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July 2018 July A week of Taijiquan, & Chinese Internal Arts in the of Scotland

Friday 6 - Friday 13 13 Friday - 6 Friday The Location The Programme The Instructors We offer a range of options for Master has taught as a full-time instructor in over 100 cities in North America, attending Caledonia, Europe and . Students from around the world have travelled to study with him in workshops making it accessible to all. such as his annual Summer Push Hands Training Camps held in Vancouver and Berlin. Recognized You can attend on a day, a as one of the ‘100 Extraordinary Chinese Practitioners’ in the world by the International weekend, whole or part week Sanshoudao Association, Masich is a certified 8th degree master. He created the The5 basis, residential or non- Section Taijiquan Programme that is taught around the world. In 2016 Masich publicly announced residential. The Masich Internal Arts Method and accepted five formal disciples, taking on the traditional role of Weekend Sessions master. www.masichinternalarts.com Yonghui Deistler-Yi was born in China 1969. Between1983 and 1990 she studied Fine Art at Art School. From 1990 to 1996 she took masterclasses with Prof. Hutter and Hundertwasser focussing on oil painting. Since 1988 she has been frequently published in art magazines and participated in major exhibitions in China and Austria. She lectured at Liao Ning Art Academy and is a consultant for various exercise courses and workshops in Austria, where she now resides. She has loved since childhood and has taught Taijiquan and Qigong in Austria for many years. Whether teaching Taijiquan or painting, Yonghui provides a good insight to Chinese culture, Tai Chi Caledonia takes place leading students to a better understanding of their arts. www.taijiarts.at

at the gateway to the Scottish Our teaching programme starts

Scotland Highlands, near the historic on Saturday morning at 10.00

Helmut Oberlack was born in 1958 and started to learn and qigong in the early eighties. He in the heart of of heart the in town of Stirling in the heart of after our introductory meeting.

has learned -style shortform (Zheng Manqing) and longform () and a number of

romantic Braveheart country. The weekend sessions include Internal Arts Arts Internal qigong-systems like Shibashi, Ba Duan Jin, Yu Bei Shi, and more. He teaches on a private basis at

The region offers a unique a choice of 48 x 45 minute

his home in the north of Germany and works for a sports federation in Hamburg training teachers to Tai Chi & Chinese Chinese & Chi Tai combination of history, heritage sessions allowing you to get a

qualify them to teach qigong in sports clubs. Helmut is also the publisher of the German Taijiquan &

and cultural activities. taste of a variety of approaches A week of of week A Qigong Journal. to tai chi & Chinese internal www.tqj.de Getting There arts. Week-long Sessions Yanira Masich Following a high-performance national-level athletics career, Yanira began her taijiquan studies in 1996 at the National University in her native México. In 2002 she became a co- instructor in the UNAM taijiquan program and has since worked with students in México, , USA, Germany, England, Scotland, Spain, and Italy.Yanira now teaches the full curricula of traditional Yang-style Taijiquan and 5 Section Taijiquan. With a further background in therapeutic massage, she helps students to find the heart of the art. Yanira also gives personal readings using the Chinese ‘Book of Changes’ (Yijing) and traditional Mexican ‘animal spirits’ (nagual). www.masichinternalarts.com Monday to Thursday you will

train 21/2 hours each morning Angela Menzel Born 1969. A wushu lover, clown, drama teacher, director. Angela has been

passionately practising Taijiquan since 1992, and since 2002 and Xinyiquan

and afternoon, over the

since 2010. She loves to foster, present and teach all four disciplines. Training all of them enriches four days allowing 10 hours

cross connections and development of the other three disciplines and vice versa. Training is always CALEDONIA intensive training, working on

