Master Chen, Foundation Workshop

Chen Taijiquan Seminars

8 April 2019

ARCHWAY • LONDON

The first of Master Chen’s seminars is on the evenings of Monday 8 and at the Islington Chinese Association. The first workshop is in Foundation Chen Training including Silk Reeling practice, Zhang Zhuang standing practice and posture adjustment.

The son of Grandmaster Chen Xiaoxing, Master Chen Ziqiang is a 20th generation direct descendant of the Chen Family Taijiquan, the Chief Coach of the prestigious Chenjiagou Taijiquan School and a renowned tai ji champion in China and worldwide.

All students of Taijiquan are welcome

Chen Ziqiang’s London Seminars

8 April: Chen Foundation Silk Reeling 18:30 – 21:30 All levels

Islington Chinese Association, 21 Hatchard Road, London N19 4NG
Archway Underground (High Barnet branch of the Northern Line), Upper Holloway overground

Please arrive 15 minutes before the start time to enrol.

If you would like to attend any of the seminars, please download the Chen Ziqiang 2019 Booking and Release Form pdf link below, fill in all your details and return to Tai Ji Circle as requested. Many thanks.

Chen Ziqiang Booking 2019 pdf. Please retain pages 1-2 for your information, and return pages 3-4 to Tai Ji Circle.

If you have any queries please get in touch by email.
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For online payment by credit card or Paypal and information about his other workshops please go to Chen Ziqiang In London 2019

Seminars with Master Chen include warm-up exercises to prepare the body for training. Silk Reeling and Dajia Yi Lu and Chen Ball are all suitable for students with less experience.

Foundation Silk Reeling and Standing Practice
Silk Reeling exercises (Chansi Gong) the essential foundation practice to improve posture and movement in longer routines They are aimed at regulating the whole body into a relaxed, comfortable and natural state, through rhythmical relaxation of all the parts of the body.

08/01/2019

Chen Ziqiang 2019 London Visit

TJC are expecting a return visit to London in 2019 from the inimitable Master Chen Ziqiang from the 8-15 April, so put the dates in your diaries for a special series of workshops over the weekend 12-14 April.

Details to be announced soon. Please email to express your interest and to book a place.

To learn more about the impressive Master Chen and the power of Chen Taijiquan read the very informative article from Kung Fu Magazine by Mark Wasson

2.02.2019: Chen Taijiquan Single sabre and Tai Ji Ball workshops

Double workshop of Chen Single Sabre and Tai Ji Ball forms with Shifu Liu Quanjun.

The short Tai Ji Ball form can be practised for gaining smooth fluid movements and for enhancing well-being, it is simple to learn for beginners to tai ji and practiced as a health exercise. At a more advanced level the ball can be larger and weighted to help with strengthening the whole body.

The traditional single broadsword is usually the first Chen Taijiquan weapon form taught, it is very lively, and dynamic routine, using the waist and dantian as axis and has 23 movements which can be learnt quite quickly. It needs a degree of relaxation to perform at speed and keep the movements flowing and smooth.

Suitable for all levels

Workshop Costs:

Drop-in Fee: £55 Members £70 Non-members (cash or cheque)

Paid in advance: £50 Members £65 Non-members

email to book: info@taijicircle.com or Register and pay by credit card through Eventbrite

Venue St Paul’s Church Hall, Top end of Camden Square, London, NW1 9XG

01/01/201901/01/2019

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019

Welcome back to Tai Ji Circle and our schedule of Chen Taijiquan classes workshops and events.

Tai Ji Circle Timetable & Calendar
All classes begin on Monday 7 January at the Islington Chinese Association. See the timetable link below for more details. Please note that there are a few changes to classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
In addition to the regular TJC classes, Shifu Liu will be teaching a private Da Bei Qi Gong Class on early on Sunday morning before the regular Foundation Course/class. We have a new Calendar of workshops planned for 2019 and an exciting visit from Master Chen Ziqiang in April. See all workshop details on the Calendar.

Memberships & Classes Passes
Becoming a Tai Ji Circle member enables you to buy class passes at a cheaper rater, so that you can train more regularly, it also gives reduced fees for all workshops, membership and insurance from the BCCMA, and free training if you are a member of the TJC Performance Team.

If you bought your membership at the end of the year then you can renew for 2019, any couples can apply and save money with a family membership. Easy purchase or renewal of memberships and class passes, can be done by Credit Card or Paypal from the website on the links below. There are no additional charges when paying this way and TJC are notified, so it is our preferred payment method.

Foundation Students of 2018
We would encourage students to join our membership to get the maximum benefit from taiji practice, and hope that you would like to continue your training with us by attending the Foundation course classes again, and trying the 19 Form Class. This will help to expand and deepen your experience of the Chen practice. it takes time to assimilate the postural and technical requirements but once you have memorised the movements it is easier to learn the longer forms at the heart of the Chen style of taijiquan. Persistence and perseverance are required, the true meaning of gong fu practice.

