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TAI CHI and Won Motion with Laura

Won Motion-LauraTai Chi and Won Motion with Laura Samuels
5 Mondays (Jan. 16 - Feb. 13) 6:00-7:15 pm

Keep your New Year’s Resolution to be healthier, stronger, and deepen your meditation practice! Learn Tai Chi exercises that are designed to balance your Chi (internal life energy). Members will learn the Chi Wah (balancing the Chi) and both Yin/Yang Chi transformations (bringing fire to water and water to fire). 

 

The session will include dynamic Won Motion style Chi Kung exercises to strengthen your body (especially the back). The circular movements of Won Motion help the body’s joints move freely for better circulation and more comfortable sitting meditation. Won Motion is a holistic exercise system for all fitness levels. 

Each evening concludes with a sitting segment of calming aroma therapy and guided meditation with breathing and internal exercises to connect to your dantien. Once you are able to recognize your dantien*, your meditation practice deepens and becomes more focused. 

Special Features of this Class:

  • Tai Chi -- balance of Yin and Yang, cultivate beneficial Chi. 
  • Won Motion -- strength and movement for the entire body, especially the neck/back/hips. 
  • Aroma therapy -- calms the mind and reduces stress.
  • Ergonomic health for wrists/hands and back with Won Motion.
  • Internal work --guided breathing while strengthening your pelvic floor muscles to help structure your dantien meditation. 

Laura will lead each session giving personal attention to developing the correct form of each participant. 

 

Laura Samuels (Won Do), a WBM lay teacher, has designed and privately instructs Won Motion,a mind/body fitness fusion to promote a healthy aging. Laura has taught Qigong (Yijin Jing Style) and Tai Chi for over ten years at the Flushing YMCA. 

* Dantien meditation focuses the mind internally 2 finger-widths below the navel.  The dantien is the body’s main receptacle of Chi.

 

5 Mondays (Jan. 16 - Feb. 13)

Monday 01/16/12  6:00-7:15 pm
Monday 01/23/12  6:00-7:15 pm
Sunday 01/29/12  6:00-7:15 pm 
Monday 02/06/12  6:00-7:15 pm
Monday 02/13/12  6:00-7:15 pm

 

$50 Donation for 5 weeks ($40 WBM members)
Reduced Payment is available for students or the low income. Please contact us by using the registration form below.

Registration is required.