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Only 5 days until World Tai Chi & Qigong Day ... imagine the implications!
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Dear World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Participants,
I was fascinated to learn that the word "imagine" is rooted in two words, "image" "in." By imagining a reality, we start the process of "imaging it into being" a real thing.
Just this week someone wrote:
"Whereas, Citizens can learn Tai Chi basics and help create "a wave of healing energy around the world" by joining Central Texas Tai Chi practitioners for the local World Tai Chi & Qigong Day activities ..."
This was written by a MAYOR of a major city, a Mayor writing about "a wave of healing energy around the world" ... shows how far we, together, as a global Tai Chi and Qigong community have come in actually changing the way our society sees the world. None of us could have done this alone, we had to come together as a global FAMILY of Tai Chi and Qigong players.
Through our collective work as a World Tai Chi & Qigong Day family, over the last 16 years we have begun to expand Tai Chi and Qigong into public schools, major health networks, prison rehabilitation, special education, corporate wellness, etc. We are planting seeds, and as they grow, the data and research indicate that this will save global society trillions of dollars in future health, education, police and prison costs. (Just one example: The Tai Chi / Qigong program at Folsom Prison turned the return-to-prison rates on their head, dramatically reducing the return-to-prison of their inmates in the program--and WTCQD has expanded this into prisons from Texas to Australia.)
This is the effect of all of us working together, via media coverage of our events MILLIONS have been exposed to Tai Chi & Qigong, and our Medical Research Library empowered groups to use that exposure to educate the public about why these tools should be available everywhere. AND we have engaged government officials, ministries, departments, senates and congresses in understanding that the expansion of Tai Chi & Qigong throughout society is a powerful addition to societies worldwide.
We are headed for a time when there will not be nearly enough Tai Chi and Qigong teachers to satisfy the need for them on a mass public scale. There will be no need for competition amongst teachers.
We will all become collaborators, mentors, and peers elevating one another's understandings of these arts. Angela and I have had the rare pleasure of traveling the globe in our organizing WTCQD over 16 years, and meeting more Tai Chi and Qigong teachers than perhaps anyone on the planet ... and what we have found is that EVERY SINGLE TEACHER HAD SOMETHING TO TEACH US about the arts we had been studying and teaching for decades ourselves. Each teacher we have met has left us with ideas on how to better articulate things we "had felt" but had not had words to describe them.
But, even beyond our physical benefits of connection as a global family, as we continue to walk forward together as a global Tai Chi and Qigong family, with 100s of events in over 80 nations ... we provide an example to the world ... how people of all all religions, all races, and across all geo-political boundaries ... come together for the sole purpose of advancing health and healing in the world. We provide a model for what is possible in the world.
We "image in" a reality year after year that is carried by media to millions of eyes.
One World ... One Breath
Imagine that :-)
Bill & Angela Wong-Douglas, Founders of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
Austin, Texas (USA)'s WTCQD Event is CO-SPONSORED BY 20 DIFFERENT TAI CHI or QIGONG ORGANIZATIONS!
One World ... One Breath
Children in Tehran, Iran celebrating World Tai Chi & Qigong Day!
Jerusalem, Israel celebrates World Tai Chi & Qigong Day!
Cairo, Egypt Celebrating World Tai Chi & Qigong Day! Kansas City, Missouri Celebrating World Tai Chi & Qigong Day! CNN iReports on "Mini-Vacation for World Tai Chi & Qigong Day" Hong Kong - Macao YOU TOO CAN POST A REPORT OF YOUR WTCQD EVENT ON CNN'S "CNN iReports! Asia's Tbilisi, Georgia's WTCQD 2015! Istanbul, Turkey WTCQD Day 2015! Austin, Texas Mayoral Proclamation of WTCQD!
Click to view this beautiful slide show -- and SHARE WIDELY! http://www.slideshare.net/worldtaichiday/world-tai-chi-qigong-day By Sharing the above slideshow, you increase visibility of the WorldTaiChiDay.org Free Directory your group/school/event is on, so when people in your area do a Zip Code search, THEY FIND YOU!
IMPORTANT TIPS FOR YOUR WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY EVENT ...
BE SURE TO DOCUMENT YOUR EVENTS W/ VIDEO: NOTE: Encourage everyone at your event to get out their smart phones and shoot short 2 or 3 minute videos of your WTCQD 2015 event. Then ask them to upload them to Youtube, and send us the Youtube links, and we'll share them with the world on and after WTCQD! For those who want to do something more elaborate, you can get attendees to get their videos to you, so you can edit them together using Windows Movie Maker program, which is available for free online, and create videos with effects, music, etc. Scroll down to see some wonderful examples of what you can do with video. NOTE: Many more people will watch your Youtube videos IF THEY ARE SHORT (2 to 5 min. at most).
TIME TO START CONTACTING MEDIA! Email, fax, and write them, BUT BE SURE TO FOLLOW UP WITH A PHONE CALL. We have Media Kits, Press Releases (in 19 languages), and MEDIA CONTACT LISTS you can use. Free services from WorldTaiChiDay.org to help you expand awareness of your groups and local classes worldwide via media exposure. MEDIA TIP: After utilizing the above resources to inform your local, regional, and national media about your WTCQD event ... on the morning of your event TWITTER and FACEBOOK announce your event on your local television and newspaper Twitter and Facebook pages. Yes, many actually scan these to see what's happening in their community that day. So, yes, do the pre-event media prep work, but then also follow up with a Tweet :-) on event day. Please let media know that WorldTaiChiDay.org is the global organizing contact. READ THRU NEWSLETTER below for many more tools to help you or your local group or school(s) to organize and publicize your WTCQD 2015 event ...
Your organizing of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day has most likely brought awareness of Tai Chi to more people than anyone else in history!
-- Dr. Paul Lam, author of Born Strong, pioneer of integrating Tai Chi into modern healthcare
WorldTaiChiDay.org is doing ongoing Press Releases to promote YOUR LOCAL WTCQD Events worldwide ... above see links to help YOU promote your event to the media, we give you media contact lists, Press Releases in 19 languages, etc.
ONLY 7 DAYS UNTIL
WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY 2015
"World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is celebrated all over the world ... it's about global healing, it's about people finding unity and peace amongst themselves and others." -- Sifu Michael Lan, Director of Jing-An, Cape Town, South Africa
One World ... One Breath
Yours in Qi, Bill Douglas & Angela Wong Douglas Founders of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day p.s. We just updated our Newsletter Archives, a treasure trove of information on all things Tai Chi and Qigong you can share with friends, students and the public. Many of our pages now have Social Media sharing buttons.
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