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VERY EXCITING, "first installments" of 24 HOURS OF WORLD PEACE LIVESTREAM coverage of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
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See below WTCQD 2016 reports from: Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Norfolk Island, Iran, Israel, Cameroon, Tunisia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Canada, Philippines, Hawaii, and more. More coming...
"In all my decades of Tai Chi, I have
NEVER seen a human being doing
Tai Chi who was not ...
beautiful."
-- David-Dorian Ross
Scroll down for photo/video reports of human poetry on WTCQD 2016
Keep sending your wtcqd reports/photos/youtube video links
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e'll publish
each and every one in coming weeks. It will take a while :-)
Also, we'll release
more editions of "24 Hours of World Peace Livestream" as they are released ...
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Behold, the Human Poetry of the worldwide family of Tai Chi and Qigong
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[Below artwork graphic courtesy of:
Taijiquan & Qigong Committee of Iran Wushu Federation
www.Iranyangtaichi.com www.irantaichi.ir www.iranwushufed.ir ]
FIRST Youtube installation of the "24 Hours of World Peace Livestream" global video coverage of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events worldwide, o
rganized by Margaret Reeves and produced and hosted by
David-Dorian Ross
(of PBS Tai Chi fame)
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Join host, David-Dorian Ross & WTCQD Founders as they
take you
on a global journey ... that begins in earliest reporting time zones of Wellington and Pateau, New Zealand, then spreading around the planet.
One World ... One Breath
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
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2016
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Reports
-- Carlton Hill, Mumbai India Tai Chi (Tao Taiji Qigong)
A BIG THANK YOU to you and all for the great job and a big success of WTCQD.
Regards
Jennifer, Singapore
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
Hello Bill,
Jackie Watt from the Bayside Tai Chi Centre in Melbourne, Australia asked me to send you this photo of our gathering this morning to mark World Tai Chi and Qigong Day, 2016.
It was a beautiful morning in Melbourne for our event! We hope that all the other events around the world are just as enjoyable!
Thank-you,
Vilma Pallett
(from Jackie Watt's Bayside Tai Chi group)
NORFOLK ISLAND (BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND)
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
Hi Bill,
Thanks a lot bill.
Regards
Zach
TEHRAN, IRAN
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
Dear Bill
This link goes to a pictorial report of WTCQD ceremony in the MELLAT PARK of Tehran- Iran.
Kind regards
Hossein MirMohammadi
TUNISIA, NORTH AFRICA
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
Journée Mondiale du Tai chi et Qigong en Tunisie 2016
CAMEROON, AFRICA
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
JAKARTA, INDONESIA
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
Comunitas Tai Chi Qigong PsMinggu Jakarta Indonesia , World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016 Event Participants.
Comunitas Tai Chi Qigong Psminggu Jakarta Indonesia, world tai chi & Qigong Day 2016 event participants.
VANCOUVER, CANADA
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
Thanks to everyone, the world over, for coming together on this special day. Here is our 2016 Photo that we would like to share back with you. From Vancouver, Beautiful British Columbia we salute you.
RIO DE JANERO, BRAZIL
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
Dia Mundial do Tai Chi Chuan & Chi Kung
Rio de Janeiro, SESC Tijuca no Dia 30.04.2016
World day of tai chi chuan & chi kung
Rio de Janeiro, sesc tijuca on day 30.04.2016
Liderados pelo Mestre
Venceslau Cardozo. Parabéns a TODOS que compareceram e Vibraram juntos por um MUNDO melhor e mais Harmônico.
Obrigado Mestre Lau pela oportunidade de estar em sua equipe grandiosa e vitoriosa.
LED by Master
Venceslau Cardozo. Happy birthday to all who attended and squad together for a better world and more harmonic.
Thank you master lau for the opportunity to be in your team great and victorious.
See video:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/357185938801/
BRAZIL, FLORIANOPOLIS
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
KONA, HAWAII USA
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
Aloha from Hawaii! There is not more that I can say that haven't already been expressed so eloquently here by many others. So on behalf of Kona Hawaii's WTCQD I would like to say a big Mahalo (thank you) to Margaret and David-Dorian Ross, congratulations for a wonderful job making all of this monumental task come together. Especially to the founders Bill Douglas and Angela Wong Douglas of World Tai Chi Qigong Day, without you and those behind the scenes, there would have been no event, no live streaming. The Live Stream efforts allow the World Tai Chi Qigong Day event to become indeed... One World, One Breath.
Kona Hawaii World Tai Chi Qigong Day Group saying ALOHA!
MANILA, PHILIPPINES
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016
OPENING STATEMENT OF PHILIPPINES World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Organizer, and Director of Peace Blossoms Internal Arts Society in Manilla, Philippines.
World Tai Chi and Qigong Day 2016 - Philippines
April 30, 2016, Sat, 9 am to 12 nn
Peace Embassy, 32 Samar Avenue,
Brgy. South Triangle, Quezon City
Welcome Remarks
By Irene Chia
Director of Peace Blossoms Internal Arts Society
Good morning everyone and welcome to the 2016 World Tai Chi and Qigong Day celebration in the Philippines. World Tai Chi and Qigong Day is a global event that is celebrated every last Saturday of April with the goal of promoting the health and healing benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong. Founded by Bill Douglas and Angela Wong Douglas in 1999 in Kansas City, it is now celebrated in over 80 countries. The celebration starts at 10 am in New Zealand and ends at 10 am in Hawaii. This means that for one whole day, our entire planet will be engulfed by healing energy.
