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"We appreciate your T’ai Chi research efforts! It does help our school and we post a lot of your information on our Facebook page! … Looking forward to April 27th when
many of us will be wearing our 2019 WTC Day black and red shirts - nice quality shirts and EVERYBODY likes them.
"
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Crooked River T’ai Chi Chuan Center, Cleveland, Ohio
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BREAKING NEWS! Our FIRST 2019 WTCQD Government Proclamation, sent in by WTCQD group in Jasper, Indiana USA :-)
Scroll down to see larger image.
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to learn how you and your WTCQD group can get a proclamation from
your
govt. officials.
Also, scroll down through gallery of past event photos to see how Croatian WTCQD organizer, Nikolas Maricic, got the PRESIDENT of Croatia's recognition
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A request … please take a few minutes and click above on the "click to view" at the top of this newsletter, copy & paste the url for this newsletter? Then Google "Tai Chi Qigong [your city, surrounding cities]" & email this newsletter's link & this text to other schools:
"All Schools, Teachers, and Students of ALL styles of Tai Chi & Qigong are invited to participate in World Tai Chi & Qigong Day. You can organize your own event, or participate in one in your area. Visit WorldTaiChiDay.org to learn more and Join the Official Newsletter (a free public service), to get involved."
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You see, a worldwide event is beyond what me and Angie could do from Kansas City. It has become a global phenomenon of health & healing because
people like you have helped us spread the word.
Thanks for being a healing part of history.
Bill & Angela Wong Douglas, WTCQD Founders
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CALMING THE PLANET ...
"Tai Chi is like the wind and the rain,
it changes the world with whispers and sighs."
-- WTCQD Founder, Bill Douglas
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Many years ago I had an amazing experience. We were invited to do an interview on television news about World Tai Chi & Qigong Day. If you have never been in a TV newsroom it is tense, chaotic, and rushed all the time.
Then, as the TV interviewer began the interview with me, a small group of my students began doing Tai Chi behind us in the studio as a back drop for the interview.
As they began their Tai Chi forms behind us … the entire studio calmed down. It was magical.
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View above beautiful montage of media coverage
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Today, the TV news is filled with conflict, turmoil, and division
. But, each year for the last 20 years Tai Chi and Qigong players worldwide have given the world another vision of possibility … a vision of peace … calm … and unity among Earth's children.
And together as a global Tai Chi & Qigong family, we have reached over ONE BILLION potential viewers of TV news worldwide with our calming vision.
Bill Douglas, WorldTaiChiDay.org
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WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY 2019 IS ONLY 11 WEEKS AWAY …
Sat. April 27th, 2019
Always the "last Saturday of April" each year
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A SYMBOL OF TAI CHI, UNITY, CONNECTION
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READER FEEDBACK
on T-Shirts and WorldTaiChiDay.org Resources ...
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"We appreciate your T’ai Chi research efforts!
It does help our school and we post a lot of your information on our Facebook page!
Looking forward to April 27th when many of us
will be wearing our 2019 WTC Day black and red shirts - nice quality shirts and EVERYBODY likes them."
--
Crooked River T’ai Chi Chuan Center
Crooked River T’ai Chi Chuan Center is located in the Cleveland suburb of Parma, Ohio (Instructor is Master Jim Holz and business partner, Jan Venditti, Phone: 216-410-7645)
We celebrate World T’ai Chi and QiGong Day every year at a local picnic shelter where we build a fire in the big fireplace because it’s usually cold (25 degrees) and rainy. But we perform T’ai Chi together, eat chocolate cake and sloppy joes with plenty of tea and hot chocolate.
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BREAKING NEWS!
Our FIRST 2019 WTCQD Government Proclamation, sent in by WTCQD group in Jasper, Indiana USA :-)
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to learn how you and your WTCQD group can get one from your govt. officials.
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LAST WEEK'S POLL QUESTION, regarding "Qi Experiences" WTCQD Founder, Bill Douglas, alluded to in the last newsletter:
POLL QUESTION: Would you like to hear these stories of "Qi experiences"?
Yes, I'm curious: 97.5%
Nope, not the least bit interested: 2.5%
* Scroll down to below the Gallery of Past Event Photos for WTCQD Founder's explanation of "Qi Experiences" he mentioned last week.
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After scrolling down and reading the below "Qi Experiences" …
NEW POLL: Would you like to read about some of the other Qi experiences WTCQD Founder, Bill Douglas, had, and the lessons he derived from them?
