Thanks to students old and new at this week's Hackney class for a really great session, particularly your enthusiasm for applications work. It's been a great week back at T'ai Chi, study and teaching, and I fell glad to be part of such a heart-felt society of good folks.

Next week at Mark's classes it's sword and sabre at 6.30pm. On Sunday 21st at our usual weekend venue it'll be Sword Workshop, 2-5pm. I'll miss it as I will be at Gaia House, so please figure-eight your tassels on my behalf.

We were having our good friend Canadian T'ai Chi Master Sam Masich over to visit next week and hoping he'd pop into Tuesday class too, but sadly he now has to return to Germany straight after his Brighton teaching commitments, to deal with bureaucracy. Hopefully we'll rearrange for the Summer.