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Newly released video: Hong Kong's World Qigong Day event, organized by Nature Health Qigong Association Partnering with 11 Hong Kong Government, Health and Tai Chi and Qigong Organizations.
World Tai Chi Day.org: News for People Changing Their Lives and Their World w/ Tai Chi & Qigong ...
Dayton, Ohio's Daily News announces World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2013 in Dayton!
Saturday, Apr 27 8:30a to 12:00p
Come out and help us celebrate the World Breathing and moving as
One. 'One World... One Breath' This event is open to everyone
Dear World Tai Chi & Qigong Day supporters,
Are you ready to be part of a global wave of tai chi and qigong? World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is only about TWO MONTHS AWAY!
A few have queried us about "Where's our t-shirts?" Me and Angie are now shipping them, but allow another 2 or 3 weeks for us to get them all out. Prices will go up slightly after March 11th, so if you or your group want t-shirts, you'll save by ordering now. If you've ordered, your prices are locked in at the early order discount price when you ordered them.
Many of you are inspired and excited to see the videos and photos of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day players in nations all around the world participating in this global wave you are and will be a part of.
Yet, very few of you use the Facebook, Twitter, or Forward to a Friend Features in our newsletters. Please encourage all your local Tai Chi and Qigong contacts to join our free email newsletter, so they too can be excited and inspired by being part of something global, moving and profound.
Also, if you are a teacher, to have your students constantly updated on Tai Chi and Qigong Medical Research keeps them inspired to stick with your classes.
Also, if they are tuned into the building excitement worldwide, they feel connnected to something larger, and people like to feel connected to something larger, and healing. See the Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus links at the top of the newsletter, and also please use the Forward to a Friend feature below, to share our newsletters with all your contacts. We work so hard creating beautiful newsletters, and it means so much to us when our readers take a moment and share them with others.
THIS GLOBAL EVENT WASN'T JUST BUILT BY WORLDTAICHIDAY.ORG'S WORK, BUT BY INDIVIDUALS LIKE YOU ALL OVER THE PLANET SHARING A DESIRE FOR CONNECTION, HEALTH AND HEALING ... AND SPREADING THE WORD!
If you are only getting a TEXT VERSION of our newletter, please go to www.worldtaichiday.org and click on the Join Our List and re-sign for HTML, so you can enjoy the beautiful videos and photos of events worldwide.
Yours in Qi,
Bill Douglas and Angela Wong Douglas, Founders of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
P.S. Almost every new cell phone has an HD Video Recorder on it. Start playing with yours, and downloading short 3 to 5 minute videos onto your computer. That way, when WTCQD comes you can record 3 to 5 minute short videos and post them on Youtube, and then post it on the Photo/Video Gallery at www.worldtaichiday.org and also send us the link at WorldTaiChiDay.org to go in our newsletters or maybe even on the homepage.
We have FREE World Tai Chi & Qigong Day BANNER/POSTER Artwork you can download, and take to Costco or Kinkos, etc. to print a poster or banner to have at your event. Make sure your banner is in your video.
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One World ... One Breath.
-- Maria De Lourdes Lopez, Pablo Jesus Casta�o Ruiz (Laoshi); Center of Tai Chi and Qigong, Wuqinxi, Ensenada, Mexico
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day - One World ... One Breath
Ensenada, Mexico Ensenada, Mexico's World Tai Chi & Qigong Day event Welcome all to an unprecedented event to promote exercise in the City of Ensenada!
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Our Tai Chi programs continue to grow and our numbers of Tai Chi Schools continue to grow at a phenomenal rate and I feel your efforts are fueling this growth worldwide and we are all in awe of what the World Tai Chi & Qigong Day has done."
-- Dave Pickens, Austin, Texas National Chairman Chinese Martial Arts Division United States Amateur Athletic Union
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World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, Austin, Texas
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MEDICAL RESEARCH:
The Mayo Clinic Staff wrote that Tai chi is a gentle way to fight stress, and that Tai Chi helps reduce stress and anxiety. Here's why this is extremely important. Kaiser Permanente did a 20 years study that found that 70 to 85% of ALL ILLNESS sending people to their doctors was caused by stress. If Tai Chi and Qigong can dramatically reduce stress damage, we could be looking at TRILLIONS of dollars in saved future health costs. What would that do for our economy!!?
