Drop In Classes

Balance, Stability, and Dance

Cost is $18/class or a 10 class pack can be purchased for $150.

Mondays

Yin Yang QIGONG

Focused on balancing your endocrine, nervous, immune and organ systems, Yin Yang Qigong offers lineage practices to return to your center, to be strong in your body and to feel relaxed, regulated and energized. Together, we will balance the Yin and Yang within to effortlessly smooth out internal and external physical, emotional and mental disharmonies. This will invite the Formless into each of our forms. Movements are simple and easily modifed for any health/skill level. Meditations are focused on becoming the Third Treasure and are simple, profound and lineage based. More in-depth studies are also available with Irene. 

Yin Yang Qigong is taught by Irene on Mondays from 9:00 - 10:00

Beginning Yang Tai Chi and Qigong

Class includes Qigong warm up techniques such as shaking, tapping and vocalizing. We will then practice a Qigong form such as the Five Treasures. Following that we will play with Tai Chi basic techniques such as weight shifting, stepping, opening and closing, continuous movement. To finish the class we will practice Yang Style Tai Chi, beginning with Yang 10 and progressing to longer forms.

Beginning Yang Tai Chi classes are held on Mondays and Thursdays from 11:30 - 12:30 and are taught by Susan

Tuesdays

Qigong for Health and resilience

This class is an opportunity for people of all ages and abilities to learn traditional Qigong exercises that stretch and tone the physical body and invite vibrant health into our lives. We practice a variety of simple yet powerful standing movements that can be as deep and challenging as you wish. The selection of movements will change depending upon the season to harmonize our bodies with the rhythms of nature. We will explore exercises from medical, martial, and spiritual lineages of qigong including The Eight Pieces of Brocade, Five Animal Sports, White Crane Qigong, and Yang style Tai Chi.
While practicing we focus on the following:
Using conscious movement coupled with natural breathing to help settle the mind in the body.
Gently loosening and stretching the joints, tendons, and ligaments to increase strength and flexibility.
Increasing blood flow, relaxing the nervous system, and smoothing out the flow of energy through the body.

Taught by Dale on Tuesdays from 9 - 10am

Nia Dance

Nia is a sensory-based movement practice that draws from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts. It empowers people of all shapes and sizes by connecting the body, mind, emotions and spirit. Classes are taken barefoot to soul-stirring music in more than 45 countries.

Nia draws from Tai Chi, Tae Kwon Do, Aikido, jazz dance, modern dance, Duncan dance, yoga, Alexander Technique and Teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais. Every class offers a unique combination of 52 moves that correspond with the main areas of the body: the base, the core and the upper extremities

Through a fusion of martial arts, dance arts, and healing arts, Nia brings the body, mind, emotions, and spirit to optimal health through music, movement, and self expression.  Nia connects us to the wisdom of the body through the sensations of comfort, pleasure, and ease.  Each class is a blend of fun choreography, freedance, Floorplay, and your own personal movement creativity.  Non-intimidating, effective, kind to bones and joints, dynamic movement, sweaty fun!

Taught by Annie on Tuesdays from 10:30 - 11:30 & Thursdays from 9:30 - 10:30am

Wednesdays

Tai Chi Balance

In our Balance Class we take things slowly. We are working on improving our balance through exercises that help you to think with your feet while strengthening your balance muscles that help to keep you stable. We work on intentional walking and movement while focusing on how our weight shifts through the feet and legs during motion. This class is also great to help get creaky joints moving and to gain awareness of how we hold ourselves. Alignment is a major focus to help protect the knees and heal the body. Falling down is one of the biggest risks to health as we age. This is because of two reasons. The first being the physical damage that can occur during a fall. The other is the psychological damage that can happen after a fall. If we become hesitant about getting up and moving about, then we start to get less and less physical exercise. This can result in an even greater lack of balance that leads to more falls as well as weaker immune system that can lead to more frequent illness.

Taught by Bonner from 11:30 - 12:30

Tai Chi Fan

The Tai Chi Fan class includes a short Flying Rainbow Single Fan form, partner work showing the martial application of the fans when they are used as a weapon and Flying Rainbow Double Fan form.

The Fan forms include movements from Yang, Chen and Sun styles of Tai Chi. Videos are available if you wish to practice at home. 

Fans will be provided for class if you don't have your own and if you want to purchase a pair for yourself they are reasonably and easily available online.

As we practice the forms we focus on the Tai Chi principles.   There are opportunities coming up to join in activities for Chinese New Year celebrations. 

Beginners are welcome!

Tai Chi Fan is taught by Liz on Wednesdays from 1-2

Little Kids Kung Fu

We’ve developed this class to be developmentally appropriate for kids of this age. The main focus of this class is helping to develop Hand-Eye-Foot coordination. We do this with lots of fun activities that are centered around Kung Fu skills that are taught more deeply at higher levels. The Kids 5-7 year old class is part of our Drop-In program. This means that tuition is on a class by class basis. We would love for your child to be committed to Kung Fu, but we also know that there can be a lot of variability at that age so having the class as a drop-in class allows for that flexibility.