2 separate disciplines (1 each vivid and exciting. Angela was lucky to be able to train in these four classical disciplines through the

generosity of the family of Sha Guozheng from /China, whose head, Sha Junjie, asked her to TAI CHI CHI TAI Stirling is centrally situated, from A and B) for 5 hours per less than one hour from day in total. join the family in 2010. She has also had a long term love affair with different Qigong schools. either Glasgow or Edinburgh, www.tai-chi-schule-goettingen.de Scotland’s two major cities. Baguazhang Training There are a number of budget 07.30 - 09.30 Sun till Thursday Roberto Benetti has studied Taijiquan since1985 later trained in Liu He Xin Yi Quan and Tuina. airlines which serve Scotland. He has been a professional teacher for over 20 years, working in Italy and abroad where he regularly Our website has travel guides. delivers seminars and lectures at major European events such as Nils Klug’s annual Push Hands The University is a short event in Hannover and perhaps the oldest European event, Rencontres Jasniers in France, to name bus ride from Stirling railway just two. station. www.associazionepmc.it

The Venue EVENT The There will be an opportunity Luigi Zanini has extensive experience in Chinese and Non-Chinese martial arts. After twelve again this year to work with years of training in Shaolin, Tanglang, Tantui and Baguazhang with Sifu Stefano Bellomi, he started Now in our 23rd year, Tai highly experienced investigating practical aspects of and developing internal skills. His practice also includes Chi Caledonia offers a teachers. , Xingyiquan, Taijiquan and other fighting methods. He studied with interesting teachers unique opportunity to learn around the globe and crossed hands with skilled people. He holds titles in Baguazhang, Yiquan, with exceptional teachers Qigong Training Chinese Traditional Medicine and . Since 1990 he has taught Baguazhang and Qigong, who are leaders in their 08.30 - 09.30 Sun till Thursday and is a regular guest teacher at major European martial events. He has published articles in various respective disciplines. This 23rd event is also our languages, books and a blog on martial arts. http://lzanini.blogspot.it 21st year at Stirling University Over these years we have Campus which is set in a Gillian Reid was born in London. Since 1992 she has been studying the art of Tai ChiChuan earned an international spectacular woodland, with and spiral chi kung, known as The Biospirals Method in Venice, with the Italian Tai Chi Research reputation for offering lakes and acres of open green Association founded by Master Franco Mescola, where she graduated and currently teaches. exceptionally high-quality space which abound with www.taichi.it instruction, warm Scottish wildlife. This fresh environment hospitality, and a genuine is perfectly suited for training. caring concern to ensure Early morning Qigong sessions that everyone who joins The Accommodation will be with a different teacher us will have an experience each day. that will stay with them Guest Instructors forever. Push Hands Tina Faulkner-Elders began training Gong Fu and Na as a child. She studied Yangsheng Gong in , and also with Masters Shi Ming and Chen Lisheng. Her Aberdeen school has been awarded the first Teaching Cooperation to the Wudang Located in the heart Daoist Gongfu Academy. Tina regularly hosts Master Chen in the UK and travels to Wu Dang to study with him. of beautiful Scottish Javier Arnanz has practised Chinese martial arts for 20 years. A student of Sam Masich he teaches the Masich Internal Arts Method in Spain and has participated in national and international tournaments as competitor and coach. He combines his teaching in Taichi countryside, in the historic and Health Qigong with his practice as an osteopath and sport psychologist, training coaches in pedagogy and training techniques. ‘Braveheart’ landscape, Cunyi Deistler started practising Gongfu at age 8. He learned from Zhou Zhendong, Wang Lianyu, Lau Kungking, Chen Shihong we provide comfortable Residents enjoy the comfort of and Nikolaus Deistler. His techniques are mainly rooted in Praying Mantis Style, with influences of Yang style Taijiquan and MMA. accommodation in private their own room in the 5-6 room Cunyi has won competitions in Austria and China. As a graphic-design graduate, he possesses a very keen eye for movement. rooms. Birinder Tember is a Chinese medical physician and a master of internal arts graded by the Chinese Wushu Association. He is a chalets which offer fully-fitted disciple of Sha Junjie, well versed in Tai Chi, , Tong Bei, Bagua Zhang and Qigong, which he teaches in London. He kitchens, showers, toilets and In addition to the structured is the Clinical Director at the College of Naturopathic Medicine and has headed MSc programs in Nutrition, Chinese All the essential information lounge area. We do our best classes there will be time for Herbal Medicine and acupuncture since 2005 and sees patients at his private clinics in London and Surrey. is contained within this to accommodate our visitors both formal and informal push Ben Morris has studied East Asian martial arts for over 20 years: Kyushindo , Taiji, Xing Yi & Bagua. He is an active competitor compact programme, winning several national and international competitions in tui shou and ground . He has published a number of books on with like-minded people so hands training. martial arts/philosophies of the orient. He lectures in Health Psychology at Leeds Trinity University. www.yiheyuan.co.uk however we recommend include your preferences on the Enrico Colmi is a medical doctor now practising TCM and Osteopathy. He studied Taoist Qigong with Master in you visit our website or booking form. Cally Ceilidh - Wednesday Thailand and Chinese Kungfu (Baguazhang, Xingyiquan and Liuhe Tanlangquan) with Master Liu Jingru in China. He has over 20 Facebook pages regularly years of teaching experience and recently has developed a particular method of qigong: ‘QIGONG- of the 5 dynamics’. for a fuller description and Barrie Jehu started learning martial arts in the mid-60s with and ; in the mid-70s he moved to Shetland where the updates as we add more only thing available was Shotokan . In the 80s he started learning Tai Chi; he follows the teachings of Chen Yanlin and , both students of Yang Cheng Fu; at least for the forms. things to our programme. Ronnie Robinson 1953 - 2016 Bob Lowey has studied martial arts since the 1960s including karate, judo & Wang Kung Shou Tao in 1979. He has taught since Still missed 1985 and has achieved international recognition teaching regularly in Europe. He is a 15th generation disciple of Master You Xuande and Vice-President for the Daoyin Association for Scotland. website: www.taichicaledonia.com Your weekend, week-long programme and booking options

SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY Your OPTIONS Your BOOKING 10.00 - 10.45 10.00 - 10.45 10.00 - 10.45 10.00 - 10.45 We offer a number of options Please complete this form, Jin Jong Qigong Spine Circle Tongbei Workout Fundamentals Fixed Step Pushing to join us at Tai Chi Caledonia; detailing clearly when you want - Helmut Oberlack - Tina Faulkner-Elders - Angela Menzel - Ben Morris a day, a weekend, part week or to attend, by ticking the relevant 10.50 - 11.35 10.50 - 11.35 10.50 - 11.35 10.50 - 11.35 full week on either a residential box. Return it with the correct A Taste of Xingyiquan 5 Words of Self Composure Xing Yi Quan 5 Elements Testing Your Roots or non-residential basis. deposit to the address provided. - Luigi Zanini - Yanira Masich - Birinder Tember - Roberto Benetti The weekend sessions offer 48 11.45 - 12.30 11.45 - 12.30 11.45 - 12.30 11.45 - 12.30 Payment x 45 minute ‘taster’ workshops 5 Element Warm up Root Down - Connect Up Understanding the Hip/Waist Praying Mantis Drills A 25% deposit is required to - Bob Lowey - Gillian Reid - Sam Masich - Cunyi Deistler The week-long sessions are reserve your place. Please more in-depth so it is advisable 14.00 - 14.45 14.00 - 14.45 14.00 - 14.45 14.00 - 14.45 make cheques payable to to stay on the campus to get the Luohan Gong - An Intro Hip Circle Tui Shou - Angela Style The 8 Gates in Push Hands ‘Tai Chi Caledonia’ and send - Yonghui Deistler-Yi - Tina Faulkner-Elders - Angela Menzel - Roberto Benetti most from your time. However, if to the address below. Online you are local, you can commute. 15.00 - 15.45 15.00 - 15.45 15.00 - 15.45 15.00 - 15.45 banking details can be sent on request. Neigong of the 5 Dynamics 3 External Harmonies Xing Yi Punches Sensing Hands A: Full Week - Enrico Colmi - Helmut Oberlack - Sergio Uzzo - Javier Arnanz Arriving on Friday 6th evening 16.00 - 16.45 16.00 - 16.45 16.00 - 16.45 16.00 - 16.45 Overseas Visitors and departing on the morning Those attending from overseas You, Your Mind & Taijiquan 5 Animal Exercises Xing Yi Quan 5 Elements Moving Step Push Hands of Friday 13th July, 09.00. - Barrie Jehu - Bob Lowey - Birinder Tember - Ben Morris are eligible for a 10% discount A B C D Your stay includes all meals, towards travel costs if they book SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY (except Tuesday dinner) prior to March 1st and pay the 10.00 - 10.45 10.00 - 10.45 10.00 - 10.45 10.00 - 10.45 accommodation and tuition for full balance by 25th May. 5 Element Dance 6 Healing Sounds Building & Guiding Sensing Sword the full event. £535.00 - Bob Lowey - Luigi Zanini - Gillian Reid - Javier Arnanz Booking Conditions B: Monday - Friday 10.50 - 11.35 10.50 - 11.35 10.50 - 11.35 10.50 - 11.35 Bookings can only be made by Arriving on the evening of Taiji Ba Men Shoulder Circle Xing Yi Quan 5 Elements Taiji 5 Phase Fist paying the appropriate deposit Sunday 8th and working from - Yonghui Deistler-Yi - Tina Faulkner-Elders - Birinder Tember - Sam Masich quoted for the time you wish to Monday 9th - Thursday 12th. 11.45 - 12.30 11.45 - 12.30 11.45 - 12.30 11.45 - 12.30 attend. A booking will only be Your stay will include all meals, Neigong of the 5 Dynamics Bagua Qigong 8 from Yang Style Taiji Dantien Neigong confirmed once the full amount (except Tuesday dinner) - Enrico Colmi - Simona Longeri - Yanira Masich - Roberto Benetti has been received. accommodation and tuition. 