LotusLeaf Tai Chi

What a great couple of workshops!  Well done to all that attended you worked really hard and to get through either of the forms in that short time is an achievement in itself.

I’m really pleased that people enjoyed them enough to ask for more, so more I have arranged (well one more!) . The hall is booked for 10th December 2-4pm for another Sword form workshop, £7.50 per student.

Please let me know if you would like to come.

As the equinox winds are upon us and the leaves start to change making the Forest glow with a firey breath, I am writing with the updates for each class.

First though, the two workshops have been confirmed and are running as follows:

Saturday 24th September – Yang Style Sword Worskshop, 2-4pm.  Swords will be provided and everyone is welcome.  I have 3 places left for this workshop.

Saturday 15th October – Yang Style Fan Workshop, 2-4pm. Again fans will be provided and everyone is welcome.  I have 4 places left for this workshop.

Onto the classes.

Joys Green – Classes will be running as normal right up until Christmas. The last session will be on December 19th and we start back again on either 2nd or 9th of January, whichever is preferred.

Ross on Wye- Same as above with normal classes up until 19th December and back on either 2nd or 9th January

Woolaston- We have our normal break from classes for WI on the third Tuesday of the month, so that will be 18th October and 15th November. Due to this the last class before Christmas will be 13th December but I hope that everyone will agree to coming back on 3rd January.

Chinese New year is on 23rd January and is the start of the year of the Dragon.  It would be great to do our usual jaunt out to the Dragon’s Den in Monmouth, or anywhere else people suggest. on either Friday 20th or 27th. Let me know if you are interested.

I have “pencil” booked two dates at English Bicknor Village hall for workshops in the Autumn.  The first is on September 24th at 2-4pm in which we will be practicing the Yang Style Sword form and the second is on 15th October at 2-4pm in which we will be practicing the Yang Style Fan form.

Everyone is welcome whether new to Tai Chi or a practiced hand, or even you don’t normally attend any of my classes.  Price of the workshops is £7.50 or £12.50 if you book both.

Please let me know as soon as possible if you would like to attend as I need to confirm the booking.

Holidays.

All Clubs will be breaking up at the end of July for the whole of August, as usual.  This means that the last and first sessions for each club will be:

Joys Green: last session on 25th July with the first session back 5th September

Ross: As Above, last session on 25th July and starting back again on 5th September

Woolaston: Last session on 26th July with the first session back on 6th September.

As always if anyone can find me up in the wilds of North Wales I’ll give you a free session on the beach! Get yourselves to Abersoch and ask in Abersoch Watersports where the crazy van is/was. Either they will look at you blankly or give you directions!

Workshops.

I am currently looking into doing regular (once a month) workshops hopefully at English Bicknor hall where students can learn new forms including weapons (fan or sword) and different Qigong sets amongst other things.  If anyone has an idea for something in particular please let me know. I expect the session will be about one and a half hours long and cost will be no more than £7.50/student.

Woolaston Club.

For your diary, there is no session on 19th July, 20th September, 18th October, 15th November and 20th December.

There is nothing better than practicing Tai Chi outside, whether it be in your back garden or in a local park.

Why not try and get a few friends together and go practice outside of class!

Happy New Year to everyone, I hope that 2011 turns out to be a good year where hopes and dreams will come to fruition.

As it has become a tradition with LotusLeaf, there will be a meeting off all clubs at the Dragon’s Den, Monmouth on Friday 4th February to celebrate Chinese New Year and the beginning of the year of the Rabbit.  According to the Financial Post’s website (a Canadian newspaper) the year of the Rabbit will be good for Stocks.  However I mis read the headline and, with my slight obsession, read is as

The year of the Rabbit good for socks

Well certainly I am very impressed with the variety and colour that has been slowly seeping into my classes.  One students said to me “One thing about Tai Chi, it has made me think about my socks!”

Thanks to everyone who has been braving it out in this bitter weather recently and a big sorry to those classes I have had to cancel.

A final check on when classes finish and start again:

Joys Green, breaks up next week (13th) and we will not start again until 10th January

Ross on Wye breaks up on 20th December and starts again on 3rd January

Woolaston – Our last session is THURSDAY 16th December (not one of Tuesday 14th) and we will start again on 4th January

These dates obviously are weather and students allowing.

Incase I do not see before have a very Happy Christmas and a merry New Year! Here’s to a great 2011.

After much discussion the Christmas sessions will be as follows:

Tuesday 7th December, 7pm as normal

Thursday 16th December 7pm

then back again on 4th January next year

Hope to see you all then!

What a generally lovely autumn we are having! Here is the latest training news for each of the clubs:

Woolaston: Training as usual during November, so there will be no session on 16th. However, December is a little more awkward.  Due to my not having my brain working properly at the time I have allowed the WI to change their meeting day to 14th December.  This means we can train on 21st but feel that is possibly a little close to Christmas.  If we do not train then, the last session will be on 7th December.  one possibility is to change the training day, for one week in that week of 13th, so the break is not too long.  We will discuss it in class and I will update the site when I know. We return from hols on 4th January

Ross: Training as normal up until Christmas.  We will be discussing in class whether to train on 20th December or break up in 13th.  We will return on 3rd January 2011

Joys Green: Training as usual, breaking up on 13th December and returning on 3rd January.

Chinese New Year

Next year it falls on 3rd February, so I had thought that the best time to arrange a meal would be for 4th (Friday).  If anyone is interested in attending please let me know, or if anyone has any good ideas where to go this year also let me know. Thanks

Autumn is well and truly here! Here are the schedules for the next month for each club.
Joys Green: Mondays 10-11am – Clubs as usual right up until Christmas. the only thing to think about is whether there should be a session on 20th December.
Ross on Wye: Mondays 7-8pm – Same as Joys Green, with clubs as usual. Whether we have a session on 20th December is up to students. There is one point. From 11th October I will have to be ending the sessions as promptly on 8pm as possible as I have another engagement to go to afterwards. I will therefore be starting ON TIME (!) if students could try and arrive 5 minutes early it would be a great help.
Woolaston: Tuesdays 7-8pm – The club is a usual with no session on 19th October for the WI, then 16th November. December is a little more complicated but we will get to that later!

As an aside for all clubs, Chinese New Year is on 3rd February 2011. Would students like another meal? If so can anyone suggest somewhere nice in the middle or shall we go back to the great place at Monmouth that we went to last year.