In Tai Chi we strive to balance root and heart – form and feeling. Too much heart and I become carried away with emotion, too much root and I become heartless and unfeeling – detached from my humanity. This balance is not a cancelling out but a growing together in the sense that as one strengthens then so does the other, but also in the sense of entwinement. My struggle to keep root and heart always together pays off in the transformation of each: root softens and lightens and takes on an ethereal quality, and heart becomes gradually physical – almost concrete – in its insistence.