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Aarvo has lived in Taiwan and China from 1981-1997 training in Chinese Internal Arts.
Main teacher in Tai Chi: Liu Hsi-heng, long time student of Cheng Man Ching.
Main Teacher in Bagua and Xingyi: Luo Dexiu.
Aarvo also has trained with various teachers in Chen Style Tai Chi and with Li Tailiang in Shanxi Xingyi.

Workshop
Bagua Circle Walking
An introduction to several kinds of stepping. Arm postions from various branches of Bagua to develop strength in different parts of the body.

Bagua Hand Movements
Some examples from Basic Hand Exercises - solo practise and application.

Footwork
forwards, backwards, left and right, pivot, seven star, switch step, skip step.

Distance and Timing
Footwork applied (mostly partner work).

Neijia Standing Practises
Training Stillness, Stability and Strength.

Methods of Training the Dantian and Waist

"I lived in the USA for seven years where I fell madly in love with the art of Tai-Chi Chuan. I took up studies of Tai-Chi Chuan at the age of 18 in Chinatown, Boston."

Teachers: first teachers John Chung Li, T.T. Liang, William C.C.Chen.Thereafter Cornelia became a student of Bow Sim Mark whose school’s lineage she is currently carrying on in her own Tai-Chi schools of Neuchatel and La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland.

Workshop
Dragon Tai-Chi Fan partner form.
"The fan, besides its energetic values and esthetic harm, has many interesting martial applications! During this forum I will teach a short partner form based on the Dragon Tai-Chi Fan. We will do some basic drills, play with the different techniques and always apply the movements in a partner situation. At the end of the week, you will feel at ease with the fan and will have a complete short form to take back home with you. A good understanding of basic Tai-Chi Chuan will be essential but no previous fan experience is necessary. I will supply the fans for the workshop and also have fans for sale. Fan is fun and more....."

Discussion
Why Tai-Chi Chuan - a perfectly justified question.

Dan has studied Taijiquan since 1975. In 1980 he won the Open Weight Division at the South East Asian Chinese Championships. Dan teaches Wudang Taijiquan and has written articles and books on Taijiquan. He is a founder member of the TCUGB and organiser of the British Taiji Open Campionships.
Dan is the President of the European Federation for Taiji & Qigong
Teacher: Master Cheng Tin-hung

Workshop
The relationship between taiji tuishou and sanshou techniques and traditional Chinese martial arts concepts of grappling, throwing and locking, explaining the terms qinna (seize hold), shuaijiao (throwing and a lot more) and diepu (fall strike).

Master Fernando Chedel has started learning Taijiquan in 1973 with Master Ma Tsun-kuen, who has accepted him as his "indoor student". Together with his Master Fernando has founded in 1978 the "Asociacion Argentina de Tai Chi Chuan", whose name in 1993 was changed to "Escuela Internacional de Tai Chi Chuan Ma Tsun-kuen" in honour of Master Ma Tsun-kuen, who died in that year. Three years before his death Master Ma appointed Master Fernando Chedel as his heir and man of confidence, leaving the school to him.
Master Chedel's students have won awards in several competitions in their country and abroad, including 4th places in tuei shou in Taiwan in 2000.
In his lessons Master Chedel is focusing on the martial application of the art.

Workshop
Tuei shou and its connection with san shou
at different levels: beginners,medium and advanced.

Has been doing taijiquan for 24 years, teaching 19 years.
Style: Yang
Teachers: Franklin Kwong, William C.C. Chen, Shi Ming, Teng Shi-hai, Yang Ting-wei

Workshop
Yang Old Style Dao form, done with the left hand.