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Would you like to read more of Bill's Qi Experiences?
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Below, see more of our past events' gallery … and Organizing Tools to help you create the most effective WTCQD event possible in your local area ...
Please share these newsletters with your local groups, seeing these photos helps them see the global dimensions of your local event, and helps get folks excited about WTCQD :-)
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SAMOAN WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY EVENT
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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND'S WTCQD
On a personal note, WTCQD founder was very excited to see Scotland's events, as Bill Douglas's family came from there, Douglas's from the Scottish highlands.
The world is connected in so many ways, and WTCQD's ongoing celebration of that connection of humanity is such an exciting aspect of this global event.
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BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA'S WTCQD
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NEW CASTLE, AUSTRALIA'S WTCQD EVENT
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KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY, PENNSYLVANIA'S WTCQD
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BRASILIA, BRAZIL'S WTCQD
Thank you Prof. Jose Milton, Master Woo, and all the beautiful people in Brasilia for your inspiration to the world, in getting the Brazilian National Congress to proclaim World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, and to hold a moment of silence in honor of WTCQD
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BOCA RATON, FLORIDA'S WTCQD
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NARITA, JAPAN'S WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY
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TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA'S WORLD TAI CHI & QG DAY
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KILARNEY, IRELAND'S WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY
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SICILY, EUROPE'S WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY
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BELGRADE, SERBIA'S WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY
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ALLENTOWN, PA USA'S WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY
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VANCOUVER, CANADA'S WORLD TAI CHI & QG DAY
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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON USA'S WORLD TAI CHI & QG DAY
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MIAMI, FLORIDA USA'S WORLD TAI CHI & QG DAY
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JUAREZ, MEXICO'S WORLD TAI CHI & QG DAY
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MIRCURIA CIUC, ROMANIA'S WORLD TAI CHI & QG DAY
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SOLO, INDONESIA'S WORLD TAI CHI & QG DAY
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CROATIA'S WORLD TAI CHI & QG DAY
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Below is Tai Chi legend, Nicolas Maricic, one of the first 10 WTCQD organizers outside the US. Nicolas inspired the world, getting the President of Croatia to recognize World Tai Chi & Qigong Day in Croatia.
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TORINO, ITALY'S WORLD TAI CHI & QG DAY
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TOPEKA, KANSAS USA'S WORLD TAI CHI & QG DAY
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WTCQD Founder's Qi Experiences:
LAST WEEK'S POLL QUESTION, regarding "Qi Experiences" WTCQD Founder, Bill Douglas, alluded to in the last newsletter:
POLL QUESTION: Would you like to hear these stories of "Qi experiences"?
Yes, I'm curious: 97.5%
Nope, not the least bit interested: 2.5%
Since most of our readers were
curious
about my Qi Experiences, I will share one here, although it is a very vulnerable thing to share, given I can't actually prove them, I can only share what happened.
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MY VISUAL QI EXPERIENCE:
After beginning Tai Chi, Qigong, and Nei Gong Meditation there were many sensation and consciousness experiences where I felt the tingling or sensation of lightness that many experience from their practices.
BUT, at one point I had a visceral visual experience with Qi that although happened about 40 years ago, I still remember it vividly. I believe this Qi visual experience was 100% due to Tai Chi & Qigong, and Nei Gong Meditation practice. The other experiences I had were more complicated (more on those next).
40 years ago, I began studying Tai Chi, Qigong, and Nei Gong Meditation with Jais Booth in Southern California, just about a year before my first trip to Hong Kong. I was traveling with my new wife, Angela Wong Douglas, to her childhood home in Hong Kong to meet her parents and family for the first time.
I had never traveled internationally before, and had never experienced jet lag before, but it hit me like a sledgehammer, and upon arrival I fell into a deep sleep for about 30 hours. After that, I began waking up at about 3:30 or 4 am every morning and could not go back to sleep.
So, I began going out into my mother-in-law's garden, which overlooked Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, which was a very untypical Hong Kong experience, because most people in Hong Kong live in the urban sprawl among canyons of towering skyscrapers. But, my in-laws had been lucky enough after WWII to find a home up in the mountains overlooking Hong Kong, and my mother-in-law had a lovely garden she tended, with open space where I could do Tai Chi and Qigong overlooking the vast towering sky scrapers at the bottom of the hill they lived on.
