/24-7PressRelease/ - ARNOLD, MD, April 28, 2006 - The Jing Ying Institute is pleased to announce that the Eighth Annual World Tai Chi and Qigong Day will be celebrated on Saturday, April 29th 2006. This year, we have scheduled activities at Annapolis Harbour Center in Annapolis from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon. Activities will be on the Special Events Pavilion between Whole Foods and the PA Dutch Farmers Market and will include free workshops and demonstrations in QiGong, Yoga, and different styles of Tai Chi.
The activities will begin with a Chinese Lion Dance performance by Jing Ying Institute of Arnold. In addition to the free workshops, there will be demonstrations of Tai Chi forms and weapons.
Free Demonstrations
10:00 - Lion Dance and Tai Chi Demonstrations
Free Mini-Workshops
10:20 - Tai Chi - Professor Cheng Man-ch'ing Yang short form
with Carol McGonegal and Elizabeth Reed
10:40 - Yoga with Amy Halsted
11:00 - Tai Chi - Push Hands with Abdulmuhsiy Abdurrahman
11:20 - Qigong - Unconditional Love Qigong
with Kimberly Kelly-Rigsbee
11:40 - Tai Chi - Chen Style Silk Reeling with Sean Marshall
In case of rain, events will be moved to Jing Ying Institute
Tai Chi is believed to boost the immune system, slow the aging process, lower high blood pressure, relieve stress, and to improve balance and coordination. In preparation for World Tai Chi/Qi Gong day and to help promote information about Tai Chi, the Jing Ying Institute will offer two free 90 minute Tai Chi workshops on Friday, April 21st at 7:30 pm and on Wednesday April 26th at 6:00 pm at their studio in Arnold.
What is World Tai Chi Day?
On the last Saturday of April each year at 10 am, beginning in the Earth's earliest time zone, a peaceful soothing event will unfold, and change the world forever, as it blooms around the Earth throughout the entire day--time zone by time zone. Gently and effortlessly the world will breathe together in a Tai Chi and QiGong relay of calm. We have all experienced the soothing calm of witnessing others doing Tai Chi or QiGong and on World Tai Chi and QiGong Day the entire planet will have that opportunity.
World Tai Chi and QiGong Day is held in the same month as the United Nations World Healing Day and Earth Day. Tai Chi and QiGong groups form mass gatherings in public parks or other public places around the world at 10 am (local time) to exhibit Tai Chi and QiGong to the community, the media, and the world.
Some purposes for staging this historic event:
1. To educate the world to the profound implications Tai Chi and QiGong can offer our personal, social and world health.
2. To thank Chinese culture for providing this powerful health science to the world.
3. To improve international relations by joining Tai Chi and QiGong practitioners around the world in celebration.
For more information on events in Annapolis, Maryland, visit http://www.JingYing.org. For information about World Tai Chi day and events around the world, visit http://www.worldtaichiday.org.
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