Tai Chi Returns to Lotus Center on July 10!
Hi, Everybody!
Lotus Center is delighted to welcome Kit West for “Gentle Tai Chi for Beginners, Seniors, and Children” on Mondays at 11:00 AM (beginning July 10). Here is a description of the class . . .
Gentle Tai Chi will cover the basics of Tai Chi in a slow, flowing manner much like the practice itself. We will begin with the essential Tai Chi principles of posture, balance, breath and imaging as well as the Taoist-based philosophy of Tai Chi. Our ultimate goal being the understanding of the Yang 24, we will pull forms out of the progression and learn them first as walks, then we will fold that understanding into the learning of the entire Yang 24. The class will always go forward with an awareness of every participants’ abilities, the idea being to learn with joy, so that with joy we can gradually integrate Tai Chi into our daily lives.
About Kit West . . .
I began to do Tai Chi while living on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala in the 90s. There was a generous but cranky Tai Chi master who offered free classes in his garden in the morning three days a week. He mixed basic Tai Chi with Qi Gong and Taoist wisdom. To this day I model my classes after his. I attended his classes for ten years.
Upon returning to the States in 2001, I, tragically, left Tai Chi behind, and it was only when the aging process forced itself on my attention that I returned to Tai Chi. Simultaneously, a local senior living facility lost their Tai Chi instructor and invited me to take his place. I discovered Dr. Paul Lam’s Tai Chi for Health organization and became certified to teach Tai Chi according to his format: “watch me, follow me, show me.” I taught at the Good Samaritan Society Loveland Village for five years.
I have now been doing Tai Chi again for ten+ years, starting my day with Qi Gong and the salutation to the sun and then the Yang 24 and the Sun 73 styles of Tai Chi. I am now 66 and am evidence as to the benefits of Tai Chi for seniors as well as participants of any age.
Gentle Tai Chi for Beginners, Seniors, and Children with Kit West
Mondays (beginning July 10); 11:00 AM to Noon
Cost: $10 drop-in; $8 w/ a Lotus class card
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