Materials
Class Outline
9 Weeks Spring Session 2025
A detailed description of the content of each class, including the programmed training and activities.
Spring Tuesdays Mindfulness Relaxation - Curriculum
Spring Tuesdays Beginners - Curriculum
Spring Thursdays Intermediates Level 1- Curriculum
Spring Thursdays Intermediates Level 2 - Curriculum
Spring Saturdays Mindfulness Relaxation - Curriculum
Spring Saturdays Intermediates Level 1 - Curriculum
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Tai Chi Essentials
Principles and Guidelines
Essential knowledge that will assist you throughout your training journey.
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Warm-Up and Cool-Down Exercises
Breathing and Stretching
These movements are very helpful in bringing calmness and warmth into your body. You should add a few of them to your daily practice.
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Biographies
Inspirational People
Spiritual leaders and personalities who spent their lives trying to change the world by bringing peace and harmony.
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Meditation Essentials
Helpful Information
Necessary knowledge that will assist you with your training.
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Dr. Paul Lam
Dr. Lam and his colleagues believe prevention is better than cure. They created Tai Chi programs to prevent illness and improve health and wellness.
QiGong - Water Series
Created by Lynne Cove
Relaxing warm-up movements help prepare your body and mind for Tai Chi training.
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Tai Chi Yang Style 24 Form
Most popular simplified Tai Chi Yang Form. This practice explores the essential elements of Tai Chi while retaining the principles and guidelines of longer traditional forms.
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Simplified Tai Chi Yang Style 24 Form
The most popular simplified Tai Chi Yang Form explores the essential elements of Tai Chi while retaining the principles and guidelines of longer traditional forms.
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The Twelve of The Temple
This Qi Gong form embodies the principles of energy cultivation and the dynamic balance of Yin and Yang, guiding towards harmony and vitality.
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Baduanjin Qi Gong (Eight Section Brocade)
Baduanjin Qi Gong is the most popular Chinese Qi Gong Form. It has been used as exercise for over 1000 years to improve health. The Baduanjin is divided into eight sections, each focusing on a different physical area and Qi Meridian. ​
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LEAP Gentle QiGong
This gentle exercise combines Tai Chi and Qi Gong with various adaptations to help make the routine safe and comfortable. Developed by the therapists in Toronto Rehab's LEAP Service (Living Engaged and Actively with Pain), this routine is great for starting a gentle exercise program at home.
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Fire and Summer QiGong
These exercises focus on forms that uplift and nourish the heart, the central organ related to Fire in Chinese medicine and qigong.
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5 Element Qigong Practice
This full, 12-minute video includes practices for the elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water and their associated organs and meridians. Each element is demonstrated with some instructions and repeated a few times. Once you have learned them, it's a wonderful practice to do on your own.
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Qigong 18 Forms - Shibashi
The 18 Forms, or Shibashi, is considered a moving meditation for health. These movements were created in 1979 by Professor Lin Hou Sheng. He developed this set of forms specifically to help with conditions such as back pain, lung disease, and hypertension. This makes this Qigong practice one of the most popular worldwide.
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Winter QiGong - Element Water
These are the exercises to strengthen, cleanse, and stretch the Bladder and Kidney Meridians. To aid relaxation, meditation, and focus on the breath and movement. The exercises can also be performed in a seated position and are suitable for all ages.​
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QiGong The Five Animals (Standing Version)
The Five Animals is a powerful sequence of movements that moves every joint, muscle, and energy channel in the body. The slow and smooth series of moves also relaxes the body. It calms the mind… reducing stress and anxiety… at the same time, clearing the energy flow in the body and boosting the body’s capacity to rejuvenate and heal.​
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QiGong - 5 Elements
The five elements are rooted in Daoist philosophy and aim to explain natural developments in the nature surrounding us and human life.
Instruction​
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Seated QiGong for Seniors
This Seated Qigong program is excellent for seniors or individuals with lower body injuries that don't allow them to perform a standing Qigong program.​​​
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Seated QiGong - Guided Meditation
Created by Marisa Cranfill (YoQi)
This routine is a perfect combo of qigong and meditation designed to facilitate a deep state of tranquility and energetic balance. Seated qigong enlists the spinal cord and moves energy through the central meridian channel.
QiGong Description​​​​​​​
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Books and DVDs
Recommended Materials
You can purchase either one of these books or DVDs for at-home practice to help you with your training.