14.00 - 14.45 14.00 - 14.45 14.00 - 14.45 14.00 - 14.45 £335.00 Bookings should be made on Wong Kung Shao Tao The Empty Step Bagua Workout From Pushing to Applications the form provided, copies of - Bob Lowey - Gillian Reid - Angela Menzel - Ben Morris C: Friday - Sunday which can be found on our 15.00 - 15.45 15.00 - 15.45 15.00 - 15.45 15.00 - 15.45 Arriving on Friday 6th evening, website: Shibashi - Set 3 5 Bow Structure Xing Yi Quan 5 Elements Praying Mantis Hand Techniques for the weekend workshops and www.taichicaledonia.com/booking.html - Helmut Oberlack - Tina Faulkner-Elders - Birinder Tember - Cunyi Deistler leaving on Sunday 8th, before 16.00 - 16.45 16.00 - 16.45 16.00 - 16.45 16.00 - 16.45 dinner. Includes all meals, You, Your Mind & Taijiquan Great Heaven Circulation Circular & Spiralling Taiji Push Hands Combinations Cancellations: accommodation and tuition for before March 1st receive 80% refund - Barrie Jehu - Luigi Zanini - Roberto Benetti - Yonghui Deistler-Yi st the weekend event. £245 before April 1 receive 50% refund C D st A B after May 1 receive 30% refund Visit our website for fuller descriptions of the weekend workshops sessions. D: Friday - Monday after May 25th receive no refund Monday - Thursday workshops: 10.00 - 12.30 and 14.30 - 17.00 Arriving on Friday 6th evening, for the weekend workshops and Late Bookings: st Baguazhang for sceptics and future lovers! – Luohan Gong - Yonghui Deistler-Yi th after April 1 incurs a 5% surcharge leaving on Monday 9 , after Angela Menzel Besides being a Chinese martial art This form of Qigong originates form the Shaolin Temple after May 1st incurs a 10% surcharge breakfast. Includes all meals, th of the family, Baguazhang is fun and its learning and is named after the 18 legendary guards of . after May 25 incurs a 15% process is very different from Taiji Quan! You will learn The exercises strengthen the muscles, bones and sinews accommodation and tuition for surcharge during this workshop a small, handy and natty Bagua form – the whole body is filled with Qi. At later stages your the weekend event. £275 which works on a line as well as a circle. It consists of 4 body structure and the flow of refined power (Jin) will be Final Payments: movements to both sides. It is also easily put together in a improved and even the bone marrow is targeted (Xi Sui E: Day Visitor Payment in full must be received by partner form. We will practise basics as they make Bagua ). These exercises bring great benefits for both, health You can attend on a day only May 25th, 2018 flow and whirl and if you want more I have another short and any martial art. basis, including lunch. £70 and handy form in stock for you! Either way it will influence Accessible to all. your skills in a way you can sustain! For those of you who are already hot for Bagua you can have a really intensive A1 week by combining my offering with that of Luigi Zanini!!! A2 Accessible to all. 37 Essential Forms of - Tuina Basic Techniques – Roberto Benetti Sam Masich Tuina is a perfect complement to those who train in In his 1931 book, ‘Taijiquan Method and Application’ Martial Arts or have an interest in massage. We will study - Booking Form - Master Yang Chengfu (1883-1936) described 37 core basic principles and key techniques with an emphasis on forms essential to the understanding of martial application. developing internal work and Qigong to prepare the body Name:______After listing all the forms within the long form he states, and mind. We will develop sensitivity through the correct “The full sequence is composed entirely of thirty-seven practice of Tuina and its application in Push Hands. Address:______distinct forms.” Sam Masich’s extensive work in this area For beginners and those interested in deepening their has stimulated breakthroughs in the theory of taijiquan. His martial practice as well as for practitioners of other City:______Postcode:______principled approach breaks the 37 forms into 13 ‘families’ Internal or Healing Arts. allowing for a deeper understanding of taiji’s underlaying Region:______Country:______structure. A3 Keen beginners to advanced practitioners. A4 Email:______Website:______

