T’ai Chi Ch’uan Workshops on Cortes Island, B.C., Canada
T’ai Chi Ch’uan - An Exercise for Life — Beginning Workshop
August 14-19, 2009 through Hollyhock - www.hollyhock.ca
T’ai Chi Ch’uan has been known for generations as an exercise for longevity and relaxation and is now amazing contemporary researchers with results of enhanced immune systems, better balance, more flexibility and strength. This exercise, suitable for all ages and body types, is a moving meditation that centres and calms our minds as well as being a form of healing, of self-defense, and physical re-education.
Learn the first section of Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s short Yang form. 
Come to understand the dynamics of gravity, energy, allowing yourself to be supported and moving with relaxation and grace. Morning practice begins with meditation, Qi Gong and T’ai Chi practice before breakfast. Daily sessions include thorough explanations of philosophy and examples of how T’ai Chi enhances our health, coordination, and stress reduction. No previous experience needed.
Judyth’s careful approach presents T’ai Chi as an integral way of life and as an essential exercise available to anyone. Her workshops take place on her deck overlooking magnificent ocean views, a short walk from Hollyhock.
T’ai Chi Ch’uan - An Exercise for Life — Continuing the form
August 19-26. 2009
This workshop reviews the first section and teaches the complete short Yang form of T’ai Chi Ch’uan as taught by Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing. It is open to participants of Judyth’s earlier T’ai Chi workshop (Aug 14-19 through Hollyhock) and to others who practice at least the first section of this form.
This is a good chance to brush up lapsed practices, deepen your understandings and meet and share playing T’ai Chi Ch’uan with others. Applications of the form and sensing hands (tui shou) will be introduced.
Please register for Continuing T’ai Chi Ch’uan directly with Judyth Weaver: (415) 388-3151/ July & August: 250-935-8500 or through this website.
For meals, or meals and accommodation at Hollyhock, call HH’s registration office: 800-933-6339.
Judyth O. Weaver received authorization to teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan from Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s Shr Jung Center for Culture and the Arts in 1971, and has been teaching regularly since then. She has taught throughout the world, always focusing on the authenticity, purity and simplicity of this short Yang form in order to promote self-help, relaxation, and coordination of body, mind and spirit. Judyth created the T’ai Chi Ch’uan program at Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) in Boulder, Colorado in 1974, and headed that program for three years. She also gives classes, workshops, and private lessons in Mill Valley, California and Seattle, Washington as well as on Cortes Island when she is there.