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Five Animal Forms
and
Eight Appearances
Online International Seminar on the Five Animal Forms and Eight Animals Appearances
in the Teachings of Master Moy Lin-Shin
Saturday June 17, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Eastern daylight time.
A recording will be made available to all who registered.
With
Elliot Kravitz, Hubert Gagnon, Philippe Gagnon, and Andrew Kirby
This seminar is for everyone,
whether you are a beginning or a more experienced student of Tai Chi. It was conceived to allow us to pay respect to our teacher Moy Lin-shin by bringing together our community of Tai Chi practitioners and help the family of a fellow tai chi student in need of support. Our friend Mike Usher has passed away last week. He was a key person in bringing Master Moy’s vision to fruition in the UK and Europe, and was much loved and respected for his kindness, gentleness, clear thinking and efficiency. As many of you know by now Mike had Motor Neurone Disease (also known as ALS) and over the last few months this has brought about a big decline in his health. He and his wife Dee have had to modify their cottage in Suffolk, England to enable Mike to have sleeping and bathroom facilities downstairs.
The moment has come to see if we can raise some money as a token gesture for Mike's family. But funds aside, this is a chance to say a huge thank you to Mike. Irrespective of where or who we practice tai chi with, now we can all reflect on the immense commitment and energy that Mike put in.
One of the purposes of learning this form of Tai Chi is to help others as well as making it available to all as we learn and integrate it into our western society. It is in such spirit that we have put together this event.
The Seminar:
Master Moy's practice and and his teachings were focused on Neidan (内丹術 - Internal Alchemy) or the complete transformation of mind and body to recover our Original Nature. Tai Chi, Lok Hup Ba Fa and other internal arts he taught are ways to cultivate not only our vitality but also our awareness, and, in this way, open the door to a deeper sense of self and our connection to the world around us.
One of the key process towards that end, in words he often repeated, is ''changing the tendons'', a profound transformation of mind and body that unfolds as we deepen our praxis.
The Five Animal Forms we will explore in this seminar is both a description of such internal changes, and a step by step, comprehensive method which combines all martial arts forms taught by Master Moy. By following Master Moy's teachings and by using the Five Animal Forms , internal transformations occur, and we are made aware of them through the emergence of the Eight Animal Appearances. It is when the timing of all Five Animal Forms flow simultaneously that the internal Eight Animals appear. We can learn to use the Five Animal Forms as an anatomical template of the internal art forms taught by Master Moy.
This Seminar will address these fundamental topics through demonstrations and practical exercises. To further theses explorations we are grateful for the help of Elliot Kravitz, a Montreal (Canada) physician who studied Tai Chi and trained in the internal arts under the direct supervision of Master Moy for many years. On numerous occasions, he was asked by Master Moy to provide insights based in Western medicine to help us better understand various aspects of training, and to give comparative East-West perspectives in concepts of health and the body to help us navigate their complexity. Since the mid 1980's, he has been using the Five Animal Forms as a vehicle to explore movement and transmit Master Moy's teachings. We are truly honoured by his participation to this Seminar.
We will also have the contribution of three international instructors: Philippe et Hubert Gagnon from Montreal, who started their apprenticeship of the Taoist arts with Master Moy in the 1970's, and Andrew Kirby, a key presence in the advancement of Tai Chi in the United Kingdom who also studied under the direct supervision of Moy Lin-Shin.*
*The speakers/instructors/organizers for this event are all acting as volunteers. All funds contributed through PayPal by participants will go directly to Mike Usher's family. A minimum £20 contribution is required for registration.
How to register
The seminar is on Saturday June 17, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Eastern daylight time, or if you live in the UK 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, or if you live in Germany 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
There will be a recording of this event and you will be able to view it for the following two weeks. A link will be sent to everyone who registered.
The registration link on ClickMeeting is:
Minimum contribution £20 - Paypal handles the payment. If you do not have a Paypal account, there is a way to register using a credit card instead (if you need help, follow the instruction link bellow).
A JustGiving page for donations has also been set-up. If you want to make a larger donation rather than paid the ticket, simply go through the ClickMeeting registration but don’t pay- it will appears on Andrew Kirby's dashboard and he will send an invite to the email address registered.
external links
Click here for the JustGiving page:
PayPal/Credit card instruction page :