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Connections is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Chinese. We are very grateful for our translators who volunteered to translate: Cyntia S. Levy, Rubén Coirini, Daniela Famulari, Gennaro Ripa, Françoise Desagnat, Jean-Claude Miremont, Thilo Krienke, Huang Gang, Zhao Ruiyuan, and Yao Tiebin. Thank you very much! Here are the links to the other languages:
Welcome to Our New Members
I would like to welcome all new members who have recently joined Yang Family Tai Chi. Thank you for joining us and welcome to our tai chi family! I am happy you have chosen to join us and hope that you feel welcome and receive great value from your membership.
I hope that all members will have a long and fulfilling relationship with our association. For those members who have been with us through the years, I appreciate that you have chosen to stay with us as we continue to spread tai chi chuan worldwide to help humankind.
Sincerely,
Master Yang Jun
President
2019 International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium News
Academic Program: The 2019 Symposium features an academic program presenting research on tai chi chuan. This year's speakers include Dr. Patricia Huston, Dr. Fuzhong Li, Dr. ChenChen Wang, Dr. Nicola Robinson, Dr. Son-Nam Tran, and Holly Sweeney-Hillman. You can read about their presentations and their biographies on the symposium's website.
Registration: Registration for the symposium is still open. Register today! Please note that if you would like to sign up for the Discovering Italy tour or the shuttle to and from Selvino, the deadline to sign up is April 30. Also, please note that the Discovering Italy tour ends in Milan. If you are taking the tour, your departure from Italy should be made from Milan.
Ranking: Association members may apply for duan ranking levels as part of their participation in the Yang Family Tai Chi Cup Tournament. Please note that ranking will not be a separate event. If you want to apply for ranking, you will need to sign up for the tournament and pay for ranking on the application form.
Volunteers: Volunteers are the driving force of the 2019 International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium. We need volunteers to participate in a wide variety of jobs. No matter your interests or skill sets, there is a volunteer position for you. Please consider being a symposium volunteer. You will meet great people and have fun too! If you are interested in being a volunteer, please complete the Volunteer Application Form and send it to Claudio Mingarini: claudio@yangfamilytaichi.com. If you have any questions or wish to learn more about volunteer opportunites, please contact Claudio.
Fundraising: We would like to sincerely thank our centers, schools, and instructors who have held fundraising events to support the symposium. We are very grateful for your assistance. The symposium is an important international event for tai chi chuan and your support is greatly needed. If you are a director or instructor, please consider teaching a seminar or class to help support the symposium and encourage your students to attend the symposium. We can accomplish anything when we work together!
Activities: If you are bringing a guest with you to the symposium who is not attending all the symposium events, we have planned some day trips on May 26 and May 28 with a tour agency to help guests enjoy their stay in Selvino. The deadline to register for the tours is May 15. See website for more information.
Practice Every Day with Master Yang Jun!
If you have ever attended a seminar with Master Yang Jun you know that at the end you wish you could spend more time with him. Now you can practice tai chi every day with him calling the movements!
Everyone who supports the 2019 International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium by making a donation to the Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Foundation, will receive a free gift of an MP3 audio of Master Yang calling the movements for the Traditional Hand Form in English and Chinese. The MP3 audio will be emailed to you AFTER the symposium.
Instructors, please let your students know about this gift with donation. They won't want to miss this time-limited offer, especially if they have been to one of Master Yang's seminars or enjoy his DVDs.
We need your support. All contributions of all sizes are welcome and greatly appreciated. Please support the symposium and visit the symposium's website if you would like to donate.
Shanxi Province Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Research Institute
Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo and his wife participated in the annual celebration of the Shanxi Province Yang Family Tai Chi Research Institute. The institute is a non-profit organization that partners with Shanxi Province to promote Yang Family Tai Chi in that province.
TTM-1 Training - October 2019
The U.S. Teacher Academy is pleased to announce a Fall TTM-1 seminar with Master Yang Jun. The seminar will also include evening academic programs presented by the U.S. Teacher Academy faculty. The event will take place October 4-7, 2019 at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT. For more information, please contact Mari Lewis: mari@yangfamilytaichi.com
Master Yang Jun's Seminar Schedule
Seminar in Cupertino, CA, USA
From January 19-21, Master Yang Jun taught a seminar in Cupertino, California. Participants enjoyed instruction in push hands and the Traditional Hand Form.
Belt and Road China Tai Chi Culture World Tour
Master Yang Jun along with other tai chi masters Chen Zhenglei, Qiu Huifang, Fu Qinquan, and Chen Juan participated in a series of seminars in the U.S. from February 7-19. The seminars were part of the Belt and Road China Tai Chi Culture World Tour. Cities in the tour included San Jose, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The seminar tour was organized in cooperation with China's central government to share tai chi culture with the world.
