contributors
Linda Chase-Broda is a founding member of the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain and the founding chairperson of The Tai Chi and Chi Kung Forum for Health. Currently she is the Course Director of the Forum. She has been practising taijiquan for 30 years and was Principal Instructor of her own school (Village Hall Tai Chi) for 20 years. She has attended and led workshops at many of the European taiji Congresses and has taught throughout Europe. She is a poet and a part time lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and at the Arden School of Theatre.
Address: Village Hall Tai Chi - 163 Palatine Road - Manchester M20 2GH - United Kingdom - lindachasebroda@connectfree.co.uk
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Leroy Clark, an amateur student of taiji history and a taiji practitioner; he may be reached at:
ii1799@yahoo.com for comment.
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Flavio Daniele from Bologna, Italy teaches Chen and Yang style taiji, Ten Animals, and Six Harmonies Xingyiquan, Lanshouquan,
Qigong and Neigong. He began training in martial arts in 1967 with Judo, then Karate, which he studied for 15 years. Combing his study of Oriental disciplines (Yoga, Zen, Daoism) and modern western psychotherapies, he created the Neidan System, a didactic method for Martial Arts.
Flavio Daniele is the author of the books “The Three Ways of Tao”, “The Three Secret Powers of Taiji Quan”, “The Ancient Form of Chen Style Taiji Quan”, “The Secret Power of the Body in Martial Arts”.
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has practiced and taught qigong in the United States, Canada, and Asia. He has studied hundreds of forms of qigong with master teachers and visited over twenty hospitals, institutes and training centres in China, focusing on the cultivation of Qi, vital energy. Dr. Jahnke‘s first book. The Healer Within: The Four Essential Self-Care Methods For Creating Optimal Health, published 1997, delivered the qigong and taiji revolution to a broad and general audience in the Americas and the European community. In 2002, Roger‘s second book, The Healing Promise of Qi distills the best and most important lessons gleaned from master qigong teachers, with guidelines for tailoring a self-healing regimen for any age or medical condition. www.feeltheqi.com
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based in Poland, runs the Yiquan Academy, Europe and is master Yao Chengguang‘s senior representative abroad. He is founder and chief instructor of Yiquan Academy, providing yiquan classes, courses and seminars throughout Europe.
www.yiquan.com
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Anya Méot has studied Tung style taijiquan since 1975, having previously investigated many other movement disciplines: classical and contemporary dance, gyration, Do-In, Feldenkreis, Ehrenfried and Alexander Technique, including improvisation and Aïkido with the American group Solaris.
She has been teaching taijiquan since 1979 and founded her group, Toum, in 1983. She has trained over 80 instructors and hosts master Tung´s classes in Paris twice a year. She was involved in the setting up of the French federation FTCCG and, in her involvement with the FTCCG was also instrumental in creating a European federation capable of presenting and promoting Chinese martial arts throughout Europe without distortion: The Taijiquan & Qigong Federation for Europe (TCFE).
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born in 1964, trained in Daoyin Yangsheng Gong and taijiquan since 1993 with Master Teng Jian (Cologne/Beijing). Studied Daoyin Yangsheng Gong and teacher training at the Beijing Sports University from 1998 until 2000. Training in Chen style taijiquan with Master Yi Xian Jun (Beijing). He teaches qigong and Chen style taijiquan in his School “Cloud Dragon” and is head of training Daoyin Yangsheng Gong at the Centre for Preventative Chinese Medicine e. V. Walluf/Germany.
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Torben Rif, Chief instructor in Practical Tai Chi Chuan Denmark, President of the Danish Tai Chi & Qigong Federation. British Open Champion 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1999. Dutch Open Champion 1995 and 1996. Triple European champion 2000. Author of the book: Tai Chi – the way to success. Organizer of: Danish Open Tai Chi Chuan & Internal Arts Championships 1999. 2000 and 2001, the 2nd European Taijiquan & Internal Arts Championships & Festival 2002 and the 1st Skandinavian Open Tai Chi Chuan & Internal Arts Championships 2003.
Website: www.taichiskole.dk
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Jan Silberstorff, Born 1967, is a very close of Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang (linageholder of Chen style taijiquan, 19th generation) and 1994 he founded the World Chen Taijiquan Association Germany (WCTAG), now the biggest taijiquan association in Europe. He is also author of the book “Chen” and regularly teaches in more than 10 countries all over the world.
For more information: www.wctag.de
"Internal Martial Art"
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is a freelance journalist specialising in internal arts material. He has written for a number of national and international publications and continues his studies with Bruce Kumar Frantzis and, more recently, Ma Bao Guo.
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Key Sun, Ph. D., is a scholar in Daoist psychology and a taiji practitioner; he may be reached at: tao@1stcounsel.com for comment.
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M. Weil, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized organizational consultant, psychologist, and veteran internal arts practitioner and teacher who has for the past thirty years studied and taught with a number of leading masters and direct lineage holders in taijiquan and qigong as well as the spiritual traditions of Gurdjieff, Daoism, Buddhism and Advaita. He was the founding Chairman and board member of the National Qigong Association (NQA-USA) and the NQA Advisory Council. Dr. Weill has served on the teaching faculties of Brandeis University, Boston College and the University of Massachusetts, and was awarded the United States Fulbright scholarship in Europe in the early sixties. In 2001 he was invited and personally approved by Eckhart Tolle, author of the best selling spiritual classic, “The Power of Now” to teach and facilitate the Practice of Presence.
"Qigong as a Portal to Presence"
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is a world renowned author and teacher of gongfu, taijiquan and chinna grappling, and a leading authority on qigong. Dr. Yang has published over thirty books and fifty videos and DVDs on the martial arts and qigong. His work has been translated into many foreign languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech, Bulgarian and Russian. www.ymaa.com
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