The Dragon's Head Blog

The Plan The new International Center is a five acre property made up of four structures. The main building, at the Fenway, called  Building “A” will have a grand lobby, meeting room, dining room, a kitchen and 102 rooms for accommodations. Building “B” because of its condition had to be demolished shortly after purchase. Building “C” is a […]

The Kentucky Location celebrated their 25th anniversary on Saturday, May 16th with 68 members attending from Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. We enjoyed a day long intensive with Sean Dennison and some good ole Southern hospitality, Kentucky traditional picnic feast of Smoked BBQ, Derby Pie and Sweet tea. Thank you Mr. Moy for your legacy.

For five days, under the leadership of Verity Rolfe, we discovered our centres, learned to look far, and pressed and balanced our way through don-yus, tor-yus, snakes and several moves. The results were obvious as our sets became calmer and much more together. A nice balance of large and small group activities with simple, clear […]

On May 7th the Atlantic Region held its first annual Seniors’ Day. Each location hosted some sort of activity. Several hosted very successful Intensives in the morning with lunch to follow and one location included High Tea – complete with dainty sandwiches and fine china. Several groups organized visits to retirement communities to share Taoist Tai Chi® arts […]

It is possibly one of the positive news being so eagerly waited for by Ukraine. The participants from Poland, Switzerland and Ukraine had a wonderful and most useful time on 9-10 of May in Lviv at the IWS led by Paul Davies from the Great Britain. At the workshop we got to know a lot […]

At the end of March we hosted an International Program in Costa Rica at the European School premises; an open space calm, harmonious and very suitable for our practise of the Taoist Tai Chi® arts. Our journey began on Friday evening in a gathering with national and international family members who came from Canada and […]

The five-day International workshop held recently in Brisbane Queensland had the highest number of attendees so far at an Australian workshop. There were 191 participants doing Taoist Tai Chi® arts, creating an atmosphere of gentle, calming purpose…..No Hurry!! Our worldwide membership was evident with people attending from New Zealand, Canada, Costa Rica and most parts of Australia. […]

  May 1st – 3rd 2015; the 35th anniversary of Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi® in Edmonton. We were honoured to have John Huang from Sarnia, Ontario lead us through the selection of Taoist Tai Chi® arts offered in celebration. The weekend started on Friday the 1st of May with a Seniors Day Tai […]

The Mother’s Day Banquet on April 25 in Toronto was a great success in bringing together 360 of our friends and family from all over Ontario and parts beyond. This annual event gives us the opportunity to come together to celebrate, socialize and strengthen our connections to each other and the organization. Guests were greeted […]

Tony took us on an adventurous journey letting us work on the moves of the set. He helped us to make our step longer and turn and stretch more. He showed us the next level of raise hands and we had great fun working on it ourselves. On the fourth day we worked on wave […]

Over 50 members gathered together for a fun day at the Western Region Centre in Newport, Wales. The morning focus was in making the centre beautiful again with a good deal of cleaning. There was also a beginner’s class and a national board meeting at the same time. A delicious lunch of beef in black […]

This weekend we organized three accelerated weekend beginner classes in the Netherlands. In our centre in Helmond and in our clubhouses in Rijswijk and Haarlem we welcomed 126 participants of which 23 real beginners. What a good way to start the Taoist Tai Chi® arts.

Traditionally, the first weekend after Xmas holiday has been devoted to IWS in Prague, Czech Republic. Considering previous few years we nearly have got a record this January as 197 members came from all over Europe and Canada to enjoy doing Taoist Tai Chi® with Marsha Eberhardt. What’s more, five of our friends from Ukraine […]

We’ve concentrated a lot lately on the upper limbs. We’ve emphasized that, because the hands form one end of a number of continuities running through the body, their proper use has a significant impact on all our movements. But the hands, although intimately connected to the centre, are situated out in the periphery. While they […]

For awhile now, we’ve been delineating hand to foot continuities that run throughout the body, providing strength, flexibility and a more developed sense of one’s body in space as they unfold. These patterns of uninterrupted flow, created by sequences of muscle, tendon, fascia and bone, come and go with movement. We saw, last time, how motion […]

Last time, we looked at how the bones of the elbow-forearm complex are designed so that the elbow bends and the hand turns. To better understand the influence of the hand and elbow on the strength and balance of our entire structure, we need to consider the ties binding the components of the upper limb […]

In an earlier article, it was mentioned that we are often asked in class to open Tiger’s Mouth, bring fingertips up, drop elbow, turn wrist or send out the hands. Why is that? What role do the upper limbs play in learning our art? How do they contribute to the balance and strength of our […]

In practicing our art, one of the things we discover is the steady rhythm of the body as it turns up and then down. Surprisingly, we also learn that attending to the placement of the hand and elbow helps us acquire that rhythm. We will focus today on the elbow-forearm complex, its anatomy and its […]

As reported in the New York Times and US News & World Report, a small but significant new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows positive results in pain relief from regular practice of tai chi for people suffering from fibromyalgia. One of our members in Australia has personally experienced the positive […]

Taoist Tai Chi® arts introduce a way of moving that is novel for all students. Because the focus is on balance in all its dimensions, we develop over time a newfound sense of comfort and ease as we practice the 108 moves of the set. It feels as if we are learning to move the […]