Tai Chi Class Schedule
Chi Kung for Health/ Tai Chi Level 1
This class includes standing meditation, rotating Chi Kung (Qigong) exercises, and the Eight Foundational Stances form (Bot Di Ma Bo), along with introductory instruction in the first form of the system: the 132-posture Tai Chi Jeung (Palm).
The class fully supports students who wish to focus solely on Chi Kung for health, healing, and internal development, while also serving as the essential starting point for those beginning Tai Chi practice. Because Tai Chi grew directly out of Chi Kung and remains inseparable from its principles, students naturally progress from internal cultivation into foundational form work—developing balance, strength, focus, and steady vitality from the inside out.
Chi Kung for Health/Tai Chi Level 1 meets at From the Heart Yoga and Tai Chi Center on Monday afternoon at 6:00 pm, Tuesday morning at 8:00 am, and Wednesday afternoon at 6:00 pm. Visit our School Information page to register.
Tai Chi Level 2
This class deepens training in the Tai Chi Jeung (Palm) system, passed from Sigong Chiu Chuk Kai to Sifu Lee. Lead Instructor Rick Powell now runs the school, assisted by Senior Instructor John, and Assistant Instructors Tracy and Dave.
Building on the foundation of Level 1, students refine structure, sensitivity, and internal power.Training includes standing practices, push hands, martial applications, and the hand and weapons forms of this traditional Tai Chi lineage. Note that completing the first tai chi form in Tai Chi Level 1 is a prerequisite for joining Tai Chi Level 2.
Tai Chi Level 2 meets at From the Heart Yoga and Tai Chi Center on Monday evening at 6:45 pm, Tuesday morning at 9:00 am, and Wednesday evening at 6:45 pm. Visit our School Information page to register.
Tai Chi All Levels
This class is a mixture of the Tai Chi and Chi Kung practices from the Level 1 and Level 2 classes, and and is open to all students, from beginner to advanced.
Tai Chi All Levels meets at the YWCA West Central Michigan on Saturday mornings at 9:00 am. Visit our School Information page to register.
About Our Style
Our school offers many tai chi forms, both empty-hands and weapons. Examples include Single Push Hands, Two-person Push Hands, Tai Chi Chuan, Tai Chi Jen, Tai Chi Dao, Fan, Umbrella, Sword and Scabbard, and Two Sword.
The style of Tai Chi which Master Lee taught was passed to Sigong Chiu Chuk Kai (趙竹溪) by a Taoist monk named Cheung Man Chau ( “Ten Thousand Autumns”). He was skilled in an art known as “Tai Chi Palm (太極掌)”. Master Chiu had a deep desire to learn this method so he went to find Cheung to learn “Tai Chi Palm.” After Cheung finished teaching him the system, Master Chiu asked his teacher what he should call this method of Tai Chi. Since the mountain on which they practiced was covered with clouds every morning. Cheung said, “Just call it Mor Wan Jeung, which means ‘moving the clouds palm'”. Therefore, “Mor Wan Jeung (摩雲掌)” became a hallmark of the Chuk Kai Tai Chi Praying Mantis system. Thereafter Yen Hoa Lee inherited the complete system from Sigong Chiu Chuk Kai.
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