Roots Taiji

Roots Taiji Roots Taiji is an exploration of Taoist principals in practice according to Patrick Kelly's formulation of these principals in practice.

Roots is orientated towards promoting a positive martial culture within Auckland this includes Systema and Capoeira. Taiji is a form of skillful movement based on traditional Taoist principals. The aim of this practice was to achieve balance internally and externally and attunement to our inner essence and the inner essence of the enviroment/nature (Patrick.A.Kelly)

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This is the history of Goju Ryu Karate. Learn the origin of one of the main Karate styles to come out of Okinawa. Goju Ryu is the backbone of many Karate sys...

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Some crows don’t escape the cold. They let it take them.

They go still as winter closes in, but the part most people miss is what that stillness actually means.

In Alaska’s deepest freezes, certain corvids can push their bodies into an extreme metabolic slowdown. Heart rate drops to almost nothing. Breathing becomes nearly undetectable. Body temperature falls so low it edges toward freezing without crossing into damage.

This is not dying. It is deliberate suspension.

Inside their cells, natural compounds act like antifreeze, protecting delicate structures as ice threatens to form. Organs pause in place. The brain goes quiet, not gone, just waiting.

Time, for them, stops being something to endure.

When warmth returns, the process unwinds. Blood moves again. Signals restart. The bird rises as if the season never touched it.

In a landscape that shuts life down, they do something stranger.

They leave the timeline entirely, then step back in when it’s safe.

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