Hakan has started to learn taiji quan (Yang style) and zazen (of Soto school) in 1986, Zen shiatsu in 1989, and to study qigong in 1995. He has had an aikido experience between 1988 - 1992. He has started to teach taiji quan and zazen in 1989, Zen shiatsu in 1990, qigong in 1999. He has been teaching in various places in Istanbul, Turkey and in some other cities.
He is writer of a book about qigong, which is being proofread nowadays, and text author in "Alternatif Tip" ("Alternative Medicine") and "Bugday" ("The Wheat"), a magazin about ecologic and holistic life-style) magazines.
Main teachers: Ilhan Gungoren & Prof. Xu Wei-jun (taiji quan); Ilhan Gungoren & Dr. Mustafa Merter (zazen); Beti Minkin (Zen shiatsu); Dr. Shi Gang (qigong)
Languages: Turkish (native speaker), German, English

Workshop
Breathing for gaining qi, crane, turtle and deer breathings, opening, closing, ascending and descending breathings and a breath regulating and qi-reenforcing exercise by toe raised walking.

Jan started studying martial arts at the age of 8. After intensive Yang-and Chenstyle training he went to China and became disciple of master Shen Xijing (20th generation of Chenstyle). Jan has won over 20 tournament in a row and was the first ever foreigner medallist (3rd place) at the international taijiquan competition in Chenjiagou. He has been accepted as tusun (direct disciple) of grandmaster Chen Xiaowang, 19th generation and leader of the Chen family taiji tradition. In 1994 Jan founded the WCTAG (World Chen Taiji Association Germany) under the head of the WCTA (biggest taiji association in the world with 20 countries) in cooperation with grandmaster Chen Xiaowang. He teaches taijiquan all over Europe and is regularly publishing articles and other materials in important martial arts magazines.

Workshop
Structural corrections and energy work in pushing hands.
The workshop will clarify the concrete meaning of the taiji-principle in exercises and pushhands. The necessity of correct postures and how to apply the energetic relation between yin and yang in each movement will be demonstrated and explained. The result will be the effective use of each movement of taijiquan (in any style) for pushhands and in healing.

Lecture
Taijiquan and its internal energy work.

Born in 1950. Turned to martial arts in 1962 - Judo (2dan), karate-do (4dan) and has some experience in Aikido, Yoga, sophrology… Started with Chinese tradition and medicine (tui na and acupuncture) and taijiquan in 1978. Studied different schools of Yang style and in 1982 settled upon the Yang Jia Michuan (Wang Yen Nian) style with Serge Dreyer. He has taken a 6 years course in osteopathy and manual therapy and has kept on searching in arts, rhythm, sound, paintings… to refine his approach and personal development. In his work on fighting in the spirit of taijiquan he leans on the Budo approach of Kenji Tokitsu for self education through training (Jiseibudo).
Jean-Luc is a champion of the European teaching and the responsibility of all of us to work on and with taijiquan, not denying our cultural, scientific and traditional background. He now works on regular teaching with seniors (UTAN, university for the third age) students and adults (in the sports and culture department of university FUNDP) in Namur, Belgium. He gives workshops in Europe on different topics related to taijiquan and education as well as on efficiency in management at the Van de Walle resource centre.

Workshop
From tui shou to san shou - The principles in practice.
Taijiquan expresses itself on the basis of 13 principles.
These 13 combine themselves in endless variations in which softness overcomes hardness.
The strategy relies on 4 qualities - nan - sui, ahan - lian to come to efficiency.
- Forget about yourself and connect to the other
- Be able to follow wherever he moves
- Absorb the impact by stretching with elasticity
- Enclose the opponent by gluing on him as he draws back.
These 4 qualities are trained in tui shou with fixed steps (ding bu), adjusting steps (hou bu), moving steps (san bu), free play (san shou) - distance, angle, speed, rhythm…
The roots are deep in the consciousness - nei gong - meditation.
The trunk is the energetic body - qi gong.
The branches are the various styles - taiji; yi zhen quan; bagua; xing yi.
The flowers are happiness, well being with oneself, the others, the earth and the heaven.

The workshop will prospect all these items through a step by step exercising.

Alone, you're facing the opponent, facing the opponent, you're alone.