After the first night of flipping and flopping after waking up at 3:30 am, trying to go back to sleep, the next night when I woke up … I slipped quietly out to the garden and did Sitting Nei Gong Meditation, Tai Chi and Qigong for 2 or 3 hours, until my in-laws and wife woke up later in the morning.
This went on for about 2 weeks or so. I had never been dedicated enough to do this before for 3 hours a day, and must confess, have never been that dedicated since.
THE QI VISUAL EXPERIENCE:
After these weeks of intense practice, one day Angie and I were sitting at the harbor waiting for a ferry to take us over to the Kowloon (mainland China side of Hong Kong).
As we sat waiting, it was a grey day and the ocean water and grey sky were approximately the same color, providing a constant subtle background.
Suddenly, someone walked by us, and I looked up at them and saw a beautiful shining luminescence around and above their head and to a lesser extent around their entire being.
It was clear white light, shiny and shimmering, which went a foot or so above their head. I was STUNNED, as I looked around and realized I could see this light around and above every single person on the dock at the harbor.
I sat open mouthed staring at the people sitting, standing, and walking around the dock. Finally, I elbowed Angie, and said, "Are you seeing this?" It was so clear and obvious that I knew she must be seeing it.
She replied, "See what?" And when I explained what I was seeing, she said she did not see it. Now, Angie had been sleeping in her childhood bed, snug as a bug, while I had been driven for weeks by insomnia to spend hours in their hilltop garden doing Tai Chi, Qigong, and Nei Gong Meditation.
It was amazing, but eventually it became almost normal, and I thought that I would be able to see it forever. Then, the ferry arrived, we all boarded, and I noticed I could not see it any more. And over these 40 years, I have never had such a vivid clear experience of seeing life energy, or Qi, in that way.
After that, there were times, like when I was doing a Single Whip on my back deck in the Springtime, and out of the corner of my eye would see a shimmery lightness off the ends of my fingers. But, never again would I have such a clear, tangible visual experience of Qi like that.
SOMETHING PROFOUND I WAS LEFT WITH …
One thing I noticed when I had this experience, was that not everyone's Qi, or Life Energy, was the same. Some had bright large auras of light shimmering around and over them, and trailing behind them if they were walking. Some had very small, tight, and constrained looking energy, not so much around them, but over their heads a few inches.
In that 20 minutes or so that I could see all of this, I observed that the men gripping their briefcases, thinking about their meetings across the harbor perhaps, had the tight small energy emanations. BUT, those who were "in the moment" enjoying the scenery or their conversations with friends or co-workers, they had the large luminous energy shining around and above them.
HOW THIS AFFECTED MY PRACTICE AND TEACHING …
I was forever affected by this experience, as I realized that these concepts of Zen, or Chan, the philosophies of the importance of "being in the moment" or "being present, and at one with our being or experiences" was more than just a philosophy. It was a real tangible thing, and affected our being in a big way.
I realized that our "state of consciousness" was a huge part of our Tai Chi experience. These people on the harbor dock who were in a state of mind with "no destination," in a fluid softness of consciousness, with no plans or intentions gripped in their mind, body and being … were
luminescent.
In years to come, it would affect my teaching, as I encouraged students to "be in the moment" and to "feel" the sensations of the body when in Moving Qigong or Tai Chi, to take our practice "out of our heads" and into "the sensations emanating within us" as we flow through our forms. It changed my entire approach to Tai Chi and Qigong, not focusing on "thinking about Tai Chi or Qigong" being my goal, but to empty of purpose or intention and to free myself to "flow on the sensations" the practice unveiled in me.
Of course mental awareness of posture and stance and form is part of our Tai Chi journey, but this experience opened a gateway to this other realm of possibility in my practice, and eventually in my teaching.
This had a huge impact on the power and health benefits of my Tai Chi. As my Tai Chi progressed it began to "lose purpose," which in our Western mind seems like a bad thing, but it was a great and wonderful thing. My Tai Chi began to "flow me" as I learned to "relax out of the way" and let the flow take me to where it goes.
It change the way I live, learning to let life flow through and around me … without expectation … without a set long term goal or plan … but rather being flowed by life … stepping on the stone that rose up out of the water before me.
I became more "softer," more "loose" … more flexible … more fun … lighter … brighter. My Tai Chi became more liquid and powerful, as did my life.
