Keep what still matters
Reflections on Tai Chi, Qigong, walking, easy strength training, and the ways that practice changes over time.
Smaller Practice is a quiet collection of reflections on movement, practice, and maturing with less need to prove anything.
Tai Chi and Qigong are at the center of it, with room for walking, strength, and other ways of staying in conversation with the body. The emphasis is less on instruction and more on what practice can become when it is allowed to get simpler.
Start here
If you are new to Smaller Practice, start with the reflection that feels most natural to you:
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When Practice Gets Smaller
Sometimes doing less helps reveal what we actually want to keep. -
What I Still Practice After Decades of Tai Chi and Qigong
What remains tells me more than the old quantity ever did. -
Move With What Is Ready to Move
Notice what is already happening, then add only enough. -
When Teaching Gets Smaller
One idea, one practice, one reflection - without the "machinery." -
When Progress Is No Longer the Point
Perhaps it has simply reached a point where it can serve a different purpose.
From time to time, I write about Tai Chi, Qigong, movement, practice, and teaching. If you'd like, you can receive these by email.
It's about practice made smaller, more adaptable, and more at home in the life that we are living right now.
Written by Al Simon - reflecting on movement, practice, and teaching ... and what remains after decades of it all.