Past Course Overview

Introduction to Pain Management and Tai Chi Silk Reeling Therapy

Developing everyday Protocols to heal & maintain health

Waking up daily with worsening mobility pain is not part of anyone’s life plan.

This course provides participants, nationally and internationally, with their own personal healing plan to use anytime, anywhere for a healthy mind, body, and spirit.

Learn how to restore, heal, and maintain pain-free, lifelong mobility.

Four 90-minute modules plus online video support

Course Elements

This program is open to participants of all ages. No tai chi experience is required. Sifu Dan Jones teaches from a foundational perspective with basic tai chi fundamentals presented at the beginning of the course.

However, the program is very helpful for beginners and experienced tai chi practitioners to deepen their knowledge of tai chi by experiencing silk reeling as a therapeutic tool.

Yang Style 24 Forms Tai Chi Cane Workshop

In this day and age, the main purpose for martial arts weapons training is to enhance your empty hand martial skills. Internal martial arts weapons training can enhance your physical, mental and moving meditation skills by increasing your qi and developing the ability to move your qi through your body and into the weapon. This type of training encourages the principle of oneness between you and the weapon.

The uniqueness of the cane is that it is an everyday medical implement that is perfectly normal, legal and practical to have with you at any time and any place. It is a healing, exercise and self defense implement all rolled into one. With correct and continued practice, the Yang 24 Tai Chi Cane Form can help you develop a higher level of tai chi skill by developing and applying the principles of whole body movement, expansion and contraction, cultivating and extending your qi, continuity of movement, relaxation and generating and moving the spiral force through your body and into the cane.

This workshop is safe and suitable for adults of all ages.

*Prior training with the Yang 24 forms is helpful but not required. Participants must have at least a beginning foundation in a system of tai chi.*

Participants will need to purchase a walking cane with a curved handle.

Measuring yourself for a cane:

Stand up straight on a flat surface with your shoes on.
Let your arms hang freely and have someone measure you from the ground up to where your wrist bends.
Add 1 inch to that measurement for an accurate cane length.
If this is not possible pick a cane that feels comfortable, not too short and not too tall.

Swimming Dragon Qigong Winter Webinar

Swimming Dragon is a wonderful qigong exercise which will provide you with an amazing tool for longevity, health, and happiness. It is an ancient Chinese exercise that comes from the Taoist tradition, turning the air we breathe and the food we eat into Qi. The simple and beautiful movements of Swimming Dragon ‘rise like a dragon ascending into the clouds and lower like a coiling dragon entering the sea’. The body smoothly rises and lowers while swinging from left to right at the same time. The entire body is engaged while performing Swimming Dragon which stimulates, activates, and heals internal organs and systems throughout the body.

Practicing Swimming Dragon on a regular basis increases blood flow and oxygen in the body. Increased blood flow together with increased hormonal activity causes fat in the waist, abdomen, shoulders, neck, back, buttocks and thighs to be transformed and reduced, resulting in weight loss in a pleasant and relaxed way. Other healing effects experienced are strengthening of the kidneys, stimulating and regulating the endocrine system, improving the digestive system by stimulating the intestines, benefiting the respiratory system, the spine, the nervous system and the meridians. Swimming Dragon Qigong

Swimming Dragon Qigong

In Chinese mythology, the Dragon is greatly respected. Images of dragons appear frequently in paintings, clothing and in the names given to places and people. Similarly, the name Swimming Dragon Qigong elevates both the student’s attitude to the strength of their body, and of its power to heal and restore health. Names like ‘Coiling Dragon enters the Sea’, or ‘Flying Dragon rises to the Clouds’, indicate the rising and falling movements of this easy-to-learn routine.

The enjoyable movements of Swimming Dragon Qigong glide side to side and up and down, stretching the entire body. The waist and abdominal muscles are particularly stretched, which helps eliminate fat deposits as blood flow and oxygen increases to the area. From the thighs to the neck and shoulders, the organs, blood and fascia all benefit. Internally, the organs are massaged, leading to improved efficiency of the intestines and stomach. Kidney function increases and an overall sense of energetic wellbeing results in the regular practice of Swimming Dragon.

The Endocrine System is s:mulated due to the positioning of the body, with legs together while moving the pelvis from side to side. Internal release of hormones to rebalance and self-regulate result in increased elasticity of the skin.

Benefits of Swimming Dragon

The primary goal is to generate and circulate energy through the body, resulting in a feeling of overall wellbeing and satisfaction. This is due to the s:mula:on of the ‘relaxation response’, the body’s natural answer to managing stress. The skin also benefits from this exercise as the Endocrine System is stimulated with the moves and the deep breathing rejuvenates the skin.