This experience paved the way for me to Found World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, because this global organizing was not anything I could have planned and enacted. I had to be loose and fluid, and follow opportunities as they arose, and to learn the geographics and cultures of many lands and people, diverting and changing directions, it was as if World Tai Chi & Qigong Day had a plan that I could never have foreseen, and it needed me to be able to "relax out of the way" and to be willing to "flow with its tides" as they appeared in the world in front of me. It could have never happened in the linear/control way I had approached tasks before, and had been raised to believe was the "only way" to get things done. I had to become soft and pliant … only being "in the moment" not "controlling the moment."
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-- Bill Douglas, Founder of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
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Would you like to read more of WTCQD Founder's Qi experiences & the lessons derived from them?
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"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
-- Lao Tzu
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
-- Lao Tzu
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."
-- Lao Tzu
"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."
-- Lao Tzu
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CHANGE THE WORLD - ORGANIZE A 2019 WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY EVENT!
TIME TO START ORGANIZING FOR 2019'S WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY!
Scroll down for event organizing resources
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THE NUTS AND BOLTS
Why support our efforts at WorldTaiChiDay.org?
20 years ago we founded a global health education event that has since exposed over ONE BILLION potential media viewers to the Internal Arts of Tai Chi and Qigong, and their myriad health benefits, and the science that proves it.
We have connected over one-million web visitors to Tai Chi and Qigong teachers, schools, and organizations.
We have worked with the National YMCA and National Council on Aging to help them work with local teachers to expand public awareness and access to Tai Chi & Qigong.
We have trained Tai Chi & Qigong teachers worldwide in organizing and media outreach, and provided those teachers with archived and cutting-edge scientific research on Tai Chi and Qigong showing it can: Increase Brain Size and Immune Function; provide effective Cardio-Benefit and Ease Chronic Pain; Treat Heart Disease; Fibromyalgia; ADD/ADHD; Hypertension; Diabetes; etc. etc.
See our
FREE Medical Research Library where we collect breaking science on Tai Chi and Qigong, to empower Tai Chi and Qigong enthusiasts worldwide to be up to date, and to be effective ambassadors in their locale to expand awareness of TC & QG.
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We have exposed over ONE BILLION potential readers/viewers to Tai Chi and Qigong science, via media coverage of our global events.
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PRESS RELEASES YOU CAN USE TO GAIN MEDIA ATTENTION FOR YOUR 2019 WTCQD EVENT, AND LOCAL GROUP/CLASSES ...
In 19 languages!
We have UPDATED the 2019 "Official Press Releases" for World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2019. These are FREE resources (like the ones below) that you can utilize to organize an effective World Tai Chi & Qigong Day event for 2019.
See space (bottom/right) for you to enter your LOCAL WTCQD event contact information, before sending it to media.
Press Releases have links to photos/videos of past WTCQD events worldwide, so that your media will know you are part of a WORLDWIDE happening.
Official WTCQD Press Releases in:
* English
* Italian
* Portuguese
* Spanish
* Sebian
* Dutch
* Swedish
* French
* Tagalog
* German
* Russian
* Croatian
* Polish
* Czech
* Chinese
* Icelandic
* Maltese
* Romanian
* Norwegian
Click here
for pdf's of above multi-lingual WTCQD Press Releases, and more
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But together, we have also done something else that is equally wondrous ... in the holiday tradition we extol "peace and goodwill towards men/women" ...
Looking back over these 20 years of organizing World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, it is really no surprise to us that Tai Chi was what brought the world together in this extraordinary way. Why? Tai Chi (and Qigong) take us out of the linear divided way of viewing ourselves. As we play at our Tai Chi we "dissolve the separation" between different parts of our body. Our movements become "one flowing whole" and we relax and flow as one flowing whole rather than different rigid isolated parts.
Science is showing that this is not just physical/personal, it ripples out into how we see, and deal with the world. Mind Body practices, according to science, actually lessens the "isolation" experience in the brain, and expands the sense of "connectedness" with the world around us.
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day and the Internal Arts of Tai Chi and Qigong were harbingers of "what is possible" for our world. On the last Saturday of April, for 20 years, we have connected Earth's children from Israel to Iran, from Moscow to Washington DC, and 80 nations throughout the world ... coming together for personal and global health & healing.
One World ... One Breath
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From left in background: Angela Wong Douglas; Bill Douglas (WTCQD Founders); Nicola Maricic (Croatia/Macao); Roger Itia (President of Tai Chi Federation of France)
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An "Opening Statement" from WTCQD Founders that is often read to open World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events around the world each year.
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See below "Opening Statement" in many languages ...
