The Dragon's Head Blog

Toronto Wong Dai Sin just celebrated the year of the Rooster at midnight. Well attended by the local Chinese community. The next celebration of the new year will be the Lantern Festival & Lighting Ceremony. FLK will follow the Chinese tradition, and will host the festival in Orangeville on February 11th, 2017 with a delicious […]

Corry, a senior member from Breda in the Netherlands, is enjoying her fifth workshop. It is my first time that I am relaxed and enjoying every minute. At other workshops I was so eager to learn and apply as much as possible in the Taoist Tai Chi set that I tightened up instead of letting […]

What we practised yesterday we continued today. In between practising  Taoist Tai Chi® arts Marsha helped us enlarge our understanding of uneven forces that create the turn. She gave examples of these moments in the tai chi set. On a chart of the human body and on a model of the spine she visualised it […]

The International Workshop in Helmond has started. For Aart, a member who began six months ago, it was his first workshop experience. He said: ‘We did a lot of tor yu’s. At one point I almost gave up. But I kept practising and I noticed that my lower back was loosening. That was a surprising discovery. […]

Many people have asked about the status of our resident owl. She is a small screech owl according to the Audubon Society. As construction progresses she is being moved around a bit but still seems happy to be here. The Audubon Society will still need to catch her before she goes into nesting mode. She […]

Here are some aspects of the first Fung Loy Kok Week at the International Center Florida.

We gathered to celebrate the 2017 Chinese New Year at a banquet at the International Centre in Florida.

Here are pictures from the first day of FLK Week at the Internatianal Center in Dunedin, Florida.

Here is another testimonial from a participant of the program about the power of Taoist Tai Chi® arts. I came to Taoist Tai Chi® practice seeking to improve my balance. I have trauma induced vertigo from a motorcycle accident. I had just come to a stop when a car hit me doing 35-40 mph. The […]

Many hands make for light work.

The week is going like a walk in the park. – Roseann Merriam, Dunedin, FL   It’s amazing how much easier it is to do it correctly! – Margaret Zabor, Temple Terrace, FL   It’s fun working with a light heart in summer weather. – Anne Reuber, Stratford, Ontario   Tony demos with slow, gentle […]

In group donyu practice, I shared the story of how I learned the donyu. My first donyu experience took a long time as pain was a bigger guide than the three instructors that finally taught me. Effectively, the donyu saved my life, and is still a big part of it. Barb, our group leader, asked […]

Today is the first day of the Central Region Workshop in Dunedin, Florida.  We are enjoying the warm winter weather, cheerfully chopping vegetables. We also worked hard on connections and timing in our toryus and donyus.

Paddle to Honeymoon Island and birdwatch. Relax a bit. Use turning the spine in a beautiful environment like one group did in November. Look carefully. You might recognize a mighty kayaker or two! Marsha had a great time and so will you. Marsha Eberhardt, Pegoty Packman, and others decided to explore the waterfront of the […]

To celebrate the Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi® 47th Anniversary & The Quiet Cultivation Centre 10th Anniversary in 2017, we are hosting a Facebook photo contest.   What: Photo submissions should be of the EXTERIOR or INTERIOR of the Fung Loy Kok International Centre, a temple near Orangeville situated on a beautiful 100 acres of land.   […]

Did you know that Taoist Tai Chi® arts can straighten out severely damaged osteoporotic vertebrae without the aid of analgesic or prescription drugs? These two X-rays show: left the spine in 2016 and on the right 2015. 2016 shows the expansion created by straightening things out so now I can sing again as the air […]

We gave a demo for the evening Christmas shoppers in Colchester town centre. It was a nice opportunity to do more tai chi and talk to people about Taoist Tai Chi® arts within a festive atmosphere.

The festive season started wonderfully for us in Great Britain with an intensive led by President Crispin Barker, a beautiful meal, crazy quiz and musical entertainment with full-blooded participation, including a rowdy and fun version of Twelve Days of Christmas with each group taking a verse/day and performing actions.  Can you identify any of the days […]

Completing our exploration of opening in the first 17 moves,  we played with appear to close entrance and cross hands. Listen to the push and the elasticity of the body, connect and open. Listen to the roundness of the move. One individual cannot know everything, together we learn from each other.  The 108 moves reflect […]

Lines, angles, timing, balance. Things go where they need to go. The expression comes from the inside. We continued to explore the feeling of opening in the beginning of the set. The movement of hands is driven by the push from the feet. We enjoyed a preview of the preliminary results of the Canadian Health […]