Return to tai chi

I’ve been sick with a bad cold since the middle of last week so haven’t had a lot to say lately. I think my first sign of this cold appeared the night before when I started feeling lightheaded and had a touch of vertigo. At the time I was more concerned with another attack of vertigo. I should be glad it’s not the flu as we’re in the middle of a pandemic where 10 people have already died this winter in our state. The peak of the season isn’t until next month so we are still at risk of it hitting out house.

I’m due to start a new term of tai chi tonight after taking time off to heal from surgery. I decided to redo level three this time since I never quite grasped it properly back in term one. I would be fine when working on each new move each week. But putting them altogether just didn’t happen and with the break I just felt hopelessly behind. This decision took away some stress and anxiety that I didn’t need and will take some burden off me while I’m still having to adjust for limitations caused by my knee.

Post tai chi

I managed to complete the entire class tonight and didn’t fall on my face. So I guess that could be considered a success. It was odd to be doing the class now instead of the observations from last term. And I was curious to find myself experiencing painful feet while doing the warm up exercises, which is much like I experienced almost every week during my first term of the class last year. I’m not sure if this is due to chance, my new shoes or if it’s related to the tai chi, but it is interesting and I’m curious if it will be the same next week. The biggest workout for me was the footwork we did before the lesson as it really worked many of my weaker knee muscles. I might start adding that into my home practice as a means to build up my knee. The actual lesson went pretty well although my knee buckled early on and I took a very short break before carrying on. One other lady was working on my level tonight and she was struggling so much she has opted to go back and repeat level two. Unless someone turns up next week for this level, I may well be on my own for this term. Which has it’s good and bad points. Will see what happens. I was also pleased my body didn’t decide to go into a coughing spasm during class too. Now I’m home and ready to collapse but hopefully it will mean a better sleep than the past few nights.