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OPENING STATEMENT -- ENGLISH VERSION
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 immersing 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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OPENING STATEMENT IN "ARABIC"
WTCQD "Opening Statement" read in Arabic at 2017 event in
Tunis, Tunisia's World Tai Chi & Qigong Day celebration in North Africa
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OPENING STATEMENT IN "SPANISH"
Estimados participantes y patrocinadores de la celebración del Día Mundial del Tai Chi y Qi Gong:
Esta onda global de buena voluntad proporciona una visión de esperanza y curación a un mundo hambriento de tales visiones. Cada año al ver las fotos de personas de diversas culturas, religiones, y de cada confín de la tierra... respirando juntos... en este movimiento global de Tai Chi y de Chi Kung... es profundamente inspirador.
Cuando usted mira las fotografías y los videos usted ve la "mirada" en las caras de las personas, una mirada que sintetiza una sensación que todos nosotros los que hemos tenido esa experiencia del bienestar que se adquiere a través del manejo del Qi, o energía de la vida, que se expande a través de nuestra mente y cuerpo cuando nos tomamos el tiempo para respirar. . . y calmarnos, y dejar que la salud se amplíe en nosotros.
Cuando usted ve esa mirada especial en todas estas caras diversas, de tantas y diversas tierras, usted no puede dejar de realizar profundamente que somos de hecho "un solo mundo... y... un solo aliento."
Todos estamos conectados por el campo de la energía de la vida que los físicos ahora están descubriendo y que, de hecho, impregna toda la existencia.
Al sumergirnos en el campo de la energía de la vida repetidas veces, nos convencemos más y más de la absoluta realidad... de que todos estamos conectados... de que todos somos parte del enrejado de la vida. Y, cultivando y creciendo lo realizado tanto personal como globalmente, podemos ayudar de una manera sutil y reservada a llevar a un futuro que nos consolide a todos de maneras que no podemos todavía incluso imaginarnos.
Una vez más gracias por hacer este acontecimiento y movimiento extraordinarios de la salud directo posible a través de su participación activa.
Sinceramente,
Bill Douglas & Angela Wong Douglas, Co-Fundadores del Día Mundial del Tai Chi y Qi Gong.
WTCQD "Opening Statement" read in Spanish at 2017 event in
Tunis, Tunisia's World Tai Chi & Qigong Day celebration in North Africa
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OPENING STATEMENT IN "PORTUGUESE"
"MENSAGEM DA ORGANIZAÇÃO INTERNACIONAL DO DIA MUNDIAL DO TAI CHI & CHI KUNG PARA CADA UM DE VOCÊS E PARA TODOS AQUELES QUE, NAS DIFERENTES CIDADES DESTE PLANETA, HOJE SE REÚNEM PARA UMA CELEBRAÇÃO MUNDIAL:
Esta onda global de boa vontade e otimismo induz a uma visão de esperança, bem-estar e paz para um mundo carente desses valores. A cada ano paramos um pouquinho para olhar as imagens dos povos das mais diferentes religiões e culturas, que se encontram nos mais diversos cantos da terra ... respirando juntos ... num movimento universal de energia do Tai Chi & Chi Kung ... isso tem um profundo significado de Unidade.
Quando você olha as fotos e os vídeos, vê estampado nas faces das pessoas um sorriso interior e um brilho no olhar que transmite o sentimento daquilo que todos nós experimentamos: o sabor do Chi, o bem-estar que essa energia vital proporciona ao se expandir pelas nossas mentes e corpos quando nos dispomos a simplesmente respirar ... e nos entregamos à quietude e à calma, e toda vitalidade se expande a partir do nosso interior.
Quando você observa olhares tão diferentes, em rostos tão diferentes, de terras tão diferentes, comungando um êxtase de tranqüilidade e harmonia, saiba que você pode concretamente realizar o que todos com certeza sonhamos: "um mundo ... uma respiração".