Any tension in the ribs or abdominal area is released with consistent practice of Swimming Dragon, improving function of the lungs and Respiratory System. Diaphramatic breathing oxygenates the blood which helps the whole body fight infection as well as feeding the brain.

In Chinese medicine, the kidneys are associated with a group of functions associated with the sexual functions, generating chi, as well as elimination of waste matter. Swimming Dragon increases the efficiency of kidney functions.

The Spine and Nervous System benefit from the twisting movements, which stretch the whole length of the backbone. As the spine curves into a ‘S’ shape, all the acupuncture points along the spine are s:mulated, as are the organs associated with those points. The spine can be divided into the following sections, with their associated areas for improved health. Sacral Spine: bladder, genitals, small intestine and anus Lumbar Spine: large intestine, genitals, womb, kidneys, prostate gland, legs, knees, feet. It also stimulates the cecum, a small pouch connected to the junction of the large and small intestines. Its function is to absorb sodium and potassium back into the body, as well as to produce the mucous necessary to lubricate the solid waste passing into the large intestines Thoracic Spine: trachea, lungs, heart, pericardium, diaphragm, stomach, liver, spleen, gall bladder, hands, eyes and ears and bone

Cervical Spine: eyes, ears, nose, throat, chest, heart, hands and vagus nerve (which runs from the brain stem to the abdomen, touching most major organs along the way. This nerve sends updated signals back to the brain about how the body’s organs are doing. Vagus nerve activity helps, like brakes in a car, to slow the body down, which reduces stress and anxiety)

Leading Incoming Force to Emptiness: Four Ounces Deflecting a Thousand Pounds

One of the first explanations on the inner workings of Tai Chi Chuan that I received was that energy was ‘generated by the feet, directed by the waist and expressed through the hands. This explanation explains the wholeness and power of Tai Chi Chuan. The only way to truly understand this statement mentally, physically and spiritually is through diligent practice and study in accordance with the Tai Chi Principles.

This online webinar will teach valuable concepts, training movements and patterns to place you on the path to understanding, developing and applying the profound skill of utilizing the waist to lead an incoming force to emptiness!

Webinar Objectives:

• Enhancing External and Internal Perception of Incoming Force

• Understanding and applying the concept of Harmony

• Understanding the crucial importance of and learning how to apply the concepts of rhythm, flow and change when faced with an incoming force

• Learn why the waist is crucial to leading Incoming Force to Emptiness

• Learn Whole Body Movements and Patterns designed to help you Perceive, Intercept, Control, Re-Direct and lead an Incoming Force to Emptiness

• Learn Stationary, Moving and Evasive Stepping Patterns to help deepen your understanding and ability to move and apply ‘The Way of Water’

Dragon Flows Like Water: Leading Incoming Force to Emptiness

Webinar Objectives:

• Learn the 3-count Dragon Flows like Water Pattern to Emulate the Continuous Flow of Water

• Enhancing External and Internal Perception of Incoming Force

• Understanding and Applying the concept of Harmony

• Understanding the crucial importance of and learning how to apply the concepts of rhythm, flow and change when faced with an incoming force

• Learn why the waist is crucial to leading Incoming Force to Emptiness

• Learn Whole Body Movements and Patterns designed to help you Perceive, Intercept, Control, Re-Direct and lead an Incoming Force to Emptiness

• Learn Stationary, Moving and Evasive Stepping Patterns to help deepen your understanding and ability to move and apply ‘The Way of Water

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Lifetime Optimum Health With Five Elements Medical Qigong

This is a very exciting workshop!! It could set your life on the path of optimum mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health and healing for your entire lifetime. Your health is your most precious commodity!! Money can’t buy health and happiness. Only you can choose and follow through with a lifetime plan for your health and wellbeing.

The Workshop: In person two and a half hour training with breaks.

Five Elements Medical Qigong:

Reverses the loss of qi and cultivates qi, which serves to protect and nourish us. It produces Wei Qi, external qi, which is like a bio shield that protects against intruders on the outside surface of our bodies, strengthening our immunity and resistance. It produces Yin Qi, internal qi, which circulates and transports fluids and nutrients, flows inside meridians, connects organs, joints and tissue. Practicing medical qigong causes qi to flow through the 12 main organ meridians, plus 8 extra meridians. Qi effects our thoughts, emotions, breath, alignment and movement.

Five Elements Medical Qigong

nourishes The Three Treasures

which are the essence

to health and longevity:

Jing, Essence, “the giver of life,” is the first treasure. It is the foundation energy of life. It’s the energy we receive at conception that’s meant to last a lifetime. It’s the root energy of the body that is responsible for procreation, physical energy, sexual energy, creativity, longevity and youthfulness. Qi, Energy, “the breath of life,” is the second treasure. It is our day-to-day vitality. It comes from the air we breathe and the food we eat. Our lungs and digestive organs, spleen, and stomach play a critical role in building this treasure.