New Students to Tai Ji Circle
We have our new Chen Taijiquan Foundation Courses starting on Sunday 13 January
Each new Beginners’ Foundation Course offers eight classes taught by Shifu Liu with Chris and Darrell, and require regular attendance twice a week for four weeks on Sundays and Thursdays. This helps new students have time to assimilate and reinforce the principles of the training. If you are unable to attend twice a week you can use the 8-class pass to attend other Foundation classes within the 15 week term.

9 + 16.03.19: Chen Old Frame One, Taijiquan Workshop with Shifu Liu

In this double London workshop, Shifu Liu will take an in-depth look at Laojia Yi Lu, the classic Old Frame, the seminal form for Chen style Taijiquan. We will study it in two parts, the first on 9 March, the second on 16 March. The last two hours of the second workshop Shifu Liu will teach relevant applications from the form.

For those who aren’t familiar with the routine, it has 74 movements and is the basis of many other Chen style tai ji routines that have this as their underlying structure and buy xanax online once you remember it, you can see the references in the sequence of moves in the other Chen forms. It is characterised as ‘Yin’ with many soft, smooth twining movements interdispersed with fajing, energy releases such as a punch or kick. Laojia Yi Lu was created by Chen Changxing in the 19th C, from the original sets of tai ji originator, Chen Wanting, a general of the Ming dynasty in China. It is the oldest tai ji routine from which many modern tai ji styles originate, such as Yang and Wu styles.

Shifu Liu will teach the routine with posture and movement correction, covering different aspects and techniques of the form. There will be refreshment breaks and the opportunity to ask questions.

Suitable for all levels

Dates: 9 + 16 March 2019

Times: 13:30 – 17.30

Seminar Fees:
Single workshop ?65 (non-member), ?50 for TJC Members
Double Workshop ?125 (non-member), ?95.00 TJC Members

Advanced booking on Eventbrite only available until 9 March.

email us with any queries: info@taijicircle.com

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VENUE
St Paul’s Church Hall, Top end of Camden Square, London, NW1 9XG

26.01.19: Chen Taijiquan 19 Form workshop with Shifu Liu

Chen 19 Part Form with Shifu Liu Quanjun

Saturday

26 January 2019

Time: 13:30 – 17:30

Created by Chen Xiao Wang in response to demand from students for a short routine suitable for beginners. The form is composed of 19 movements, divided into four sections. The simplicity of the form’s choreography makes it easy to learn for new students, yet offers the experienced practitioner room to express and develop the basic principles, energies and techniques of the style.

This is the first workshop for the 19 Part Form to be given by Tai Ji Circle this year, for those who have done it before it is an opportunity to revise, or learn from scratch, and increase understanding of the movements and requirements of this beginners form, practice some fajin (energy releases) and martial techniques contained within each movement.

We will supply a sheet with the movement names in Chinese Pinyin and English translation.

Open to all levels

All workshops have time for refreshment breaks

Seminar Fee

Drop-in Fee: £55 Members £70 Non-members (cash or cheque only)

Paid in advance: £50 Members £65 Non-members

Booking essential, queries please email: info@taijicircle.com

Venue

St Paul’s Church Hall, Top end of Camden Square, London, NW1 9XG

12.01.19 – Chen Foundation Taijiquan London workshop with Shifu Liu

Tai Ji Circle’s first Beginners Chen tai chi Foundation workshop of 2019

6th Duan Shifu Liu, will work with standing, and silk reeling exercises which are the basic essentials and foundation for Chen Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) training. Specifically improving the standing and stepping silk reeling exercises and some martial applications, or teaching a short form if there is time.

Standing practice, (called Zhan Zhaung), begins the process of internal discovery, relaxes, realigns and strengthens the body to improve your posture. Silk reeling exercise training improves coordination and leads you to sense the energetic changes that take place in the body through the accurate alignment, placement and movement of the body, as well as reflecting the martial, medical and philosophical aspects of the training such as weight changing and the exchange of yin yang in movement (eg. light/heavy or open/close). If there is time we will also teach a short Chen Form or practice some martial techniques during the workshop.

This will be a practical workshop, Shifu Liu will correct your body posture and movements, and we hope that you will gain a better understanding of the requirements and the underlying principles of tai ji training.

It is best to wear lose comfortable clothes, flat shoes, and not to eat a very heavy meal just before training.

As it is a four hour workshop, there will be refreshment breaks and the opportunity to ask questions.

Suitable for all levels and new students to Chen Taijiquan.

