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08-27-2019, 08:33 AM
Annual LBI Tai Chi and Qigong Symposium Comes to Maris Stella (https://www.thesandpaper.net/p/annual-lbi-tai-chi-and-qigong-symposium-comes-to-maris-stella/1830130)
By Victoria Ford | Aug 26, 2019
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Tai Chi
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HARVEY CEDARS — The third annual Symposium for Integrative Health, Tai Chi and Qigong Festival and Retreat will be held on Sept. 6, 7 and 8 at the Maris Stella Conference and Retreat Center in Harvey Cedars. The event is open to the public and features instructor-led tai chi chuan and qigong workshops.
Symposium organizer and tai chi instructor David Vanadia of Surf City explained tai chi is a Chinese martial art known for its slow-moving, flowing series of postures. Qigong is a health practice that features movement combined with breathing. Both arts, like yoga, have various styles, multiple variations, and many health benefits.
Register online at syihtq.org (https://syihtq.org/) for any combination of workshops, ranging from one day to the full weekend. Complete beginners and experienced practitioners are welcome and will find the fit for their needs, according to Vanadia. It’s for tai chi and qigong enthusiasts, students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about movement-based health modalities.
The symposium will feature teachers and practitioners from the tristate area, demonstrating and sharing skills, tips, techniques and applications. Instructors include: Steven Arbitman, Isse Elston, Stephanie Parello, William Phillips, CJ Rhoads, Kevin Siddons, Tom Tague, Vanadia, Stephen Watson, Loretta M. Wollering and Ramsey Yunan.
Vanadia added this intimate, annual event is unique to Long Beach Island, and it’s a great way to celebrate the end of summer.
Organizer CJ Rhoads is the founder and CEO of HPL Consortium (for “Health Prosperity Leadership”), which encompasses 30 or so programs in integrative health/arts. Rhoads has been a visitor to LBI since 1983, always renting in Harvey Cedars. While on her walks, she would admire the Maris Stella grounds. She once signed up for a silent retreat at Maris Stella and got on a two-year-long waiting list to make a reservation. Her primary residence is in Yellowhouse, Pa., about three hours away.
Her love of tai chi dates back almost as far as her history on LBI. She initially got interested in the art form for the endorphin rush and the competition aspects, but after a car accident in 2002, she began to understand it as a solution to mild brain injury and back pain. Compared to when she started practicing tai chi 30 years ago, she said it’s “a whole new world” these days, in terms of public awareness, government funding and a general sense of legitimacy. Rhoads is passionate about bringing this “esoteric martial art” out of the shadows, she said.
In addition to teaching information technology and business leadership at Kutztown University, she has written nine books.
Maris Stella is located at 7201 Long Beach Blvd. For more information, email david@vanadia.com. —V.F.
It's #3 and we finally got a thread going for this. It's distinct from the The International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?53924-The-International-Tai-Chi-Chuan-Symposium), which confused me for a moment. If anyone has attended this one or is attending this upcoming one next week, please chime in.
By Victoria Ford | Aug 26, 2019
https://www.thesandpaper.net/media/Common/TheSandPaper/2019/8/26/2709230/t1200-Photo%20Sep%2008,%208%2049%2043%20AM.jpg
Photo by: Sarah Schwartz
Tai Chi
https://www.thesandpaper.net/media/Common/TheSandPaper/2019/8/26/2709231/t200-Photo%20Sep%2007,%208%2056%2036%20PM.jpg
(Photo by: Sarah Schwartz)
HARVEY CEDARS — The third annual Symposium for Integrative Health, Tai Chi and Qigong Festival and Retreat will be held on Sept. 6, 7 and 8 at the Maris Stella Conference and Retreat Center in Harvey Cedars. The event is open to the public and features instructor-led tai chi chuan and qigong workshops.
Symposium organizer and tai chi instructor David Vanadia of Surf City explained tai chi is a Chinese martial art known for its slow-moving, flowing series of postures. Qigong is a health practice that features movement combined with breathing. Both arts, like yoga, have various styles, multiple variations, and many health benefits.
Register online at syihtq.org (https://syihtq.org/) for any combination of workshops, ranging from one day to the full weekend. Complete beginners and experienced practitioners are welcome and will find the fit for their needs, according to Vanadia. It’s for tai chi and qigong enthusiasts, students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about movement-based health modalities.
The symposium will feature teachers and practitioners from the tristate area, demonstrating and sharing skills, tips, techniques and applications. Instructors include: Steven Arbitman, Isse Elston, Stephanie Parello, William Phillips, CJ Rhoads, Kevin Siddons, Tom Tague, Vanadia, Stephen Watson, Loretta M. Wollering and Ramsey Yunan.
Vanadia added this intimate, annual event is unique to Long Beach Island, and it’s a great way to celebrate the end of summer.
Organizer CJ Rhoads is the founder and CEO of HPL Consortium (for “Health Prosperity Leadership”), which encompasses 30 or so programs in integrative health/arts. Rhoads has been a visitor to LBI since 1983, always renting in Harvey Cedars. While on her walks, she would admire the Maris Stella grounds. She once signed up for a silent retreat at Maris Stella and got on a two-year-long waiting list to make a reservation. Her primary residence is in Yellowhouse, Pa., about three hours away.
Her love of tai chi dates back almost as far as her history on LBI. She initially got interested in the art form for the endorphin rush and the competition aspects, but after a car accident in 2002, she began to understand it as a solution to mild brain injury and back pain. Compared to when she started practicing tai chi 30 years ago, she said it’s “a whole new world” these days, in terms of public awareness, government funding and a general sense of legitimacy. Rhoads is passionate about bringing this “esoteric martial art” out of the shadows, she said.
In addition to teaching information technology and business leadership at Kutztown University, she has written nine books.
Maris Stella is located at 7201 Long Beach Blvd. For more information, email david@vanadia.com. —V.F.
It's #3 and we finally got a thread going for this. It's distinct from the The International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?53924-The-International-Tai-Chi-Chuan-Symposium), which confused me for a moment. If anyone has attended this one or is attending this upcoming one next week, please chime in.