Shen, “the light of life,” is the third treasure. It is our higher self and our connection to the Divine. Spirit (Shen) is housed in the heart. When the Shen is nourished and balanced it provides us with feelings of peace, calm and serenity. It gives us proper perspective on our lives and our place in the universe.

Five Elements Medical Qigong Exercises can be done anywhere and require no special equipment. They are safe, effective and can be modified to meet the specific needs of participants with health and physical limitations. The combination of movements and mindful breathing meditations will help establish a solid healing foundation that will continue to get stronger with time and age.

What you will learn:

** Five Elements Medical Qigong routine, including Energy Refining and Projecting, Swimming Dragon and 8 Pieces Silk Brocade, with detailed step-by-step real-time instructions and video support for every movement and pattern.

** How to adjust the length of your training sessions to meet the needs of a busy lifestyle.

** Modifications for physical limitations.

** Multi-level training: mental, physical, spiritual, emotional.

** Coaching on how to incorporate this training into your everyday life

Supported Self-Study Program: Heaven and Earth Five Elements Beginning Tai Chi Cane Workshop

Watch this trailer:

Heaven and Earth Five Elements Cane Trailer (vimeo.com)

(The above trailer is a representation of what can be achieved through consistent practice with this program)

Instructor: Sifu Dan Jones Sufi Dan Jones is a Master Tai Ch Chuan and Internal Gongfu Instructor. He is currently the Tai Chi Research Consultant for Johns Hopkins Medical Center. He has over fifty years of experience as a martial arts practitioner including over forty years of Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, Won Chuen Temple Boxing and a combined twelve years of Japanese Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Wing Chun Gong Fu and Shoring Ryu Karate. Sifu Jones is a former Tai Chi for Arthritis and Tai Chi for Diabetes Master Trainer with fifteen years’ experience teaching and certifying TCA and TCD.

Instructors and thirteen years certifying TCA Instructors for the American Arthritis Foundation from 2002 to 2014. He is the creator of numerous Tai Chi healing programs, including TCMMMRT (Tai Chi Moving Mindfulness Meditation and Resilience Training). Sifu Jones is a Certified Medical Qigong Holistic Health Practitioner. Sifu Dan Jones is a retired law enforcement officer. He is the owner and founder of Moving Stillness Healing Arts, a training business that teaches and promotes the fluid and graceful art of Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong and Whole Food Diet and Nutrition Counseling. Sifu Dan Jones is a Board-Certified Holistic Health Practitioner accredited with the Association of Drugless Practitioners, the Conscious Gourmet Institute and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

The Program:

The Heaven and Earth Five Elements Cane Program takes an everyday medical implement and transforms it into a tool for exercise, healing, moving mindful meditation and self-defense.
The program is suitable for adults of all ages.
Teaching will be taught in accordance with the essential principles of Tai Chi Chuan
Elements of healing, exercise, moving mindful meditation and self-defense are incorporated into every aspect of the training.
Participants will learn how to safely practice cane warmups, the body mechanics of using the cane, cane forms and cane silk reeling exercises.
Participants will receive all practice videos, (14 online practice videos plus video trailer), after they register online. Participants will have permanent access to videos. This will help participants prepare for the online real-time training sessions.

Beginning Chen Style Tai Chi Workshop Chen

Chen is the oldest of the 5 major systems of tai chi. All other systems of tai chi came from Chen. Chen is also the most outwardly martial of the 5 major systems of tai chi. There is much emphasis on internal power and spiral force. A previous background in softer tai chi systems like yang and sun is very helpful and recommended prior to learning Chen. Participants will learn a beginning foundation in Chen and the first 12 movements of the Chen 36 forms. This form was taken from old frame Chen but was refined so that strong internal force can be obtained from a more yin perspective while maintaining an emphasis on internal power and spiral force. This approach allows people of all ages to practice Chen Style Tai Chi.

Tai Chi Symbol Tracing Hands Silk Reeling Workshop

Tai chi symbol tracing hands is a foundation for silk reeling training to improve internal energy flow and to cultivate Qi and spiral force. It is frequently taught in the practice of Chen Style Tai Chi but it can be used to greatly enhance the practice of any tai chi system. In 1963, Professor Shen Jiazhen and Gu Liuxin published a book, Chen Style Tai Chi Quan, which revealed the silk reeling hand positions traced over the tai chi symbol. Participants will learn several tai chi symbol tracing hands patterns on both sides. They will gain an understanding of how the symbol tracing hands patterns holds the eight gates, which are a foundation for push hands training. The eight gates are ward off, roll back, press, push, pull down, split, elbow, shoulder.