Estamos todos conectados, interligados por uma incomensurável onda energética, um campo de energia da vida que a física quântica agora confirma que permeia toda a existência. Emergindo seguidamente nesse campo vibracional da energia vital, nos tornamos mais e mais convictos dessa realidade absoluta ... nós todos somos ligados ... como elos de uma corrente ou como todas as partes da cadeia receptora da vida. E cultivando as sementes da nossa realização pessoal, ajudamos também num crescimento global, de uma forma equilibrada, participando da construção de um futuro mais alegre e saudável que nos nutrirá a todos de uma maneira que jamais, ainda, podemos imaginar. "
Bill Douglas & Angela Wong Douglas, Co-Founders do Dia Mundial do Tai Chi e Chi Kung
Below video: Porto, Portugal's World Tai Chi & Qigong Day event
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OPENING STATEMENT IN "ITALIAN"
Dichiarazione di apertura della Giornata Mondiale del Tai Chi e Qigong
Cari partecipanti e sostenitori della Giornata Mondiale del Tai Chi e Qi,
questa ondata mondiale di buona volontà dà una immagine di speranza e di guarigione a un mondo affamato di tali immagini. Ogni anno vedere le foto di persone di differenti culture, religioni e da tutti gli angoli della terra ... respirare insieme ... in questo movimento globale di Tai Chi e Qi ... è una esperienza profonda.
Quando guardiamo queste foto o video, scopriamo una stessa espressione sui volti: una espressione che trasmette il sentimento sperimentato da tutti noi che viviamo questo benessere diffuso dal Qi, o energia vitale, nella nostra mente e nel nostro corpo quando creiamo lo spazio per respirare ... e lasciamo che la calma e la tranquillità si espandano in noi.
Quando vediamo questa espressione su tutti questi visi differenti, provenienti da tanti paesi differenti, non possiamo che comprendere che siamo veramente "un solo mondo ... e ... un solo respiro"
Siamo tutti uniti dal campo di energia vitale che gli scienziati hanno ora scoperto permeare tutta l'esistenza.
Immergendoci regolarmente in questo campo di energia vitale, sempre più ci radichiamo in questa realtà assoluta che ... siamo tutti uniti ... tutti parte della trama della vita. E coltivando e sviluppando questa consapevolezza individualmente e globalmente, possiamo contribuire in modo tranquillo e sottile a far nascere un futuro più raffinato che ci nutrirà tutti in un modo che neppure possiamo immaginare.
Grazie ancora per aver reso possibile questo straordinario evento e questo movimento salutare, tramite la vostra annuale organizzazione e partecipazione.
Sinceramente,
Bill Douglas e Angela Wong Douglas, Co-Fondatori della Giornata Mondiale del Tai Chi e Qigong
WTCQD "Opening Statement" read in Italian at 2017 event in
Tunis, Tunisia's World Tai Chi & Qigong Day celebration in North Africa
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OPENING STATEMENT IN "FRENCH"
Lettre de l'organisateur de la Journée Mondiale du Tai Chi et Qigong
Chers amis qui participez à la Journée Mondiale du Tai Chi et Qigong, ou qui la soutenez,
Cette vague mondiale de bonne volonté apporte une vision d'espoir et de guérison à un monde qui a soif de telles visions. Voir chaque année les photos de personnes de différentes cultures, religions, de tous les coins de la terre... respirant ensemble dans ce mouvement mondial de Tai Chi et Qigong, est une expérience profonde.
Lorsqu'on regarde toutes ces photos et vidéos, on découvre une même expression sur les visages : une expression qui traduit le sentiment ressenti par nous tous qui vivons ce bien-être diffusé par le Qi ou énergie vitale dans notre esprit et notre corps quand nous créons l'espace pour respirer... et laissons la tranquillité, le contentement se développer en nous.
Lorsqu'on voit cette expression sur tous ces visages différents, originaires de tant de pays différents, on ne peut que réaliser profondément que nous sommes véritablement « un seul monde... et un seul souffle »
Nous sommes tous reliés par le champ d'énergie vitale qui pénètre toute existence, selon les découvertes de la physique actuelle. En nous immergeant régulièrement dans ce champ d'énergie vitale, nous devenons de plus en plus enracinés dans cette réalité absolue que nous sommes tous reliés, que nous participons tous de la trame de la vie. Et en cultivant et développant cette prise de conscience, individuellement et globalement, nous pouvons contribuer d'une manière tranquille et subtile à faire naître un avenir plus radieux qui nous nourrira tous d'une façon qu'il est encore difficile d'imaginer.
Merci encore de rendre possible cet évènement extraordinaire et cette action pour la santé, grâce à votre participation et votre organisation chaque année.
Sincèrement,
Bill Douglas et Angela Wong Douglas, co-fondateurs de la Journée Mondiale du Tai Chi et du Qigong.
WTCQD "Opening Statement" read in French at 2017 event in
Tunis, Tunisia's World Tai Chi & Qigong Day celebration in North Africa
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OPENING STATEMENT IN "DUTCH"
Boodschap van Bill Douglas en zijn team van het Internationale Centrum voor WereldTaichi&Qigongdag aan al de deelnemers aan dit wereldgebeuren.
