"For a moment no judgements, fear, emotions or reactions as if a veil had been lifted"

To meet you was both impressive and intense. I'm grateful to Henk that he was willing to share his experience he had with you by inviting you here to give your workshop. essentially what I experienced during your workshop in Groneo is inexpressible and unnamable by my mind but it was visible and apparent by the vibrations I sensed and how my heart was touched, so beautiful.

Movement based on Pandataichi meant me putting my mind and thoughts on pause for a while. For a moment no judgements, fear, emotions or reactions as if a veil had been lifted...Limitlessness... Everything as one.

During the days in Groneo it was impossible to share with others what I was experiencing inside of me, "Emptiness" but at the same time, full of energy, so complete and whole. I was moved by the title of your workshop; "Self-realization through movement" and to my feeling I understood and experienced that during the workshop.

I felt at home
I felt understood
I felt trust
I felt and saw pure simplicity;
Everything is OK
for me the key to openness

Openness, silence, respect,
Warmth flows through my system
Blooming from the heart...Love

Movement is light, formless as inside to outside
Oneness,

A peaceful pure smile...
arising naturally
Soft,

"It was something that changed my life"

I would like to say thank you so much for the class you gave me last season. It was something that changed my life. I have difficulties in explaining but something has been beginning to grow inside me and it goes on and I feel good. I am totally a different person than the last few years.

I think there are various things that have caused my transformation but one of the main things is my awakening that began during your lessons and exercises. Thank you also for your dvd, which I use almost every day for doing my Chi Kung. Because of the dvd I easily get the feeling I am together with all my new friends from class.

"I can't explain to anyone what an amazing experience this was"

Thank you Panda for such an amazing experience, two weeks that have made a lasting difference in my life!
 
Six months ago I did a workshop with Panda and the wonderful Arrambol group, and now, more than ever, I know it was a powerful experience that helped to give me lasting strength. 
 
I feel very grateful to have found my way to the Tai Chi Garden and to have met Panda.  The course was not always easy but Panda made it always feel safe. It was a place where we could push our limits further and experience the beauty and magic of ourselves. 
 
The two weeks were filled with sensations, interesting, uplifting and moving, but Panda was right, these were the waves on top of the ocean, and now I know we were all working on a much deeper level. 

I can't explain to anyone what an amazing experience this was, it just has to be experienced yourself! Panda is a real teacher, someone who helped me to be more real!

"I was so impressed with his course that I went to China to study more"

I attended Panda's Tai Chi course back in March. I had done some Chi Kung and Tai Chi before but nothing like Panda's course. He is an excellent teacher. He not only has the understanding of Tai Chi he has an amazing ability to help his students get it too. I was so impressed with his course that I went to China to study more. However I found the all the Tai Chi teachers I met were either teaching Tai Chi that was too soft or too hard.

There was nothing in between like with Panda. His is the middle way. When the Ying & the Yang are in balance in harmony the Chi can flow. After searching for a teacher in China, the USA & Thailand I will be returning to Goa in November for the season to learn the middle way from Panda. Thank you Panda. Look forward to seeing you next season.    

"The combination of skills that you teach, brings together body, mind and soul"

Panda your course was a very profound experience. The work is so subtle it's hard to describe the experience it unlocks, but it led me on a journey. For me it was a journey of many wonderful (and some hard...) things, but mostly rediscovering my own energy after a long period of chronic fatigue, as well as opening a door to living in a quieter, fuller, more present way.

Panda you have a very practical course, and are a natural teacher: down to earth and not afraid to laugh, which I liked a lot. The combination of skills that you teach, brings together body, mind and soul, which were deeply empowering during the course itself, but also afterwards, when I practiced. I feel I've now found a way of helping myself: to nurture and cultivate energy and through that hopefully to lead a more balanced, grounded life, feeling more in touch with myself and my own energy, and more able to experience harmony with the world around me.

It's wonderful to feel at the beginning of something new and beautiful... With love and thanks to you Panda!!!

"Helps harmonize the body-mind with the spirit"

I just finished a 10 day course with Panda. I'm a practicing psychiatrist in the USA and don't get much physical exercise. I am quite a bit older and was resistant about the course but in the end I felt it was great. My energy level increased and so did my confidence.