Classes are taught by Justin and Sevn on Wednesdays from 1-2

Thursdays

Nia Dance

Nia is a sensory-based movement practice that draws from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts. It empowers people of all shapes and sizes by connecting the body, mind, emotions and spirit. Classes are taken barefoot to soul-stirring music in more than 45 countries.

Nia draws from Tai Chi, Tae Kwon Do, Aikido, jazz dance, modern dance, Duncan dance, yoga, Alexander Technique and Teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais. Every class offers a unique combination of 52 moves that correspond with the main areas of the body: the base, the core and the upper extremities

Through a fusion of martial arts, dance arts, and healing arts, Nia brings the body, mind, emotions, and spirit to optimal health through music, movement, and self expression.  Nia connects us to the wisdom of the body through the sensations of comfort, pleasure, and ease.  Each class is a blend of fun choreography, freedance, Floorplay, and your own personal movement creativity.  Non-intimidating, effective, kind to bones and joints, dynamic movement, sweaty fun!

Taught by Annie on Tuesdays from 10:30 - 11:30 & Thursdays from 9:30 - 10:30am

Beginning Yang Tai Chi and Qigong

Class includes Qigong warm up techniques such as shaking, tapping and vocalizing. We will then practice a Qigong form such as the Five Treasures. Following that we will play with Tai Chi basic techniques such as weight shifting, stepping, opening and closing, continuous movement. To finish the class we will practice Yang Style Tai Chi, beginning with Yang 10 and progressing to longer forms.

Beginning Yang Tai Chi classes are held on Mondays and Thursdays from 11:30 - 12:30 and are taught by Susan

Active Breathwork

Breathwork is an active meditation practice that uses repetitive breathing patterns. In this class, we’ll teach an Active Breathing technique that promotes a variety of beneficial mental, emotional and physical experiences for up to 6 hrs. Consistent practice lowers daily stress, depression and anxiety while boosting clarity, moments bliss, and peace. This class is suitable for ages 13+ and all levels of experience are welcome!
People who are pregnant, have heart conditions or severe asthma are advised to talk to the facilitators at the beginning of class so modifications can be made.

Active Breathwork is held on Thursdays (with the exception of the 2nd Thursday of the month) from 7:15 - 8:15 and is taught by Alex and Deagan

Fridays

Intermediate Yang Tai Chi and Qigong

For students who would like to progress beyond the beginner level or who have previously studied Yang style Tai Chi. The focus of this class is going a little deeper into the Yang 24 form with more attention to details.

Intermediate Yang Tai Chi classes are held on Friday mornings from 10:30 - 11:30 and are taught by Susan

Saturdays

 Chen Man-Ching Taiji (the Professor’s form)

The Yang 37 form was created by the Tai Chi Master Chen Man Ching (The Professor), a student of Yang Cheng-Fu, in 1946 as a way to make the longer Yang form easier to learn for newer students. It shortens and balances the Yang 108 form, removing many of the repetitious movements and focuses more on health benefits than martial application. This class is a step up from the Beginners Class and is a great class for those who have studied Yang 37 or would like a form that is a little bit more involved than Yang 10 or 24. The Yang 37 class includes Qigong exercises as well as meditation.

Our Yang 37 classes are held on Saturdays mornings from 8:30 - 9:45 and are taught by Ken

Chinese Tea and Tai Chi Foundations

In this Taichi foundation class, we start with sitting together to share tea. Chinese tea is good to help settle our Qi 氣. Next we do Standing Pose or Zhan Zhuang 站樁, a fundamental exercise that helps to improve posture in Taichi, and to ensure the sinking of Qi to DanTian. Creating good alignment in our posture helps to alleviate knee and back pain, and is a requirement for good Tai Chi.

Chen Style Tai Chi emphasizes the importance of Standing Pose in its teachings and is an important practice for developing Tai Chi skill. After Standing Pose we do Silk Reeling Exercises (Spiral Energy), and break down movements. Moving and twisting from the DanTian from Silk Reeling Exercises help with sensing the spiraling power in Tai Chi. These two fundamental practices help us understand how to be soft yet still have strength in our movements. We will end the class sitting with tea again.

This is a class for all ages and all levels. No experience is needed.

Taught by Shunyu Saturdays 10:30 - 12:00

Sundays

Tai Chi Open Clinic

Our Open Clinic is for practicing tai chi, Hsing I, Bagua or Liuhebafa applications.  Teachers and senior students will be sharing expertise across our school's broad range of nie jia or internal practices bringing you quicker to new plateaus of skill development in striking (Da), kicking (Ti), catching hands (Qin Na), and throwing (Shuai). Various techniques will be explored in Tai Chi Chuan's eight Gates and Five Steppings (Ba Shi) --the mid-range grappling of Push Hands (Tui Shou); Silk Reeling (Chan Ssu Kung) practices; Central Equilibrium (Zhong Ding) and Mind Shape stances (I Chuan).  All are welcome in this new curriculum course, regardless of the style of internal martial arts you practice, your skill development or age level.

This class is taught by Mark on Sundays from 7:00 - 8:15pm