Tuesday 21:00 – 22:00
Teachers Frances The, Kana Yamaguchi

Thursday 19:15 – 20:15
Teachers Sherry Kent, Johanna Koelman

The Yang Style Tai Chi short form consists of 37 posities that are performed in a slow and even pace. The form is divided in three parts: the man part, the earth part and the heaven part. This subdivision refers to Tai Chi as a way for a human being to (learn to) live in harmony between heaven (yang) and earth (yin). During the course Beginners 1 you learn the first part of the form. This is essentially a form in itself. All the principles that make up Tai Chi (qualities that are continually present, like relaxation, straightness etc) will be taught.

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Monday 19:55 – 20:55
Teachers Koen Krikhaar, Johanna Koelman

In the course Beginners 2 (B2) you will learn the second part of the form (the earth part). When learning the new movements in this part you will be challenged to stick to and further cultivate the T’ai Chi principles. For example, there are more positions where all your weight is on a single leg and there are steps that require a bigger opening of your hip joint. And just as in the first part of the form, the precision of the positions and movements are an important part.

Wednesday 18:30 – 19:30 / 6h30 – 7h30 PM
Teachers Ossian Bakker en Hal Cashwell

Beginners 3 (B3), also called the “sky part”, we will finish the form. In the first two parts – in addition to the principles – precision of the positions and movements play an important role. In the third part you also have to deal with “more free” positions, where the focus is on the inner quality of the movement.

By the end of B3, you will be able to practice the entire form, from beginning to end.

Wednesday 18.30 – 19.30
Teachers Ossian Bakker, Hal Caswell

After you have learned the form and have possibly gone through Beginner Form Completed to further your knowledge and embodiment of the choreography of the form. the school offers a wide variety of courses to delve deeper in the study of T’ai Chi Chuan. We start with the course called Fundamentals (Fun). Here we work more diligently with the foundation. Just like when building a house, a solid foundation is crucial for the whole structure to uphold. Through an increasingly deeper awareness and relaxation in conjunction with proper alignment of feet, knees, hips and spine your balans can improve significantly. In order to gain more insight in this process you will often work in pairs where you both will give each other feedback. It is important to realize that we assume that you can ‘do’ complete the form by  yourself at this stage.

Fundamentals 1 indicates the first 10 lessons of the course. Fundamentals2 the last 10 lessons of the course. Together they complete the whole course. The price shown is for the complete 20 lessons.

Price 20 lessons € 240,00
Repeat € 180,00
Students, City Pass (dot), Volunteers € 170,00

Required course B3 or Beginners Form Completed (BFC)
Follow-up course Sensing Hands 1
Number of lessons 20

In this partner exercise, we use postures and movements from the tai chi form to “listen” with our body for our partner’s balance, timing, and tension. Through push hands practice, we learn to play with another person’s energy and movements and develop relaxation and balance in our responses.

Students move through three levels of Push Hands. Push Hands 1 is an introduction to working with a partner in a non-confrontational way, focusing on stability, balance and the ability to interact in harmony with another person with one-handed contact. It is taught between the Fundamentals and Intermediate levels of form work.

Price € 240,00
Repeat € 180,-
Students, City Pass (dot), Volunteers € 170.00

Required course Fundamentals
Follow-up course IF
Number of lessons 20

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In the Intermediate Form course we bring what we have learned in Sinsing Hands 1 back into the form and integrate this with the new concepts introduced in this course. This leads to a deeper and more internalized understanding and practice of the form. The more internalized sense of straightness, for example, gives you the opportunity to flow more fluently through the form.

In the block from September to November we start with the first 10 of the 20 lessons.

Price € 240,00
Repeat € 180,-
Students, City Pass (dot), Volunteers € 170,00

Required course SH1
Follow-up course SH2
Number of lessons 20

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Monday 19:45 – 20:45 / 7h45 – 10h45 PM
Teachers Peter Streef, Bas Offerman

In this partner exercise, we use postures and movements from the tai chi form to “listen” with our body for our partner’s balance, timing, and tension. Through push hands practice, we learn to play with another person’s energy and movements and develop relaxation and balance in our responses.

