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National Updates
Improving Health and Containing Costs Through the Practice of the Taoist Tai Chi® Arts
Thank you to the 3,000+ USA participants who completed the health questionnaire. Your support of this project made it an overwhelming success and provided our organization with a wealth of information demonstrating the benefits of Taoist Tai Chi® practice. The summary report […]
International Center Florida Construction Update for June 2016
Construction is underway at the International Center Florida in the southwest wing. After many long weeks of waiting, the steel has arrived. The local osprey enjoy having dinner atop the 30-foot tall beams. Site work on the north side of the building has brought the attention of the neighbors back to the site. Many gather […]
Sword Program Report from International Center Florida
The International Center Florida hosted the a sword program lead by Dr. Karen Laughlin, over the Memorial Day holiday. Over 82 participants joined in the fun. For many, this was their first workshop. First-time participants reflect: I took sword just to have fun. […]
Marathon of Moves in Vancouver, Canada
The Vancouver branch raised approximately $800 during our Marathon of Moves event on May 18. Seventy people participated in the day, which involved 10.5 hours of continuous sets at the Pacific Region Centre. People came and went, with as few as two or three people doing sets, and as many as 25, and always a […]
The Green Dragon Dances … and Speaks
As the doors of the practice hall opened the warm wind wafted in giving new life to the space. The tai chi practitioners filtered in a few at a time on this lovely spring day. I was about to come alive again! I am the twenty-legged green dragon resident at the International Taoist Tai Chi […]
Acknowledging Mother’s Day
It was nice to give my mom flowers on Mother’s Day at the International Centre in Orangeville. Frazer
Theatre and Tai Chi in Stratford, Ontario
On Saturday, May 13, 2017 60 people arrived in Stratford, Ontario to take part in our biennial Theatre and Tai Chi event. After a brief class, a delicious buffet lunch was enjoyed by all. Then it was off to the theatre for a rousing production of HMS Pinafore. As usual, getting together to eat and socialize […]
Renovations at the Southern European Centre, Spain
Preparations are being made for the renovations to start in the next two weeks.
Windsor, Ontario Branch Featured on Radio
During the Victoria Day holiday weekend participants from the Windsor, Ontario branch spoke on a local radio station. Branch leaders spoke about new classes, balance and the health benefits of Taoist Tai Chi® arts. As a charitable organization the Windsor branch was invited by the station to do three programs this year. The station covers all of the […]
Final Day of International Workshop in Helmond, Netherlands
Breakfast was early this last day of the workshop so that we had lots of time to practice. We consolidated everything we had learned the first four days. And to top it all off we ended with two sets that felt completely different than the first sets we did this workshop. We all went home […]
Testimonials from International Workshop in Helmond, Netherlands
Today we heard several stories. One of the members has radiation pain from the shoulder to the arm. She told us that she went to the doctor the day before this workshop. He advised her to double her morphine dose. Instead she decided to register for the five-day workshop. With a big smile on her […]
Thoughts on Practicing Taoist Tai Chi for One Year
I have been regularly practicing tai chi for nearly a year now and must say that the health benefits have become clear and noticeable. Early last year, I had a really bad back with symptoms of acute stiffness and daily painful spasm. My son who is a physiotherapist and GP put it to me […]
International Workshop in Helmond, Netherlands
There are 90 participants from 12 countries who have come to Helmond to practise Taoist Tai Chi® arts and to do other activities together, like weeding, dishwashing and chopping vegetables. This feels like coming home. Meeting old and new tai chi family members also contributes to this feeling. On the first sunny and warm […]
National Workshop in Canberra, Australia
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) branch of the Taoist Tai Chi Society of Australia had good reason to smile on Saturday 29th April when 82 members from Canberra, Perth, Sydney and Adelaide joined together to celebrate ACT’s 25th anniversary at a national workshop. A high tea, delightfully prepared by local members with an abundance of treats […]
Celebrating Forty Years at Bathurst Location in Toronto, Canada
This year the Bathurst location in Toronto, Canada celebrates its fortieth anniversary of practicing Taoist Tai Chi® arts in this location. We are fortunate that Master Moy settled in Toronto, Canada when he came to the west to share these arts. The first locations where he taught these arts were rented sites and the Bathurst […]
National Program in Windsor, Ontario
Eighty-three participants from Windsor, Sarnia and the midwest USA gathered at the Windsor branch for a national program led by Tony Kwong May 6 & 7, 2017. Participant’s from 14 to 80 years of age, improved their understanding of Taoist Tai Chi® arts by working together on the foundations and the first 17 movements of […]
Shifting to Balance — May Health Recovery Week at International Centre in Orangeville, Ontario
“Keep it simple”, says Frazer Smith as he leads 31 participants at the May Health Recovery program at the International Centre in Orangeville. “Up, up, …” go the participants as the instructor guides us through the first few moves of the set. And slowly, gently, softly day one ends with a shifting to balance. […]
Central Region Program in St. Catharines, Ontario
Fully 76 participants gathered at the Horseshoe Centre in St. Catharines for a Central Region program on Saturday, May 6, 2017. All branches in the Horseshoe area were represented and visitors from Stratford, Toronto, Buffalo, and Syracuse were welcomed. Chris Lewis, our instructor for the day, observed that our first tai chi set was disconnected […]
May the 4th Be with You! Spring Gardening Day in Colchester, England
At our Colchester Centre on May 4th, members came together from four different branches for our first gardening day of the year. It was a very productive day as we tidied and pruned, weeded and cut back, planted up pots with young bedding plants, planted lettuce and sunflower seeds, and prepared a tomato bed. A […]
National Program and Banquet in Vancouver, Canada
The Vancouver branch hosted a national program and a „To Your Health“ banquet over the weekend of April 29 & 30, 2017. We were honoured to have Marsha Eberhardt, President of Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi® share her knowledge and experience with 160 attendees from the Pacific, Western and Central Regions, as well as […]
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