SPONTANEOUS ORDER · RATIONAL MIND · NATURAL FLOW
SEAWEED TAI CHI
Where East meets West on the Carolina coast: music, dance writing and tai chi gather to move like seaweed in the tides . . .
Listen to the waves
THE PRACTICE
The Lesson of the Seaweed
EAST + WEST = SEAWEED + TAI CHI
A strand of seaweed is rooted to the ocean floor, yet it never fights the current. It sways with it. SeaWeed Tai Chi joins what we love about the West, the beach, Lowcountry culture, music and dance, with the tai chi and meditation of the East. We call the framework Alga Taiji, and we think what it produces is love.
NEW MUSIC
Sounds from
the Shoreline
Sea = salt + music + dance. The songs come from the same place as the practice: the beach, the Lowcountry and the pull of the tide.
STORIES
Tales from the Tide Line
Every culture hands down its wisdom in stories. Ours come from the shoreline: Lowcountry characters, music and history, told with an eye on the East–West ideas behind SeaWeed Tai Chi. A story can carry what a lesson can't, and many of ours come with their own soundtrack, songs you can play as you read. Some are free to read here; others are in the store.
TAI CHI
Rooted, Then Flowing
Tai chi is the root of the practice: slow, structured forms, learned move by move from a teacher and repeated until they live in the body. The structure is the point. It builds balance, breath and focus, and it gives the freedom of the dance something to stand on. We play with unstructured tai chi when we dance; this is where it's learned.
DANCE
Moving Like Seaweed
Dance is foundational to SeaWeed Tai Chi. There are no steps to learn and no right way to move: just music, the tide, and a body that follows. In a jam, the thinking mind steps aside and movement becomes meditation, the same flow tai chi trains, set loose. It's where the practice comes alive, and everyone is welcome.
GATHER
Join Our Community
A creative community of writers, musicians, dancers and tai chi practitioners, inspired by nature and the sea. Share your work and join the conversation in our groups. In person, we meet in various places on James Island and downtown. Gatherings are spontaneous and random.
New music and writings, by email