Welcome all to our third Newsletter of 2017, this quarter we have the following topics for your perusal…
The symbol central to our logo is ‘T’ai’, with the same sound but different meaning to the ‘T’ai’ in ‘T’ai Chi’. It is a hexagram from the 5,000-year-old Daoist classic, the I Ching.
A hexagram consists of two trigrams, each made up of three lines – solid, broken, or both. The broken lines represent Yin energy, and the solid lines, Yang energy. The upper trigram represents Earth (pure Yin), and the lower, Heaven (pure Yang).
Yin and Yang have motions associated with them. The light, heavenly Yang energy tends to rise, while the heavy, earthly Yin energy tends to sink. As the two energies meet and commune with one another peace and harmony are achieved and great accomplishments become possible.
And so this symbol represents peace, harmony and goodwill.
Happy New Year, and a very Happy Chinese New Year* to everyone.
Your instructors thought it might be a good idea to produce a quarterly Newsletter to give you some of the information that it’s not always possible to include in class.
We hope you enjoy reading it and perhaps even printing the odd copy to leave somewhere strategic so that we can continue to increase the number of students who enjoy and benefit from Tai Chi.
Contributions welcome, please let us know what you think.
The Essex Tai Chi Academy Newsletter One, January 2017
*Mandarin – Cong Xi Fa Cai
With regret, we have decided to stop providing gift vouchers.
If you are interested in visiting one of our classes for a taster session, please contact the class instructor. You will be welcome to just sit and watch, or to join is as best you can; the choice is yours.
Following the death of former Chairman and co-founder Michael Baker-Rogers on Monday the 22nd of June 2015, many Essex Tai Chi Academy members wished to dedicate a lasting memorial to him.
The Academy decided to purchase a bench which has now been positioned beside the towpath alongside the Chelmer and Blackwater canal in Heybridge, not far from where Michael kept his “beloved” boat and where he enjoyed many a walk.
On Friday the 17th of June 2016 a number of members visited the bench for the official unveiling.
Michael Baker-Rogers | 1938 – 2015
To mark World Tai Chi Day, members of the Academy met together for Tai Chi in the park.
The first set was timed at 10am to coincide with Tai Chi-ers world wide.
This was followed by tea and cake in the grounds of the Chelmsford Society of Model Engineers.
World Tai Chi Day 2016
ETCA | CSME
