You can now view some of the academic presentations on the biographies page: Biographies. More will be added as received.
Thanks to Patricia Flatt, PhD; Sifu Chris Bouguyon; Ramon Suarez Zaldu, MD; and Kristi Hallisy PT, DSc, OCS, CMPT for their prompt response.
We have received our DVDs and are filling orders. We hope you enjoy them. Thank you for your patience!
Here are links to the ads for our DVD sets.
Tai Chi Kung (Masters) http://youtu.be/kq5vLWFUts0
Grand Showcase http://youtu.be/QjFqTbcZCpE
Directly From the Source (Highlights) http://youtu.be/EAWqqbhg9JI
We would like to thank all that supported the International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium. We hope that you all enjoyed the symposium and look forward to seeing you at the next one!
A special thank you to our donors and volunteers. Without them we could not have brought the five world Tai Chi Grandmasters and the program of activities and events to the international community.
On the behalf of the International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium, we thank each and every one of you for your direct support as well as fundraising and ideas.
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2014 INTERNATIONAL TAI CHI CHUAN SYMPOSIUM VOLUNTEERS
For those who pre-ordered the Symposium DVDs, our original intent was to have them in hand so we could start delivery by September 1st. We are currently in final editing mode which means the DVDs we will begin delivery around mid-October. Sorry for this inconvenience.
Master Yang Jun was awarded the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel on July 7, 2014. Louisville Mayor Fischer presented the Kentucky Colonel certificate to Master Yang Jun. Wikipedia says “Kentucky Colonel is the highest title of honor given by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Commissions for Kentucky colonels are given by the Governor and the Secretary of State to individuals in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments and outstanding service to a community, state or the nation. ”
The person receiving the Kentucky Colonel commission becomes a lifetime honorable member of the Commonwealth. Members of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels include: Muhammad Ali , Bill Clinton, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, Tiger Woods, and Elvis Presley. It has been given eight people this year.
We have a new page Attendee Orientation that will hold important information and links for all attendees.
Like these links:
Download the PDF Pre-Arrival Information Letter
Download the PDF General Orientation
View the Handbook Handbook
By HOLLY SWEENEY-HILLMAN
May 2014, Academic Program Director
Author Arthur Rosenfeld will be speaking at the 2014 International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium as well as doing a book reading from his latest novel, YIN, a love story about the life of Lao Tsu. Arthur’s non-fiction book, Tai Chi – The Perfect Exercise, will also be featured at the Symposium. Tai Chi – The Perfect Exercise, was published in 2013 and has become a must-have book for Tai Chi enthusiasts and martial artists.
Holly: You have studied at many distinguished institutions in the United States and abroad. Which one, or ones, have inspired you the most to become the person you are?
Arthur: Institutions themselves don’t inspire me. I have, however, been inspired by certain individuals, and most of all by great ideas and, of course, relationships. I’ve had wonderful teachers going back to my early school years. Often, they led me to a Taoist worldview without ever knowing they were doing so. They were, for the most part, monistic, non-dual teachers, who saw everything as being united, and wept bitter tears for the destruction of the oceans and rainforest and other environmental cataclysms, that even back then, were the beginning of what we now call the 6th great extinction, a disaster of truly geologic proportions that our species has caused.
