Winter News & Class ScheduleHappy Holidays everyone! I wish the best for you during this season and a very Happy New Year! As we bring this year to a close I want to thank each of you for your continued support and enthusiasm for this practice. I am grateful for the opportunity to share these arts and continue the traditions that I’ve been privileged to learn and transmit. Below is: Our Winter Quarter Schedule of classes which begin Jan. 8th New sessions info for Beginner’s & Seniors and Qigong for Everyone Saturday Sessions of Qigong and Chen Fundamentals Free Classes during o ..read more

Willow Moon Internal Arts History of Taijiquan Last update:  04/12/23 Being a compilation of many scholarly articles and interviews with members of the taiji families.   It can be difficult to plow through the fascinating history of taijiquan.  Scholars have studied its history and continue to sort out objective fact from legend. In China, the origin of taijiquan has been the subject of scholarly research (historiography) for many decades.  In fact, this study has taken on a life of its own. There are several well-known styles of taijiquan.  Within each style of taijiq ..read more

Happy Spring Everyone! We are in the midst of our 2-week spring break. Spring session begins April 10th with our Saturday classes returning to Pratt Park. Please check below for: World Tai Chi Qigong Day Free Class The updated Spring Class Schedule Returning to the Parks Free Classes the First Week of April with Burien Community Center Spiral Qigong is Back! Weapons Intensives and weekly Saturday review World Tai Chi Qigong Day is April 29th! Join us for this wonderful annual event from 10am to noon on Saturday, April 29th at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill to share practice of Qigong and ..read more

Happy Holidays everyone! I wish the best for you during this season and a very Happy New Year! As we bring this year to a close I want to thank each of you for your continued support and enthusiasm for this practice. I am grateful for the opportunity to share these arts and continue the traditions that I’ve been privileged to learn and transmit. Below is: Our Winter Quarter Schedule of classes which begin Jan. 9th New sessions info for Beginner & Seniors and Qigong for Everyone Saturday Sessions of Qigong and Chen and new sessions at BCC Free Classes during our BreakWinter Weapons ..read more

Happy Holidays everyone! Though we won’t be heading to Costa Rica this winter break (save your spot now for 2023!), we are looking forward to some local retreats this coming year. We have a couple adventures in mind and hope to bring you to Southern Oregon for a Tai Chi & Qigong retreat and birding adventure in the spring, and then in the fall, the Olympics for an opportunity to immerse in nature and practice. We are still working out the dates and details, so stay tuned and let me know if one of these sounds interesting to you. Schedule:  With the presence of ..read more

https://vimeo.com/526468991 Greetings everyone and Happy Spring! We made it through winter! We made it through the last year! I will spare you another retrospective of our year of covid. It’s time to put that in our rearview mirror and look ahead to the positives of keeping practice going and the growth we continue to cultivate. I’m glad to be here and grateful for you showing up and sharing these arts with me. Our last West Seattle in-person group class met in Lincoln Park on March 17th, 2020 (pictured above). Being resourceful we’ve found a way to continue to meet with the help of t ..read more

Winter 2020 Newsletter  After being away from the studio now for 9 months I can’t even begin to express my wish to be with you all in person and sharing practice. And yet, you’ve shown up, logged onto Zoom and continued to join me. You have inspired me, helped me grow to better teach you and been incredibly patient and gracious as we all do our best in the midst of so many challenges. I promise to be here, holding the zoom door open for you to help you find your feet when everything else seems too crazy to bear.  Bless you all for your continued support. The studio is still e ..read more

And then it was Fall… Hi there Everyone!  Hard to believe we’ve been enduring the pandemic (and then some) for so many months. I miss being together in-person of course, but I am also grateful to be able to see you online and share good practice in spite of us not being together.  Below you will find: – the schedule for fall,  – Info on scheduling private lessons now available at the studio, as well as online or at the park, – Also, one of our own, Leo, has a son in So. Oregon who lost his home to the Alameda Fire. Look below for more info and a link to a GoFundMe where you ..read more

Summer session is here!  Thank you all for sharing practice during our free sessions while on break, and also for the participating and support for our Black Lives Matter fundraising Spiral Qigong workshop last weekend. If you would like to make a contribution to BLM Seattle, follow this link. Also, tomorrow morning begins our summer sessions! The codes and passwords for the online sessions have been sent to those I have registered, so if you didn’t receive them, please let me know. The links are no longer available on the calendar, so once you received the log in info, pleas ..read more

Hello everyone, I hope that you are doing well and staying safe and healthy. Here is a good practice to start your day. From Dr. Chui in the International District, this series of Qigong exercises is to stimulate Qi and support better health ..read more