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CorePower Yoga - New Gold Coast Yoga Studio Celebrates Grand Opening
CorePower Yoga, known for invigorating and unique yoga classes and lifestyle programs, celebrated the grand opening of its second Chicago yoga studio on Saturday, October 17th.

What Need To Do To Setup Your Own Meditation Group
Having your own meditation group is a great way to meet new people but it is also a great way to learn new meditation techniques. As you begin your meditation journey you will find new ways to meditate and everyone will have their own ideas and a meditation group is a great way to learn.

Leading iPhone Application Developer, NexStudios, Today Announced the Launch of Stephanie's Tai Chi for Enlighteners
Tai Chi for Enlighteners is a unique program for all ages and levels. Tai Chi for Enlighteners allows anyone, anywhere to learn the fundamentals of Tai Chi with a step-by-step video and a supportive website creating a giant leap in the quality of one's life.

How to Become the best Massage Therapist of Pennsylvania
Massage therapy is a buzzword in Pennsylvania. With more than 80 massage therapy options available today, becoming a massage therapist is one of the unlimited career opportunities available today. With the increase in career opportunities in massage therapy, many massage therapy training programs have sprung up. Though there are many training schools for massage therapy, unfortunately not all of them are able to provide quality education. Moreover, as Massage therapy is a diversified field, the training school that you choose to get trained in massage therapy should be able to teach you the broad array of techniques available today.

CorePower Yoga - New Huntington Beach Yoga Studio Grand Opening on Saturday, April 26
CorePower Yoga, known for its dynamic and accessible yoga and lifestyle programs, opens its first greater Los Angeles - area studio April 18th. Grand Opening festivities kick-off April 26th at 12:00pm. Cameron Shayne, creator and founder of Budokon, will headline the events on the 26th with his signature Art of Budokon Master Class.

How to Find a Tai Chi Instructor (Part 5)
Continued from 'how to find a Tai Chi Instructor (Part 4) 22Self Defense Applications - A Tai Chi teacher does not have to teach self defense to students who do not want it but any real teacher of Tai Chi who can impart the real knowledge of Tai Chi to others must have at least a basic understanding of how the movements are really applied and be able to demonstrate it

CorePower Yoga - New Stadium Village Yoga Studio Opening on 12/22/08
CorePower Yoga, known for accessible and dynamic yoga classes and lifestyle programs, opens its eighth Twin Cities yoga studio on Monday, December 22nd.

CorePower Yoga - New Edina Yoga Studio & Spa Opening on Friday, May 16
CorePower Yoga, known for its dynamic and accessible yoga and lifestyle programs, opens its sixth Minneapolis/St. Paul - area studio May 16th. Other Twin City yoga studios are located in Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Louis Park, Uptown and Eden Prairie neighborhoods. CorePower Yoga - Edina is the company's first combined yoga studio and spa venture.

CorePower Yoga - New Aliso Viejo Yoga Studio Opening on Monday, October 27th
The new CorePower Yoga Aliso Viejo yoga studio is opening on Monday, October 27th. The Aliso Viejo yoga studio is the second CorePower Yoga studio to open in Orange County, and the 28th CorePower Yoga studio nationwide.

Westchester, New York Tai Chi Instructor to Present at International Tai Chi Symposium
Master Domingo Colon, a Tai Chi instructor from Bronxville in Westchester New York has been invited to give a presentation to an international gathering of Tai Chi teachers at a symposium designed to advance the knowledge and ability of Tai Chi teachers to work with individuals with special needs.

How to Find a Tai Chi Instructor (Part 5)

Continued from ?How to find a Tai Chi Instructor (Part 4)

22.Self Defense Applications

- A Tai Chi teacher does not have to teach self defense to students who do not want it but any real teacher of Tai Chi who can impart the real knowledge of Tai Chi to others must have at least a basic understanding of how the movements are really applied and be able to demonstrate it. This is a necessity as the moves can only be truly understood if the practitioner knows the basic fundamental applications for the move. Without this knowledge the Tai Chi instruction really is a case of the blind leading the blind.

Any basic Tai Chi instructor knows a minimum of 9 - 10 different applications for each and every move and the applications range from very simple to very sophisticated. An advanced teacher will often know a minimum of several dozen or more applications for each move that will include but is not limited to throwing, grappling, striking, seizing, controlling, pressure point strikes, take downs and slipping/warding off (soft blocking).

Tai Chi began as a martial art and is still practiced as such by the Chinese and any real teacher of the art is going to have been exposed to this part of the discipline.

23Many other items to numerous to include here and that can be found by reading quality books on the subject and by searching and reading online and by checking back with us as we continue to write and offer articles for the general public.

This article only covers a small fraction of what the art of Tai Chi really has to offer. We will be going into more detail on some of these points in future articles and hope to shed light on other aspects of Tai Chi training that have not been addressed here.

Tai Chi is Internal Kung Fu. A quote I have heard from more than one of my teachers about this is that ?Many people have the choreography. Not many have the Kung Fu.? One of the major concerns/gripes of our Tai Chi teachers is that many people learn a Tai Chi set of moves, practice it a bit and then start teaching Tai Chi and that somehow over the last 45 years this has become acceptable in America.

This is the equivalent of someone going to a Karate class getting their white belt and then opening their own school offering Karate classes. The average American would find this unacceptable and would not attend such a school opting instead to go to a school where the teacher has at least a black belt from someone who is truly qualified to bestow such a rank. We believe the same standard of quality should be true for Tai Chi instruction as Tai Chi is a martial art that has amazing health benefits based in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

A person claiming to teach Tai Chi or who is offering Tai Chi classes who does not have knowledge or direct access to most of the training methods and principles mentioned in this article is simply not qualified to teach even basic beginning Tai Chi.

To Be continued in ?How to find a Tai Chi Instructor (Part6)

Sigung Richard Clear has over 30 years of continuous study in Tai Chi and Chi Kung both in the U.S. and China. http://www.clearstaichi.com