World Tai Chi and Qigong Day 2024
Apr
27
10:00 AM10:00

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day 2024

Our very informal World Tai Chi Day event will be held at Bryce Park in NW Washington. Unlike the large event we hosted pre-COVID, we will have a relaxed class at 10am followed by sharing of various forms and weapons performances. Following, we’ll celebrate at the Dumplings and Beyond restaurant on Wisconsin avenue in Glover Park. See you there!

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Feb
21
7:00 PM19:00

Tai Chi in Concert, celebrating the Year of the Dragon

Join us for a celebration of the Lunar New Year with Tai Chi and other Chinese martial arts performed by Master Nick Gracenin and members of DC Tai Chi.

February 21 from 7-8pm.

Friendship Heights Village Center 
4433 South Park Ave. 
Chevy Chase, MD  20815

The Center can be reached via Metro to the Friendship Heights station on the Red Line.

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Jan
27
to Feb 10

It's the Year of the Dragon!!! Join us for a 3 part lunch party on three consecutive Saturdays !

Saturday afternoon, January 27, we enjoyed lunch at the House of Foong Lin at 1pm. Delicious, fun gathering that we look forward to repeat!

Saturday, February 3, we will support Chinatown favorite, Full Kee at 1pm. Please RSVP to reserve your spot. CANCELED DUE TO UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES .

On Lunar New Year, Saturday, February 10, at 12:30pm we will celebrate at the local center of all things delicious: Dumplings and Beyond in Glover Park. Again, please RSVP.

RSVP to coachnick1@mac.com

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Dec
8
to Dec 10

December 2023 Seminars in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

The Wushu Taekwon-Do Academy hosts Grandmaster Gracenin and Master Joel Timmons for workshops in Whitehouse Station, NJ!

Friday December 8 6-8pm Combined Tai Chi NG

Saturday December 9 8:30-10am Double handed sword NG

10-11am 9 section whip JT

10-11:30am Open coaching. NG

12:30-1:30pm Drunken fist. NG

2-3pm 9 section whip pt. 2. JT

2-3:30pm Open coachhing pt. 2. NG

4-5:30pm Drunken sword. NG

Sunday December 10 9-10:30am Xingyi spear NG

10:30am-12:30pm Rope dart JT

Contact Master Christopher Leyesa: wushutkdacademy@gmail.com.

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Oct
9
12:00 PM12:00

COME TO YOUR SENSES at the Saranam Retreat Center in October

Come To Your Senses

Encouraging Self-Awareness through Sensory Perception Using Practical and Experience-Based Fun • Friday October 6 (4pm) - Monday October 9 (12pm) •
Led by Kiki Alba, Lenore Pomerance, and Kyle Weaner

Saranam Retreat Center, Montrose, WV

Since we first led this retreat, we have continued to research, develop, and fine-tune its content, presenting it most recently in the UK. We are excited to be bringing it back to Saranam, where it began.

This retreat promises to offer you tools that are always available (and easy to remember) to help you shake loose from unhelpful patterns, gain empathy for yourself and others, and make choices that feel good in your gut. Immersed in an atmosphere of curiosity, with fellow explorers, you will participate in activities that foster courage and invite wonder. You will learn ways to engage fully and courageously with all that life brings – the good and the bad – and tap into a deep sense of confidence, groundedness, and balance.

What if practicing mindfulness and heightening our awareness turns out to be really fun?

By engaging with the physical senses with a willing and open mind, you can come home to an empowering truth: that what might at first seem like another new habit to establish is actually an innate ability that just needed to be recognized. You will make the best kind of discoveries: the ones that cannot be taught.

Activities will include:
- Exploration of breath and movement
- Synesthetic expression: describing how perceptions of one sense through terms typically applied to another
- Sensory deprivation: limiting one sense to heighten the experience of others
- Practicing and refining one’s ability to identify and describe one’s own perceptions with accuracy and specificity
- Connecting sense and memory

- Experiments with sensory misperception
- Periods of intentional solitude and reflection
- Encouraging bravery in exploring the edge between familiar and unfamiliar, within safe boundaries - Discovering senses beyond the “famous five”

• $300 includes instruction, materials, meals, and accommodation at Saranam • Early bird registration price: $250 - register by Friday September 8

For more information, and to register, go to saranamwv.com Email Kiki Alba at yoga@jivakawellnesscenter.com with any questions

Bios:

Kiki Alba

Kiki’s delight in inhabiting and experiencing a range of places and cultures goes a long way in explaining how her lifelong sensory scrapbook was compiled. She was born and raised in southeast Ohio, attended high school in Massachusetts, earned her MA from the University of St Andrews, in Scotland, and lived and worked in France, London, and Beijing before returning to the US. She has worked in museums in Pittsburgh and New York City, and has taught students of all ages, in academic and non-academic settings, on three continents - covering entry level to highly specialized content, in subjects as varied as English, French, math, yoga, music, dance, photography, and the history of art. Her love of learning and helping others learn is both motivated and supported by an active engagement with ever-changing sensory perception. The most recent skill she has been developing is lime plastering, a challenging but rewarding activity that tests the balance between precision and intuition. Her practice of Vipassana meditation is her primary foundation for observing sensations, as they are, from moment to moment.