Deze wereldomvattende golf van welwillendheid zorgt voor een visie van hoop en heling in een wereld die hunkert naar dit soort visies. Elk jaar de fotos zien van mensen van verschillende culturen, godsdiensten en van elke hoek van de aarde...samen ademend ... in deze wereld T'ai Chi & Qigong beweging maakt een diepe indruk.
Wanneer je de foto's en video's bekijkt dan zie je die blik op het gezicht van de mensen, een blik die een gevoel uitdrukt dat wij allemaal ervaren hebben door het welzijn dat Qi, of de levensenergie, verspreidt door onze geest en ons lichaam wanneer we ruimte maken om te ademen ...en om kalmte en goedheid zich in ons te laten uitbreiden
Wanneer je deze blik ziet in al die verschillende gezichten, van zoveel verschillende landen, dan kan je niet anders dan je heel diep realiseren dat we inderdaad "één wereld . . . en, . . . één adem " zijn.
We zijn allemaal verbonden door het veld van levensenergie, dat fysici nu aan 't ontdekken zijn en dat alles wat bestaat doordringt.
Door onszelf telkens opnieuw in dit veld van levensenergie te begeven, worden we meer en meer gegrondvest in de absolute realiteit dat . . . we allemaal verbonden zijn . . . allemaal deel zijn van het levensweb. En, door dit besef aan te kweken en te doen groeien zowel persoonlijk als op wereldvlak, kunnen we op een subtiele rustige manier helpen om ons binnen te leiden in een elegantere toekomst die ons allemaal voedt op een manier die we ons nog niet eens kunnen voorstellen..
Nogmaals, dank jullie om dit buitengewone gebeuren en deze gezondheids-beweging mogelijk te maken door jullie organisatie en jullie deelname elk jaar.
Heel hartelijk,
Bill Douglas & Angela Wong Douglas,
Medestichters van World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
translation : Hilda Cardinaels
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OPENING STATEMENT IN "CROATIAN"
Postovani organizatori, i sudionici World TaChi & Qigong Day Svjetskog TaiChi i Qigong Dana,
Ovaj Globalni Val dobre volje daje viziju nade i lijecenja svijetu koji je gladan takvih vizija, kome su takve vizije prijeko potrebne. Svake godine gledajuci fotografije ljudi iz raznih kultura, religija, iz svakog kutka planete Zemlje ... disuci zajedno ... u ovom globalnom TaiChi i qigong pokretu ... osjecamo dubinu, ljubav i iskrenost.
Kada pogledavate fotografije i video zapise vidite onaj "pogled" na ljudskim licima , koji izrazava i prenosi osjecaj koji svima nama koji smo osjetili blagostanje koje Qi, ili Zivotna energija , prenosi kroz nas um i tijelo kada si dopustimo da slobodno disemo ... i na taj nacin napravimo i dopustimo smirenosti i zadovoljstvu da se rasiri kroz cijelo nase bice.
Kada vidite taj pogled na svim tim razlicitim licima , iz toliko puno zemalja, ne mozete si pomoci a da ne shvatite da smo svi ustvari "jedan svijet ... i, ... jedan dah."
Svi smo povezani poljem zivotne energije za koji fizicari sada otkrivaju da ispunjava cijelo postojanje.
Uronivsi u polje zivotne energije sve vise i vise , postajemo sve vise i vise uzemljeni u apsolutnu stvarnost toga da ... smo svi povezani ...da smo svi dijelovi mreze zivota.
I skupljanjem i rastom te realizacije osobno i globalno , mi mozemo pomoci na fin i tihi nacin da se uvedemo u elegantniju buducnost koja hrani i ispunjava sve nas na nacine koje sada ne mozemo jos niti zamisliti.
Ponovno vam svima hvala u organiziranju ovog izvanrednog dogadaja i zdravstvenog pokreta koji je postao moguc kroz Vasu organizaciju i sudjelovanje svake godine.
Iskreno Vasi,
Bill Douglas & Angela Wong Douglas, Su-Osnivaci World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
WTCQD "Opening Statement" read in Croatian at 2017 event in
Tunis, Tunisia's World Tai Chi & Qigong Day celebration in North Africa
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OPENING STATEMENT IN "RUSSIAN"
WTCQD "Opening Statement" read in Russian at 2017 event in
Tunis, Tunisia's World Tai Chi & Qigong Day celebration in North Africa
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OPENING STATEMENT IN "MACEDONIAN"
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TIME TO START ORGANIZING FOR WTCQD 2019 ...