Required course IF
Follow-up course SH3
Number of lessons 20

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Wednesday 19:45 – 21:00 / 7h45 – 9h00 PM
Teachers Harm Leerling, Ossian Bakker

In this partner exercise, we use postures and movements from the tai chi form to “listen” with our body for our partner’s balance, timing, and tension. Through sensing hands practice, we learn to play with another person’s energy and movements and develop relaxation and balance in our responses.

Students move through three levels of Sensing Hands. Sensing Hands 1 is an introduction to working with a partner in a non-confrontational way, focusing on stability, balance and the ability to interact in harmony with another person with one-handed contact. It is taught between the Fundamentals and Intermediate levels of form work.

Sensing Hands 2 introduces a two-handed sequence and the principle of yielding. The sequence is based on the section of the form sometimes called the Rollback, or Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail.

Sensing Hands 3 includes both form and sensing hands work, refining the student’s awareness of his own tension and his partner’s.

Currently, higher levels of Sensing Hands (SH4 through SH7) are only taught to the school’s teachers (“apprentices”).

Price 30 lessons € 360,00
Repeat € 270,00
Students, City Pass (dot), Volunteers € 250,00

Required course SH2
Follow-up course IFC
Number of lessons 30

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Tuesday 18:45 – 19:45 / 6:45 – 7:45 PM
Teachers Gerrie Sporken, Koen Krikhaar

T’ai Chi Chuan zoals gedoceerd door prof Cheng Man Ching kende drie hoofdtakken: de vorm (Tai Chi Chuan), push hands (Tai Chi Tui Shou) en het zwaard (Tai Chi Jian). In de vorm heb je geleerd over jezelf: je gezondheid, balans en je vaardigheid in het ontspannen. In de push hands heb je je bewustzijn uitgebreid naar de interactie met een partner. Met de zwaardvorm breid je je bewustzijn verder uit naar het langere bereik van het zwaard. Dit stelt extra eisen aan je balans en je geworteld zijn en het vereist een versterkte focus. Mede door het gewicht van het zwaard kent de zwaardvorm een andere dynamiek dan de vorm die je tot op heden geleerd hebt. Zo ontstaat er een subtiel spel tussen vrij meebewegen en controle behouden.

Het dubbelzijdige zwaard is het meest verfijnde van alle Tai Chi wapens (waaronder het slagzwaard en de staf), en oefeningen. Het bewegen van het zwaard is vergelijkbaar met het hanteren van een Chinese kalligrafie penseel, aangezien de yin en yang aspecten van energie tot uitdrukking moeten worden gebracht in de handen en vingers. Het zwaard biedt dus een middel en methode ter verdere disciplinering, uitbreiding en expressie van je intrinsieke energie.

In the block from September to November we start with the first 10 of the 40 lessons.

Price € 440,00
Students, City Pass (dot), Volunteers € 310,00

Required course IFC
Follow-up course Fencing
Number of lessons 40

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Thursday 20:30 – 21:30 / 8:30 – 9:30 PM
Teachers Sherry Kent, Harm Leerling

This class is where we come together to put time in the art of our sensing hands. Practically this means to practice sensing hands together under the guidance of Harm and Sherry on our way to stay ever more balanced, centered and relaxed in our interaction with others.

Tai Chi Chuan consist of three main practices: the form, push hands and sword. Studying the form you learn about yourself: your health, balans and level of relaxation to name but a few. In the various push hands courses you have learned to expand your awareness through working with a partner. What we aim for in this particular class is to refine our ability to sense and follow our partners movements.

This course is open to all our students and teachers who have completed Sensing Hands 2 (formerly known as push hands 1) and attracted to further cultivate their sensing hands skills.

This group meets every other week on Thursday;
30 January
13 + 27 February
12 + 26 March
9 April

It is possible to attend  every session or on a per session based.

Price for whole course  € 100,00
Price for individual sessions 6,00 with use of a 5 or 10 session strippenkaart
Free admission for teaching apprentices

Required course PH2
Number of lessons 20

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