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Four principles of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day
“World Tai Chi and Qigong Day (WTCQD), also spelled World T’ai Chi and Ch’i Kung Day, is an annual event held the last Saturday of April each year to promote the related disciplines of T’ai chi ch’uan and Qigong in sixty countries since 1999.
The annual April event is open to the general public, and begins in the earliest time zones of New Zealand at 10 am, and then participants across Oceania, Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America take part, with celebrations in sixty nations and several hundred cities, ending with the final events in the last time zones of Hawaii almost an entire day later. Celebrations include mass t’ai chi ch’uan and qigong exhibitions in many cities, and free classes in most participating cities. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tai_Chi_&_Qigong_Day)”
World Tai Chi and Qigong Day’s stated goals are to (http://worldtaichiday.org/ABOUTwtcqd.html):
- To educate the world of the profound health & healing benefits of Tai Chi & Qigong for individuals, communities, and nations
- To thank Chinese culture for creating and sharing these profoundly valuable gifts with the world
- To bring together people across racial, economic, religious, and geo-political boundaries, to join together for the purpose of health and healing, providing an example to the world.
- To give a powerful example of how the power of the internet can be used to foster global health & healing.
One suggestion would be to add a fifth goal to include thanking and acknowledging the Taoists and Taoism; if not for their tireless research and cultivation the world would have neither Tai Chi or Qigong, since both are rooted in the Tao of Revitalization. Huang Di and Lao Tzu (as well as other Sages and Classics) both mentioned the importance of the Tao of Revitalization. Huang Di’s (Yellow Emperor) original name for the exercises was Yang Sheng Shu which translates as Tao of Revitalization or
“the achievement of a happy, healthy, and long life through the utilization of a single or a group of mental and physical movements to prevent and correct all ailments, reverse the aging process and improve all functions of the body. (Dr. Stephen T. Chang, The Great Tao p. 56)”
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2013 World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events
Tens of thousands of people, most likely many more, in more than 70 countries will participate in World Tai Chi and Qigong Day activities on Sat. April 27, 2013.
The annual event began in 1999 in order to introduce Tai Chi and Qigong as well as promote the many health benefits to people who are unfamiliar with the systems, as well as become an annual meeting for like minded practitioners.
The following list are events hosted by members of the National Qigong Association, visit the official World Tai Chi and Qigong site for a list of events around the world.
CALIFORNIA
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Celebration
Saturday April 27, 2013
9:30AM (see event listing)
Special Guest: Mark Johnson
Cloverdale City Park
(Go to the West end of 2nd Street)
Cloverdale, CA 95425
Contact/Host: Janet Seaforth
707.894.7345
PYNKQigong.com
www.WorldTaichiDay.org
World Tai Chi Qigong Day Celebration
Saturday April 27, 2013
10:00AM
Balboa Park, 6th & Upas St. San Diego, CA
Contact: Chris Enders
COLORADO
Mayfair Park World Tai Chi & Qigong Celebration
Saturday April 27, 2013
11:00 – 12:30 PM (MDT)
Southeast corner of Mayfair Park
(at the intersection of 10th and Jersey Sts.)
Contact/Host: Eric Imbody
303.355.1239
If the weather is poor the event will be held across the street at Dancing The Soul studio,
950-C Jersey Street
303.502.4586
CONNECTICUT
World Tai Chi Qigong Day Celebration
Saturday April, 27, 2013
10:00AM – 11:00AM
Madison Senior Center
29 Bradley Road Madison, CT 06443
Contact: Suzanne Hanley
203.444.2856
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World Tai Chi Qigong Day
Saturday April 27, 2013
10:00AM – 3:00PM
Town Green – Colchester, CT
Contact: George Hoffman
860.742.5892
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Milford World Tai Chi Qigong Day Celebration
Saturday April 27, 2013
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Milford Town Green,
Broad Street, Milford, CT 06460
Contact: Lamont Thomas
203-843-1595
FLORIDA
World Tai Chi &Qigong Day
Saturday April, 27, 2013
9:45AM —
Ingalls Park
East of I95 and South of Hallandale Beach Blvd.