Lenore Pomerance

Lenore's first great adventure after college was in the mid-1960s, teaching English in Thailand with the Peace Corps. She next went to Taiwan to deepen her experience of the Chinese language and culture, nurtured growing up wandering through San Francisco's Chinatown and her three years studying Mandarin at UC Berkeley. Earning an MSW and becoming licensed to practice psychotherapy at the age of 50 gave her a humble appreciation of our developmental challenges throughout the lifespan, particularly at times of transition. Some transitions are thrust upon us: death of a loved one, fertility issues/childbirth, divorce, an ominous diagnosis. And some come from within, a calling for change that we cannot ignore. We are challenged to navigate these transitions with as much awareness and balance as we can gather to be open to whatever the outcome is. Turning 70 called Lenore to China to renew her language skills and learn taiji and qigong. Now, at 80, she is living full-time with her husband in Seneca Rocks, WV, while teaching qigong and seeing therapy clients online. She practices weekly with her two

taiji masters, Nick Gracenin in Washington, DC (dctaichi), and Wu Ping in Guangdong, China (fangyuan taichi center). Lenore finds that taiji and qigong help to bring mental and physical awareness to 7 of our important senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, proprioception (where our body is in space), and interoception (how we feel inside our bodies). Inspired by the Saranam community in Montrose, WV, she wishes to blend her 30 years as a psychotherapist with the mind/body benefits of qigong and taiji for increased physical and psychological balance.

Kyle Weaner

Play and exploration were big parts of growing up in the mountains of West Virginia for Kyle. From imaginative play in the woods, swimming and boating in river rapids, skiing in the winter, to foraging for wild foods, Kyle has cultivated physical awareness and capability in connecting with and moving through the environment for his whole life. Kyle has been a licensed massage therapist for 20 years, and therapeutically accesses sensation and pain as a way to come to the present moment to relieve pain, stress, and trauma. Kyle studied traditional Tibetan Medicine as an apprentice under Dr. Jampa Yonten for nearly seven years in India before returning home. He founded the Jivaka Wellness Center in 2013, and serves the community through Tibetan Medicine, massage, yoga, and meditation to help others get in touch with the body/mind connection and their own health and well-being. Kyle is a Buddhist, and draws on his study and practice to guide his work. 

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Apr
29
10:00 AM10:00

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day 2023

Our very informal World Tai Chi Day event will be held at Bryce Park in NW Washington. Unlike the large event we hosted pre-COVID, we will have a relaxed class at 10am followed by sharing of various forms and weapons performances. Following, we’ll celebrate at the Dumplings and Beyond restaurant on Wisconsin avenue in Glover Park. See you there!

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Dec
3
to Dec 4

December Seminars in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

Seminars in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

The Wushu Taekwon-Do Academy hosts Grandmaster Gracenin for workshops in Whitehouse Station, NJ!

Saturday December 3 Compulsory sword part 2 8:30-10am

Open coaching 10:30 -12pm

Southern style fist forms 1-2:30pm

Shuai jiao fundamentals 3-4pm

Sword essentials 4:30-5:30pm

Sunday December 5 Compulsory spear part 2 8:30-10am

Open coaching 10:30 -12pm

Wudang sword review 1-2pm

Liangyiquan review 2:30-3:30pm

Contact Master Christopher Leyesa: wushutkdacademy@gmail.com.

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Apr
30
10:00 AM10:00

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day 2022

Our very informal World Tai Chi Day event will be held at Bryce Park in NW Washington. Unlike the large event we hosted pre-COVID, we will have a relaxed class at 10am followed by sharing of various forms and weapons performances. Following, we’ll celebrate at the Han Palace dim sum restaurant on Connecticut avenue in Woodley Park. See you there!

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Feb
5
6:00 PM18:00

It's the Year of the Black Water Tiger!!! Join us for a Tiger Party on Zoom

Log in for fun, friends, fellowship and FOOD! We’ll enjoy our tasty treats at home while taking in a movie with DC Tai Chi friends. Order from your favorite Chinese restaurant (they appreciate your support) and have a great evening in. Let’s celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Tiger!

Nick Gracenin is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Tiger Party!