Tai chi Symbol Tracing Hands Silk Reeling will provide participants with a valuable tool to take them deeper into the inner workings of tai chi.

Morning Five Elements Medical Qigong

COVID has forever changed the way we look at health and how vulnerable we can be to disease and viruses on a pandemic level. We can no longer take our health for granted. Our health choices are critical! Exercises that help you mentally, internally, externally, emotionally and spiritually protect you from illness and enhance your recovery by strengthening your immune system and fortifying your resiliency. Make Five Elements Medical Qigong a part of your every day routine like sleeping and eating. Join me during my morning practice to help you jump start your own daily medical qigong practice for a lifetime of optimum health and happiness! Qi affects our thoughts, emotions, breath, alignment and movement. Five Elements Medical Qigong reverses the loss of qi and cultivates qi, which serves to protect and nourish us. It produces Wei Qi, External Qi, which is like a bio shield that protects against intruders on the outside surface of our bodies, strengthening our immunity and resistance. It produces Yin Qi, Internal Qi, which circulates and transports fluids and nutrients, flows inside meridians, connects organs, joints and tissue. Practicing medical qigong causes qi to flow through the 12 main organ meridians, plus 8 extra meridians.

Five Elements Medical Qigong nourishes The Three Treasures which are the essence to health and longevity: Jing, Essence, “the giver of life,” is the first treasure. It is the foundation energy of life. It’s the energy we receive at conception that’s meant to last a lifetime. It’s the root energy of the body that is responsible for procreation, physical energy, sexual energy, creativity, longevity and youthfulness. Qi, Energy, “the breath of life,” is the second treasure. It is our day-to-day vitality. It comes from the air we breathe and the food we eat. Our lungs and digestive organs, spleen and stomach, play a critical role in building this treasure. Shen, “the light of life,” is the third treasure. It is our higher self and our connection to the Divine. Spirit (Shen) is housed in the heart. When the Shen is nourished and balanced it provides us with feelings of peace, calm, and serenity. It gives us proper perspective in our lives and our place in the universe. Five Elements Medical Qigong Exercises can be done anywhere and require no special equipment. They are safe, effective and can be modified to meet the specific needs of participants with health and physical limitations. The combination of movements and mindful breathing meditations will help establish a solid healing foundation that will continue to get stronger with time and age. 1-hour Classes will run for two weeks to help develop a routine.

Tai Chi/Qigong Resiliency Virtual Webinar Series

Establishing a life long practice of Optimum Health and Longevity without Frailty

COVID has made the year 2020 a year the world will never forget. To some degree, we have all been affected mentally, physically and spiritually by this pandemic! Resiliency, strengthening and maintaining a strong immune system and optimum health should be a top priority for all of us!

In order to achieve optimum health we need to feed and nurture, what I like to call, our five bodies: internal, external, mental, emotional and energetic. Qigong and Tai Chi Silk Reeling Therapy FEEDS ALL FIVE BODIES!! To effectively restore and build resiliency and optimum health, utilizing Tai Chi and Qigong as therapeutic healing exercises, is a very effective way to obtain desired results.

Five Animal Frolics Qigong is the first Virtual Webinar in this Tai Chi/Qigong Resiliency Series. It will be presented in a detailed, easy to learn format. Each of the five animal frolics will be broken down and taught step by step with plenty of time to practice each animal with real time Q & A. Video and handout support materials will be provided. REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE SUPPORT MATERIALS EVEN IF THEY’RE UNABLE TO ATTEND.

This webinar will be a wonderful opportunity to comfortably learn a set of Hua Tuo’s original animal frolics. Please let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to training with you!!

Self-Paced Online Swimming Dragon Qigong

Swimming Dragon Qigong

The Endocrine System is simulated due to the positioning of the body, with legs together while moving the pelvis from side to side. Internal release of hormones to rebalance and self-regulate result in increased elasticity of the skin.

Benefits of Swimming Dragon

The primary goal is to generate and circulate energy through the body, resulting in a feeling of overall wellbeing and satisfaction. This is due to the simulaion of the ‘relaxation response’, the body’s natural answer to managing stress. The skin also benefits from this exercise as the Endocrine System is stimulated with the moves and the deep breathing rejuvenates the skin.