Hallandale FL,33009 South West 8th Ave.
Contact/Host: Raven Cohan
954.457.1450
ILLINOIS
14th Annual World Tai Chi Qigong Day
“Global Wave of Healing Energy”
Saturday April 27, 2013
9:00 AM – Until??
KVPD’s “Bird Park” 893 W. Station St.
Kankakee, Illinois 60901
Contact/Host: Gary Paruszkiewicz
KENTUCKY
Ashland Area World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Event
Saturday April 27, 2013
Central Park at 17th St. and Lexington Ave.
Ashland, KY
Contact/Host: Nancy Compton
606.465.0317
MASSACHUSETTS
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day – Worcester
Saturday April 27, 2013 10:00AM – 12:00PM
Elm Park, Worcester, Massachusetts
Contact/Host: Gary Lachapelle
508.793.2072
NEVADA
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day – Las Vegas
Saturday April 27, 2013
Event starts at 9:00AM
Delmar Gardens of Green Valley
100 Delmar Gardens Dr., Henderson, NV
(near Pecos & Wigwam)
Contact/Host: Kat Reyes-Campbell
702.743.3786
NEW JERSEY
World Tai Chi Qigong Day – Practice in the Park
Saturday April 27, 2013
10:00 AM
Verona Park, Verona, NJ
Contact/Host: Mir-Yam School of Tai Chi Qigong
and Meditation
Miriam: 973.857.9536
NEW YORK
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day – Patchogue
Saturday April 27, 2013
9:00AM – 12:0PM
(Rain Date – Saturday May 4, 2013 9:00AM – 12:00 PM
Shorefront Park – Ryder Ave. & Smith St. Patchogue Long Island NY
Contact/Host: Laurince McElroy
1.631.475.5730
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2013 World Tai Chi Qigong Day
Saturday April 27, 2013
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Southern Saratoga YMCA
Clifton Park, New York 12065
Sal Casano
518-371-2139 (YMCA)
OHIO
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Event
Saturday April 27, 2013
10:30AM – 12:00PM
Howard Long Wellness Center Gymnasium800 Medical Park, Wheeling, WV 26003
Contact/Host: Steve Perdok Sr.
740.633.9731
T’ai Chi and Qigong: Sunset Health Arts FB.
Just off Interstate 70 Washington Ave. Exit
Minutes from Bridgeport, Ohio
PENNSYLVANIA
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Celebration
Saturday April 27, 2013
12:00 Noon
Ambler Borough Park
Located at the intersection of Hendricks St and Valley Brook Road
Ambler, PA
Contact/Host: Karen Steinbrecher
215.836.7184
World Tai Chi Qigong Day Celebration
Saturday April 27, 2013
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Sun Style Taiji Workshops:
Intro to 31 Form
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
73 Form Study
12:00 – 1:00PM
Health By Design Natural Clinic
12 Keystone Court
Leola, Pennsylvania 17540
Jeannie Peck
717-556-8103
info@healthbydesignnaturally.com
Health By Design Natural Clinic on Facebook
TEXAS
World Tai Chi Qigong Day
Saturday April 27, 2013
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Northrup Park Pavilion
37550 IH-10 Boerne, Texas
Contact/Host: Joellen Kaczorowski
210.888.0846
www.vibrantlotus.net/wtcqday.html
World Tai Chi Qigong Day
Join the Qi – Flow Around the World
Saturday April 27, 2013
Serene Harvest –
Art of Qigong, Meditation & Yoga.
2401 Canyon Creek Sherman, Texas 75092
Contact/Host: Maria Silen
903.436.0569
sereneharvest.qigong.yoga@gmail.com
Space is limited! Register early for this FREE event.