Time: Feb 5, 2022 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

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Passcode: 015901

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Feb
5
1:30 PM13:30

Sun style Taijiquan 16 forms workshop

Part of the series of routines developed for the International Taijiquan Symposium, this set was compiled by Grandmaster Sun Yongtian, disciple of the late Grandmaster Sun Jianyun. A concise form that allows you to stay connected to the essential movements of Sun style when you may not have time for a full practice session. 

Saturday February 5 at 1:30pm on Zoom $60

Register via PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle coachnick1@mac.com


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Dec
3
to Dec 5

December Seminars in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

Seminars in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

The Wushu Taekwon-Do Academy hosts Grandmaster Gracenin for great workshops in Whitehouse Station, NJ!

Friday December 3 Wushu Long Fist advanced forms 7-8pm

Saturday December 4 Chen style Broadsword 1 9-10am

Sword essentials 10:30 -11:30am

Broadsword and Staff 12:30-1:30pm

Southern style fist forms 2-3pm

Wudang Sword (review) 4-5pm

Sunday December 5 Chen style Broadsword 2 9-10am

Spear and Sword 10:30-11:30am

Wudang Fencing 12:30-2pm

Contact Master Christopher Leyesa: wushutkdacademy@gmail.com.

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Sep
24
to Sep 26

Virtual workshops for Fall 2021

Review sessions on Zoom, featuring Taiji, Bagua, Xingyi, Sword and Fan!

Friday September 24

6 - 7 pm 16 form Chen style Taijiquan

7:15 - 8:15 pm Bagua old 8 palms

Saturday September 25

11:30am -12:30 pm Traditional Sun style Taijiquan

1 - 2 pm Taiji Gongfu fan Prof. Li Deyin’s first form

2:30 - 3:30 pm Sword essentials

Sunday September 26

10 - 11 am Xingyiquan Zashichui

12 - 1 pm Fu style Baguazhang Yang Palm

Tuition and Multiple Seminar Savings:                

1 session = $35,  2 sessions  = $65,  3 sessions  = $90, 4 sessions  = $120, 5 sessions  = $150,  6 sessions = $175, 7 sessions = $200

Please send payment via Paypal to Nick Gracenin: coachnick1@mac.com no later than September 23rd in order to receive the Zoom meeting codes for your classes.

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Jun
4
to Jun 6

Seminars at Wushu Taekwondo Academy Whitehouse Station, New Jersey 

Seminars in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

The Wushu Taekwon-Do Academy hosts Grandmaster Gracenin for great workshops in Whitehouse Station, NJ!

Friday June 4 Wushu Long Fist advanced forms 7-8pm

Saturday June 5 Fu style Yin Bagua 9-9:45am

Fu style Yang Bagua 10-10:45am

Sun style Taijiquan traditional form 11am-Noon

Chen style Taijiquan 16 form 1-2pm

Wudang Sword 2:30-3:30pm

Sunday June 6 Wushu Southern Fist Essentials 9-10am

Wushu Short Weapons 10:30-Noon

Wushu Long Weapons 1-2:30pm

Contact Master Christopher Leyesa: wushutkdacademy@gmail.com.

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Apr
30
to Dec 10

The Spring and Autumn: a lecture series with Master Nick Gracenin

DC Tai Chi: Evolution and development

Join us for a special Zoom event tracing the history and lineage of Chinese Martial Arts. The history, theory, notable figures, philosophy, and connection to traditional Culture and Chinese medicine. Register by email coachnick1@mac.com two days before each event to reserve your spot and receive the email invitation. $40 PayPal or Venmo.

December 2020 Part 1: Taijiquan - the Supreme Ultimate Fist

February 2021 Part 2: Baguazhang - the circle beats the line

April 30, 2021 Part 3: Xingyiquan - the line beats the circle

June 25, 2021 Part 4: Fu Yonghui, Bow-Sim Mark and Fu Zhensong style Wudangquan

August 13, 2021 Part 5: Li Tianji, Li Deyin and the heritage of Li Yulin

October 22, 2021 Part 6: Sun Lutang, Sun Jianyun and the three sisters

December 10, 2021 Part 7: An Tianrong - the power of Bajiquan and the sword immortal

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Feb
19
7:00 PM19:00

Spring and Autumn Lecture Series on Zoom! BAGUAZHANG

Join us for the finale of our Lunar New Year Zoom Celebrations as Master Nick Gracenin presents the Art of the 8 Diagrams - Baguazhang. History, theory, connection to Taijiquan and other arts, and the Bagua curriculum of DC Tai Chi will be discussed as we enjoy amazing performances by the finest Masters.

Please register online: $40 via PayPal or Venmo to coachnick1@mac.com. We’ll confirm with your emailed invitation and entry code.

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Feb
12
7:00 PM19:00

The Year of the OX is here! Lunar New Year Zoom dinner party - February 12 7:00pm.

