World Tai Chi Day 2020

Join in the annual international Taiji and Qigong event, April 25th, 2020, celebrating these wonderful health-giving practices. This year, many events are online due to coronavirus. Taiji and qigong can play an important role in promoting health by boosting the immune system strength.

Visit World Tai Chi Day for further information.

World Tai Chi Day April 28

Join millions of people around the world in celebrating World Tai Chi and Qigong Day! At 10 a.m. local time, groups and individuals will bring a public face to these ancient health-enhancing practices. For more information, visit the World Tai Chi Day site. 

Book Review: The Tao of Tai Chi: The Making of a New Science by Bill Douglas

The Tao of Tai Chi: The Making of a New Science

Bill Douglas
SmartTaichi Publishing, 2016
Paperback, 246 pp
US$19.95
ISBN 978-1537117935

The Tao of Tai Chi is a very informative, personal, and eclectic book perched on the “boundary” between science and spirituality. Half philosophy, half autobiography, the book gives insights into one man’s journey with taiji (tai chi).

Author Bill Douglas is known to many as the founder of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day, which began in 1999.
For those who are curious about the event’s origin and founder, this book will introduce the thinking and motivation behind this labor of love that has helped spread taiji around the world. Douglas is also author of widely selling The Complete Idiots Guide to T’ai Chi and Qigong (Alpha, 2012).

The Tao of Tai Ch is written more as a conversation with the author. In essence, it is organized as a flow of topics, eschewing standard book formating and page numbers.

Blending of practice into daily life is a given for Douglas. Going to the supermarket becomes a lesson in letting go and seeing the beauty of the universe:

“If I rush into a supermarket I am in a Yang state of mind. I am on a mission with a set of tasks I must perform, holding them, sometimes squeezing them in my heart and mind. However, when I sit in my car before entering the store and ‘breathe’ and ‘let go,’ and fall into that Yin state where my mind lets go of mental control (and my knowing awareness allows the light of the universe, the lightness of the universe, to expand through it), then my spine and nervous system’s sensory awareness lets go of trying to feel or trying not to feel....

“I feel the cool air conditioner on my face as I walk through the doors of the supermarket,. I see the extraordinary beauty of the eggplant’s purple majesty, succulent and massive in its glory. The golden yellow of bananas and peppers, the smells of fruits and flowers...

“I still get things I need done, but it is a completely different reality now.”

This is an inspirational book suited for all readers.

World Tai Chi Day April 29, 2017

Join with others around the world to celebrate World Tai Chi Day, April 29, 2017. This fun annual event begins at 10 a.m., and swirls around the world following the sun and clock. Visit their site to find information about events in your area and resources about tai chi and qigong.

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day 2016

Join people from across the globe in this great health-inspiring event! At 10 in the morning, local time, on Saturday, April 30th, people will gather to practice Taiji and Qigong of all styles, in an effort to share these wonderful healing exercises from ancient China. Taiji and Qigong help balance your energy, strengthen your body, focus your mind, improve your balance, and help you relax!

Check your local newspapers for information, or check the organizers' website.

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day 2015

 
World Tai Chi and Qigong Day is fast approaching! On Saturday, April 25, 2015, participate and learn about the great benefits of tai chi practice, see demonstrations, and network. See the WTCD website for listings of events in your local community.

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day

People around the world will gather in local parks and gyms Saturday, April 30th, 2011 to celebrate World Tai Chi and Qigong Day. This annual grassroots event helps build awareness of tai chi and qigong practice, and provides students and teachers with a chance to mingle with fellow practitioners.
Tai chi (taiji) has its roots in Chinese martial arts traditions, and early on, became known for its health benefits. Its practice spread throughout China in the early twentieth century, and by the 1960s, began to spread rapidly overseas.
Western medical research has affirmed tai chi's benefits for a wide range of health and wellness quests: practice of tai chi--and its sister art, qigong (ch'i-kung)--improves balance, lowers blood pressure, diminishes symptoms of Parkinson's, MS, depression, shingles, and much more.
Just as important, though, is that tai chi and qigong are simply enjoyable to practice!

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day Coming

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day is almost here! This fun, grassroots event is held around the globe each spring as a means of building community, promoting harmony, and sharing ideas. Check with your local groups to find about events in your area or visit the official website for further information.

2010 Tai Chi and Qigong Events Coming Up

A great variety of tai chi and qigong events are coming up this spring and summer:

World Tai Chi Day Saturday, April 24th, 2010. This annual grassroots event is held in hundreds of locales. See their website for events in your area. 

The annual Zhang Sanfeng Festival has split into two separate events: 
• Tai Chi Fest April 29 - May 2, 2010, Hudson Valley Resort, New York. Presenters: Pedro Cepero Yee, Gene Ching, James Donnelly, Dale Dugas, Doug Gray, John Green, Jiang Jianye, Ken Lo, Yuzhi Lu, Marcus Callis, William Phillips, David Dorian Ross, Avi Schnier, Gary Torres, Wang Rengang, Ocean-of-Wisdom Sakya,   Tina Chunna Zhang, and Zhou Xuanyun. Pre- and post-conference workshops also held. 
• Tai Chi Gala June 4-6, 2010 in Albany, NewYork. Presenters: Shifu Bob Castaldo, Pedro Cepero-Yee, Dale Dugas, John Green, Jiang Jianye, Yuzhi Lu, John Painter, William Phillips, David Ritchie,  Wang Ren-Gang, Sean Wang, and Loretta Wollering. Pre- and post-conference workshops also held.

National Qigong Association Annual Conference "Qi= mc² | Qigong: Playing With Universal Energy" August 20-22, 2010 in Chaska, Minnesota (suburban Minneapolis). Pre- and post-conference workshops also held. Taijiquan Journal editor Barbara Davis will be one of the presenters.

World Tai Chi Day 2009

World Tai Chi Day is coming up--check your local newspapers or the official site for events, or, lacking any, go out to a park and do some tai chi yourself--help spread the word about this wonderful health-enhancing practice!

Taijiquan Journal at Twin Cities World Tai Chi Day Event

Taijiquan Journal will be at the Minneapolis-St. Paul-area World T'ai Chi Day celebrations at Normandale Community College on Saturday, April 26th, 2008, from 9–1. Editor Barbara Davis will give a talk on the I Ching (Yijing), the Chinese Book of Changes. Come visit Taijiquan Journal's booth, where you'll be able to purchase back issues, books, and other items, including "I Love Tai Chi" bumperstickers. See the website for the program schedule.