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On Sunday, May 20 from 10am - 1pm, come refine your Dragon and Tiger Chi Gung set with BTC founder and Energy Arts Senior Instructor Bill Ryan. Specifically, you will learn how to use the movements of Dragon and Tiger to loosen up your shoulders (level 1a) and refine your breathing (level 1b).

In this office hours clip, BTC Instructors Dan Kleiman and Nate Hribar discuss different ways to approach integrating breathing into Tai Chi and chi gung.

Initially, Nate asked about some specific places in his Tai Chi and qigong practice where it is challenging to maintain smooth, continuous breathing. Drawing on his yoga background, he was asking if there is a similar emphasis on driving movement from breath in Tai Chi.

Watch this clip for a complete answer.

On Tuesday, February 21 come join Program Director Dan Kleiman for some Tai Chi and chi gung practice.

From 6:30-7:30, Dan will lead a Short Form practice session, including warm-ups, and form work. This is your chance to meet people from other classes, get in an extra evening of practice, and learn about some new dimensions of the Tai Chi Form. There is no charge to attend and this open practice is available to anyone who was enrolled in a Winter Tai Chi class.

Did you know that some healthcare providers now offer reimbursement for Tai Chi courses? If you are a Fallon Community Health Plan or Tufts Health Plan Medicare Preferred subscriber, you may be eligible to receive $150 to $200 annually in reimbursed costs for taking our classes – that's like taking an entire course for free.

Here's how:

Fallon Community Health Plan

1. Fill out the It Fits! Reimbursement Form (right click and save)

On Sunday, March 18 from 10am - 1pm, come refine your Dragon and Tiger Chi Gung set with BTC founder and Energy Arts Senior Instructor Bill Ryan. Specifically, you will learn how to use the movements of Dragon and Tiger to improve your continuity and flow.

During the Early Spring Session (February 27 - April 22), Dan Kleiman will be teaching two separate chi gung courses: Energy Gates with a focus on Standing and the Three Swings and a special subjects course on the Marriage of Heaven and Earth.

The Marriage of Heaven and Earth course is designed for people who already know the set, but want to refine it by focusing on spinal bowing and soft tissue wrapping.

In this video, Dan explains why Heaven and Earth is a great tool for getting some of the more subtle benefits of chi gung:

On Sunday, February 12 from 10am - 1pm, come refine your Dragon and Tiger Chi Gung set with BTC founder and Energy Arts Senior Instructor Bill Ryan. Specifically, you will learn how to use the movements of Dragon and Tiger to improve your breathing and balance your energy.

On Sunday, January 22 from 10am - 1pm, come refine your Dragon and Tiger Chi Gung set with BTC founder and Energy Arts Senior Instructor Bill Ryan. Specifically, you will learn how to use the movements of Dragon and Tiger to improve your breathing and balance your energy.

During the Winter Session (January 2 - February 19), Dan Kleiman will be teaching a Tuesday evening class on the Three Swings from Opening the Energy Gates. Recently, he explained how the Swings fit into the Energy Gates set and Tai Chi practice more broadly.

Check out this video, taken from his presentation, to learn more about the upcoming class:

This workshop will not meet on Sunday, December 11. Please look for future JSJ events at BTC>

Derek Notman, who will be teaching a December 11 workshop on the form of energy work that he calls “the grandmother of acupuncture,” relies on a lot of metaphors to describe how jin shin jyutsu works. “There is an intelligence in us beyond the part of the mind that people usually identify with,” Derek says. “It’s just as much us.”