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Stay fit safely with live, online Tai Chi & Qigong
“Staying fit yet supple in a safe and correct way helps you grow strong, helps your balance and flexibility, and helps boost your defenses to illness.”
Now, it’s more important than ever to maintain your fitness and stay supple while confined at home. TMS has an online 1-health Tai Chi 10-week course available for you!
We will continue to provide this expert training online, in real-time and for as long as needed. This course is for people who are genuinely interested in Tai Chi, Qigong and other oriental cultivation methods for the betterment of their health and wellbeing.
You will need to first register on our website for the course, we will email you a link so you can easily access the live training online when the course starts. Registration for any of our courses opens two weeks before the course starts, and will close on the commencement date.
Once the course starts, there will be no further registrations available. And because you will have committed to your spot in the course, no refunds can be given from this time. Note, people can always pre-register their interest for the next available course via the Contact us page.
Each Tai Chi online session will run for 60 minutes. In order for you to gain maximum benefit and consolidate the movements you have learnt. we also encourage you join us for our Saturdays’ face-face classes on the site of the National Library. Remeber, dedicate 40–60 minutes to practicing each day may change your life.
Register my interest for the upcoming course and stay safe, stay strong, stay supple!
Action
- ensure your own personal device that has both video and microphone capability
- if you have the Zoom application on your device just logon normally, and enter the Meeting ID and Password we provide, or
- copy the Zoom address we provide into your browser and entre, then you will be allowed into a Waiting Room and then invited into the meeting by the host.
- the Waiting Room will open at 15 minutes before the course (meeting) starts.
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If you have concerns about your current level of fitness, contact Dapeng (0421 338 180) before you register and he can guide you on the best approach to achieving your desired fitness while staying safe and improving your flexibility and balance.
We teach Taichi & Mandarin
Mr Dapeng Wang migrated to Canberra from China in early 2000. He holds a degree in Sports from Shanghai Sports University and a postgraduate qualification in teaching English as a second language. Throughout his entire life in China, he engaged in the intensive study of both Chinese classic literature and Wushu (Tai Chi/Kungfu), Over the past 20 years he has dedicated himself to research in the fields of classical Chinese language acquisition and traditional Chinese health cultivation methods.
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