WE HAVE COMPLETELY UPDATED OUR MEDIA RESOURCES:
You'll find out Official Press Releases in 18 languages, and updated with all new current links, to help your local media understand your event's part in the global wave. Also, find updated Associated Press, UPI, and Agence France Presse office contacts for the entire world. Click:
TEACHING / LEARNING TIP FOR TAI CHI & QIGONG:
It is wise to ALWAYS stay well hydrated with, preferably, spring water or filtered water. However, when you do Tai Chi and Qigong the gentle movements move alot of debris through the lymph and cleansing systems of the body. So, be sure to stay well hydrated when you get out of class, to thoroughly cleanse all the "stuff" you stirred up. Stick to water, not soda, etc.
Hong Kong has been a driving force in the formation of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day's global phenomenon!
Master Luk, is a medical doctor in Hong Kong who founded the Natural Health Qigong Association, and is the force behind the Hong Kong World Tai Chi & Qigong Day event - Hong Kong Qigong Health Day.
Video Tribute to Women in the Tai Chi and Qigong World WTCQD Founder, Bill Douglas's tai chi/qigong teacher was a woman master, which made him aware of the journey of women in the tai chi and qigong world. See the video tribute to some of the women who have been powerful forces in spreading these yin - internal arts: Dr. Effie Chow, Dr. Luk in Hong Kong; Bev Abella in Australia; and many more ...
This Week's WTCQD Event Video Tribute is to CANADA In the past weeks we've honored Italy, Italia's, participation with Videos of their events, and also, Germany. This week's Canada, so scroll down to see the video article of past Canadian WTCQD events/
Typo in past newsletters: We've just been alerted to the fact that we had a typo in the "If you have questions about Official T-shirts" contact. It should have read contact: [email protected]
Dear World Tai Chi & Qigong Day supporters,
Thanks to Pablo and Maria in Ensenada, Mexico for all your work organizing World Tai Chi & Qigong Day in your beautiful city. Thanks so much for your kind note telling us that you value our work, and also a shout out to Dave Pickens in Austin, Texas for all the good health & healing work he does in Texas.
Also a big thank you to Olive and to Dr. Luk in Hong Kong for the beautiful video of your World Qigong Day 2012 event. Angela and I did the best we could to add subtitles so that the non-Chinese speaking readers of our Ezine could understand it better. Angela's Chinese isn't what it used to be :-) So, we did the best we could. Hong Kong and Olive and Dr. Luk's work is an important foundational event in the global family of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day events worldwide. See below article.
"Alone we can do so little ... together ... so much."
Thank you all for being part of this annual global wave of goodwill and health and healing educational events known worldwide as World Tai Chi & Qigong Day.
One World ... One Breath.
Sincerely,
Bill Douglas and Angela Wong Douglas
HOW CAN YOU HELP OUR WORK at WorldTaiChiDay.org?
We need your help. Each year WorldTaiChiDay.org does expensive national and international media work.
Our goal is to support the work of Tai Chi and Qigong
teachers, groups, schools, and organizations to
spread these tools that make our nations and world a calmer, clearer, healthier place.
Groups and schools can order at SPECIAL BULK DISCOUNT PRICES. Click below. You can use the Official WTCQD T-Shirts as a fundraiser for your local group or school.
IF YOU and/or YOUR LOCAL GROUP, CAN ORDER YOUR OFFICIAL T-SHIRT EARLY,
WE CAN DO A MORE EFFECTIVE MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE WTCQD 2013.
Wear a meaningful and beautiful piece of history. The Official 2013 World Tai Chi & Qigong Day T-Shirts.
We are unable to do what we do at WorldTaiChiDay.org without your help. A huge thank you to all the groups who have ordered our beautiful official t-shirts in past years.
TOGETHER, WE ARE CHANGING OUR WORLD ...
One central nervous system at a time ...
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"Your organizing of this global event has been very helpful in gaining media attention for the benefits of Qi Gong & Tai Chi and in creating awareness of our school and classes.
New people come to our World Tai Chi & Qi Gong Day event every year."
