Tai chi in the park

It’s that tai chi in the park time of year. Normal classes are over for the summer and we are heading outside. There will be outdoor sessions in Parr Fold Park, Walkden; Bramhall Park, Bramhall; Pennington Hall Park, Leigh; and Leyland Park, Hindley.

Outdoor classes are less formal than the indoor classes — there will be no teaching as such, we are just going to warm up and run through a few forms together.

Although the weather has been iffy lately the forecast is good for this week.

World Health Qigong Day 2019

 We had a lovely time in Lilford Park this morning celebrating World Health Qigong Day with some qigong in the park.

I'm back from the Mediterranean and I brought the sun with me. 🌞 Classes started again last week, except for the Monday classes which will start after the bank holiday.

There is lots of exciting stuff coming up. First off is World Health Qigong Day on Saturday 14 September. We will meet at 10 am by the Chinese umbrella tree in Lilford Park, Elmridge, Leigh WN7 1HN. The weather was not kind to us last year, but a hardy few of us had a great time doing qigong sheltering from the rain under the tree. So, barring extreme weather, the event will go ahead.

I'm also looking forward to starting my first regular weekly health qigong class on Wednesdays at 10am at Leigh South Community Centre, 32 Hope Carr Road, Leigh WN7 3ET. The first form we will look at is Ba Duan Jin (Eight Strands of Brocade).

Pictures from World Health Qigong Day

 In spite of the rain a few hardy souls turned out for World Health Qigong Day in Lilford Park. We were sheltered by the Chinese parasol tree and did ba duan jin, wu qin xi, yi jin jing and dao yin yang sheng gong before we decided to finish off with coffee and chat in Costa. Thanks to David Clarke for the pictures.

Pictures from World Health Qigong Day

Apologies for the late post - just catching up with things. You can see lots more pictures from World Health Qigong Day in Liverpool on Angela's Flickr feed here.

I have been away doing qigong for a few days. We had a wonderful day on Sunday with an interesting talk by Professor Mei Mo Sheng in the morning and qigong in the park in the afternoon.

As I mentioned yesterday, there will be a workshop on 16 step sword coming up in Telford on Saturday 16 July. I thoroughly recommend it if you would like to deepen your understanding of this lovely form. It is also good practice for the 32 step sword as many of the moves are the same. It is at a discounted rate for Deyin members, so if you haven't already joined it is worth doing.