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day organizing, media work, etc., can help local groups and schools expand public awareness of their local offerings, as well as of mounting medical research on Tai Chi and Qigong. See
Tai Chi Medical Research
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"ORGANIZING KITS" to help you and your local group MAXIMIZE ATTENDANCE for YOUR WTCQD 2019 ...
WorldTaiChiDay.org offers FREE
ORGANIZING KIT
RESOURCES for you and your local Tai Chi & Qigong groups/schools to take advantage of.
We do all the leg work so you don't have to.
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MEDIA RESOURCES TO HELP YOU AND YOUR LOCAL GROUP ORGANIZE FOR WTCQD 2019 ...
WorldTaiChiDay.org offers FREE MEDIA RESOURCES for you and your local Tai Chi & Qigong groups/schools to take advantage of.
We do all the leg work so you don't have to.
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TIPS on
how to generate more interest in YOUR community for Tai Chi and Qigong!
One thing we do in our newsletters, is we report on breaking medical research on Tai Chi and Qigong. Why do we do that? To educate you?
Yes, BUT, we also do this so that you can pass it along to the public in your city, area, or nation.
Most of the public and even doctors are ignorant of much of this research.
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TIPS ON GROWING LOCAL CLASSES:
* Social Media: Start "Atlanta Tai Chi" Facebook, Twitter, etc. pages if you live/teach in Atlanta, Georgia, for example
* Have you started a "El Paso Tai Chi Meetup" on
Meetup.com
yet, if you live/teach in El Paso?
* Do you do free public
presentations at local libraries, book stores,
health food stores, etc.? When you do them pass around a clip board AND COLLECT EMAIL ADDRESSES
* THEN DO YOU do email reminders to your email list in days leading up to your new starting class session as they approach? Do you schedule Meetups for your first day class of a new session?
* Do you use WorldTaiChiDay.org's
MEDICAL RESEARCH LIBRARY
to find Tai Chi and Qigong Medical Research to share in your presentations?
* Do you do regular
Tai Chi and Qigong newsletters
to send out to your growing Tai Chi and Qigong email list? Do you forward our weekly Ezine to your local group, to get them excited about being part of your local WTCQD events?
* Did you know that you can do
advertising for local classes on Facebook
, etc., and control how many miles from your classes that the ads will go out to, and what interests people in your area have on their Facebook page, so they might show interest in your Tai Chi and Qigong classes?
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Do you approach Tai Chi and Qigong as a relaxing stress management fun experience?
People's lives are SO SERIOUS these days ... if Tai Chi and Qigong can be a fun playtime to relax and breathe and flow ... it can boost your ongoing attendance. Scientific research shows that
STRESS is the #1 issue people are dealing with
in the modern world ... if your classes can help people unload stress and have fun, it'll help with Tai Chi and Qigong class attendance and student retention.
Want more? See "How to Be a Successful Tai Chi Teacher," by WTCQD Founder, Bill Douglas now available through
Namasta University
READER REVIEW OF "HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL TAI CHI TEACHER":
"Your e-book on
How to be a Successful Tai Chi Teacher
has been the main reason for my success
. I am looking forward to the next few months where I will be expanding more into the community and offering Tai Chi, Qigong and Yi Quan to more and more people.
Your words echo so true when you talk about being authentic and to enjoy your teaching. Thanks once again!"
-- James Lincoln
Hobart, Australia,
Dragon River Tai Chi
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Would you like to support our global health & healing efforts?
2019 Official WTCQD T-Shirts (Short Sleeve)
are NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!
PRICES INCREASE ON March 1st
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* THESE ARE "PRE-ORDERS," T-Shirts actually begin shipping as early as mid-January ... ORDER NOW, TO GET "EARLY ORDER DISCOUNTS" ...
NOTE: Due to the global growth of this massive worldwide health education event we've created together ... there are now many versions of "World Tai Chi & Qigong Day" T-Shirts available ... REALIZE THAT OUR
OFFICIAL WTCQD T-SHIRTS
(above)
ARE
THE ONLY ONES
THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE ONGOING GLOBAL ORGANIZING AND FREE RESOURCES WE WORK HARD TO PROVIDE HERE AT WORLDTAICHIDAY.ORG
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