Log in for fun, friends, fellowship and FOOD! We’ll enjoy our tasty treats at home while taking in a movie with DC Tai Chi friends. Order from your favorite Chinese restaurant (they appreciate your support) and have a great evening in. At the lucky number 8 o’clock, we’ll toast the arrival of the Year of the Ox!

Register via email to coachnick1@mac.com, and we’ll confirm with the invitation and pass code.

Join us on Feb. 19 for the finale of the Lunar New Year celebrations with our lecture series on Baguazhang!

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Sep
11
to Sep 13

Virtual workshops for September

Friday September 11

6 - 7 pm Gongfu Fan Xi yang mei gongfu shan - Professor Li Deyin’s 2nd routine part 1

Saturday September 12

8:30 -9:30 am Traditional Sun style Taijiquan part 1

12 - 1 pm Gongfu fan part 2

6 - 7 pm Sun style part 2

Sunday September 13

8:30am - 9:30 pm Gongfu fan part 3

12 - 1 pm Sun style part 3

Tuition and Multiple Seminar Savings:                

Any single session = $35    

2 Sessions                         = $65    

     3 Sessions                         = $90    

Both seminars   =$175

Payments must be sent via Paypal to Nick Gracenin: coachnick1@mac.com no later than September 10th in order to receive the Zoom meeting codes for your classes.

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Jun
26
to Jun 28

Virtual workshops for June 2020

Friday June 26

7 - 8 pm Praying Mantis fist form Xian ren zhi lu - The immortal points the way (part 1) Nick Gracenin

Saturday June 27

10 - 11 am Long weapon fundamentals: Staff (part 1) Christopher Leyesa

11:30am - 12:30 pm Long weapon fundamentals: Spear (part 1) Joel Timmons

1:30 - 2:30 pm Praying Mantis fist form Xian ren zhi lu (part 2) Nick Gracenin

3 - 4 pm Short weapon fundamentals: Broadsword (part 1) Christopher Leyesa

4:30 - 5:30 pm Short weapon fundamentals: Straight sword (part 1) Joel Timmons

Sunday June 28

10 - 11 am Long weapon fundamentals: Staff (part 2) Christopher Leyesa

11:30am - 12:30 pm Long weapon fundamentals: Spear (part 2) Joel Timmons

1:30 - 2:30 pm Praying Mantis fist form Xian ren zhi lu (part 3) Nick Gracenin

3 - 4 pm Short weapon fundamentals: Broadsword (part 2) Christopher Leyesa

4:30 - 5:30 pm Short weapon fundamentals: Straight sword (part 2) Joel Timmons

Tuition and Multiple Seminar Savings:                

Any single session = $35    

2 Sessions                         = $65    

     3 Sessions                         = $90    

4 Sessions = $125

5 Sessions = $150

     7 Sessions          = $200

8 Sessions = $225

11 Sessions = $300  

Payments must be sent via Paypal to Nick Gracenin: coachnick1@mac.com, Joel Timmons: joel@jaxtaichi.com, Christopher Leyesa mrsleyesa@gmail.com no later than June 24th in order to receive the Zoom meeting codes for your classes.

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Feb
12
7:00 PM19:00

Tai Chi in Concert, celebrating Chinese New Year

Join us for a celebration of the Lunar New Year with Tai Chi and other Chinese martial arts performed by Master Nick Gracenin and members of DC Tai Chi.

February 12 from 7-8pm.

Friendship Heights Village Center 
4433 South Park Ave. 
Chevy Chase, MD  20815

The Center can be reached via Metro to the Friendship Heights station on the Red Line.

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Dec
7
to Dec 8

Seminars at Wushu Taekwondo Academy Whitehouse Station, New Jersey 

Seminars in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

The Wushu Taekwon-Do Academy hosts Grandmaster Gracenin and Master Joel Timmons for great workshops in Whitehouse Station, NJ!

Saturday December 7 Wushu Fist and Wepons forms 8:30-5:30

Sunday December 8 Wudang sword, Push hands and Yin Palm Bagua 8:30-2

Contact Master Christopher Leyesa wushutkdacademy@gmail.com.

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Sep
8
to Nov 3

Tai Chi at the National Bonsai Museum (in the National Arboretum)

DC Tai Chi and the National Bonsai Foundation will present workshop at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum on Sundays: September 8, October 6, and November 3, from 9 - 10 am. Don't miss this extraordinary opportunity to practice Tai Chi in a most beautiful and inspiring setting! 

Master Nick Gracenin will lead an hour long class prior to the Museum opening to the public. Enjoy the morning in the serene environment of the Bonsai Museum and the Arboretum. Event admission is just $15! Participation is limited, so click the link below to get your ticket and reserve your space today!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tai-chi-at-the-national-bonsai-penjing-museum-tickets-50408023756 

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