The Daily Tribune, 2007
Tai Chi and the Art of Anita Tortorici
- WordsPeter C. Carrillo
- PublishedPage 16, 21 March 2007
- TitleThe Daily Tribune
Getting oneself to fully concentrate in doing a certain task can be tough, especially when you are living in a city where distractions abound. This is not the case with New York-born artist Anita Tortorici. How does she do it?
Tortorici has ways of communing with nature, and one is by doing tai-chi. Tai-Chi is an internal martial art, and its development can be traced to 1820 when the Chen family of China taught the system to the Yang family.
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Tai Chi is a form of meditation and is frequently known as meditation in motion.
“I try to do it in the morning when I wake up,” Tortorici says. “When I do Tai-Chi, I am in touch with my inner self and the world does not exist.”
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