TongRen May 2013 Volume 20, Issue 2 Chinese New Year Celebration Iching-hexagram-13 in Kitchener 7/15/09 4:20 PM Feb. 16th, 2013 P25 In this issue: Putting the TongRen 5 CTF 2013 Annual General in your Taiji since 1988 th Meeting on June 8 , 2013: Note date change from June 15th The Canadian Taijiquan Federation is now on Facebook! 7 CTF T-shirt Contest Winner Please look for us there and “Like” us. Harmony of the Spiritual 11 TongRen is published by the and the Physical by Simon Hu Canadian Taijiquan Federation 14 Healing with Qigong (Spring) www.canadiantaijiquanfederation.ca by Joh Friedrich 1 Tongren – May 2013 file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchive Page 1 of 1 Table of Contents CTF, 2013 Annual General Meeting, June 8th 5 Correction! (AGM is on June 8th, not on June 15th) 5 From the Editors 6 - 8 Renewing Your Membership Online: Tricks and Tips 6 Looking ahead to the next issue 6 T-shirt Contest Winner! 7 Articles & Advertisements 9 - 18 Canada: An Integral Link in a Global Tai Chi and Qigong Bill Douglas & 9 Movement Angela Wong Douglas Looking back at the previous issue of TongRen… 11 Harmony with the Spiritual and Physical Simon Hu 11 Weapon Storage 101 (con’t from February 2013 issue of Jill Heath 12 TongRen) Get your CTF t-shirts! Advertisement 13 Healing with Qi Gong (Spring) Joh Friedrich 14 Training Tip Nick Gracenin 18 Milestones 19 - 22 CTF Teachers Certification: Nic Van Burek 19 Honoured Sam Masich 20 The Wave: News from our Members 23-30 From El Salvador Nic Van Burek 23 Taiji’s unique cultural heritage Wang Yen-nien 25 Chinese New Year 2013 Celebration Jill Heath 25 at Cold Mountain – Year of the Snake Chung-jen Chang workshop group photo, Toronto ON 29 Greetings again from Kelowna! Hajime Naka 29 Workshops and Events in Canada 31-32 Workshops and Events outside Canada 32-33 CTF Membership Form 35 Iching-hexagram-13 Iching-hexagram-13 7/15/09 4:20 PM 7/15/09 4:20 PM The next issue of TongRen will be published in August 2013. Submission deadline: 1 July 2013. Editors: Jill Heath [email protected]; Patricia Beretta [email protected]. 2 Tongren – May 2013 file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchive file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchive Page 1 of 1 Page 1 of 1 TongRen (T’ung-jen) TongRen is the 13th hexagram of the I-Ching (Yijing) Iching-hexagram-13 Meaning ‘Fellowship’ or ‘Sameness with people’. 7/15/09 4:20 PM “Sameness with people means other people and oneself are one. As for the qualities of the hexagram, above is heaven, strong, and below is 同 人 fire, luminous: employing strength with illumination, making illumination effective by strength, being truthful within and adept without, developing oneself and others as well, it is therefore called sameness with people.” The Taoist I Ching (trans. Thomas Cleary, Shambala Publications, 1986 ISBN 0-87773-352-X bk TongRen provides a forum for the discussion, TongRen fournit un forum en vue de discuter, expression, and experience of Taijiquan and exprimer et vivre le Taijiquan et ses domaines related subjects. Articles, reports on events, connexes. Articles, reportages, activités, biographies, letters, book reviews, poems, biographies, lettres, critiques de livres, poèmes, illustrations, scholarly research, and philosophical illustrations, textes savants et réflexions musings are welcomed. Please email submissions philosophiques sont les bienvenus. Veuillez for consideration for publication in TongRen to soumettre tout matériel à fin de publication à one of the editors. l’une des rédactrices de TongRen. TongRen is published quarterly: February, May, TongRen est publié quatre fois par an, en février, August, November. Submissions must be mai, août et novembre. Toute soumission doit être received by the first day of the preceding month reçue avant le premier du mois qui précède la to be included. The editor reserves the right to date de publication. La rédaction se réserve le determine the content of each issue. Priority is droit de décider du contenu de chaque numéro. given to content submitted by CTF members. Une priorité est accordée au contenu soumis par les membres de la FCT. file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchive Page 1 of 1 3 Tongren – May 2013 Membership All members of the Canadian Taijiquan Federation (CTF) receive its quarterly journal, TongRen, and have access to previous issues online. 