From a psychiatric point of view I wish all my patients had access to Tai-Chi or yoga. It helps harmonize the body-mind with the spirit and makes for a much more intigrated individual---of course this is not in lieu of psychotherapy or medication if indicated. We in the west especially in the USA depend too much on medication and are spending less on psychotherapy and little attention to any alternative methods of quieting the mind and invigorating the body.

To me Tai-Chi is a wonderful adjunct to conventual psychiatric practices and I highly recommend it to all my patients. Panda of course is not an ordinary Tai-Chi teacher. He has had vast life experiences and is full of good humor and sensitive to individual needs. Panda does a very good job, working us hard but keeping the whole thing relaxed and with a great sense of humor. I plan to do this course again sometime and highly recommend it. Sid Kaufman

"DOING TAI CHI"

Doing Tai Chi
what is it to be?
just feel empty
and feel free
try to be in harmony...
 
you're shifting the weight
you're turning the waist
you play the guitar
but don"t be a star...
 
feel empty, feel free
just feel your own Chi...
 
while "pushing the mountain"
or "lifting the sky"
while "turning the mill"
you never ask why
 
feel empty, feel free
what moves is your Chi
 
and what to do next
is being relaxed
 
feel empty, feel free
enjoy your Tai Chi

"Thank you Panda for bringing me back to my heart"

In the end I'm faced with the idea that you shouldn't force your life, you need just to accept what you have and side with your heart. But how to hear your heart, to be on its side?

We are living in such a noisy world and everyone has good advice for you on how to live and the uncertainty of my mind thinks; maybe this is what my heart is trying to say to me. With all this, I was walking around Arambol beach, looking for some type of exercise to tune my body, relive my brain and enlighten my soul.

A few times I tried yoga, but it was so complicated for my body that my mind suffered, which left no space for my soul. I then took Panda's course and everything started to fall into place.

My body-(it was tired after class)- but now has been feeling really good. My mind is relieved - because it has a good job now.

I can't say that much about my soul - but now I begin to feel I have one.

All these three parts of me started to harmonize with each other and began to unify. This all brought me that magic feeling that my heart is now being heard.
The short texts which Panda read while we rested also made a good influence for my mind. I've heard the same words many times before but you made my heart listen more.

So thank you Panda for bringing me back to my heart and acquainting me with my Chi, for finding the keywords to my inner master. I'd like to thank everyone from class, you all helped me in understanding more about myself, I really enjoyed everyones company.

"I've stopped being so hard on myself"

A HUGE thank you for all the wonderful teachings you've given me.  I've been going through a transformation these last few months & much of your guidance & teachings have - and continue to - help me.   The wisdom you transmit runs deep & as I continue to walk this path, I realise more & more how essential, beautiful & useful the courses were! 
I've stopped being so hard on myself!  My inner monalogue's lightened up quite a bit & I can watch the thoughts & not get so entangled in them!  yahooooo!  I start to apply the principle of 'go with' a lot more to my daily life & stop controlling my external environment.  And as I've stopped hating myself so much, SURPRISE the universe has gotten a lot more of a pleasant place to be!
I just wanted to let you know, because even though some of your students don't return, it doesn't mean the practice of self-mastery has stopped!

So Thank YOU! beaming you light, a former scottish student

"I notice something that wasn't there before"

Panda's class is one of the most honest situations you can put yourself in, if there's something you need to find out about yourself this course will make it evident to you.

What´s really great about Panda's class is you always get to meet and connect with all kinds of new and interesting people. And as a group we all set off on a journey towards movement, inspiring change leading to deeper relaxation and satisfaction.

The biggest benefit I got from Panda's class is experiencing and realizing to what a great extent how my thoughts affect my bodies health. And learning how to reshape the movements of my thoughts through the movements of my body.

Every time I do Tai Chi I notice something that wasn't there before, becoming aware of it has made a big difference. My co-ordination increased noticeably after working with Panda. Both co-ordination of body and of the mind.