Each instructor will teach 2 mornings and 2 afternoons. Choose one topic from choice A (above) and one from choice B (below) Tel:______Mobile:______(gender & age information is to help us to Eight Gates of the Taiji Sword - Yanira Masich Developing Awareness and Connection In Our Gender:______Age:______accommodate you with similar people) Graceful and profound, taiji straight-sword () is the Practice - Gillian Reid most popular of the in taijiquan curriculum. The In every martial art or walk of life, Man must connect in main focus of this week will be the ‘eight-gates’ sword order to be, and interact. We will be working with the PERIOD ATTENDING energies and drills that comprise a major part of the taiji qualities of energy that make up our micro and macro A: Full Week £535 B: Mon. - Friday £335 thirteen-power sword. The practical simplicity of the eight- cosmos and how, through awareness, we can improve the q q gates study brings the sword to life, enlivening solo forms efficiency of our personal practice and walk of life. C: Fri. - Sunday £245 D: Fri. - Monday £275 and partner practices. Accessible to all. q Some previous experience of sword work is q recommended but not necessary. E: Day Visitor £70 q (please tick appropriate box) B2 WORKSHOPS CHOICES  B1 You need only book the for the workshops during the week, there is no need to book for the weekend session. You must choose one from each section on the left, sections A & B. Rushou and Ganshou – Luigi Zanini Shibashi, Set 8 – Helmut Oberlack A requisite to develop skills in a martial art is regular and Shibashi, also known as 18 Movements Taiji-Qigong is a Choice A: ______deep practice of two person work. Only by putting theory very popular Qigong-exercise. It has different sets with 18 Choice B: ______into a real context do we discover the subtle skills we need movements, most common are set 1 and set 2. Set 3 was to apply. Energies involved are similar to those of Taijiquan, introduced to Tai Chi Caledonia 2015. This time Helmut Special Dietary Needs: ______such as Nien, Ting, Peng, Lu, but they are developed using will introduce set 8, a kind of “Best of“ the other sets. It a higher degree of torsions and circles, since this extra has also 18 movements, but each movement contains two Quiet Room Please: ______power is very useful and invested in Baguazhang. Hands movements from the other sets. So it has 36 movements Share Room with: ______can be very soft, but also quite hard at times during longer in total. sessions. The goal is to be able to “kill the Ego” in order to It is recommended, but not necessary, to know other Share Chalet with: ______achieve new abilities and change the way our mind-body sets of Shibashi. reacts. 25% Deposit Enclosed: = ______B3 Open to all levels, an open attitude is strongly B4 recommended.  TAI CHI CALEDONIA 62a Greenock Road Bishopton Renfrewshire PA7 5JB Scotland UK Tel: +44 1505 862246 - [email protected]