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Calendar Notes
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Classes at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center are now closed; they have
resumed under Greg Illich of Serendipity Tai Chi. This web site will
continue to be devoted to the practice of Elemental Tai Chi and the
taijiquan projects of Dale Napier.
The next project is Tai Chi for Kids, to be introduced in January
to a Montessori school in Henderson, a suburb of Las Vegas. The classes
will be based on Stuart Olson's book of the same name. Later in the year
the program should be available for adoption by schools around the country.
If you are a teacher at a private school of any kind and would like to help
sponsor a Tai Chi program at your school, please contact Dale Napier at
elementaltaichi@live.com .
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Upcoming Events
To be announced.
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Tai Chi Ball
Monday, September 19, 2011
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Now that you know that Tai Chi Chuan movement from the waist can go side to side or front to back, you are probably wondering whether the third dimension enters the picture. Of course it does! Once you fully absorb the ideas of the rotating disk and the crashing wave, it is only a small leap to the Tai Chi Ball.
(Click here for more)
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Tai Chi and Related News
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Tai Chi Reported to Ease Fibromyalgia (Tufts Medical Center/New York Times,18 Aug 2010)
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Author and teacher Arthur Rosenfeld demonstrates Tai Chi on Fox News
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Tai Chi: Discover the many possible health benefits (Mayo Clinic, 25 Mar 2010)
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Tai Chi Reduces Arthritis Pain (Click2Houston, 29 Oct 2009)
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NBC video on Tai Chi as Exercise (Brian Williams, NBC, May 2009)
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Overload: The physiological toll of multitasking and why
we may not be making rational decisions even when we think we are.
(Herbert Wray, Newsweek, 8 Apr 2008)
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Tai chi may prevent excruciating skin disease
(Associated Press, 9 Apr 2007)
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Obese can get healthier without dieting (Reuters, 4 Dec 2006)
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Sifu Napier's articles
"Conversations with the Grandmasters" (Dec 2009)
"Yang Family Comes Out In Style"
"Symposium Makes U.S. Tai Chi History" (Oct 2009)
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"Standing Exercises for Taiji Qi Cultivation" (Aug 2009)
"Yang Taiji for Combat" (Apr 2007)
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Photos Available from Demonstration
Click here for the full album.
Students from Elemental Tai Chi demonstrated their skills at the
Grand Opening of the Baker-Ripley Community Center, which featured demonstrations
from cultures of six continents.
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The Houston Chronicle covered our session of Six Healing Sounds qigong
on Tuesday, Sep. 6.
Click here for the full story.
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Tai Chi In Your Life is lauded in new book review.
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(June, 2012) Michael DeMarco, Editor and Publisher of
Journal of Asian Martial Arts, has nothing but compliments for
Tai Chi In Your Life:
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"Napier's work provides very practical information for both taiji practice
and everyday life. He does so in a way that is easy reading and inspiring."
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"Napier expects us to not only read, but to think deeply about the
principles and creatively utilize them inside and outside of our taiji
practice."
Click here to read the entire book review.
BUY SIGNED COPY
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Sifu Napier's Tai Chi Meditations CD now available.
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(July, 2011) Sifu Dale Napier released his new meditation CD,
Tai Chi Meditations, recorded specially for the Soul
Explosion & Green Living Expo on July 30-31 in Houston.
The CD, backed by pianist-composer Marta Keen, features a
standing meditation, Zhan Zhuang, and a sitting meditation,
Six Healing Sounds.
Zhan Zhuang, or standing post meditation, is taught here for
breath, balance, and relaxation. Balance is required for
deep relaxation. To deepen the relaxation further we learn
to use deep breathing, giving us lung improvement as well.
Standing post is important for building Tai Chi Chuan
rooting ability.
Six Healing Sounds is a popular chi kung (qigong) exercise that
uses movements, sounds, and visualizations based on Five Element
Theory. The general idea is to purge ourselves of negative
emotions, which removes damaging energy from our internal bodies -
helping keep us youthful, vital, and energetic.
Both meditations are regular features of Sifu Napier's current
and upcoming classes.
Tai Chi Meditations is available as a physical CD or for
download. For download, go to
CD Baby
Amazon
For the physical CD,
Click here.
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World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2010
Johannes Huber, Susan Davis, Ellie Blaby, Dale Napier,
Sue Greensmith, Kitty Borah, Sandra Jequier, Jim Haskins,
Lizzy Hargrove
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