The Dragon's Head Blog

News coverage of the Cross Canada Seniors’ Day program held in Victoria, BC. [huge_it_video_player id=”3″]Courtesy of CHEK Media.

Lors de la fin de semaine du 30 avril et du 1er mai 2016, vingt personnes ont pris part à un programme régional de tai chi taoïste animé par Sylvie Roy, leader de la section de Québec. Cet intensif fut grandement apprécié par tous. Voici quelques commentaires des participants : Nous sommes choyés d’être dans […]

Although the Hungarian capital has the most tai chi practitioners in the country, there is another location that occupies a special place within the life and history of the Hungarian Taoist Tai Chi community. This is Sopron, close to the northwestern border with Austria, where Taoist Tai Chi celebrated its 15th anniversary on May 7, […]

Eighty members and special guests met at the Phoenix Restaurant in Histon to celebrate 20 years of classes of Taoist Tai Chi® arts in Cambridge with a delicious Chinese meal. We were honoured by the presence of Sarah Sayer of Cambridge Live, Eve Dziura of the Meadows Community Centre and Dr. Wei Sun of the […]

  Everyone agreed they will all recommend the Volunteer/Tai Chi Retreat weekend to people at their branches. More than 30 people enjoyed three days of tai chi and volunteering in the  retreat held at the International Centre near Orangeville after Cross-Canada Seniors Day. This is what they had to say: Nice balance of work and […]

  The tea party at Colchester has become an annual event. This time it had a 60’s theme and was at the weekend.  As always there was lots of fun and lots of food.

The Cross-Canada Seniors Day video feed is underway, with different locations taking turns to lead the more than 1000 participants across the country in a different foundation move. We’re working together even though separated by thousands of kilometres. Meanwhile Winnipeg Branch Centre has sent a welcome message, saying 80 participants and friends have travelled from […]

The Pacific Region is pleased to kick off the first Cross Canada Seniors Day in Vancouver just after 10 am local time with an energetic Taoist Tai Chi® arts set featuring more than 100 regular participants and several friends trying tai chi for the first time. Participants have arrived from Vancouver, Surrey and Chilliwack branch locations […]

Here at the Calgary Branch of the Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi® Western Region we are thrilled to learn the that our Seniors Day lands in conjunction with the the City of Calgary and the Seniors Advisory Council for Alberta Senior’s Week as proclaimed by Mayor Nenshi. To celebrate this event we are honored to welcome  Councillor Sean Chu  of Ward […]

Close to 200 people are gathering in Longueuil today for the Cross-Canada Seniors Day. They’re coming from all over the region, from the Magdalen Islands through Quebec City, Lanaudière, the Eastern townships, Montérégie and Montreal. Far-away Abitibi Branch is also hosting a Cross-Canada Seniors Day. Longueuil will be one of the six locations that will […]

Greetings from Halifax . We have 145 participants from the Atlantic Region here today. Canada’s most Easterly provinces — Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick are all well represented. Incredible energy in the room!

Greetings from Newfoundland and Labrador,  the most easterly point in North America.  At our branch in St. John’s, we started the day with an open house  and welcomed many visitors, including some local dignitaries. Everyone enjoyed a delicious vegetarian pot luck lunch.  Our afternoon workshop has approximately 25 participants who are eagerly awaiting the cross-Canada video link to […]

The mango pudding is chilling, the buses and cars have flocked to the International Center, with a record of more than 400 participants for a seniors day, and there is a excitement in the air for what’s ahead. Seniors Day is always the largest one-day event at the International Center but this year it takes […]

In Ballina, Co Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, the Friday of the International Workshop is the time for celebration, to mark the 20th anniversary of Taoist Tai Chi in Ireland. The workshop programme, for 145 members from 9 different countries, combines working all together and in small groups, and runs until mid-afternoon. We […]

This spring the Taoist Tai Chi Society of Hungary held a round table discussion in Budapest on the health benefits of Taoist Tai Chi® arts. Among the participants of the discussion were instructors of the Hungarian TTCS, doctors who are also practicing Taoist Tai Chi® arts, and two of our members living with health problems […]

For patients with painful knee osteoarthritis, tai chi was as helpful as physical therapy in reducing pain and improving physical functioning, according to a new study partially funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. The results of the study, conducted at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, were published in the journal Annals […]

Over the Memorial Day weekend holiday the International Center in Florida hosted an international sabre program lead by Sean Dennison.  Over 90 participants took part in the program coming from as far as New Zealand. The first day started with the USA Board receiving a guided tour of the historic Fenway Hotel from the Dunedin branch […]

The Portage la Prairie location hosted its first ever Winnipeg branch Mother’s Day Banquet on Friday 6 May 2016. The event was held at the Herman Prior Centre in Portage la Prairie. The evening consisted of several demos, a meal and a great silent auction with prizes donated by each location in the branch. We started […]

  How does an International Workshop of Taoist Tai Chi® arts in Ireland start? Weatherwise, with sunshine! And the same sunny and joyful atmosphere was felt by all participants when we started under Tony Kwong’s guidance with our foundation exercises. And how does an International Workshop in Ireland continue, in this our 20th anniversary year? […]

As locations across Canada get ready for Cross-Canada Seniors’ Day next week on June 9, a new meta-analysis suggests tai chi can lower blood pressure in older people as effectively as drugs or aerobic exercise. Researchers also found that the reduction in systolic blood pressure was greater in people who performed tai chi more frequently. […]