Enhance your personal and professional wellness and growth year-round with our rich selection of classes, workshops, and special events.  Our fall 2010 offerings include:

  • Two weeks of free, introductory wellness classes in September,
  • Yoga and Meditation and Qi Gong for a variety of skill levels, 
  • Redefining Health weekend (a Tai Sophia signature program)
  • And more!

All of the classes listed are open to everyone.  In addition, licensed professionals may apply for continuing education units (CEUs) and nursing contact hours where noted.  Check this page often, as offerings are added throughout the year.

 

Monday Evening Movement Series

Mondays, September 27, 2010 - November 29, 2010
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Qi Gong (pronounced “chee gung”) is the Taoist health and longevity exercise practiced for thousands of years in China. Today, thousands of Americans are discovering its benefits, feeling more refreshed, relaxed, and reinvigorated.

Qi Gong: Dance of the Phoenix, Level II class series begins September 28.

Fee: $125 ($120 – Early registration on or before September 24)
Instructor: Chan Zhang




Tuesday Evening Movement Series

Tuesdays, September 28, 2010 - November 30, 2010
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Yoga is an ancient art based on a harmonizing system of development for the body, mind, and spirit. In this 10-week series of 90-minute classes you will explore the foundation of all Yoga systems. Each week you will engage yourself in a practice where the roots and essence of Yoga are explored through asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing techniques), mantra (chanting), and Râja-Yoga (meditation).

Students are also encouraged to challenge themselves through different variations of the same asanas and to expand their awareness of stillness through meditation and breath work.

Yoga and Meditation, Level I class series begins September 30.

Fee: $170 ($165 for early registration on or before September 24)
Instructor: Ashley Litecky, M.S., RYT




Evening Movement Series

Tuesdays, September 28, 2010 - November 30, 2010
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Qi Gong (pronounced “chee gung”) is the Taoist health and longevity exercise practiced for thousands of years in China. Today, thousands of Americans are discovering its benefits, feeling more refreshed, relaxed, and reinvigorated.

Qi Gong: Dance of the Phoenix, Level I class series begins September 27.

Fee: $125 ($120 for early registration on or before September 24)
Instructor: Chan Zhang




Wednesday Evening Movement Series

Wednesdays, September 29, 2010 - December 8, 2010
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
No Class November 24.

Qi Gong opens energy flow by eliminating blockages, rigidity, and disease in much the same way as acupuncture. Medical Qi Gong focuses on improving physical health and wellness. The intent of the 20 Yin-Yang Medical Qi Gong moves taught in this course is to balance the body by working with specific energetic pathways, or meridians. This is accomplished through gentle physical movements and synchronized breathing. The immune system is then stimulated to function at an optimum level so that participants have an increased level of qi and achieve a harmonious state with less pain and greater vigor. This form easily accommodates a beginner with limited flexibility as well as an advanced student.

Fee: $175 ($170 for early registration on or before September 24)
Instructor: Karl Ardo, M.F.A.




Wednesday Evening Movement Series

Wednesdays, September 29, 2010 - December 8, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
No Class November 24.

This Qi Gong series will focus on opening, balance, and cultivating qi. Students will start with a set of movements that will open every joint in the body, releasing stuck energy – qi. Next we will learn the “Microcosmic Circulation Meditation,” which brings more balance and harmony. Lastly, we will learn an energy cultivation form called “Taiji Ruler.”

Fee: $175 ($170 for early registration on or before September 24)
Instructor: Karl Ardo, M.F.A.




Thursday Evening Movement Series

Thursdays, September 30, 2010 - December 9, 2010
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
No Class November 25.

Yoga is an ancient art based on a harmonizing system of development for the body, mind, and spirit. In this 10-week series of 90-minute classes you will explore the foundation of all Yoga systems. Each week you will engage yourself in a practice where the roots and essence of Yoga are explored through asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing techniques), mantra (chanting), and Râja-Yoga (meditation).

This class is ideal for the new student and challenging enough for the practiced one.

Students are also encouraged to challenge themselves through different variations of the same asanas and to expand their awareness of stillness through meditation and breath work.

Yoga and Meditation, Level II class series begins September 28.

Fee: $170 ($165 for early registration on or before September 24)
CEUs: 15
Instructor: Ashley Litecky, M.S., RYT




A Signature Program

Saturday, October 9, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday, October 10, 2010
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Tai Sophia’s signature program has the ability to influence the way you relate to others and to yourself. You will have at least 20 practical skills to use immediately when you leave this workshop. Based on ancient wisdom and anchored in the modern world, learn ways to set priorities in the context of partnership with others, without opposition and judgment. Redefine your fear with courage, your upsets, your relationships, your career, your life, your future as well as your health.

Redefining Health is a program that addresses life’s questions and puts the unknowing in a context that is at once simple and profound. Participants from around the nation and around the globe have reported that this program has influenced their lives by giving them an empowering, effective framework for daily living.

Read more about Redefining Health and the powerful impact is has had on participants.

Fee: $165
CEUs: 12
Nursing Contact Hours: 12.5
Instructors: Dianne M. Connelly, Ph.D., M.Ac. (UK) and Bob Duggan, M.Ac. (UK), M.A.




Saturday, November 13, 2010 - Sunday, November 14, 2010
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
This seminar will prepare you to set up and manage a successful business or clinical practice. Topics will include record keeping, registering your business, implementing a business plan, client contracts, billing and payment practices, as well as client attraction. Additionally, essential marketing activities – including referral building, public speaking, and e-mail/Internet outreach, and more – will be presented in an understandable, practical, and easy-to-implement manner. We also will discuss ways to build your confidence and reduce fears.

At the end of this course, you will have sound business practices and manageable steps you can take to build and maintain a successful practice.

Fee: $295 (Tai Sophia Alumni $195; Tai Sophia Students FREE)
CEUs: 12
Instructor: Robert Notter, B.S., CHHC, AADP, and Rose Payne, CHHC, AADP




For more information about our offerings, please call ext. 6611 or Contact Community Programs.


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