-- Howard Fraracci - Qi Gong teacher Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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ON BEHALF OF THE WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG FAMILY, THANKS to the following individuals & groups who make our work at WorldTaiChiDay.org possible ... to assist tai chi & qigong players worldwide ... to create a healthier, clearer, and calmer world.
And special thanks to the National Qigong Association for alerting their members that they can contribute to this global event via our Official T-Shirts.
Tai Chi and Qigong GROUPS IN:
Sarasota, Florida
Homosassa, Florida
East Brady, Pennsyvania
Lansing, Michigan
Mohawk, New York
Bradenton, Florida
Sandusky, Ohio
Randolph Center, Vermont
Palm Coast, Florida
Limburg, Belgium, European Union; Prince George, British Columbia, Canada; Benalla, Victoria, Australia; London, Ontario, Canada; Sarasota, Florida; South Freeport, Maine; Lakewood, Colorado; Gainesville, Georgia; Cleona, Pennsylvania; Topeka, Kansas; Toledo, Ohio; Cloverdale, California; Milton, Florida; Souix Falls, South Dakota; Chittaway Bay, New South Wales, Australia; Miramichi West, New Brunswick, Canada; Phoenix, Arizona; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Clearwater, Kansas; Leavenworth, Kansas; Woodstock, Georgia; Bellingham, Washington; Scottsdale, Arizona; Quitman, Arkansas; South Freeport, Maine; Englewood, Colorado; Georgetown, Texas; Patchogue, New York; Powder Springs, Georgia; Alto, New Mexico; Ruidoso, New Mexico; Fargo, North Dakota; Wilmington, North Carolina; Ankeny, Iowa; Ludlow, Maine; Austin, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Alexandria, Virginia; Lynwood, Washington; Miamisburg, Ohio; New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Tai Chi and Qigong INDIVIDUALS FROM:
Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, UK
Kettering, Ohio
Park City, Kentucky
East Lansing, Michigan
Bremerton, Washington
Herndon, Virginia
Sheffield, Massachussets; Goldendale, Washington; Bronx, New York; Cookeville, Tennessee; Midlothian, Virginia; Louisville, Kentucky; Saginaw, Michigan; Reading, Pennsylvania; Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania; Vancouver, Washington; Erickson, Manitoba, Canada; Encinita, California; Ankeny, Iowa; Kettering, Ohio; Elko, Nevada; Davison, Michigan; Shawnee, Kansas; Wasilla, Alaska; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Orefield, Pennsylvania; Austin, Texas; Palm Coast, Florida; East Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia; Dayton, Ohio; Columbiana, Ohio; Oakland, California; Southgate, Michigan; Hillsboro, Oregon; Lincoln, Nebraska; Columbus, Ohio; Dearborn, Michigan; North Las Vegas, Nevada; Garden Prairie, Illinois; Des Moines, Iowa; Odessa, Texas; Beaverton, Oregon; Himrod, New York; LaGrange Park, Illinois; Downington, Pennsylvania; Palestine, Texas
THANK YOU!
WITHOUT YOUR T-Shirt Purchases, OUR WORK at WorldTaiChiDay.org WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE.
NOTE: We hope to the do the biggest global mass media campaign ever in 2013. These orders are a good start ... but we're going to need alot of help to realize our goals.
The beautiful and meaningful Official T-Shirts, not only allow you to wear a piece of history, but to enable us to do what we do with full effect.
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Tai Chi an Qigong are known as the Internal, the Yin, the Feminine Arts.
So the emerging force of women masters and teachers is a profound part of Tai Chi and Qigong's growing recognition and purpose ...
"Know the masculine ... keep to the feminine."
-- Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day event in Tehran, Iran
Dr. Effie Chow, founder of the World Congress on Qigong
Elizabeth Keith, Phoenix, Arizona w/ WTCQD Founder
Enjoy and share this Video Tribute to the Yin - the Feminine force emerging within and throughout the world family of yin, internal arts ..
| World Healing Day - World Tai Chi & Qigong Day - Rise of the Feminine, The Internal Arts |
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Dear WorldTaiChiDay.org ,
. . . I want you to know that you have inspired me to organize the WTCQ for the first time in Mexicali, Baja California, Norte M�xico. I�ve been practicing Tai Chi for several years , since then my life has changed.