VIRGINIA
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2013
Saturday April 27, 2013
9:45AM – 12:00PM
Forest Hill Park
4021 Forest Hill Ave.
Richmond, VA
Contact/Host:
Joy Black
804.971.7135
joycblack@gmail.com
Mary Vilcheck
804.314.3368
World Tai Chi Qigong Day
Saturday April 27, 2013
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Meadowlark Botanical Gardens
Vienna, Virginia
Contact/Host: The Peaceable Dragon Internal Arts Consortium
703-625-8431
Remember to send photos and relevant follow up information to the National Taoism Examiner if you attend any of the World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events.
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Pearl River: New York City’s best kept secret (Photos)
For over 30 years a trip to New York City would not be complete without visiting Pearl River Mart in SoHo (477 Broadway, NYC, between Broome St. & Grand St., 800-878-2446). According to their brochure, Pearl River is:
“New York’s most celebrated Chinese-American department store….Pearl River features a staggering assortment of traditional products from across Asia including Chinese fashion…, Japanese ceramics, Chinese cookware, ornamental lighting … and much, much more. With over 30,000 square feet of items flowing across three giant floors, Pearl River invites urban trekkers into the heart of the Far East…[to visit] a New York cultural institution. (Pearl River brochure)”
The store has a large selection of Chinese fashion including: Kung Fu & Tai Chi clothing, ladies dresses, children’s clothes, Kung Fu & Tai Chi shoes, scholars robes, tailored suits, Japanese kimonos, embroidered slippers etc…
They also have a large assortment of tea sets, sake sets, Chinese and Japanese bowls, woks, as well as snacks which come in handy walking NY’s streets. What Pearl River lacks in food (this is not a grocery store or restaurant), they more than make up for in authentic Chinese clothing and merchandise.
The upstairs tea bar serves more than 100 varieties of loose leaf tea from China, Japan and South Asia, which can be purchased by the pot or the pound. There is a lovely seating area where you can sip handpicked tea while watching the shoppers below. They periodically offer tea ceremony demonstrations and are more than willing to answer any questions you may have regarding tea. Keep in mind that the prices may be more than you are use to since the quality of the tea offered at Pearl River is much higher than you would typically find in a grocery store, even in an Asian grocery store.
“Best value for anyone wanting to experience NYC on a budget. (Today Show)”
“New Yorker’s secret of affordable Asian goods now has a SoHo address. (House & Garden Magazine)”
“Pearl River … has long been considered a hidden gem by fashionistas and others in search of everything from affordable silk jackets to hand-painted dinnerware. (Crain’s New York Business)”
For those unable to travel to New York City, or for those who can’t get enough of Pearl River, you can enjoy the store via www.PearlRiver.com which offers many of the items from the store. A tip regarding the website: if you do not see an item listed, then call the store directly rather than assuming they do not carry it.
Also, if you are ordering clothes, the sizes listed are Chinese sizes and usually are one size smaller than many people would usually purchase. The staff provide excellent customer service, even over the phone, with ensuring the proper sizes are ordered, they will even walk you through the method of measuring someone for their shirt or jacket size etc…
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Spring: The season of revitalization and rebirth
For many around the world, spring represents a return to life and family. People begin to look forward to improved weather, spending more time outdoors and to finally working towards some of the New Years goals/plans they created. This is often a time for people to also reconnect to God through their religious or spiritual practices as evident with the numerous holidays from many different religions and cultures.
As with the other seasons, spring has a major impact on our lives, nature and Earth as well. According to Huang Di (aka Yellow Emperor: Taoist Sage and Emperor):
“The three months of the spring season bring about the revitalization of all things in nature. It is the time of birth. This is when heaven and earth are reborn. During this season it is advisable to retire early. Arise early also and go walking in order to absorb the fresh, invigorating energy. Since this is the season in which the universal energy begins anew and rejuvenates, one should attempt to correspond to it directly by being open and unsuppressed, both physically and emotionally.
