The Dragon's Head Blog

 The Oregon Branch held its annual potluck picnic and intensive on July 13th. The picnic has been held for over 15 years.  For the last five the picnic has been hosted by the Vancouver, WA participants at their location.  Carpooling from the Portland Branch allowed non-drivers including some from Pain Relief classes to join in the fun.  For the 3rd […]

On this beautiful summer day in Brussels we celebrated Awareness Day. We did some sets and gave an introduction class to interested people. This announces the beginning of the Taoist Tai Chi TM season in the parks that will take place in Belgium in July and August. The bravest ended with a picnic and a […]

On Sunday May 26 we celebrated Awareness Day in Helmond in the Netherlands. We started the day with an instructors meeting where we had some good talks together. Then, after lunch, we walked with about 60 people to the town centre and did ourTaoist Tai ChiTM arts demonstrations. We did quite some sets in a […]

The Greater Phoenix Area Locations participated in “Food for Kidz Packathon” hosted by Prince of Peace Lutheran Church.  This packathon provides meals for hungry children and their families locally, on the Navajo Reservation, and internationally.  The meals were individually packed, highly nutritious and filling.  The Arizona TTCS participants conducted demos and assisted in meal packaging.    […]

For the  4th year, the Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA was invited to provide a demo on May 16 for the EEO Asian American/Pacific Islander festival at the Bay Pines Veterans Medical Center. This is a very festive event; new countries representing a diversity of employees are always added to the program. This […]

Beginners’ graduation brunches at the Denver Branch are always highly anticipated for good eats from our kitchen volunteers, well-earned congratulations for completing the classes and an introduction to some of the branch’s leadership. Our April 2019’s brunch was special because it was prepared and served by our dedicated branch council. Forty members and friends, including […]

Nice challenge to set up for the banquet celebrating 30 years of Taoist Tai Chi in the Netherlands and Chinese New Year on the first day of the workshop. A very joyful celebration as we tried to work with no arms but from the heart.   A very international celebration as the workshop was organised […]

It was a splendid banquet and we were honored with the attendance of several representatives from different countries and associations of the field of health, all that in a festive and cheerful atmosphere. Both the organization and the realization of the banquet were carried out by volunteer members from thirteen different countries. We also had […]

Gung Hay Fat Choy The Colorado Branch held our traditional Chinese New Year Celebration February 23rd with a hundred of our members plus ten local dignitaries. Poor weather cleared in time to host the well-attended event. The program included welcome and opening remarks by member Donna Samuels, Year of the Pig remarks by Dan Hartman, a […]

More than sixty members from seven classes throughout Suffolk spent time together in Ipswich this week to celebrate the Year of the Pig.  Members arrived early to help decorate the hall, prepare food, make puerh tea for the break, and start the sale of raffle tickets  We enjoyed practising tai chi together, and hearing tales from the early days of the […]

Over the years, our celebration of the Chinese New Year has become a special event for us members of the TTCS. A time of meeting and sharing, where we work together to make this day a beautiful rewarding memory, between decoration, preparation of spring rolls, an intensive,  our delicious  meal, and a fundraising for the […]

Perth celebrated Chinese New Year with dragons and lions and a parade through town, and a CNY theme to tonight’s riverside Light Night.     TTCS members were there, displaying our tai chi ‘set’, and giving out lots of leaflets to promote modern ways to start learning this ancient Taoist Art.     Lighting was […]

The first of this year’s European Chinese New Year banquets was held on Friday 25 January at our Home in Colchester. Cooking had started the day before; table setting was largely complete by lunchtime – mostly by volunteers who had arrived early for the 3-day weekend workshop, and partly by volunteers coming in to help […]

Chinese New Year 2019 The Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism and Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA celebrated the Chinese New Year Banquet for the Year of the Earth Pig, at the International Center Florida in Dunedin, on January 12th. In attendance were 210 guests including Dunedin Mayor Julie Bujalski, Dunedin Commissioner Jeff […]

All wrapped up in time for the festive period – Taoist Tai Chi Society members at the Centre in Colchester support the local food bank again this year, raising over 350 kg of food, lovingly boxed.

Over 50 people attended the Taoist Tai Chi Society® Denver Senior’s Day Celebration last month. Member Jerry Garner organized the early lunch-time event with committee members Bob Tank, Dr. Jason Crandall and Penny Ware. The committee reached out to Denver’s local health care provider community to invite them to the event and raise awareness about […]

The Portland Branch greeted the holiday season with its annual Holiday Gala.  Tai chi practitioners along with family and friends enjoyed a bountiful meal together.  Each attendee contributed a dish to create the feast.  Delicious dishes, salads, and DESSERTS were contributed by the 120 attendees.  Live music provided by two branch participants completed the festive […]

The Dutch Seniors committee liked to organize an activity to celebrate International Seniors Day in which they could sing together songs from the old days. And the Belgian board liked to organize a Christmas lunch. So why not combine these two? We did – on Sunday December 9th there was a Sing Along Christmas lunch in the TTCS Centre in Helmond. The […]

The Taoist Tai Chi Society has joined the International Senior’s Day celebrations. On the 10th of November we gathered in Budapest to greet our senior members. The program started with a flashmob organized in one of the busiest downtown squares, where both participants and viewers enjoyed the movement in this unusual form. After the demo […]

Around 50 members of the Taoist Tai Chi Society of Great Britain gathered for an informal Christmas Lunch, at a well-placed hotel in the southern end of the Aberdeen Angus Branch, and even interrupted their festivities to smile for the camera. The extrememely popular hamper raffle was drawn, and this made a very healthy contribution […]