The Spine and Nervous System benefit from the twisting movements, which stretch the whole length of the backbone. As the spine curves into a ‘S’ shape, all the acupuncture points along the spine are simulated, as are the organs associated with those points. The spine can be divided into the following sections, with their associated areas for improved health. Sacral Spine: bladder, genitals, small intestine and anus Lumbar Spine: large intestine, genitals, womb, kidneys, prostate gland, legs, knees, feet. It also stimulates the cecum, a small pouch connected to the junction of the large and small intestines. Its function is to absorb sodium and potassium back into the body, as well as to produce the mucous necessary to lubricate the solid waste passing into the large intestines Thoracic Spine: trachea, lungs, heart, pericardium, diaphragm, stomach, liver, spleen, gall bladder, hands, eyes and ears and bone

Five Elements Tai Chi Workshop

The Five Elements Tai Chi System was created by Master Chung liang Al Huang, combining Yang Style Tai Chi, Bagua and Qigong. It is based on the five elemental forces of Fire, Water, Wood, Metal and Earth.

The fluidity of Yang Style Tai Chi, the moving meditative stepping of Bagua and the mindful visualizations and breathing of Qigong come together to create a beautiful and powerful meditative dance of nature.

The Five Elements Form is easy to learn and contains the wisdom of nature. When practiced according to Tai Chi Principles it takes you on an endless journey of discovery and amazement on the path of the Tao!

Strengthening Your Immune System

Concentrated Tai Chi Qigong Combined With Whole Food Diet and Nutrition Workshop

Being Proactive toward your Health

In this day and age it is crucial that we take a more proactive approach to our health. We can no longer afford to wait until ill health overcomes us before we respond. More and more people are realizing that exercise, proper diet and nutrition are the keys to a lifetime of optimum health. Tai Chi Qigong exercises combined with nutrition and a primarily plant based diet allow you to access your internal healing source to improve the healing connection between your body, mind and spirit. Together, these healing systems strengthen the immune system by building and storing healing energy, known as Qi, inside the body. **No previous Tai Chi Qigong experience required **

What is Qi?

The cultivation of Qi is the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine which has a history dating back over 5000 years and is an accepted practice in western medicine. Qi accesses, heals and maintains operational health of all the organ systems in the body. It heals the mind, body, spirit and emotions all together. The more Qi you have in your body, the stronger your immune system and the more resistant and resilient you are to all types of stress, illnesses and chronic conditions!! According to the American Medical Association (AMA) 80% of chronic conditions are directly caused by stress!!

A Combined Approach

Participants will learn how to improve, manage and maintain good health by practicing Tai Chi Qigong movement patterns combined with mental imagery and coordinated breathing. These exercises can be done anywhere and require no special equipment. They are safe, easy to learn, effective and can be modified to meet the specific needs of participants with health and physical limitations. The combination of Tai Chi Qigong seated, standing and moving meditative movements will help participants establish a solid healing foundation that will continue to get stronger with time and age.

Food is Medicine!!!

Food gives you energy and strengthens your immune system. We encounter these types of statements on a daily basis, through television commercials, newspapers, and magazine ads. What do all these statements mean? How does food accomplish all this and more? There are so many contradicting theories, studies, and opinions about how food affects our minds, bodies, emotions and overall wellbeing. Moving Stillness has a unique approach to this extremely important but often very confusing and frustrating topic. This workshop will help you to understand the concepts of wholeness, balance and "bio-individuality" as it relates to what your mind and body needs to function properly, stay healthy and thrive. You will learn why healthy, delicious organic whole foods are critical to making this happen. Topics like healthy food choices, macro and micronutrients, vitamins and minerals, digestion, gut health, hydration and other important food and nutrition health topics will be addressed.

Tai Chi Silk Reeling Therapy for Healing and Maintaining Healthy Shoulders

The original Tai Chi for Shoulder Rehabilitation program was created by Master Tai Chi Instructor Sifu Dan Jones and Physical Therapist Jann Nestell, PT in Michigan in 2010. The initial program was called “Chigevity.” Nestell and Sifu Jones conducted two years of significant study, development and testing of the program. This was followed by three to four years of numerous medical professionals, patients and Tai Chi Students being taught the program, with great success, throughout Michigan. Sifu Jones incorporated the core of Chigevity into his Tai Chi classes and workshops and has been continually teaching it throughout the years.

The program has now evolved into (Tai Chi Silk Reeling Therapy for Healing and Maintaining Healthy Shoulders). This program combines the essential principles and movements of traditional Tai Chi and the safe, healing effects of Targeted Tai Chi Silk Reeling Therapy through the use of Gross Motor Tai Chi movements and patterns. This amazing combination creates balanced, harmonious, healing from the perspective of wholeness - mind, body and spirit. The program focuses on whole body shoulder rehabilitation. Gentle, spiraling repetitive sequence training allows for one movement or pattern to be practiced in a slow, mindful, continuous flow, while staying below the pain threshold. This allows for deep healing of fascia connective tissue, muscles, joints and tendons while enhancing the therapeutic effects in a safe, enjoyable way. This is not only a safer way of teaching, but it allows participants to have a much easier time learning the movements. Enhanced learning of this nature encourages feelings of relaxation and enjoyment while allowing students to quickly gain a sense of accomplishment. This in turn fosters the motivation to practice on a daily or very consistent basis, bringing much greater results!

