Winter/Spring 2010 T'ai Chi Classes

• New Beginning Classes
  Weekly Classes
  Weekend Intensives
  Beginning Form, 2nd Third

• Enrichment Series
  Balancing Your Chi
  Cultivating Your Chi, Part I and Part II
  Living in Harmony
  Arica Mentations™ Training
  
  

• Continuing Classes
  Beginning Form, 2nd Third
  Fundamentals, 3rd Third
  Intermediate Form, Part II

Our Beginning Classes introduce the principles of T'ai Chi and teach the 1st Third of the Yang Style Short Form over twelve hours, either one hour a week or over two intensive weekends. Whether or not you learn more, regular practice will bring great enjoyment and great benefit.

New Weekly Beginning Classes
Learn the 1st Third of the T'ai Chi form over twelve weekly classes. Open to those who have never studied T'ai Chi as well as anyone wishing to repeat the 1st Third. We offer two new weekly classes, one on Tuesday evenings and another on Thursday mornings, plus the Weekend Intensives also listed below.

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New Weekend Intensive Beginning Class
Learn the 1st Third of the Beginning Form over two intensive weekends. The intensive format provides a deeper experience of the benefits of T'ai Chi in a shorter time. Open to those who have never studied T'ai Chi as well as anyone wishing to repeat the 1st Third.

Beginning Form, 2nd Third
Learn the 2nd Third of the T'ai Chi form in one of two ways, either on two weekend intensives or over ten weekly classes. Both are listed below. Open to those who have completed the 1st Third of the Beginning form, B-1.

Weekend Intensive:

Weekly class:

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ENRICHMENT SERIES

The Enrichment Series of evening and weekend classes provide a deeper understanding of the natural laws that govern the functioning of the Tao so we may enjoy a greater degree relaxation, balance and health. All Enrichment Series offerings are open to the public as well as T'ai Chi students.

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Balancing Your Chi
There is a continuum of health, from superb to near death. Learn how our most valuable resource, our vital "chi" energy, moves within us and how we can further nourish and balance it to produce an optimum state of health, clarity, awareness and well-being.

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Cultivating Your Chi
Eastern cultures have long known that the best health care is daily nourishing our vital "chi" energy. Cultivating an abundant, balanced flow of this life-giving energy within us has been the foundation of Chinese philosophy, exercise and medicine for thousands of years.

Part I of Cultivating Your Chi
This evening talk introduces the basic concepts of Chinese philosophy including:

• What is chi,
• Where does it come from,
• Why is it important,
• How do we use it, and
• How can we replenish it.

This enjoyable evening will include relaxed breathing, movement and refreshments to feel and gather our chi.

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Part II of Cultivating Your Chi will introduce a series of simple movements with breathing, derived from the T'ai Chi form, that Professor Cheng taught his patients to help them regain their vitality and recover from serious illness. Whether you are sick or well, learn to cultivate your chi on the deepest levels. Regular, easy practice feels great, will enrich your life and deepen your T'ai Chi practice.

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Living in Harmony
We are an inseparable part of the natural world. Deepen your understanding of the laws that govern the flow of energy through the cycle of seasons and the times of day, so that you can live more in harmony with these natural cycles.

Next date and time to be announced.

Arica Mentations Training™
Complete thought is much more than the product of our brain. Clarify your analysis and intellection by learning to ask and hear what your body has to say as well. This experiential one-day training will be taught by Arica instructor Gordy Ryan.

Next date and time to be announced.

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Continuing Classes

Beginning Form, 2nd Third
Learn the 2nd Third of the T'ai Chi form over two intensive weekends. Open to those who have completed the 1st Third of the Beginning form, B-1.

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Fundamentals, 3rd Third
This level focuses on embodying the principles, which are the foundation of a beneficial, enjoyable and fulfilling practice. The third ten hours of this thirty-hour class, open to those who have completed the 2nd Third of Fundamentals, will begin on Monday, April 5th.

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Intermediate Form, Part II
Open to those who have completed Intermediate Form, Part I, this level applies the principles and balance developed in Sensing Hands I to the form itself. This class will open the way for your T'ai Chi to become more flowing, enjoyable and beneficial.

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Wallingford Community Senior Center
in the Good Shepherd Center, Suite 140
4649 Sunnyside Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 461-7825
Directions

Center For Classical Five-Element Acupuncture
1529 Queen Anne Avenue, Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 298-9376
Directions

Swedish Cultural Center
1920 Dexter Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 283-1090
Directions

Skin Deep Dance Studio
in the El Centro De La Raza
2524 16th Ave S, Room 311, Seattle,WA 98144
At the McLellan light rail station (206) 329-9442
Directions

Phinney Neighborhood Center
6532 Phinney Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98103-5257
(206) 783-2244
Directions

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For further Information and to register please contact
DavidGoodell@TaiChiSeattle.com
206-298-9376, ext 3

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