On the physical level it is good to exercise [Internal Exercises] more frequently and wear loose fitting clothing. This is the time to do stretching exercises to loosen up the tendons and muscles. Emotionally, it is good to develop equanimity. This is because spring is the season of the liver, and indulgence in anger, frustration, depression, sadness, or any excess emotion can injure the liver. Furthermore, violating the natural order of spring will cause cold disease, illness inflicted by atmospheric cold, during summer. (The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine by Maoshing Ni p.5)”
It is important to also protect oneself from the effects of wind by covering the head, protecting the throat, keeping the body warm with jackets etc… If one does not protect themselves from the effects of wind or at least expel the trapped wind during spring they will suffer problems with their spleen resulting in diarrhea, indigestion and food retention/poisoning.
Qi Bo (Huang Di’s Taoist adviser and physician) informed Huang Di that:
“…with the arrival of spring the weather warms the earth. All plants begin to sprout and put forth green leaves, so the color associated with spring is green. Since most fruits and trees are immature and unripe at this time, their taste is sour. This sour taste can strengthen the liver, and the liver can then nourish the tendons and tendomuscular channels. The wood element of the liver can produce the fire element of the heart… (The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine by Maoshing Ni, p.20)”
Thus the liver as the bodies representation of the wood element helps to nourish and protect the heart, thus if a person suffers from liver problems or has anger and stress issues, they will eventually harm their heart. This is also reflected in the connection between a weakened liver affecting cholesterol and saturated fat problems in the blood which will lead to heart disease and other cardiovascular problems.
There is much wisdom to be learned from the five elements/five phases of change and the associated seasons and its impact on our overall health and longevity.
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10 Snake Years of the modern era: a retrospective list
As mentioned in the prior Year of the Snake article; Snake Years often contain many major global events. It is not uncommon for war, famine, disease and natural disasters to occur during these years. Of course, these are not the only events and many good stories are reported as well, however, one cannot deny the high occurrence of catastrophes and tragedies as well.
The nature of a snake is to be elusive, intelligent, cunning, sharp, powerful, reserved, patient etc… Snake years are often times to act on prior plans and launch skillful, well thought out strategies and programs. Often there is a fine line between a “good outcome” and a negative one, does the Snake bring peace and positive results which benefit all or strike with ferocious speed and cause negative consequences; this is determined by ones intentions dear reader.
Let’s review the major events from some of the prior Snake Years.
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2001 Year of the Snake
- 20,000 People Die in Violent Earthquake in India, 7.9 earthquake
- Human Genome Sequence Revealed
- September 11 Terror Attacks in the United States, World Trade Center destroyed
- China’s Entry into WTO
- The United States Unilaterally Withdraws from the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty
- World Economic Slowdown
- Wikipedia launched
- US invades Afghanistan
- IPod released
1989 Year of the Snake
- Eastern Bloc Revolutions (Revolutions of 1989 led to Dissolution of Soviet Union)
- World Wide Web invented
- First text message sent
- Tiananmen Square massacre in China
- Mini stock market crash (known as the Friday the 13th mini crash)
- Berlin Wall torn down
- Real Estate bubble burst/Crash
- Exxon Valdez oil spill
- Loma Prieta earthquake, San Francisco CA (during professional baseball’s World Series game)
- Belgian UFO wave begins
- US invasion of Panama
1977 Year of the Snake
- Apple computers incorporated
- Snow falls in Miami, Florida (first time in history)
- New England blizzard kills 100 people
- USSR completes nuclear test
- France performs nuclear test
- KLM-Pan Am flight disaster (kills 583 people)
- US performs nuclear test
- Panama Canal Zone accord
- Department of Energy created to deal with oil crisis
- New York City blackout lasts 25 hours and results in looting and disorder
- World Trade Center in NY is completed
- Atari 2600 released, credited with creating the home video game industry
1965 Year of the Snake
- Watts Riots (Watts, California)
- Lyndon Johnson announces program to create Medicare and declares war on poverty
- Northeast US and parts of Canada experience widespread blackouts
- US Voting Rights Act passed
- US increases troop numbers and Australia joins the Vietnam War
- Malcolm X assassinated
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads famous civil rights march in Selma Alabama
1953 Year of the Snake
- Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.
