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Is everyone here familiar with "World Tai Chi & Qigong Day" ?
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| William 2005-12-22, 12:54 pm |
| Is everyone here familiar with "World Tai Chi & Qigong Day" ?
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is a global event held in 60 nations, and
all 50 US States, the last Saturday of April each year. Its purpose is
both to educate the world of the profound health benefits of Tai Chi &
Qigong, as well as provide a powerful example of global cooperation for
the purpose of health & healing.
This unprecedented worldwide event has been officially recognized by
the United Nations World Health Organization, governors of 16 US
states, and mayors and senates worldwide. It has been covered by The
New York Times, Reader's Digest, Parade Magazine, CNN, FOX News, The
South China Morning Post, Russia's Omsk Weekly News, and by hundreds of
media worldwide.
You can learn more about it at: http://www.worldtaichiday.org
It offers hundreds of pages of free content educational information, as
wells as resources for individuals, schools, and teachers to help
educate their communities and the world about the emerging medical
research on Tai Chi & Qigong. www.worldtaichiday.org is the internet's
#1 site for "Tai Chi medical research."
The event also has a mailing list so that you can be alerted as new
medical research and event information is released once a week.
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| Michael 2005-12-23, 1:03 am |
| William wrote:
> Is everyone here familiar with "World Tai Chi & Qigong Day" ?
I am.
I studied and practiced Tai Chi for some months a few years ago. It really
wasn't compatible (in its available form where I live) with the
limitations - minor spasticity impeded me, mostly - that MS has imposed on
me.
I do understand that modified Tai Chi programs exist that would probably
suit me quite well, but I live in a very isolated place with very few
inhabitants, and until someone among our very small Taoist Tai Chi Society
membership takes it upon him/herself to bone up on it all, I'm out of luck.
:-(
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Michael wrote:
> I do understand that modified Tai Chi programs exist that would probably
> suit me quite well, but I live in a very isolated place with very few
> inhabitants, and until someone among our very small Taoist Tai Chi Society
> membership takes it upon him/herself to bone up on it all, I'm out of luck.
> :-(
Michael, maybe you could bring the idea up, and see if the small
Society members express interest? long ago -- when i was pregnant with
my 23-year-old ;-> -- i took yoga classes at a local studio with a
teacher who ws well-known in the 'yoga community.' because there are
certain asanas that one shouldn't do while pregnant -- and others that
are actually GREAT to do while pregnant -- this instructor ended up
designing a specific 'pregnant yoga' program directly because of me,
the Pregnant Yoga Lady. it was the first one in the county, and now
there are about a zillion of them!
when i was still RR and having good remissions, i got together with an
R.P.T. and we collaborated on designing an adaptive yoga program for a
local HIV+/AIDS group with a focus on living as healthily as possible
with HIV or AIDS, and presented it free of charge, and the folks at the
Center really loved it. :->
tiny little actions that seem sort of silly can have good consequences
that reach beyond what we get from them our ownselves, and i think
that's WAY cool. :->
RD
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