along the Pt. Reyes
shoreline.
The camped at SPT State Park in a beautiful redwood forest along a
stream.
Lots of traffic, bikers, and many people enjoying the fine weather along the
coast.
Pt. Reyes had no trees - a complete surprise to me. I had expected the
whole area
to be forested.
"It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey
that
matters in the end."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
© Michael P. Garofalo, 2004, All Rights Reserved
Cuttings: Haiku and Short Poems
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2,700 Quotes Arranged by 130 Topics,
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Arthritis Therapy - Exercise: T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Chi Kung
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Crane, Soaring Crane, Intermediate Program, Level 3, Valley Spirit T'ai Chi Ch'uan
Cuttings: Short Poems by Michael P. Garofalo
The Deer: The Five Animal Frolics (Wu Qin Xi)
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Disclaimer of the Cloud Hands Website
Eight Section Brocade Ch'i Kung
Embrace the One - Zhan Zhuang - Standing Like A Tree
Entering Tranquility (Ru Jing) Meditation
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Feedback, Kudos and Reviews for the Cloud Hand's Website
Five Animal Frolics (Wu Qin Xi): Tiger, Bear, Crane, Deer, and Monkey
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Five Stepping Movements of Taijiquan
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Gardening: Quotes, Poems, History, Sayings
Gardening: Quips and Maxims by Michael P. Garofalo
The Four Gates: Grasping the Sparrow's Tail
Michael P. Garofalo's Biography
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Green Way Research - Taijiquan and Qigong
Gu Shen (Valley Spirit) Taijiquan Instructional Program
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Pulling Onions: The Quips and Maxims of a Gardener
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Reviews of the Cloud Hand's Website
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Speaking to the Spirit Meditation
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Standing Like A Tree - Zhan Zhuang
Stork - Bird - Five Animal Frolics
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T'ai Chi Ch'uan Instructor: Michael P. Garofalo in Red Bluff, California
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Taijiquan Instructor: Michael P. Garofalo in Red Bluff, California
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Thirteen Treasures Walking Qigong
The 300 Missing Poems of Han Shan
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Valley Spirit Photography Gallery
Valley Spirit T'ai Chi Ch'uan Club
Valley Spirit Taijiquan Instructional Program
Valley Spirit Taijiquan and Qigong Journal by Michael P. Garofalo
Vancouver, B.C., T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Qigong Directory: Instructors, Schools
Walking - General Fitness Exercise
Washington T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Qigong Directory: Instructors, Schools, Information
Waving Hands Like Clouds: T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Qigong
Will Power, Self Control, Self Mastery, Choices, Strength of Character
Yoga Class, TFFC, Red Bluff, CA
Yang Style Taijiquan Long Form 108 Movements
Yang Style Taijiquan Short Form 24 Movements
Yin-Yang Sensitivity Training: Sticking Hands - T'ui Shou
Yoga Class, Red Bluff, CA - Instructor: Michael P. Garofalo
Zhan Zhuang - Standing Like A Tree
Valley Spirit T'ai Chi Ch'uan Club
Red Bluff, Tehama County, North Sacramento Valley, Northern California, U.S.A.
Cities and small towns in the area: Oroville, Paradise, Durham, Chico, Hamilton
City,
Corning, Rancho Tehama, Los Molinos, Tehama, Proberta, Gerber, Manton,
Cottonwood,
Vina, Anderson, Shasta Lake, Palo Cedro, Igo, Ono, Redding, Shasta, Colusa,
Willows,
Richfield, Fall River, Montgomery Creek, Alturas, McCloud, Dunsmuir, Yreka,
Happy Camp,
Shingletown, Burney, Mt. Shasta City, Weaverville, Williams, Chester, Orland,
Susanville, Weed, Gridley, Marysville, Yuba City, NorCalifia, CA, California.
October 14, 2004
Cloud Hands: T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Ch'i Kung