Other Tai Chi Chuan teachers I have learned from:

Before meeting Master Yang Zhenduo, I studied several styles of Tai Chi Chuan with: Masters William C.C. Chen, Kuo Lienying and Kumar Frantzis.

Master William C.C.Chen. From Master Chen I learned to be practical. Very early on the road, I was shown the right direction. (no need for mystical explanations: the power comes from "proper body mechanics"). For more information on Master Chen, please check here

Master Kuo Lienying. Master Kuo looked at my hands (soft and empty after only a few years of study) and said: Did you ever look at sick people at the hospital? They all have hands like yours. Practice health, Why do you practice sickness? I learned to extend not just my body but also the chi. Not much is written about Master Kuo in the net, yet. Check his book"Tai Chi Chuan in Theoy and Practice" (self-published); his wife's book "Long Life, Good Health through Tai Chi Chuan", by Simone Kuo and "T'ai Chi Boxing Chronicle", by Kuo LienYing/Guttmann, North Atlantic, $14.95.

Master Kumar Frantzis. From Master Frantzis I learned to actually "open and close the joints of the body" -not to just talk about it; and to "pump the body's cavities". I studied with him in New Mexico in 1985 through 1987, and then continue every year attending workshops and seminars. In 1985 I was told by three orthopedic surgeons in San Antonio and New Mexico, that my lower back needed a laminectomy. I met Kumar and in a year's time of Neikung study and practice I did not have to try the surgical procedure recommended. If your back or joints are giving you trouble, check his teachings at:. http://www.4taichi.com/

There are also other teachers I have met who helped me understand myself and the inter-connectedness of all things:

J. Khrisnamurti (teacher, philosopher); David Bohm (Theoretical Physicist and philosopher of science); Luba Gurdjieff (niece of G.I. Gurdjieff); Osho -Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh- (spiritual teacher); Moshe Feldenkrais (Awareness through Movement), Babatunde Olatunji (nigerian Master drummer), Roger Steffens, Ras Michael & Joseph Hill ( Jah Rastafari), Amparo Ochoa ( singer, School teacher), Susana Rinaldi ( Singer,artist, showed me the soul of the city where I was born), Dian Yeager Lopez (who took me to my first Tai Chi Chuan Class), Myrna Renaud (dancer, teacher of afro-caribean culture. Ache), Eduardo Galeano (for the "Memories of Fire");

and other teachers/people I have not met -except in the spirit- but who nevertheless enriched my life: Walt Whitman (to be able to read him I learned the English language), Maria Callas (the art of listening. Check her CD "Maria Callas at Juilliard" - Emi Classics for an example of a "Master class"), Noam Chomsky (objectivity, and insight into how language affects thinking, and also the "manufacturing of consent"), Jelaluddin Rumi (ecstasy), Bob Marley (One Love), Teresa Parodi (singer, school teacher, showed me "el Pais del Interior" -the inner country), Sun Ra (showed other worlds), Gato Barbieri and Diego Maradona (for the magic), Astor Piazzolla (mas magia), Julio Cortazar (for opening the interdimentional window during my adolescence: Hopscotch), Jorge Luis Borges (for the scholarship); last but not least Tim Leary (for showing how the hardware works).....and Nina y Miguel Angel -mama y papa- R.I.P (who brought me into this body and its dance).

..."Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

Here is a list of links to their pages or places where you can find more information about them. (When no page is available I will try to make one for them, here)

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