Advanced Heaven and Earth Five Elements Cane Self Defense Program

This online program will embrace and expand on the training from the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Tai Chi Cane and the Yang Tai Chi Cane programs. The major focus is to utilize the cane as a tool for self-defense. You will learn how to protect yourself from an incoming attack with moving, blocking and redirecting, using whole-body cane techniques.

Program training will include:

Moving meditation
Self-defense movements
Patterns and principles of martial arts
Single combat attack scenarios and application drills
Multiple attack scenarios and application drills
Step by step verbal and visual instructions given in each self-defense scenario.
Every aspect of each scenario will be taught slowly and clearly from multiple angles with many repetitions.

Connecting with Nature Through Sun Style Tai Chi

Delving deeper into Sun Tai Chi requires more than just practicing form. Forms can be a very important part of any Tai Chi system. They were created by the masters to give us structure and a foundation to build on. It is also said they are our teachers when a teacher is not around. Forms hold secrets embedded deep inside them. They were placed there by the masters and can only be fully accessed through the practice of form and formlessness!! After obtaining a foundation from forms practice we must then turn our attention to formlessness, going outside the confines of form. To do this we must take ourselves back to where it all began, “with nature.” Every aspect of Sun Tai Chi came from nature. By only practicing the choreography of the form we are neglecting two thirds of what Sun Lu Tang was trying to teach us. Every part of this training will be mindfully guided by a physical, mental and spiritual awareness and connection to nature. We break each movement down into smaller parts. We then apply the patterns of nature, (the Circle, the spiral and the figure eight), to every part of the movement which then effects the entire movement and the entire form.

This training is a must for Sun Tai Chi Practitioners, TCA Instructors and Students. It will enhance your ability to understand and apply the principles of Tai Chi to every aspect of your training. The workshops will also help develop a beginning foundation in Xing Yi and Bagua and an understanding of how the three systems work together to become one. To truly understand the principles of Tai Chi and apply them to your training you must learn them in manageable portions. The workshops for this training are taught every other month to give students time to learn the lessons before moving on to the next. Each session will cover two or three of the following:

Small Circle Sun Patterns, mastering footwork, Silk Reeling - Sun Patterns

Snake and Crane Silk

Sun Lu Tang’s Bagua Circle Walking

Xing Yi Five Fists

numerous other Tai Chi, Xing Yi and Bagua Training patterns

The foundation of this training is to teach students how the three internal systems come together to form one system. Each workshop will review and build on each other.

Tai Chi Silk Reeling Therapy - To Heal and Maintain Healthy Fascia Connective Tissue Level 2

Aging without Frailty is something we all would like to achieve. Once we retire from our jobs and professions, it can be the time of our lives to be truly enjoyed! It’s a time to travel and see the world, do that project you always wanted to do, spend more quality time with your family, and more. Waking up every morning with worsening joint, muscle, and body pain is not part of anyone’s life plans.

LEVEL 2 Course:

The Level 1 Tai Chi Silk Reeling Therapy for healing Fascia Connective Tissue was a foundational course. It was open to brand new tai chi beginners as well as experienced tai chi practitioners. The level two course is open to participants who attended the level 1 course and experienced tai chi practitioners with or without tai chi silk reeling experience. A good tai chi foundation is all that is required. A good tai chi foundation will help participants to learn and apply tai chi silk reeling as an eﬀective therapeutic tool for themselves and their students.

Online Course Elements

This program is designed to teach safe and eﬀective tai chi silk reeling therapy movements, patterns, and routines. An eﬀective movement therapy program requires practice on a daily or very consistent basis. The routines then become part of your day, like eating, washing, brushing teeth, and sleeping.

Easy to follow, easy to learn format with clear understandable instructions, and plenty of time to practice.

Introduction to Pain Management with Tai Chi Silk Reeling Therapy

Developing everyday Protocols to heal & maintain health

Waking up daily with worsening mobility pain is not part of anyone’s life plan.

This course provides participants, nationally and internationally, with their own personal healing plan to use anytime, anywhere for a healthy mind, body, and spirit.

Learn how to restore, heal, and maintain pain-free, lifelong mobility.

Four 90-minute modules plus online video support

Course Elements

However, the program is very helpful for beginners and experienced tai chi practitioners to deepen their knowledge of tai chi by experiencing silk reeling as a therapeutic tool.

