As of March 20, 2020, we have moved to are now 'Live Streaming' Classes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights.
Please visit our 'Youtube' channel at this link .
We offer the following educational video lessons: Qigong, Meditation, Tai Chi, and Kenpo Katas , Kobudo Katas free for your enjoyment.
Who are we?
We are a small, dedicated Sangha (community) offering a unique approach to Tai Chi, Qigong, and Zen meditation. Our approach is informal and light-hearted, but rooted in centuries-old traditions and teachings.
What is Zen?
Zen is being present 100% in this moment. Zen is clarity. It is being 100% awake. It is being unfettered by thoughts, ego, or desire, and knowing your True Self. And the cool part is, you already have it. There’s nothing to attain. Zen is about Letting Go, so you can rediscover what you’ve always had inside you since you were a baby—a pure, beautiful human being, joyful in simplicity, bounding with love. So how do you get there? By sitting on the cushion and breathing, In, out, In out. And when your mind wanders—and it will—return to right here and right now. If you wander 999 times, return 1000 times. Spring comes, grass grows on the mountainside. That is Zen.
What is Tai Chi?
Tai chi focus is the awareness of the spirit, mind, and energy flow. Tai chi is instrumental in reducing anxiety and stress. It works to improve balance, muscular strength, flexibility, breath and qi flow. Tai chi is a type of “Meditative Movement”. Tai Chi incorporates visual imagery, fluid, gentle, graceful movements.
in a meditative state of mind, while deep breathing, the slow movement allows one to experience of subtle changes in balance, orientation. It is a low impact.increasing flexibility and range of motion. The slow movement improves body awareness. It creates a sense of inner peace. The Four Seasons' Tai Chi is a gentle relaxing choreographed moving meditative form. We design the postures to help rejuvenate, relaxing, and soothing the Mind, Body, and Spirit. The Tai Chi form is beautiful to perform and fun to learn. By moving one increases the circulation of blood and Qi within the body, and in doing so harmonizes the meridians while gently massaging the internal organs. The form is a benefit to beginners and advanced students. Four Seasons Tai Chi, incorporates elements of various traditional Tai Chi practices
as well as Qi Gong, to provide a relaxing and powerful form that creates a sense of balance, peace, and vitality.
What is Qi?
Qi refers to the life energy within a person. Qi comes from a combination of things: essential qi we receive from our mother and fathers at conception. We receive qi from the food and liquids that we consume, the air that we breathe. We also receive qi from the earth and the people around us. Qi circulates throughout the body. When your qi is balanced you have a healthy happy life physically and mentally. Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese technique to control the flow of primal energy, or Qi, in our bodies. We are born with it, we can harvest it from the earth and sky. We can channel it throughout, our body. We can store it in our bodies “batteries” (dan tien). We can move it to areas of depletion or remove it from areas of excess, either of which can manifest as injury or disease. Balancing our Chi energizes us and connects us to the Universe. Seven Heavenly Postures Qi Gong, incorporates elements of various QiGong postures, to provide a relaxing and powerful form that creates a sense of balance, peace, and vitality.
What is meditation? Meditation can be a key resource in every activity. In everyone’s life. When you meditate and you reach this state of calmness. With a relaxed mind and body, your mind has the capacity to experience a type of mental reset, a type of mental defragmentation. The releasing clearing away the information overload of the day. Meditation prepares and refreshed your body and mind to experience the full enjoyment being in the present moment. There are many physical and mental benefits to meditation. releasing tension in the body, it creates a feeling of relaxation, calms your mind, assists with release toxins form your lungs, it increases the blood and qi flow within the body, reduces stress and anxiety.
We are founded on several simple principles: To provide individuals with a process for living a happier life. To encourage one's personal and social well-being /spiritual growth by focusing on their present lives. To provide a community where anyone interested , Tai Chi, Qigong, meditation, Zen can come together to discover their true nature and work toward the betterment of humanity.
Our Core Approach:
The way of Oneness. We are all connected by a common
bond—the desire to know the Self—the true Self, the one that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, not just the one with your current name and body. We can find this Self when our mind becomes quiet and still. It is not a thing to be attained—it has always been there. We just have to be awake enough to see it! Our practice allows us to walk this path together.
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