Please let me know if there�s something we (our school) can do to help your organization . . . God Bless you
-- Martha Ley, Severiano Torres, Yu Guo Ming
Instituto de Artes Marciales Moi Fa, Mexicali, BC, Mexico
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World Tai Chi & Qigong Day event in Mexicali, Mexico
Dia Mundial de Tai Chi y Qigong en Mexicali, Mexico
Organized by Martha Ley, Instituto de Artes Marciales Moi Fa
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HONG KONG - A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY
Dr. Luk is a medical doctor who use Medical Qigong therapy to treat women dealing with breast cancer. She is the organizers of the Hong Kong Qigong Health Day - held in conjunction with World Tai Chi & Qigong Day each year.
She has organized 11 organizations ranging from government departments/officials to healthcare to tai chi and qigong organizations, to create their annual spectactular World Qigong Day event.
The women in pink are the Qigong Group dealing with breast cancer.
Hong Kong has also held massive World Tai Chi Day events in the past. Victoria Park, Kowloon, Hong Kong
The famed South China Morning Post did a nearly full page article on World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
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I'm in awe of how well these intents were accomplished -- shared vision is powerful chi!
Yours in Wellness, Gratitude and Oneness,
-- Suzen Sharda Segall, Pittsburgh,PA
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FREE Banner/Poster/Flyer Artwork for Your WTCQD Event
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I'm in awe of how well these intents were accomplished -- shared vision is powerful chi!
Yours in Wellness, Gratitude and Oneness,
-- Suzen Sharda Segall, Pittsburgh,PA
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We have created FREE BANNER Artwork for a 8 foot x 3 foot banner (you can have your printer print it smaller if you like), so that the public will know what your event is when they walk or drive by, and also so that the media will have an image capturing your part in a global health & healing event.
You can also help support our work, and get a PERSONALIZED version of the banner with| your local group/school/organization's website included on the poster.
Also, you'll find FREE 3' x 4' POSTER Artwork you can use to get posters printed for placement in bookstores, healthfood stores, etc. etc. to let your local community know about your coming event, and how they can connect with you and your group to get involved. The artwork provides a space where you can type in your local group/school/organization's contact info.
You'll also find FREE 11" x 8.5" FLYER Artwork that you can use to print flyers, also with space to include your local group/school/organization's contact info. These flyers will enable your students and friends and loved ones to become part of your Organizing efforts, passing flyers out at church, temple, or mosque, healthfood stores, libraries, or leaving them at their doctor's offices, or community organizations ... so they too can be a part of expanding world health & healing. People like to feel empowered to be a part of something good and larger than themselves, don't deny your students this opportunity to feel empowered.
http://worldtaichiday.org/Posters_flyers.html
THANK YOU to the WTCQD Organizer at Edgewood Senior Living in Fargo, North Dakota
For Supporting Our Work at WorldTaiChiDay.org
Edgewood Senior Living in Fargo, North Dakota is organizing for World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, and they ordered a Personalized Event Banner to help promote their local event, and to support our work at WorldTaiChiDay.org.
Learn more about how your local group can order artwork for a Personalized 8 foot x 3 foot, World Tai Chi & Qigong Day banner to use this year and in future years, visit:
http://www.worldtaichiday.org/Posters_flyers.html#anchorPersonalizedBanner
We also offer FREE generic Banner artwork, Poster artwork, and flyer artwork to all groups. See: http://www.worldtaichiday.org/Posters_flyers.html
WorldTaiChiDay.org cannot do what we do without your support, via the Official WTCQD T-Shirts - Please, organize your local group to pre-order Official T-Shirts at the discounted pre-order price (bottom of email).
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"Thank you for the incredible service WorldTaiChiDay.org is providing for all who are ready to accept it.
I can't thank you enough"
-- Mamie in New York
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Tai chi: A gentle way to fight stress
Tai chi helps reduce stress and anxiety. And it also helps increase flexibility and balance.
-- Mayo Clinic Staff
Read more ...
