Building Strength with Tai Chi
The strength to be gained by practising Tai Chi has been recognised in an article published by the widely-read New York Times this week. The author, Personal Health columnist Jane...
Category: Health Benefits
Health in the Community: Costa Rica shares the results of the health survey
On Saturday, 28 July, 75 people, including participants, friends, and family from the Asociación de Tai Chi Taoísta Centre in Heredia as well as participants from the three satellites in...
Volunteering at the All Souls Festival at International Centre near Orangeville
A volunteer at the International Centre near Orangeville describes how helping at the All Souls Festival has a profound effect.
Tai Chi and Me = Happiness
July marks the two-year anniversary of my first encounter with Taoist Tai Chi® arts and I am reflecting on my journey so far. Almost immediately the word happiness comes to...
Taoist Tai Chi® in the Classroom
A project in the Quebec City Area shows that it is possible for 9-10 year old children to appreciate, and benefit from, Taoist Tai Chi® arts. Tracey teaches a grade...
Fung Loy Kok Day in Costa Rica
Last Sunday 24 participants gathered at the club to share a day of chanting, meditation, tai chi sets, cleaning our home, preparing food and sharing together. It was an opportunity...
Study Shows Tai Chi Has Similar or Greater Benefits Than Aerobic Exercise for Fibromyalgia
According to a new study from Tufts University and Brown University tai chi results in similar or greater improvement in fibromyalgia symptoms when compared to aerobic exercise. The National Center...
Why Tai Chi Works So Well For Pain Relief
Tai chi relieves pain for fibromyalgia sufferers, a recent study published in British medical journal The BMJ shows . The study author says doctors should consider tai chi as possible...
Promoting Vitality and Well-being: How Taoist Tai Chi® Arts Impact Health and Reduce Stress on Public Health Services
Canadian Health Questionnaire Detailed Report, 2016 As governments struggle with mounting health costs, Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism wanted to capture some of the specific ways in which...
Helping The Heart
Tai chi might be a useful way to introduce reluctant people and heart attack survivors to exercise, according to a small new study published in the Journal of the American...
Zest for life at 81 – International Seniors Day
My name is Tim Butler. I’m 81 years old and I have been practising Taoist Tai Chi® arts for four years. These few years of practice have proved to be...
Doing the ‘impossible’ and helping others
“The fact that you can do something that you’re told is impossible gives you hope.” Providence Healthcare, which provides rehabilitation, palliative care, long-term care and community programs in Toronto, has...
‘A Gift That Flows Through Me’
Luana Goodwin has told the Tallahassee Democrat how her Taoist Tai Chi® arts story is long, complicated, and difficult because it’s been a journey not only of physical changes but...
Exploring Physiology and Taoist Tai Chi® Arts in Costa Rica
Recently in the centre in Heredia, Costa Rica we had the pleasant opportunity to explore the subject of physiology and Taoist Tai Chi® arts through a series of five illustrated...
10 years since the Grand Opening on Dragon Tortoise Mountain
A decade ago I was appreciating a deep sense of privilege; the opening and closing of 10 altars each day, chanting 21 sutras over three days, sharing the event with...
Volunteering – it’s good for your health
Researcher Stephen Post has told CBC’s Tapestry program about studies showing the psychological and physical effects of being kind. Post, a professor of medicine at Stony Brook University in New...
Fung Loy Kok Portugal at NATURALES MEDICINAE Congress
The society in Portugal was invited to maintain a stand and offer a presentation and demonstration in Lisbon on the 27th and 28th of May at the V Congress and...
A richness of experience
The Grand Opening in 2007 was my first visit to the International Centre, near Orangeville. With a broken kneecap (due to a fall in a workshop a few weeks earlier),...
The brilliance of Master Moy’s gifts
I have been practicing Taoist Tai Chi® arts for six years so I was not present at the opening ceremonies of the expansion of the International Centre in Orangeville. However,...
A big, wonderful family
I have fond memories of the opening of the Three Religions Temple 10 years ago. It was my first visit to the International Centre near Orangeville, Ontario. I was very...