Enrollment now closed for Spring 2008 classes...please check out our Fall 2008 class schedule. Come and play, stretch and grow strong...ready for the Holiday Season!
S.T.A.R. & B.E.A.M. ongoing program is still in progress and the class is growing, select the Seniors/Adaptive Program page for details.
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!!
Weapons
Tai Chi
Broadsword 13 Form
7:15-8:15 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.