- Coup d’ etat in Iran authoritarian monarchy established
- Stalin dies
- Korean War ends
- Polio vaccine developed
- F5 Tornado strikes Waco in Texas leaving 114 dead and 597 injured, The Tornado was one of the many storm disasters for the development of a nationwide severe weather warning system.
- The strongest storms ever recorded break through flood defenses across the UK leaving 150 dead
- North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands
1941 Year of the Snake
- US enters WWII as war rapidly escalates
- Mt. Rushmore completed
- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
- FDR become only US President to serve a third term
- US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy
- Germany attacks Soviet Union
- Plutonium discovered
- Blizzard of 1941 strikes Minnesota and North Dakota becomes the most severe blizzard in modern history.
1929 Year of the Snake
- Total of over 200,000 die from Influenza Epidemic
- Vatican City gains independence from Italy and is created as its own State
- Great Stock Market crash occurs and creates the Great Depression in the United States and world
- The German airship Graf Zeppelin completes a round-the-world flight.
- The first car radio is made by Motorola
- 1929 Palestinian riots breakout over control of the “Western Wall”
- All India Congress declares independence from Britain
- Weimar Republic (Germany) begins to collapse along with currency
- Hitler and Nazis (National Socialists) come to power in Germany
1917 Year of the Snake
- Russian revolution, Tsar overthrown
- US declares war on Germany, enters WWI
- US President given authority of conscription
- Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for a Jewish state
- British troops take Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Jerusalem
- Albert Einstein publishes first paper on cosmology
- British Indian Army captures Baghdad Gandhi establishes Sabarmati Ashram
- China enters WWI declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany
1905 Year of the Snake
- Second year of Russian-Japanese War, war ends (more than 100,000 people die)
- Albert Einstein publishes foundations of his theories (specialized theory of relativity, Brownian motion, mass-energy equivalence)
- Kangra earthquake in India kills over 20,000 people
- US and Canada begin the great western expansion in their respective countries
- Wright Brothers complete first airplane test flight to last more than 30 minutes
- Union between Norway and Sweden is dissolved
1893 Year of the Snake
- Gandhi ejected from South African train, motivating him to fight for Indian rights in the British Colony
- Frederick Douglass delivers speech at World Fair
- Kingdom of Hawaii overthrown
- Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse introduce the world to electrical power by illuminating World’s Columbian Exposition
2013 is the year of the Yin Water Snake
Some of you may be aware that the Chinese calendar is divided into 12 months represented by 12 animals. What you may not be aware of is that the Chinese calendar is the oldest calendar still in use. Our modern view of the calendar stems from a very basic understanding of the ancient Chinese calendar. The explanation of this tidbit of historical data will need to wait for a future article.
The common 12 animal delineation that many of you have seen while dining in a Chinese restaurant is purely for entertainment value and it does not carry much scholarly weight. In fact, most interpretations of the 12 animals are quite comical and fun to read for their entertainment value.
This year the Yang Water Dragon is transitioning to the Yin Water Snake as the cycle of change continues from Yang to Yin. The snake is also known as the minor or little dragon and has some of the same attributes of Dragon years.
In general, Snake years are regarded as auspicious years and a time for great change. It is also not uncommon for natural disasters, war and financial crisis to occur during these years as well. According to Master Zhongxian Wu in his Year of the Snake greetings newsletter:
“In general, I [Master Wu] expect that the climate will be drier than it was during the Yang Water Dragon year. Si Fire will transform to JueYin 厥陰 Wind Wood, which provides a clue that the first half year will be windy and the second half of the year will be warm, including an unseasonably warm winter (in the Northern hemisphere).”
