OR by Snail-mail to: Topeka Tai Chi, 3400 SW MacVicar,
Topeka KS 66611
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Tai Chi Forms Practice
7:15-7:45 PM FEE: $60
12 weeks, 30 minutes
Continue YOUR practice of the forms you have learned and improve on your skills while increasing your good health! Free your mind, enjoy low impact aerobics, and de-stress your body while conditioning and strengthening for 30 minutes of the 5 Centering Set, 8 Verses of Brocade, the Beijing 24 Short Form, 12 Tao Yin, Wu Style Short Form, and/or the Tai Chi Fan Form (for those who have completed these courses). Other forms will be added as instruction is completed. This is not an instructional class; it is instructor led and you may demonstrate knowledge of the any of the forms to enroll. Session is 24 30-minute classes
Tai Chi
Broadsword 13 Form
8:00-9:00 PM
FEE: $100
Plus equipment fee.
12 weeks, 60 minutes
Tai Chi Broadsword is one of the short weapons in the Tai Chi Chuan system. It shares the same concepts and principles as Tai Chi Chuan in practice which emphasizes the concepts of: slowness, lightness, relaxation, calm, the use of intent and not physical force, the sinking of chi down to dantien, suspend the head from above, concentration, the harmonization of the internal and external, coordination of the top and bottom. All of these same concepts are emphasized in this form of Tai Chi Broadsword. Master Zhang Yong Tao of the Beijing WuBin Wushu Training Center was our instructor for this form.
Pre-requisite: Tai Chi Fan Form or equivalent training.
Intermediate to advanced players. Flexible Training Broadswords will be available for purchase. 24 1-hour classes.
12 Tao Yin &
5 Organ Sets
Chi Gung (Qigong)
6:00-7:00 PM
FEE: $100
12 weeks, 60 minutes
This is Energy Work and includes the 5 Organ Set and the 12 Tao Yin or “The Way of Becoming Soft” (Swimming Dragon, Snake & Crane Dispersal, plus 10 more!). Purpose: enjoy moving with flexibility and strength to become like "spring grasses". Course is a minimum of 24 1-hour classes. Beginners and up!
Note:These exercises are FUN & HEALTHFUL--come LAUGH & LEARN!!