Chi-Time

I met many wonderful teachers at ‘A Taste of China’ Summer Seminar.  Many teach Seniors who have movement and/or cognitive challenges.  As part of our seminar sharing, I explained how I use 12″ length of foam ‘float’ noodles to assist students to perform movements such as ‘prayer wheel’ and ‘cloud hands’ as well as for self-tapping massage.
 If you teach Seniors and have valuable knowledge to share on successful teaching strategies and classs activities for this student group, this is the place to share. We invite your comments and teaching tips.
PK

To all Chi Timers:
We are expanding Chi Time programming to include more traditional QIGONG froms. We will be posting information about new seminar and workshop programming in the fall as well as new instructional resources in our e-store.
In preparation….I have just completed a QiGong Instructor Certification course with Master George Picard for 24 Posture QiGong in the ‘Wu YI Jie He’ family system. At the June ‘08 ATOC seminar, I will be training with Dr. Yang Yang. Later in August, I will study for 2 weeks with Master Yang Jwing Ming at his California mountain retreat center. In Nov, I will be training with Master Jiang Jianye, out of Albany NY.

We attended two school health fairs in march ‘08: Elmwood Village Charter School, Bufffalo, NY and Cheektowaga Central, Cheektowaga, NY. We hope to have Chi Time @ school breaks introduced in these school very soon.

Feb 28th, I had a wonderful visit with both the Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s family support Groups in Bluffton/Hilton Head, South Carolina. We did the ‘Chi for You’ and ‘5 Elements’ Routines. Many of the atttendees agreed to partiicpate in our on going research about utlity of taiji/qigong for caregivers and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.

If you are a PT, OT, exercise specialist or other health professional, and you are integrating taiji/qigong into your practice in some way, let us know about your work, your successes, and post inquiries about problem-solving any challenges.
PK