First Congregational Church Parish Hall, Kent -- peaceful and spacious parish hall next to the cemetery behind the big white Congregational Church on the north end of Main Street in Kent, on the west side of Route 7, across the parking lot from the Community House (97 North Main Street)

Trinity Church, Lime Rock-- big, stone Episcopalian church in the hemlocks on the corner of Route 112 and Dugway Road, class is in the parish hall entered from the side, parking is in the back off Dugway Road (484 Lime Rock Road, Lakeville)

Battell Chapel, Norfolk-- classic stone chapel with profound stained glass windows on the top of the hill in the center of Norfolk across the street from the village green (12 Litchfield Road)

Curriculum of Classes

Entry Level
Qigong Warmup (Eight Piece Brocad, Five and Clearing the Table)
First Set of Slow Set (fundamentals of Taichi)
Second Set of Slow Set (variation and balance)
Third Set of Slow Set (stamina and memory)

Middle Level
Slow Set Integration (corrections, variant speeds, left-side practice)
Fixed Step Push Hands (single circle, turning waist, double push hands)
Fast Set Variations (mixed speeds and fajin)

Upper Level
Tung Family Set (slow and fast variations)
Moving Step Push Hands (three-step, four-corners, tiger stalking)
Martial Applications (Yang and Tung Duilian forms, Slow Set applications)
Weapon Forms (knife, sword, long knife, double sticks)
Wu/Hao Family Set (Kai He)

 

"Set your sights on the very heights
and dig in the heels with firm resolve.
Spirit is drawn to spirit.

Confront what is obscure.
Magnify what is minute.
Clarity leads to further clarity.

Life begets life without end.
Couldn’t stop even if you wanted."

from "Discourse on Correct Practice in Taichi" in the Yang Family Classics (c. 1880)

Master Workshops

Here in New England we have the tremendous fortune of being able to study and train with the leader and lineage holder of the Tung Family Taichi Chuan tradition five times per year. This is a fantastic opportunity for deeper learning and personal engagement with masterful Tai Chi Chuan instruction so close to home. Master Tung Chenwei comes to Vermont to teach in the winter and summer and New Hampshire in the spring and fall. He also teaches a week-long camp at the end of the summer on Lake Winnepesaukee in New Hampshire. To attend any of these retreats, students must have already learned or become familar enough to follow reasonably along with the practice of both slowset and fastset along with the single and double push hands routines. For those willing to travel a little further, even deeper retreats are possible with Master Tung in about a half dozen other places in the United States and Europe.

www.tungtaichi.com

Master Tung Chenwei's New England Schedule:

Winter Workshop in Bristol, Vermont, early February (flyer)

Summer Workshop in Lincoln, Vermont, late June (flyer)

Sandy Island Camp on Lake Winnepesaukee
in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, early September (flyer)

Fall Workshop in Ashland, New Hampshire, mid November (flyer)

International Week-long Intensive Camps:

Winter Camp in the San Lorenzo Valley just north of Santa Cruz in central California, late January (flyer)

Idyllwild Camp in the mountains of southern California just outside Joshua Tree National Park, late April (flyer)

Aland Island Camp in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden, early June (flyer)

Lapland Camp just north of the arctic circle in Finland, mid June

Sandy Island Camp on Lake Winnepesaukee in central New Hampshire, early September

Other Tung Family Locations with Weekend Workshops:

Modesto, California (late January)
Ojai, California (late February)

Helsinki, Finland (spring and fall)
Copenhagen, Denmark (spring and fall)
Paris, France (spring and fall)
Florence, Italy (spring and fall)
Palermo, Italy (spring and fall)
Malmo, Sweden

please contact Chris for more info (cloudhandy@yahoo.com)