Workshop Fees:

Drop-in Fee: £55 Members, £70 Non-Members (Cash or cheques only on-the-door)

Paid in advance: TJC Members: £50 Non-members: £65

Venue: St Paul’s Church Hall, Top end of Camden Square, London, NW1 9XG

23/12/201823/12/2018

Tai Ji Circle’s Xmas Event of 2018!

Tai Ji Circle’s winter health workshop with Shifu Liu was insightful, varying from advice on diet, to using Qi Gong sounds to warm us up, with a visit from Torben Hersberg an ace osteopath and colleague of Shifu Liu’s from Central London Osteopathy Clinic. The AGM preceded the Assessment awards, and food preparations in the kitchen took place while we practiced Chen Foundation and performances of hand and weapon forms. Gary broke a concrete block, he made it look easy, but don’t try this at home!… he keeps up his training in the powerful Ying (hard) Qi Gong of Shifu Liu. Everyone was incredibly generous bringing all sorts of delicious party food. One of our students sang accompanied by Shifu Liu on the harmonica and they also sang Chinese songs together. Shifu Liu’s powerful voice soared out with a beautiful love song from his homeland Xinjiang, dedicated to his wife. Michael told us stories and we even learnt the first moves of Salsa. Great time.

Congratulations to the students who despite their nerves took part in and won 2019 training prizes at TJC’s Chen Assessments, awarded by Shifu Liu at the AGM and the following day in class for those who couldn’t make the party.

2018 was a good training year and Shifu was very happy with the progress on his students and this was a full and wonderful way to finish off; with students, families and friends. Thank you all for you support and help with clearing up… and have a wonderful Christmas and New Year in 2019.

12/12/2018

TJC Assessments with Shifu Liu

Shifu Liu demonstrating some Chen taiji principles at the 2018 Assessments

TJC Assessments on Sunday 9 January

Before the Assessments began on Sunday, Shifu Liu demonstrated and discussed some of the specific yin and yang attributes of the Chen Style Taijiquan, fast, slow; soft, strong, the particular circular or twining movements that are characteristic. Other advice was on posture, keeping the head and body straight, maintaining your ten ‘doors’, with reference to keeping all the joints open and relaxed. Use of the feet to push the floor and lead the energy up towards the dantian, the waist and outwards through the hands to the finger tips, (the dantian is the main energy centre in Chinese medicine theory, located in the abdomen below the navel). The importance of relaxing the palms and fingers while keeping the fingers straight, relaxing the feet to enable the energy to flow to the toes, using the eyes to follow the hand… just some of the useful advise that he gave to us.

We would like to thank everyone who attended, especially the foundation group overcoming their nerves to take part, not easy, even for skilled practitioners.

Four foundation student members who have made the most progress, plus one sponsored prize, will be awarded our training prizes after the AGM on 15 December.

TJC’s: Free Health Seminar, AGM, Performances and Party with Shifu Liu

After a fabulous year of training with Shifu Liu, Tai Ji Circle are having a free Winter Health Workshop, our AGM, Perfomances of Chen Taijiquan and Christmas party for everyone to enjoy before the winter holidays.

Charity AGM: TJC present our plans for 2019 and look forward to student feedback and views on changes.

Presentation of the 2019 Assessment Awards from Shifu Liu to TJC students.

Maintaining Winter Health, Seminar with Shifu Liu

Different healing methods:

1. Food Therapy – acidic and alkaline body constitution

According to different types of illnesses, you use different combinations of food to alter and rebalance the body’s condition, in order to achieve a healthy body.

2. Qigong Therapy

There are different types and different methods of Qigong practice, or a combination of different practices will be used, to suit an individual’s body requirements, to adjust and rebalance the body condition.

3. Dianxue Tuina and Bone Correction Tuina (massage)

According to the requirements of different health conditions, these are different methods of healing.

4. Skin Scraping (Gua Sha) – It is a simple practice, and health maintenance therapy.

5. Chinese herbal medicine

6. Taiji Quan – different practice methods for different treatment, it is also best for maintaining a healthy body.

Performances: Learn more about the progression of skill and techniques of Chen Taijiquan displayed in the forms from our syllabus. Enjoy dynamic excerpts from XInjia Er Lu, Chen Fan and more… and come and join in with the Foundation practice to start us off.

Christmas Party: Family and friends are welcome to join us for the performances and come and eat, sing, dance and perform your favourite party piece for everyone to enjoy… and hear Shifu Liu’s remarkable voice!

Please bring easy food and drinks to share, with Chris’s hot mulled apple juice.

FREE Entry by Eventbrite ticket for each person – thank you

Timetable

13:30-14:30 TJC AGM – new plans for 2019

14:30-15:45 Presention of Assessment Awards

15:00-17:30 Winter Health Workshop with Shifu Liu

17:30-18:15 Tai Ji Performances

18:15-20:00 Christmas Party

Everyone welcome, timings approximate!