Directors and Instructors Seminar
Master Yang Jun taught a seminar for directors and instructors from January 26-30 in Bothell, WA. Seminar content included push hands and tai chi theory.
Disciple Training
Photos from Master Yang's disciple training February 27 - March 3 in Yiwu, China.
Disciple Ceremony
In March, Master Yang Jun welcomed a new group of disciples. Congratulations to all the new disciples!
Success at Bulgarian Wushu Federation Event
Greetings from Bulgaria! The Bulgarian Wushu Federation hosted the 3rd World Taijiquan Championships (Sep. 25th – Oct. 2nd, 2018) - an official event of the International Wushu Federation. Two hundred athletes from 33 countries competed in various events - both modern and traditional taiji. We are very happy to report that the Bulgarian National Team won a gold and a bronze medal in the Traditional Yang Style Hand Form events. Petar Dragoev (Affiliated School Sofia) became world champion winning a gold medal in the Men's Yang Style Taijiquan Traditional Routine, Age: 18-39. Stanislav Bagalev (Affiliated School Plovdiv) facing heavy competition won the bronze medal in the next age group, the Men's Yang Style Taijiquan Traditional Routine, Age: 40-65. They competed with Master Yang's 22 Essential Form. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time that an athlete following the Traditional Yang Family Tai Chi line has won such a place in an official event of the International Wushu Federation of such magnitude. It is our hope that more practitioners of the Traditional Yang Style will join us in future championships in Europe and across the world.
Petar Dragoev - Traditional Routine Age:18-39 Taijiquan - Men's Yang Style
Stanislav Bagalev - Men's Yang Style Taijiquan Traditional Routine Age:40-65
Tai Chi Performance - Kunming, China
On January 19, the Kunming Yang Family Tai Chi Center performed for a pu'er tea event. Pu'er tea is a type of tea produced in Yunnan Province, China.
Tai Chi Research Featured in Oregon Newspaper
In February, a front-page story on tai chi and balance was featured in the Register-Guard, a newspaper in Eugene, Oregon. The article focused on Dr. Fuzhong Li's exercise program "Taijiquan: Moving for Better Balance" which has been found to significantly reduce injury from falls in adults over age 70 compared with other forms of exercise. Dr. Li is a researcher at Oregon Research Institute and is a keynote speaker at the 2019 International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium in Selvino, Italy. Dr. James Fox, Director of the Yang Family Tai Chi Center in Eugene was also interviewed in the article. READ ARTICLE
Instructor Course with Fernando De Lazzari - Brazil
YANG FAMILY TAI CHI INSTRUCTOR COURSE
BEGINS: March, 2019
ENDS: August, 2020
Classes one weekend per month every month, all day Saturday and Sunday.
WHERE: Ribeirão Preto Yang Family Tai Chi Center - Brazil
CONTACT: Fernando De Lazzari - fernando@yangfamilytaichi.com
View more information about the course on the website:
www.taichichuan.com.br
Workshop with Valéria Sanchez - Brazil
Seminars with Pam Boyde - Canada
Pam Boyde (Academy Instructor) of Whitehorse, Canada taught hand form and saber seminars in January and February.
Seminar in Lyon, France
In February, Carole and Duc Nguyen Minh from the Yang Family Tai Chi Center in Paris, taught a workshop in Lyon, France. The workshop was organized by Bambou Balance, an affiliated school in Lyon.
Happy New Year! - Seattle, USA
The Seattle area experienced the snowiest February in over 50 years! Although most of the school's students were snowed-in, these few were able to join together to celebrate the Lunar New Year. We missed our classmates but knew they were practicing with us in spirit in their homes! - Stefanie Russell (Affiliated School Director)
Happy New Year! - Lyon, France
Students of Bambou Balance (Affiliated school in Lyon, France) along with school director, Edyta Piatkowski-Wu, participated in new year celebrations at the Cultural Center of Villeurbanne on February 9.
Happy New Year! - Michigan, USA
On cold, snowy, and icy Michigan winter days, we joined in two big Chinese New Year celebrations. On January 31, we performed in a special halftime show with other local groups and special guests from Sichuan, China at the Detroit Pistons game.
On February 12, we participated in the pre-concert festivities at Orchestra Hall (home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra), along with students of the Anshinkan Dojo. Afterwards, we enjoyed wonderful performances by the internationally renowned China National Peking Opera Company and the spectacular Hubei Chime Bells National Chinese Orchestra.
Journal Gem
The Traditional Hand Form includes the movement "Fair Lady Works At Shuttles". The following article explains who the fair lady is and why she is working at the shuttles of the loom.
The Story of Dong Yong. (Translated by Andy Lee with Sara Olsen). Winter 2007, Issue #22, page 13.
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