Dear Tai Chi Enthusiasts,

We realise you have several options to choose from for learning Tai Chi. Why should you consider joining the Taiji School Program?

Learning Tai Chi is not easy and teaching it is even more difficult. At the Taiji School we offer a comfortable learning environment where everyone can learn in an atmosphere of confidence and easiness, so that the learning process feels more like a playing time, the exploration of new possibilities, in order to facilitate the openness to relax more and therefore feel more.

Tai Chi is an internal martial art based on the understanding of a number of principles and the ability to integrate them in your own experience. The danger of this is that often we get caught in our minds trying to understand the meaning of those principles and hardly ever being able to feel them as a body experience at all times while performing the form.

Our approach to overcome this at the Taiji School is the following:

• Empty your cup:   either from what you already know, or from the expectations you might have.
• Go back to the basics: feel you body and become comfortable being in your body, without paying too much attention to form or details in the beginning.
• Play with what you begin to understand: try it fast, slow, hard and soft, till you can find a flow in your movement at your own pace.
• Repeat over and over again:  till you become more and more relax and therefore you can feel more and more being in your body.
• Work with different partners:  try different intensities of work, from a weekly class, a weekend workshop or a residential camp!  Experience different approaches about the same points.
• Read:  check a good library of books about the Tai Chi Principles and its understanding.
• Have fun:  most important of all.  We can’t keep long what is no fun to do.

When I first met Paul Renall, founder of the Taiji School, I was very impressed by the quality of his work in Tai Chi and his ability to connect with people.  This is why I am very committed to organising all the workshops for the Four Year Taiji School Program in the Netherlands. Through his teaching Paul has introduced us to new ways of feeling and understanding and having fun at the same time.

More teachers more locations!!

In 2012 Paul Renall will teach the Third Year Taiji School Program and we are now more teachers appointed to teach the First Year Program:

Arnoud Velema: Drenthe, Anny Ploegmaker en Diana Plantinga: Utrecht, Els van der Kooi: Zutphen, Jacqueline Ansem: Amsterdam, Ellen Jasper: Uithoorn, Marlene Hoogstoel: Belgium and myself in Hilversum . We look forward to sharing our experience and knowledge through the Taiji School Program with all Tai Chi enthusiasts, from the eager beginners to "old timers" looking for a refreshing new start in Tai Chi. 

Please register now for Year 3 Workshops of our Taiji School Program!

With the Best Wishes for the New Year!

Marcela Astete 

Tai Chi Instructor 

Human Potential Founder

To Register and for more information about the Taiji School Programs in Hilversum:

email:taichi.hilversum@hotmail.com  

tel. +31-62-9282985

For more information about Taiji School and classes in other locations:

www.thetaijischool.com