This course is a great tool in helping to manifest and materialize things from the level of mind into solid reality! It's also very useful for noting and changing different aspects of ones character;
getting more grounded, stable, calm, at ease and more patient. Doing Panda's course has just made it so much easier to navigate on this crazy planet we're living on.

"Flow with the rhythm"

Tai Chi makes me flow with the rhythm of nature and opens me up to the great wonder of being and enables me to experience the freedom from the ego and exist as one with the creation. Thank you Panda a lot as you gave me the key to peep inside to my own inner divinity.

"Your work has been an inspiration for me"

It's two years since I did a course with you in Goa.  I arrived in Goa with a long standing practice, this is the tenth year, I stand everyday and I was at that time rotating my joints very much as you do but only three times as mindfully as possible (the idea not to ingrain incorrect movement) but since you classes I rotate as you do (or even more) and I have found that it really helps my physical condition and I have sorted a longstanding back problem...

The other thing that stands out about you Panda is that you let your class be free, to stand out and not participate and you explain why this is allowed....also you are true and don't say one thing and do another. I practice in the park in Hackney London and was quite protective of my space after going to india I now invite all beings in and welcome them if they come and this has radically changed my interaction with the space and the people that enter it and talk with me for the better...Thank you for that too.Probably there is more but I have gone through the important things that studying under you has helped me with and has really changed my practice for the better...So panda your work has been an inspiration for me and helped me on my path; it is right that I finally get to tell you and acknowledge your good work.

A message from the Filmmaker.

I have produced this DVD for Panda so that it may help him in his work to aid people towards self-realization. I was fortunate enough to follow his class several times while producing this DVD and I am very grateful to him for the practice that he has taught me. What he shares with us has been for me the most valuable practice to remain in a healthy body, mind and spirit. I hope this DVD will help you to be relaxed in your body, quiet in your mind and blissful in your eternal spirit. If you have not followed Panda’s class and find this DVD to be useful, I cannot urge you enough to follow his class in person. It has been for me one of the most important endeavors of my life.

Jean-Marc Abela
www.juanmarco.org

“Oh dear friend, will you believe me...”,

I have found an angels gate on the earth! You just have to come and very slowly all the heavy shadows of your pains and sufferings that you have carried along your life through your body and your heart will fall on the ground and go back to the earth.

Maybe you will cry and maybe you will try to fight but very slowly a huge wave of love will teach you how to heal your deepest wounds and very slowly a beautiful light will start to invade all your cells. You will be amazed by this miracle. You will start to shine and to fly. But you will have to be patient and you will need to rest because it is a soft & gradual process. Sometimes you will feel that you are falling deeper and deeper inside your own darkness.

But don’t be afraid because here a wonderful love will take your hand and pour light onto you no matter how deep you have gone. Yes you will have to throw away all the walls that you have built inside yourself if you want to be free. Then you will realize that you are this love that you are this light, and stronger and stronger you will shine. There will be no more fear; there will be no more lies but a simple peaceful smile. You will open your eyes and you will see the same light inside everyone and everything.

Oh dear friend I hope that you will believe me. And if you are tired of not being yourself, if something deep inside your heart tells you that now it’s the time to change, take a big amount of courage and leave all the rest. Come and enjoy with us the magical miracle to be again an angel on this earth.

“Hereby I will try to explain the special magic of panda’s tai chi classes.”

“I'm reading your amazing book and it feels like you're near me all the time holding my hand...”

Just wanted to say THANK YOU for being, for your love, and for your amazing words that touching me in the most important places, the most beautiful ones... I miss India a lot, Arambol, Tai Chi...

I've started learning soul and body balancing through arts and healing, its fascinating, and I feel that my destiny is to heal people and this world (after I heal myself...)...I'm having Chi-Kung lessons too, different but good. All is good inside and outside; winter is a blessing, washing the dirt from this little country... Sending you so much love, and so happy to know that people are getting from you what I have received, and many more are on their way....

I will hug you again, soon...love love love

“The Tai Chi has changed my life...”

“I started to take back my inherent dignity that nature gave me…”

“The Chi Kung helped me a lot, physically, mentally and spiritually…”

“Tai Chi is one of the most wonderful things I now know...”