Seeds of Longevity

An Italian-American, born in Brooklyn, NY, living in Taos, NM, who writes about Tai Chi, health, wellness, and occasionally about outdoor recreation. Chris Aloia has a BA in Psychology and a Master of Public Health. He is a father of two boys and works in Diabetes prevention.

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Karma, and Choosing The Path That Brings Growth

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There is a real romance attached to special forces, especially when filtered through books and movies. Discipline, brotherhood, mastery unde...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

The Most Overlooked Wilderness Survival Skill: Tai Chi

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Outdoor skills are usually framed around the same familiar categories: navigation, fire building, first aid, layering, risk management, and ...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Don’t Die With Your Sword in Its Sheath

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  One of the saddest truths we face in life is unused potential. We feel it when we see a young person lose themselves to addiction, or wors...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Karma, the Five Bodies, and What Rock Art Taught Me Today (part two)

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  Standing in Sego Canyon today, looking at these ancient pictographs that once inspired me back in art school, something clicked. Some peop...
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Karma, Change, and the Light I Finally See (part 1)

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  2025 has been a year of extremes for me — highs, lows, and more confrontations than I’ve had since high school. Some of that was on me. I...
Sunday, November 09, 2025

When All Falls Away

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  When All Falls Away When all things fall away, and no one remains, I return to the breath. The body remembers what the heart forgets ...
Saturday, November 08, 2025

The Microcosmic Orbit and the Future of Tai Chi

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  After years of studying the esoteric aspects of the microcosmic orbit and Taoist internal alchemy, I often felt like I was chasing a mira...
Monday, November 03, 2025

The Shoulder: How Humans became The Most Lethal Animal on Earth

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Before humans hurled spears, drew bows, or threw fastballs, our ancestors were tree-climbers. The freely rotating joint in the shoulder, whi...
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