In the Philippines, the first WTCQD celebration was held in 2003. It was an informal gathering organized by the Blue Dragon Society. The succeeding celebrations were jointly organized by the Blue Dragon Society, Chevalier Monks of Christ, and Spring of Harmony Internal Arts Club which is now named Peace Blossoms Internal Arts Society. From a handful of individuals, less than 15 people or so, the attendance in this celebration grew to __ this year.
Why is WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY significant?
"Because it brings humanity together around health and healing connection AND IT CAN SAVE GLOBAL SOCIETY TRILLIONS IN SAVED HEALTH CARE COSTS!"
WTCQD brings together people from diverse backgrounds all over the world--people from different races, faiths, ethnicities, ages, and geo-political and social backgrounds.
24 HOURS OF WORLD PEACE
This is also the first time that the Philippines will join the 24 Hours of World Peace, a global livestream of WTCQD events around the world. David-Dorian Ross and his team have been coordinating this live stream for a few years now. David-Dorian Ross is the host and star of the National PBS Tai Chi Program Fame. Peace Blossoms thanks Jeffrey Copiaco and his team and Ton Delgado for making the Philippines livestream possible. To view 24 hours of live streaming of WTCQD, visit
worldtaichiday.org
or
taijifit.net.
Over 60 WTCQD event organizers worldwide have committed to videotaping bits of their World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2016 events.
THEME: Spring of Harmony (bukal ng pagkakaisa)
I will start with the WTCQD logo. In the logo, you can see two symbols overlapping--the Yin Yang Symbol and Da Vinci's Vitruvian man. Yin Yang is the eastern symbol for balance and harmony. It is the symbol of Tai Chi. The Vitruvian man is a Western symbol for balance and health.
When you look at the logo of Peace Blossoms, you will see a multi-colored lotus and the Yin Yang symbol in the middle of the lotus.
Our organization, Peace Blossoms Internal Arts Society, is a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-political, and non-racial organization. We promote peace, harmony and unity among diverse groups through the practice of Tai Chi and Qigong. The multi-colored lotus represents tolerance and respect for diversity among others.
Peace Blossoms promotes Tai Chi and Qigong as a way to harmonize body, mind and spirit, in attaining holistic health for the self and the community. This is represented by the Yin Yang symbol.
Why is it important to have balance and harmony?
When we talk about health, we get sick when there is an imbalance or disharmony in the energies in our body. It is being proven more and more by science that many of our diseases are mental in nature, meaning our thoughts cause our diseases. This is why balance in our life is important.
Regular practice of Tai Chi and Qigong helps keep one balanced on many levels--physical, emotional, mental or psychological, and spiritual. It helps bring about a sense of well-being by balancing the emotions. It also helps bring about a sense of personal empowerment by building one's will and strength.
And this is why it is our wish that more people will embrace the way of Tai Chi and Qigong, so that more people will become better, healthier and happier individuals.
To all our sponsors, performers, participants and supporters, thank you very much for making this gathering possible. More power to us!
Before I close, I will read to you the Opening Statement by Bill and Angela Wong Douglas, founders of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day ...
Dear World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Supporters & Participants,
This global wave of goodwill provides a vision of hope and healing
to a world hungry for such visions. Each year to view the photos of
people from different cultures, religions, and every corner of the
earth . . . breathing together . . . in this global Tai Chi & Qigong
movement . . . is profound.
When you look thru the photographs and videos you see that
"look" on people's faces, a look that conveys a feeling that all
of us who've experienced the well-being that Qi, or life energy,
expands through our mind and body when we make the space
to breathe . . . and to let, calm, and wellness expand thru us.
When you see that look in all these diverse faces, from so many
different lands, you can't help but deeply realize that we are
indeed "one world . . . and, . . . one breath."
We are all connected by the field of life energy that physicists
are now discovering permeates all existence.
By emersing ourselves in the field of life energy again and again,
we become more and more grounded in the absolute reality
that . . . we are all connected . . . all part of the web of life. And,
by cultivating and growing the realization personally and globally,
we may help in a subtle quiet way to usher in a more elegant
future that nurtures us all in ways we cannot yet even imagine.
Again, thank you for making this extraordinary event and
health movement possible thru your organizing and
participation each year.
Sincerely,
Bill Douglas & Angela Wong Douglas,
Co-Founders of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
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TAI CHI FUN ZONE
Movie recommendations ...
This Movie Recommendation section in no way represents or reflects the World Tai Chi & Qigong Day event, it is a personal contribution by WTCQD Founder, Bill Douglas, who aside from teaching Tai Chi, and organizing WTCQD, is a movie buff :-)
Remember the Titans, Denzel Washington
A football film, which includes a character from California (where I learned Tai Chi), who is referred to as Sunshine (played by Kip Pardue), who is the quarterback of the Titans, the football team in this film.
Sunshine is a Tai Chi practitioner, whose Tai Chi skills makes him very hard to tackle. This film is based on a true story, and is an extremely fun, intelligent, and uplifting story about human connection.
Show it to your kids, it may make them want to learn Tai Chi when they see this endearing character's Tai Chi skills and what a great athlete they make him :-)
Bill Douglas, Tai Chi Movie Buff (and WTCQD Founder)
Film clip with the "Tai Chi player," character, Sunshine:
Another fun film clip from, with a bit of the great music, from
Remember the Titans:
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