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"By linking my site to WorldTaiChiDay.org's comprehensive and easy to use listing of health research, I help prospective students with health concerns learn that Tai Chi will be both safe and beneficial for them. Rather than reinventing the wheel, I just link to this health benefits page on World Tai Chi Day's website, and provide this service without all the work. Thank you." -- Master Teacher Vincent J. Lasorso, Jr. White Willow School of Tai Chi Cincinnati, Ohio www.whitewillowtaichi.com
where I add information including [medical research info] you send
through your WorldTaiChiDay.org Newsletters."
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World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Organizing & Media Kits
WTCQD 2013 is on Saturday, April 27, 2013
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"You know words can not express feelings, only acts does it. I'm sure when you created the WTCQD, you did not imagine that it would be celebrated all over the world and grow so fast.
Teaching Tai Chi, inspiring Tai Chi, offering Tai Chi, living Tai Chi is an Act of Love.
You drove all of us in the path of One World... One Breath. Step by step, we would reach to One Mind... One Spirit.
Thank you today, thank you tomorrow, thank you always.
TAO bless you with the force of the Tiger and the malleability of the Water."
-- Milton - Being Tao Association / Square of Universal Harmony - Bras�lia, Brazil
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Here at WorldTaiChiDay.org we have created step-by-step guides to help you organize your own World Tai Chi & Qigong Day event, and to get the most of it. Visit the above page to utilize all the myriad free features we've created for you to use. http://www.worldtaichiday.org/OrganizingKits.html
After reading the page's overview, view the menu on the right. You'll find a link where you or your group or school can list your local contact information and your plans for WTCQD 2013. If you have a listing, you can click on and sign in, to make sure your listing and plans are up to date.
You'll also see Community Organizing, Media (Pre-Event) Organizing, and Event Organizing guides to help you maximize attendence for your event, and to gain maximum media interest, and optimum coverage, to help inform your community about Tai Chi & Qigong's benefits and about your local work.
Our Past Event Photos link provides you with thousands of beautiful and spectacular photos of past WTCQD events worldwide, that you can use as part of your press releases, or other outreach materials. These are free services, we only ask that you utilize them solely for WTCQD organizing purposes and that you credit www.WorldTaiChiDay.org when using them in your material.
The Official Proclamations link lists (with printable jpeg copies) past Official Proclamations of WTCQD events worldwide, that you can use to help gain public interest in the promotion of your event, to reach out to media to cover your event, or to approach public officials to officially proclaim your local event as part of the global happening. In fact, when you click on the Official Proclamations link you'll see a menu link giving tips on how to approach local officials for proclamations of your event.
Past Media is provided to help you get local Tai Chi and Qigong practitioners excited about participating in your local event. The past media coverage from major media worldwide will show the breadth and scope of this unprecedented global health & healing event you are inviting local residents to become involved in. Past media resources may also be used to interest local media, local institutions, or government to support your event.
Our Medical Research section is the culmination of nearly 15 years of work here at
www.WorldTaiChiDay.org, designed to put the world's medical research breakthroughs on Tai Chi and Qigong's myriad benefits at your finger tips, enabling you to more effectively educate your community and world of how these ancient mind-body and fitness tools can improve quality of life for all citizens.).
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HONORING CANADA'S WTCQD EVENTS!
HONNEUR CANADA JOURN'EE MONDIALE DU TAI CHI ET QIGONG �V�NEMENTS
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"Tai Chi will play an important role in global awakening"
-- Eckhart Tolle, author of A New Earth
(an Oprah's Bookclub pick)
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Please share this newsletter widely, email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, googleplus, etc. Without your help spreading the world this event is not possible.
"One World ... One Breath"
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OFFICIAL T-SHIRTS ARE IN AND NOW SHIPPING! OFFICIAL WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY 2013 OFFICIAL T-SHIRTS
Please, ORDER NOW, PRICES WILL INCREASE ON MARCH 11. Early orders help us launch a more effective 2013 WTCQD media campaign.
This years Official T-Shirts are dark blue text and image, printed on a gorgeous saphire-blue cotton t-shirt. Also, this year's official T-shirts include "One World ... One Breath" in 34 LANGUAGES on the back.
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We cannot do what we do at WorldTaiChiDay.org without your help. Please order your Official T-Shirt(s) TODAY to save, prices will increase on March 11, 2013.
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THANK YOU KANSAS CITY VOLUNTEERS
FOR MAKING OUR WORK POSSIBLE!
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