Wild Presence: Beginning Tai Chi - Free Online Class

Wild Presence: Beginning Tai Chi - Free Online Class

This is the third of three free online Beginning Tai Chi classes. Everyone who registers for this class will receive access to the class recording and notes AND the recordings and notes from the first two Beginning Tai Chi classes.

Next up: an 8-week online class series will be held on Saturdays at 10:00 am CT, March 28 to May 16. Cost is $90. The classes are oriented to all levels of experience and mobility. In each class we will explore new movements and review movements from earlier classes. At the end of the class series participants have the option to join an ongoing weekly in-person and online Tai Chi class on Monday evenings in St. Paul.

YouTube videos:
Combing Hair and Tai Chi--Beginning Tai Chi Class Preview
Tai Chi Demonstration

My background: For 30 years I have started almost every morning with the slow and relaxing motion of Tai Chi which sets a tone of ease and spaciousness for the day. My first experiences with Tai Chi, meditation, and yoga were on a study abroad program in Asia in 1992. Soon after I began studying Tai Chi with Robert Larsen, founder of the Birthing Life Tai Chi Center in Minneapolis and a student of Cheng Man-ch’ing.

I started teaching Tai Chi in 1997 and currently teach in-person and Zoom classes on Monday evenings at Twin Cities Friends Meeting in St. Paul. During other times of the week, I offer Tai Chi via Zoom and video courses. I am also also a Compassion Key Certified Practitioner (Level 1). I enjoy spending time in nature, including wildlife tracking, wilderness camping, and cross-country skiing, all of which complement Tai Chi. I live on a rural homestead in northwest Wisconsin with my wife and daughter.

Birthing Life Tai Chi Center class waiver
By registering for this event you agree to release and hold harmless Birthing Life Tai Chi Center, the instructors, and the class location from any liability for any injury or harm that might result from your attendance or participation in online or in-person classes, private lessons, practice sessions, recorded classes, video instruction, or any events sponsored by Birthing Life Tai Chi Center.

While Tai Chi movements are designed to put little or no harmful stress on the body, you understand that practicing Tai Chi poses risks, including but not limited to injuries like muscle tears, strains, and musculoskeletal injuries, and possible dizziness and fainting. We ask that you pay particular attention during the first class or the first class video recording where the instructor explains how to help mitigate these types of risks.

You affirm that you have no physical condition that should prevent you from participating in the above activities. You understand that it is your responsibility to monitor your own activity level and participation, and to stop, modify or delay participation based on your own discretion both during in-person and online classes and while practicing on your own.

Participating in an in-person or online video class may result in a recording of your picture or audio and that you grant permission and unlimited rights in perpetuity to Birthing Life Tai Chi Center and instructors to the use of your image and audio in those recordings.