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Looking at the Tarot
with Enrique Enriquez
Saturday January 10 2009   2 - 5pm

Feet are Fundamental I

  Michelle Gay, CMA,RSME/T

Saturday January 17, 24, 31 and Feb. 7 2-5pm

 4 classes: $80.00 / single class: $25.00

 

Instructor Series:

3-Dimensional Space

Sunday January 25th, 10pm - 1pm

$75.00 

 

 

 

Instructor Highlight

Master Yu-Tai Chi   
Born in Shanghai in 1929, Master Yu Cheng-hsiang studied Shaolin at age 15 to control asthma. In 1949, he moved to Taiwan, where he studied Yang-style tai chi with Cheng Man-ching. Ten years later, Master Yu was teaching teachers. He came to New York in 1979 where he continues to teach. Prominent students have included Maggie Newman and Joseph Zeisky.
 
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"Still Moving" workshops were developed to explore the idea of "cross practice" similar to principles of athletic "cross training". The current series uses the inner focus, consciousness and sustained quality of yoga practice as a preparation for the quick, goal oriented, and externally focused practice of karate. Each workshop begins with a focus on a specific yoga pose (asana) or aspect of yoga practice and explores the forms and patterns in the body that support that pose. That experience is then applied to the fundamental movements of a complementary karate technique. The current series focuses on kicking, and is called "Karate Kicks Asana". Both the karate and the yoga student are offered a new perspective from which to view their own practice, a glimpse into a practice that might be new to them, and an experience of how different movement practices can support and enrich each other, without compromising or diminishing the power of either one.
 
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Events

On November 8th, 2008, World Kanreikai Karate held its second Open Full Contact Tournament in Danbury Connecticut.  The event, hosted by Kanreikai founder Hanshi Manny Matias, was a well attended  evening of much excitement.

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Past Events

This workshop,  taught by Maria Van Dessel ,a  high ranking jujitsu and karate instructor, and Michelle Gay, a karate instructor and Laban Movement Analyst, combines the principles outlined in Gavin De Becker's - The Gift of Fear:  Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence ,  Laban Movement Analysis, and traditional sefl defense techniques. It is presented as a  combination of video and discussion,   movement based experientials, and practical release and run self-defense techniques.  
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