The Dragon's Head Blog

Kincardine culminated several months of celebrating their fifteen years of practising the Taoist Arts on October 3rd 2015. Forty seven participants enjoyed an intensive in the afternoon. At a banquet in the evening, seventy five people, including our local member of the Provincial Parliament, Kincardine’s Mayor and a representative from Central Region Management Committee, listened […]

Buckets & buckets  have been filled with vegetables cut all kinds of ways… Bags have been filled with mushrooms, jai balls, more mushrooms… whatever could be prepared more time ahead is about done, so on to the peppers today, which means we’re getting closer to the Big Day.   Over 1200 people are expected to […]

The preparations for the Autumn Moon Festival Jai dishes are well underway. Working on the Jai duck & chicken appetizers today. The vegetables should be arriving soon, so… Enjoy the fall colours on your drive up & come join us in the kitchen! Chop a little, learn a lot. And of course,  your helping hands […]

On Saturday September 19th, Newmarket hosted a 30th anniversary celebration which also coincided with the fifth anniversary at our beautiful location at 355 Davis Drive. Despite the extensive construction activities on Davis Drive, everyone found their way to the celebration including Mayor Van Bynen who assured us that after three years of noise and disruption […]

The tunes were the same but the words very different when we sang three songs during karaoke dan-yus at an International Workshop in Tauranga, New Zealand, this month. She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain and Old MacDonald’s Farm were all changed to become tai chi songs and Michael Row The Boat Ashore became the Master […]

Five years already! Five years of classes and intensives. Five years of small weekend programs and large International Instructors Workshops. Health Recovery Week, Sabre and Lok Hup programs. Five years of Instructors and Board Meetings, of tasks and hard working. Five years of cooking for small groups and for large banquets. And then the High […]

On the weekend of September 25th, 26th and 27th our Calgary Branch welcomed in the Autumn Moon with a celebration banquet and a National Program lead by Susan Lundy, from Toronto. The Autumn Moon event began with a reception and entertainment from cellist Liz Tremblay of Bella Cello. The reception was a great opportunity for […]

This weekend we had a beginner intensive course. A dozen people took part in it, and for two of them it was their first experience with Taoist Tai Chi™ arts. Once again it was proved how efficient this method is for both newcomers and old members. It even had an international flavor, as there was […]

The Pacific region of Fung Loy Kok brought International Awareness Day home in 2015, inviting participants from throughout British Columbia and beyond, as well as members of the public, to enjoy Taoist Tai Chi arts together, share a traditional jai lunch and learn a bit more about what we do and how we do it. […]

On Saturday, September 5th, 2015, 30 club members came together in the morning at the main club in Heredia and for the first time rented a bus to go to the different locations to promote the arts to celebrate the Awareness Day. The objective was to visit five locations including three in towns were we […]

Scottish Region’s Taoist Tai Chi Awareness Day in Edinburgh, 19 September 2015    

Video report by SHAW TV of our Awareness Day Taoist Tai Chi in Vancouver.

Broome Branch or be it Twiglet! came together for a fun filled weekend to celebrate 25 years of Taoist Tai Chi. Many members  from Branches in Perth and beyond  travelled up to be there for the celebrations  with the Broome members . A mere 2300 kms from its nearest capital city Perth Western Australia , […]

Awareness Day in East Anglia, Great Britain, August 29 2015           A meal and an intensive on Friday night, then chanting, jai and Awareness Day on Saturday, the one day of the week it didn’t rain, made for a full and enjoyable weekend. We accompanied a rock concert in the park […]

Over the last years the Portuguese Association has been continuously sending information about the International Awareness Day (IAD) to the Portuguese Language Media of Toronto. The objective has been to reach out  the considerably big Portuguese Speaking Community resident in Greater Toronto Area. In 2011 the contact with the Consulate General of Portugal in Toronto opened […]

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