In our next article we will look back over the last 150 years to examine prior Snake year occurrences.
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Can citrus help to lower your risk of stroke?
Citrus has long been a favored fruit, especially during long winter months, when the bright colors of its skin and flesh, remind us that winter cannot last forever and the warmth of the sun will soon return.
A new report featured in “Stroke: a journal of the American Heart Association”, states that eating citrus may lower the risk of ischemic strokes (clots), especially in women. Ischemic stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is blocked.
The researchers analyzed 14 years worth of data on 69,622 women nurses that participated in the nationwide study. Every 4 years the participants had to fill out a survey listing their food intake. The women, who consumed the most citrus, in particular oranges and grapefruit, had the lowest stroke risk.
One flaw in the study was the over emphasis on the high intake of flavanones, which is found in many foods including chocolate and red wine. The largest concentrations, however, are in oranges.
What did the study leave out and what is the major flaw?
The study, as many do, did not consider the fact that people who consume daily fruit, will also on average consume daily vegetables, eat a healthier diet and usually have healthier lifestyle habits such as proper exercise, not smoking etc…
The main flaw however, as mentioned earlier, was the focus on flavanones as the key to reducing strokes. This is a flaw rooted in reductionism which is ever active in Allopathic medicine and research. While flavanones may, or may not, be important, to focus on one component at the exclusion of the other components that make up oranges and grapefruit, as well as, other citrus is misleading and potentially counterproductive.
What would a Taoist interpretation involve?
Using the Taoist understanding of the five tastes, we can determine how, or why, citrus could lower the risk of strokes. According to the five tastes, and the Taoist understanding of the organs/bowels, citrus, as well as raw fruit in general, is labeled as a sour food type. The sour taste affects the liver and gallbladder, and provides the essential energy and nutrition for the liver/gallbladder to function normally and maintain balance. If the sour taste is consumed too frequently or too infrequently, the liver/gallbladder could be harmed.
When the liver and gallbladder are functioning normally the liver is able to remove toxins from food and together the liver and gallbladder are able to remove fat and properly handle harmful oils as well. Thus, reducing the amount of fat in the blood stream will reduce the risk of stroke. Citrus, also has the added benefit of containing mild acids, which also help to breakdown fat and oils.
So according to Taoism, the results of this study, has less to do with flavanones, and more to do with how the sour taste affects the liver and gallbladder, and the role that a properly functioning liver and gallbladder plays in sustaining health and wellness.
Taoist nutrition has long advocated eating one apple and a half an orange daily to help keep the liver and gallbladder healthy.
What are the benefits of oranges according to Taoism?
Maoshing Ni states in “The Tao of Nutrition” that oranges:
“lubricate lungs, resolves [removes] mucous, increases appetite, strengthens spleen, quenches thirst, promotes body fluids”. It can also be used to invigorate the Qi (energy) and remove dampness…”
In “Chinese Natural Cures”, Dr. Henry Lu states that:
“orange leaves relax the liver, promote energy circulation, remove phlegm, heal swelling; orange peels regulate energy, remove phlegm and congestion, strengthen the spleen; sour orange peels remove phlegm, stop vomiting, promote digestion; tangerine orange seeds regulate energy flow in the body and relieve pain…”
As you can see, there are many benefits to eating the entire orange including finding interesting ways to utilize the peels and seeds as well. Also, Taoism would recommend eating the entire fruit rather than drinking the juice, as fruit juice is too concentrated and lacks the balancing effects of the other components found only in the pulp, seeds and skin.
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This winter we will experience the water dragons’ transformation
As you may recall, in Taoist Cosmology, 2012 was the year of the water dragon. For most of this year we were quite fortunate because the strong nature of the dragon was partially tempered by the water element which…(read more)
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