World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day in Utah, 2010!

Salt Lake City will celebrate its 10th Annual World T'ai Chi and Qigong Day in Utah, on Saturday, April 24th beginning at 9 AM MST. ALL Utah T'ai Chi and Qigong shools are invited, and encouraged to Contact us early regarding participation.

This is a FREE event to the public, and everyone, regardless of age or physical condition, is invited to try these ancient Chinese forms of exercise. Utahns are invited to join local practitioners on the University of Utah campus at the Marriot Library Plaza. This event is sponsored by Professor Bill Parkinson.

About World T'ai Chi and Qigong Day

World Tai Chi Day website link

World T'ai Chi and Qigong Day was founded in 1998 by Bill Douglas, the author of the best selling "The Complete Idiot's Guide to T'ai Chi and Qigong." Losing both of his parents to stress related illnesses energized Douglas to help millions of others worldwide enjoy the health and stress-reduction benefits of T'ai Chi and Qigong. This eventually led him to found the annual global World T'ai Chi and Qigong Day event. The popularity of World T'ai Chi and Qigong Day has spread each year since its founding, and the observance now features events on six continents, in sixty countries, and all fifty of the United States.

"World T'ai Chi and Qigong Day is a loose, fun, flowing, and profoundly effective global celebration and media/educational event," Founder Bill Douglas states. "It was created by people worldwide who have experienced the joy and healing of T'ai Chi and Qigong health sciences and now, for love of humanity, want to share them."

In 2000 Sifu Don Stringham organized the first Utah observance of World Tai Chi Day. This event was held in the back yard of one of Don's students and was attended by Dragon Studios and other T'ai Chi, Qigong, and Falun Gong practitioners. The next year the event tripled in attendance and was moved to the University of Utah, where it has been the primary Salt Lake City observance of this world-wide event ever since.

Along with the Salt Lake City observance, several simultaneous World T'ai Chi and Qigong Day events are happening across the state, including scheduled events in Provo and St. George. To find out more about events happening near you, visit the World T'ai Chi and Qigong Day website at www.worldtaichiday.org.

Schedule of Events

Time

Event

Prior to 9:15 AM

Form workshops - beginning and repeated movements to be taught by Dragon Studios to members of the general public who have little or no T'ai Chi experience
Pushing-Hands workshops - workshops and opportunities to push-hands.

9:15 AM

Greetings from Professor Parkinson and greetings from Bill Douglas as read by Sifu Carter

9:30 AM

Warm-ups led by Sifu Jerry Gardner

10:00 AM

Mass T'ai Chi presentation by all participating schools

11:00 AM

Individual school/practitioner demonstrations

Order Official World Tai Chi and Qigong Day T-Shirts

Official T-Shirts

The official World Tai Chi and Qigong Day t-shirts (different colors for different years), is a great looking shirt with the WTCQD logo on the front and "One World, One Breath" on the back in 16 different languages. This commemorative shirt helps WTCQD founder Bill Douglas continue to support and provide resources for our individual events. Buy your T-Shirts HERE.



Governor Herbert Declares April 24 2010 as World T'ai Chi and Qigong Day in Utah

Official Declaration