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Thursday Night Dinner at the International Center in Florida
The Dunedin cook team hits a home run again. This week they put together a fantastic fresh wild Alaska salmon dinner with a special sauce that went with the fresh asparagus as well as the salmon. There was wild rice, scrumptious salad and a vegan option as well. The kitchen lead made a delicious lemon cream blueberry […]
Telling our International Centre stories
Participants of Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi® arts are invited to consider what our expansion of the International Centre a decade ago has meant to them. Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Grand Opening of the Three Religions Temple at the International Centre on August 3, and […]
Getting Ready for International Seniors Day – our Oct 1st video
Twelve centres in Canada, six in the USA, three in Australia and two in Great Britain, together with Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi® centres in Costa Rica, France, Ireland and Poland have all been part of technical trials of a video platform. We look forward to having Spain, Denmark and the Czech Republic join […]
Celebrating Twenty Years in the San Francisco Bay Area
On the last day of our international workshop, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA San Francisco Bay Area branch. We were honored by a visit from Dr. Karen Laughlin, an original board member of our branch. Alice Wong, past president and Jo Ann Aita, both early members, gave […]
Tenth Anniversary of Taoist Tai Chi® Arts in Norway
On the 27th of May 2017, 54 members were gathered in Oslo for a one-day intensive followed by a banquet in the evening to celebrate ten years of Taoist Tai Chi® practice in Norway. Members were gathered from Scandinavia, Great Britain, Italy and Slovakia. We were grateful to receive instruction from a representative from the European Regional […]
Fun, Learning, Balance in England
Over 100 people, including 25 new participants, enjoyed a beginners’ weekend at the European Centre in Colchester. While the weather was unusually hot, the group succeeded in getting all the way through the set. There was also some storytelling about Master Moy and how the Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi® arts came to Great […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Afternoon Tea in South East Essex, Great Britain
On 29th April, South East Essex branch members met at a local garden centre tea room to enjoy an afternoon tea together. The dress code was ‘wear your brightest tai chi T-shirt’ — and we did! The tea room kindly let us use their outside space to practice a tai chi set in the garden […]
Awakening the Dragon in Orangeville, Canada
On a sunny and crisp Saturday, April 29, the 10-leg dragon was prodded from its lair at the International Centre in Orangeville by a posse of 18 participants from Toronto, Quebec and Halifax. The sleepy dragon patiently allowed its head to be reattached after a long winter sleep before going outside for a good stretch and run. Energized by a morning of […]
Ithaca, New York Celebrates Earth Day
Participants from the TTCS Ithaca, New York branch chose Earth Day to perform a clean-up of Hayes Rd as part of Tompkins County’s Adopt-A-Highway program. Cleaning litter from the side of the roadway serves as a real hands-on way to address one of the objectives of the Taoist Tai Chi Society, namely, to help others . The […]
Celebrating the Chinese New Year in Grande Prairie, Alberta
Grande Prairie, Alberta is the home of Fung Loy Kok’s most northern branch in Canada. There we celebrated the Chinese New Year with a regional program and banquet on March 17-19. Instructors from Red Deer and Edmonton led thirteen happy participants in learning more about the Taoist Tai Chi® arts. On Saturday evening we […]
Dunedin Wine Tasting Fundraiser
On Saturday April 8 the Dunedin branch held its first wine tasting at the International Center Florida. As participants and friends entered the building they were greeted by a glass of sparkling wine and a brochure detailing each wine at the six tasting stations. Each station had an attendent knowledgeable on each of the two wines […]
Approved! – First ISD Activity
FLKTTC Directors have invited branches around the world to submit their plans for seniors-related activities during the week leading up to Sunday Oct. 1st, 2017, International Seniors Day. These events will be the forerunner to a live video on Oct 1st, which is also the United Nations International Day for Older Persons, a video that […]
Depuis 1997 en Belgique – Celebrating 20 Years in Belgium
The weekend of March 4 and 5 last will remain in our hearts as a wonderful memory. The Taoist Tai Chi Society of Belgium celebrated its 20th anniversary and organized its first international workshop. There were 127 members from 10 countries who gathered in Brussels to practice Taoist Tai Chi® arts. Among them, ERC representatives and […]
Chinese New Year Banquet in Ostrava, Czech Republic
This year a celebration of Chinese new year was even more intense as for the first time celebrations were held in all three clubhouses in the Czech Republic: Ostrava, Prague and Brno. In Ostrava 43 members and two kids gathered to spend a beautiful afternoon by talking about the upcoming year, remembering our tai chi […]
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