Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Tai Chi/Qigong Class Info

Join the Greece Community Center

  • Visit the Front Desk at Community Center in Greece: Long Pond Rd. [north of Latta Rd.] Greece NY
  • Bring photo identification which shows proof of residency (driver's license, etc.)
  • Membership to the Town of Greece Community & Senior Center is free to
    Greece Residents
  • Non-residents can purchase a Non-Resident Membership $50.00.
  • One Day Non-Resident Fee $5.00
    All CSC activities require a membership to participate.

    1. Member Activity Credits: ‘credits’ can be purchased at the front desk.
      Tai Chi/Qigong class 
      $.90/class @ $50.00 and $1.20/class @ $60.00 – For entire year.

    Residents
    $15.00 = 16 Credits
    Non Residents
    $20 = 16 Credits
    Residents
    $30.00 = 33 Credits
    Non Residents
    $40 = 33 Credits
    Residents
    $45.00 = 50 Credits
    Non Residents
    $60 = 50 Credits

    1. Tai Chi/Qigong class $.90/class @ $50.00 and $1.20/class @ $60.00 – For entire year.

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Flying Cormorant T'ai Chi/Qigong

Since 2015, Flying Cormorant has been meeting at these locations:

  • Town of Greece Community Center on Long Pond Rd. ~ 9 am Tuesdays September through July taught by Barbara Carder 
  • Ontario Beach Park/Charlotte ~ Gazebo area just east of bathhouse ~ 9 am Mondays May through October [includes t'ai chi ball] led by Barbara Carder 
  • Brian Bruning has been doing T'ai Chi Refinement on Wednesdays ~ 9 am at 75 Stutson St.
Everyone is welcome including beginners! 

Monday, March 18, 2019

Wudang Five Elements with Zhong Yunlong



Master Zhong Yunlong is a 14th generation legitimate inheritor of Wudang Sanfeng Pai (Pai equates to sect), an Orthodox Wudang Internal Kung Fu successor of two great Wudang Taoist masters and senior priests: Guo Gao Yi and Zhu Chengde. 

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Tuesdays 9 am T'ai Chi/Qigong starts Jan. 8, 2019 ~ Greece Community Center

T'ai Chi/Qigong encourages 'Flow,' a mental state in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, characterized by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Components of flow 
As Csikszentmihalyi sees it, there are components of an experience of flow that can be specifically enumerated; he presents eight:
1.            Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernable).
2.            Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention (a person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).
3.            A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.
4.            Distorted sense of time - our subjective experience of time is altered.
5.            Direct and immediate feedback (successes and failures in the course of the activity are apparent, so that behavior can be adjusted as needed).
6.            Balance between ability level and challenge (the activity is not too easy or too difficult).
7.            A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.
8.            The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so there is an effortlessness of action.