The Dragon's Head Blog

Wherein a continuing instructor reports on an international workshop of Taoist Tai Chi® arts held in Wellington, New Zealand, March 16-20, 2016. Arriving early on the first day of the international workshop, I was thrilled to meet up with old friends and acquaintances from past workshops and other tai chi events. There is a real […]

The Ottawa Branch was pleased to welcome Louis Blaquière to lead us in a National Program on the weekend of March 19. The theme for these two days was trust, relax and let go. We worked on these three aspects in our dan yus and tor yus, and while reviewing the moves in the first […]

We want to thank everyone for their overwhelming support from across Canada for the National Danyu Challenge. The feedback was quite inspiring. We completed together a total of 4,893,767 danyus, 97,780 snakes, and so far we have received $31,964 in donations … but there are more continuing to come in. Here is some of the feedback: […]

The Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA, Columbus Branch, hosted a weekend workshop March 12 and 13. The workshop celebrated 20 years of providing Taoist Tai Chi® arts training to the central Ohio area. Forty individuals including the two instructors attended the workshop and enjoyed the ambiance of the location and the food prepared […]

The weekend of March 19-20, 2016 saw a fun and lively experience for attendees learning the tai chi sabre set in Sarnia, Ontario.  Led by Central Region Management Committee member, Blaise Baillargeon, 37 participants from near and far, including Michigan, Ohio, Sault Ste. Marie, Collingwood, Windsor, Kitchener-Waterloo, Stratford Branch, and Sarnia Branch, played and laughed […]

To ring in the Year of the Fire Monkey, the Tristate Branch (comprising New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut) held its annual Chinese New Year Banquet, Auction and Raffle on Sunday, March 6. Having outgrown the James Beard House, the historic culinary center where we have held banquets in years past, we ventured farther […]

How does material history relate to an oral tradition? How does the study of that history fit into everything else that we do in this organization? The more I work with the historical materials of Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi®, the more I feel like the unofficial historian of the organization. The wealth of […]

Restoration work continues at our second International Center.  Framing teams continue construction of the load-bearing walls and have begun replacement of the girders on the second floor of the northeast wing. Plumbers continue to work in the southeast wing. The lobby scaffolding around the new support column has been removed. Work on the new lobby […]

Plus de 50 personnes ont participé à la révision du 12 mars dernier à l’emplacement de Limoilou, à Québec. La révision a porté sur le début de la 3ème partie et les participants ont pu travailler leur alignement, leur direction et le regard. Par la suite a eu lieu un dîner communautaire et une réunion […]

The grey clouds and wet weather above Brisbane’s Reddacliff Place could not dampen the spectacular sight of two hundred members of the Taoist Tai Chi Society of Australia performing a lunchtime demonstration of Taoist Tai Chi® arts on Friday 11 March 2016. This event was timed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the volunteer, non-profit […]

The smiles in this group photo say it all about how much participants enjoyed this week of Taoist Tai Chi® arts in Brisbane led by Tony Kwong, Director of the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism. We were also privileged to be joined by the President of the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism, Marsha […]

On February 27th the Corpus Christi, Texas location welcomed the Year of the Fire Monkey with our traditional Chinese New Year banquet at our Santa Fe street location. Over 80 guests attended including the Corpus Christi Chief of Police, Fire Chief, and Assistant Director of Parks & Recreation, as well as participants from Austin and […]

The final numbers from the 2016 Central Region dan yu challenge are now in. From the reports across the region everyone enjoyed the challenge and found a deeper understanding of the benefits of this exercise in the Taoist Tai Chi® arts. There were 1,385 participants and $17,780 was raised for the Fenway project. The number of […]

Members and special guests in Brisbane, Queensland (Australia), celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Brisbane branch at a dinner on March 10, 2016. We were pleased to be joined by special guests Mr. Duncan Pegg MP, member for Stretton and representing the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk; Councillor Vicki Howard from Central Ward of the City […]

  On a cool but fortunately sunny spring weekend an international workshop with 70 participants from five countries took place in Frankfurt. This year we were able to rent the rooms of the Waldorf School in Frankfurt. This gave us the opportunity to have all in one place. A large gym, a separate dining area […]

The benefits of an active lifestyle are well documented in studies.  But for living proof look no further than Stratford’s Isabel Plant. A five-day-a-week regular at the city’s branch of Taoist Tai Chi the energetic and charming senior celebrated her 90th birthday with fellow participants at the Ontario Street facility this week. Along with Anneli […]

On Friday, March 18th, the Tampa Bay Times will run the following article with an online video of the work being done at the International Center Florida, Fenway Hotel and the Society. Watch the video Tampa Bay Times Article Even during its latest 10-year stint as a vacant building, the historic Fenway Hotel has remained […]

On February the 20th the Winnipeg Branch filled the practice hall to capacity to mark the Chinese New Year. The communal sounds of people talking and laughing filled the colourfully decorated room as guests waited for the delicious buffet. The dinner program was rich with a combination of FLK education, cultural exchange, prizes and comedy. […]

Centre volunteers have been busy working long days harvesting and preparing the sap collected from our property’s maple trees. Once in the evaporator the sap is boiled down until it reaches the right level of sweetness. The delicious liquid is then brought over to the kitchen to be filtered and bottled.

Over eighty members attended the Chinese New Year Dinner at the Buffalo Center on March 5th. Everyone enjoyed the northwestern Chinese style menu as well as the music provided by our talented members.  Thanks go out to everyone who participated in the planning, preparation and clean-up of the dinner.