Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Tai Chi Class from 6:30 - 7:30pm
Meditation from 7:30 - 8:00pm
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street (between 10th and 11th)
San Francisco, CA  Map

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$10/members, $15/non-members

Tai Chi and Meditation Class:

Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan is the most popular of four major styles widely practiced in China and around the world. Tai Chi is known as walking meditation. The Yang style is characterized by enormous inner strength under the apparently relaxed, graceful, artistic, and grounding movements. I will teach the 24-form Yang Style Tai Chi, which takes 8 one-hour sessions that build up progressively. We practice for wellness, art, healing, spirituality, and yes, for fun! As a martial art, the defensive and offensive functions of the movements will also be briefly explored.

After the Tai Chi session, a seated meditation session (30 minutes) will follow. Meditation instructions will be given to beginners in the sequence of regulating the posture, the breath and the mind. The first class will be at California Institute of Integral Studies on March 22nd (Monday) from 6:30—8pm.

Mini Bio of the instructor:

Jeremy Zhu is a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in East-West psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Jeremy received a master's from Harvard Divinity School in 2004 and a B.A. from Beijing International Studies University. Jeremy was a teaching fellow of East Asian Studies at Harvard and is a published author of over a dozen academic articles on spirituality and psychology.

In 1992, Jeremy started practicing Tai Chi Chuan with a PE professor well established in Tai Chi in Beijing. For years, he was a member of the Yang Style Tai Chi Society of Beijing Martial Arts Research Institute. Jeremy has given Tai Chi classes at Northern Arizona University, Harvard University, Minnie and Lovie Recreation Center in San Francisco, and CIIS. Jeremy also practices Tai Chi Sword, a more advanced form of Tai Chi martial arts.

Jeremy has also been a committed Buddhist meditation practitioner over the past 20 years. He practices meditation and Tai Chi on a daily basis and finds them complementary to each other as an alternative and integrative medicine.

Jeremy's contact info: beijing_cambridge@yahoo.com