Connecting with Nature Through Sun Style & Swimming Dragon Qigong

Introduction to the Five Fists of Xing Yi

Sun Style Tai Chi Embraces the three internal martial art systems of Tai Chi, Xing Yi, and Ba Gua. This webinar will focus on The Five Fists of Xing Yi (Metal—To Chop, Water— To Drill, Wood—To Crush, Fire—To Explode, Earth—To Cross). Participants will gain an understanding of each element and how it applies to the corresponding fist. Each fist will be broken down and practiced with a tai chi flavor. Coordinating mind, body, and breath with each movement will help participants practice each fist by looking inward as well as outward. Every aspect of this webinar will be mindfully guided by physical, mental, and spiritual awareness and connection to nature. This is a very important key to understanding the richness and depth of Sun Style Tai Chi. This webinar is a must for Sun Tai Chi Practitioners, TCA Instructors and Students, and tai chi practitioners regardless of system. It will enhance your ability to understand and apply the principles of Tai Chi to every aspect of your training.

Swimming Dragon Qigong

Swimming Dragon Qigong is an ancient Chinese exercise that comes from the Taoist tradition. The entire body is engaged while performing Swimming Dragon. This is a very wonderful and powerful qigong exercise, with many healing benefits, that will provide you with an amazing tool for longevity, health, and happiness.

Elder Chen Tai Chi Silk Reeling Immersion Program

Going deeper and beyond the Silk Reeling patterns

By Sifu Dan Jones

Masters say that “Advanced Techniques are simply the Basics Mastered”.

Silk reeling can definitely take you deeper into your Tai Chi practice and greatly improve your health. It depends on how you practice your silk reeling, not which patterns or how many patterns you practice. Knowing multiple silk reeling patterns or attending multiple silk reeling workshops does not automatically equal success in elevating and deepening your silk reeling skills!! IT’S HOW YOU PRACTICE SILK REELING!!

When you reach a level of skill and understanding in your silk reeling practice, that’s a signal for you to make mindful, physical and spiritual changes that will take you to the next level of your silk reeling journey. Sometimes a particular silk reeling pattern will bring out the changes within you but most often you have to go back to the basic roots of silk reeling to bring out the changes from within. Time doesn’t dictate advancement, diligent, correct practice and a strong silk reeling foundation does!! Paying attention to the smallest details of every movement and pattern in your silk reeling practice, every time you practice, puts you on the path to continued mental, physical, and spiritual growth in your silk reeling skills!!

The difficulty lies in the trap of getting caught up in the pattern instead of keeping a “Beginner’s Mind” which will keep you connected to your foundation no matter how long you’ve been training in silk reeling or how many silk reeling patterns you’ve learned!! A large majority of Tai Chi Silk Reeling students fall into this trap!! It’s not about the pattern but the knowledge the pattern is trying to impart!!

Silk Reeling patterns were designed as training vehicles to help every part of your body, lead by the mind, move as one. The body mechanics of silk reeling are “generated by the feet, directed by the waist, expressed through the back and issued through the hands”. They are repetitive spiral movement exercises with emphasis on the ground connection, waist connection, knee alignment, kua sinking, opening and closing of joints and dantien rotation. These continuous spiral movements develop “spiral energy” within the body and are the building blocks of Tai Chi Chuan.

From a healing perspective, silk reeling exercises loosen the joints, enabling freedom of movement. They also benefit the sinews and muscles and improve circulation. The circular movements of silk reeling strengthen the connective tissue and increase the secretion of synovial fluid which lubricates the joints, keeping them supple.

From a martial perspective, the movements develop spiraling energy within the body. Chen Tai Chi Master, Chen Xin, outlines three principal benefits of silk reeling in relation to martial application. He states that silk reeling energy can:

operate as a revolving energy, rebounding any incoming force. The faster an opponent’s energy comes, the faster it is bounced away. This requires the body to be full, relaxed and sensitive.
be piercing, like a spiraling bullet. This is a powerful and penetrating energy when applied during an attacking maneuver, whether it is delivered with the fist, elbow, or foot.
act as a neutralizing energy, teaching the practitioner how to lead any incoming force to emptiness.

Silk reeling is an essential part of all systems of tai chi training. In addition to major health benefits, silk reeling practice strengthens and trains whole body coordination and grounded body alignment. It is silk reeling that helps you to develop the beautiful, graceful and powerful movements of nature upon which Tai Chi is based.

We’re going to have a lot of fun together experiencing the “silk reeling road to self-discovery”!!

The Heaven and Earth Five Elements Tai Chi Cane Webinar

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Taking an everyday medical implement, the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Cane Program transforms it into a tool for exercise, healing, moving mindful meditation and self-defense.

Designed for beginners, these four classes will build on each preceding one and will include warmups, manipulation drills, cane silk reeling, and cane defense to strengthen the mind-body-spirit connection. A practice video will be sent prior to each class for participants to prepare for each webinar.