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Box 32055, London ON N5V 5K4 Canada Iching-hexagram-13 Iching-hexagram-13 7/15/09 4:20 PM Iching-hexagram-13 7/15/09 4:20 PM Iching-hexagram-13 7/15/09 4:20 PM 7/15/09 4:20 PM Advertising Rates / Tarifs publicitaires Size One-Time Insertion Four Issues (One Year) Dimension Parution unique Quatre numéros (un an) Business Card $25$ $50$ Carte d’affaires Quarter Page $45$ $90$ Quart de page Half Page $75$ $150$ Demi-page Full Page $125$ $250$ Pleine page file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchive file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchive Page 1 of 1 file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchivePage 1 of 1 file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchive Page 1 of 1 Page 1 of 1 Iching-hexagram-13 Iching-hexagram-13 7/15/09 4:20 PM Iching-hexagram-13 7/15/09 4:20 PM Iching-hexagram-13 7/15/09 4:20 PM 7/15/09 4:20 PM 4 Tongren – May 2013 file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchive file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchive Page 1 of 1 file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchivePage 1 of 1 file:///Users/rhubarb/Desktop/Iching-hexagram-13.webarchive Page 1 of 1 Page 1 of 1 Canadian Taijiquan Federation, 2013 Annual General Meeting Join the CTF Annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 8th, 2013, in Hamilton, Ontario This year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Canadian TaijiQuan Federation will be held on Saturday, June 8th, at the Wellwood Juravinski House, 501 Sanatorium Road in Hamilton, Ontario. After the AGM, and the first meeting of the new Board of Directors, we will enjoy Internal Arts performances and demonstrations. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and be heard by the CTF and our Canadian Tai-Chi community. Join in the festivities, see expert Tai-Chi demos and enjoy a convivial time with Tai-Chi friends new and old. The program is as follows: 1:00 - 2:00pm Annual General Meeting (CTF Members) 2:00 - 3:00pm Push Hands Free Play Zone FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC 3:00 - 4:30pm Martial Arts Demonstrations FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC 5:30pm Group dinner at a restaurant afterwards. Vendor Area . Membership Table Please note that the Wellwood Juravinski House is a scent-free, non-smoking facility. Correction! In our last issue (February 2013), we announced the CTF AGM date as Saturday, June 15th. Due to a double-booking at Wellwood Juravinski House, we have moved the AGM a week earlier, to Saturday, June 8th. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to seeing you there! Your CTF Board 5 Tongren – May 2013 From the editors Renewing Your Membership Online: Tricks and Tips Having trouble renewing your membership online via the CTF website? Please let us know! Try these tips, below. Want to take care of the business of renewal without logging in to either the members section OR paypal? You can do that! Click on the ‘donate’ link on the left-hand side of the CTF homepage. Write in the ‘comments’ section that you’re renewing a CTF membership (include the person’s name) and we’ll take care of the rest! To avoid using paypal… Look on the left side of the paypal page for these sentences (below). Don't have a PayPal account? Use your credit card or bank account (where available). Then just click on the ‘continue’ button next to it, to use your credit card without going through paypal. ~~~~ Looking ahead to the next issue… In our August 2013 issue we’ll put the spotlight on Jian Hua Taiji Jian, also known as 32 Form Taiji Sword Routine. Both widely taught and practiced, it’s a relative youngster amongst Taiji forms. The first instructional material was published only in 1957 as a wall chart (and first in English in the 80’s). Many schools use it as their basis for sword training and, like its sister the 24 empty hand routine, variations abound. Here we will take a look at it as it was first presented, by China’s State Physical and Culture and Sports Commission, under Li Tianji, editor-in-chief. 6 Tongren – May 2013 12 T-shirt Contest Winner We have our T-shirt Contest winner! We promised details and stunning photographic evidence in this issue of TongRen! Here are the cover pictures of November 2012 TongRen: Who are these people? Read on! We told you that they are: a scholar; a publisher; a founder; a writer; a competitor; a A Taste of China teacher (not just Taiji or circa 1991… Qigong); a referee and / or a Look closely at judge at tournament(s).