The Dragon's Head Blog

  The tea party at Colchester has become an annual event. This time it had a 60’s theme and was at the weekend.  As always there was lots of fun and lots of food.

The Cross-Canada Seniors Day video feed is underway, with different locations taking turns to lead the more than 1000 participants across the country in a different foundation move. We’re working together even though separated by thousands of kilometres. Meanwhile Winnipeg Branch Centre has sent a welcome message, saying 80 participants and friends have travelled from […]

The Pacific Region is pleased to kick off the first Cross Canada Seniors Day in Vancouver just after 10 am local time with an energetic Taoist Tai Chi® arts set featuring more than 100 regular participants and several friends trying tai chi for the first time. Participants have arrived from Vancouver, Surrey and Chilliwack branch locations […]

Here at the Calgary Branch of the Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi® Western Region we are thrilled to learn the that our Seniors Day lands in conjunction with the the City of Calgary and the Seniors Advisory Council for Alberta Senior’s Week as proclaimed by Mayor Nenshi. To celebrate this event we are honored to welcome  Councillor Sean Chu  of Ward […]

Close to 200 people are gathering in Longueuil today for the Cross-Canada Seniors Day. They’re coming from all over the region, from the Magdalen Islands through Quebec City, Lanaudière, the Eastern townships, Montérégie and Montreal. Far-away Abitibi Branch is also hosting a Cross-Canada Seniors Day. Longueuil will be one of the six locations that will […]

Greetings from Halifax . We have 145 participants from the Atlantic Region here today. Canada’s most Easterly provinces — Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick are all well represented. Incredible energy in the room!

Greetings from Newfoundland and Labrador,  the most easterly point in North America.  At our branch in St. John’s, we started the day with an open house  and welcomed many visitors, including some local dignitaries. Everyone enjoyed a delicious vegetarian pot luck lunch.  Our afternoon workshop has approximately 25 participants who are eagerly awaiting the cross-Canada video link to […]

The mango pudding is chilling, the buses and cars have flocked to the International Center, with a record of more than 400 participants for a seniors day, and there is a excitement in the air for what’s ahead. Seniors Day is always the largest one-day event at the International Center but this year it takes […]

In Ballina, Co Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, the Friday of the International Workshop is the time for celebration, to mark the 20th anniversary of Taoist Tai Chi in Ireland. The workshop programme, for 145 members from 9 different countries, combines working all together and in small groups, and runs until mid-afternoon. We […]

This spring the Taoist Tai Chi Society of Hungary held a round table discussion in Budapest on the health benefits of Taoist Tai Chi® arts. Among the participants of the discussion were instructors of the Hungarian TTCS, doctors who are also practicing Taoist Tai Chi® arts, and two of our members living with health problems […]

For patients with painful knee osteoarthritis, tai chi was as helpful as physical therapy in reducing pain and improving physical functioning, according to a new study partially funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. The results of the study, conducted at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, were published in the journal Annals […]

Over the Memorial Day weekend holiday the International Center in Florida hosted an international sabre program lead by Sean Dennison.  Over 90 participants took part in the program coming from as far as New Zealand. The first day started with the USA Board receiving a guided tour of the historic Fenway Hotel from the Dunedin branch […]

The Portage la Prairie location hosted its first ever Winnipeg branch Mother’s Day Banquet on Friday 6 May 2016. The event was held at the Herman Prior Centre in Portage la Prairie. The evening consisted of several demos, a meal and a great silent auction with prizes donated by each location in the branch. We started […]

  How does an International Workshop of Taoist Tai Chi® arts in Ireland start? Weatherwise, with sunshine! And the same sunny and joyful atmosphere was felt by all participants when we started under Tony Kwong’s guidance with our foundation exercises. And how does an International Workshop in Ireland continue, in this our 20th anniversary year? […]

As locations across Canada get ready for Cross-Canada Seniors’ Day next week on June 9, a new meta-analysis suggests tai chi can lower blood pressure in older people as effectively as drugs or aerobic exercise. Researchers also found that the reduction in systolic blood pressure was greater in people who performed tai chi more frequently. […]

On May 27th, 2016 in the city of Oshawa, Ontario, FLK Taoist Tai Chi Day was proclaimed for the third year. . A number of Durham participants of the Toronto branch gathered at the Civic Centre of Oshawa City Hall to do Taoist Tai Chi, following which Mayor John Henry made the declaration.  We were pleased that […]

Celebrating 20 years of Taoist Tai Chi® in Costa Rica with more than 70% of our membership plus 27 participants from Australia, Aruba, Canada, USA, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, was a great experience. The preparation of the international programme, the reception and the banquet taught us a lot about participating, working together, communicating, coordinating and exploring things […]

The Wong Dai Sin Temple has won a prestigious Governor General’s Medal for Architecture, with the judges praising the building as a modern sacred space looking like a tai chi pose. This award will be presented at Rideau Hall on September 20, 2016. The jury for the awards by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Canada […]

As a charitable organization the Fung Loy Kok Windsor branch was invited by a local radio station to do three programs this year. The station covers all of the Windsor – Detroit area and beyond and has a very large listening audience. On May 21, 2016 two representatives from the Windsor branch spoke on a local radio station […]

We celebrated with a banquet the grand opening of a new clubhouse in Warsaw. It was attended by 132 smiling participants. We were honored by the presence of seven officials from the Warsaw City Hall:  mayors and vice-mayors of 4 Varsovian districts: Bielany, Żoliborz, Bemowo and Wola. We were also honored by the presence of Carmen Capilla from Spain. […]