Yang 24 Tai Chi Cane Form Online Workshop

The Yang 24 Tai Chi Cane Form is based on the Yang 24 Form, the most popular system of Tai Chi in the world This cane form was created by Master Wen-Ching Wu. It takes an everyday medical implement and transforms it into a tool for exercise, healing, moving mindful meditation and self-defense all rolled into one.

As an exercise, the Yang 24 Tai Chi Cane cultivates your mind, body and spirit. Practicing Tai Chi movements with the cane helps the practitioner develop the ability to increase Qi flow and extend Qi beyond the hand. This helps the practitioner store and utilize more Qi. As a defensive martial art implement, the Tai Chi cane helps to nurture the Yin side of using the cane for self-defense. The effectiveness of any martial arts system depends on a balance between Yin and Yang.

The Yang 24 Tai Chi Cane form helps develop a calm, focused mind with an expanded, heightened awareness. This enhances your ability to change and adapt to your continually changing, everyday circumstances. You learn to overcome through yielding instead of brute force. The form is safe with comfortable stances and movements designed to provide gentle, gradual improvements in flexibility, strength, cardiorespiratory fitness, posture and balance. Studies show Tai Chi as a leader in fall prevention exercises.

Understanding and learning the Tai Chi principles transcends styles of Tai Chi. The Yang 24 Cane form is a very effective way, for any Tai Chi practitioner of any style, to go deeper into their practice of Tai Chi by applying the principles of Tai Chi through the use of the cane. It’s also a perfect way for martial cane practitioners to greatly enhance their skills by embracing and implementing the concept of Yin and Yang into every aspect of their training.

Instructor: Sifu Dan Jones

Sufi Dan Jones is a Master Tai Ch Chuan and Internal Gongfu Instructor. He is currently the Tai Chi Research Consultant for Johns Hopkins Medical Center. He has over fifty years of experience as a martial arts practitioner including over forty years of Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, Won Chuen Temple Boxing and a combined twelve years of Japanese Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Wing Chun Gong Fu and Shoring Ryu Karate.

Sifu Jones is a former Tai Chi for Arthritis and Tai Chi for Diabetes Master Trainer with fifteen years’ experience teaching and certifying TCA and TCD Instructors and thirteen years certifying TCA Instructors for the American Arthritis Foundation from 2002 to 2014. He is the creator of numerous Tai Chi healing programs, including: TCMMMRT (Tai Chi Moving Mindfulness Meditation and Resilience Training). Sifu Jones is a Certified Medical Qigong Holistic Health Practitioner.

Sifu Dan Jones is a retired law enforcement officer. He is the owner and founder of Moving Stillness Healing Arts LLC, a training business that teaches and promotes the fluid and graceful art of Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong, as well as Whole Food Diet and Nutrition Counseling, Food and Wellness Education and Health Coaching support and Motivational Services.

Sifu Dan Jones is a Board-Certified Health Coach accredited with the Association of Drugless Practitioners, the Conscious Gourmet Institute and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

The Program:

• The program is suitable for adults of all ages

• Knowledge of the Yang 24 Form is helpful but not required

• A beginning foundation in any Tai Chi System is a prerequisite

• Teaching will be taught in accordance with the essential principles of Tai Chi Chuan

• Elements of healing, exercise, moving mindful meditation and self-defense is incorporated into every aspect of the training.

• Participants will be taught Tai Chi Cane Silk Reeling Patterns to help incorporate the smooth, flowing movements of the snake and the elegance of the crane into their cane form.

Workshop Logistics:

• This will be a six-part online cane workshop

• The workshop will meet once a month for six months

• Each workshop will be ninety minutes in length

• Four movements will be taught per workshop

• Each participant will receive a practice video approximately one week prior to each workshop to help prepare

• Participants will receive all practice and real-time workshop videos even if unable to attend the real-time workshop

Tai Chi Silk Reeling Immersion Workshop: From Basics to Depth

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This two-day Silk Reeling workshop is designed to put you on the path to a lifetime of Tai Chi wonder and discovery through experiencing the amazing gifts Silk Reeling can bring to your health, your Tai Chi and your life!

Practicing Silk Reeling teaches you to generate spiral force through your Tai Chi movements and forms, allowing you to create flowing, beautiful movements of nature. When we practice this way, the energy we create permeates our bodies, amplifying the healing effects as well as the martial energy in our Tai Chi movements. This moves us into the realm of embracing, flowing and becoming one with the all-pervading, universal circle of nature, the Dao.

Silk Reeling Practice Transcends Style

All of the patterns you will learn can deepen and enhance your practice of any Tai Chi system, whether hard or soft, standing or seated. The patterns can be practiced separately or, in time, harmonized into one universal silk reeling pattern of nature through blending the attributes of each pattern.