Linda Chase Broda has been playing Tai Chi for nearly thirty years. She established The Village Hall Tai Chi School in Manchester in 1980 and has been working with students who have special needs for nearly as long. She is a founder member of the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain and the founding chairperson of the Tai Chi and Chi Kung Forum for Health and Special Needs.
Main teachers: Sandy Cuthbert and Ian Cameron
Current teacher: Aarvo Tucker

Workshop
Sharing the Essence.
Most of the activities will be done with partners or in small groups. Participants will identify various principles of Tai Chi and then create new movement patterns by adhering to the principles, but not being limited by traditional Tai Chi forms.
The workshop will be light in spirit, but profound in its ramifications - Tai Chi can be shared by all, regardless of ability.

Pavel has started learning Chinese Martial Arts from 1983 with Wing Chun and later Taijiquan and Qigong. Specializes in weapons' applications. Pavel is an instructor in meditation. Teaching practice 10 years.
Taijiquan teacher: Gao Juanfei, a disciple of Grandmaster Wang Peishen
Qigong teacher: Chou Sinfu, an instructor in the daoist.

Workshop
The short distance and the elbow energy ("zhou") in tui shou.

Principles of tui shou with a ring and energy control.

Self-defence applications.

Wang Jianjun is president of the European Qigong Association and is founder of the Natural Qigong (wuwei qigong) style of qigong. Member of the Chinese Scientific Institute for Human Research, the Chinese Human Body Scientific Research Society, the Beijing Qigong Scientific Research Association, member of the Beijing "Haida" Center for Qigong Development, main consultant to the Qigong Association at the Beijing Institute for Foreign Languages, member of the Governing Board of Ecoforum for Peace World Movement to the United Nations. He devotes his life to educational and research activities in the sphere of qigong and the connections between Man and Nature. In China he has made a wide research of the philosophical aspects of the qigong life science and a number of plant biology scientific experiments with the application of qigong.
Since 1993, Wang Jianjun works in Bulgaria, where he started an extensive qigong educational work and life science research activities that had a major influence on the popularization of qigong in the region. Wang Jianjun is actively engaged in writing and editorial work. Author of the books "Natural Qigong" - parts I and II, "Medical Qigong", "The Philosophy of Nature", main editor of "Chinese-English-Bulgarian Terminological Dictionary of Qigong and Chinese Medicine", and author of many scientific articles.

Workshop
Natural qigong.
Principles and theory of natural qigong; qigong for the practitioners of taijiquan and martial arts; the quiet exercise "wuwei"; the collective meditation "taiji" and "wuji"; 16 moving exercises.

Lecture
On some practical aspects of the qigong training.

Wilhelm has studied Taijiquan since 1980. He is a fulltime Taijiquan teacher (Yang Style). He was the co-ordinator of the first Europian Taiji Forum.
Teachers: Patrick Kelly and Peter Ralston
Languages: German; English

Workshop
The relation of Body-structure and relaxation are basic of the elastic quality. Finding a deeper understanding in the own body through exercises and experiments.

Dr Zuzana Sebkova-Thaller is an art historian and Qigong-Instructor. She has got seven children. She started to learn Qigong in the first half of the eighties from Dr. Josefine Zoeller, who brought Qigong to Germany and wrote the first German book about qigong. After three years apprenticeship there she began to learn by Chinese masters in Europe as well as in China. Among her teachers are professor Cong Yongchun, professor Lin Zhong Peng, professor Ding Hongyu, Master Liu Han Wen, Master Mau Hui Wen, Master Wang Yu. She teaches Qigong since 1987. Since 1998 Dr. Zuzana Sebkova-Thaller is the president of the German Qigong Association. She is an expert in ChanMi-Qigong, a special art of Qigong from the Himalaya mountains based on spinal movement. Since ten years she has specialised in therapeutic Qigong, especially with people having multiple sclerosis and cancer. She has been working in different clinics and cooperating with her husband who is a physician specialised in biological therapies of cancer. She has also developed Qigong for gravid women and for the delivery and Qigong with children, both disciplines belonging to the educational programme of the German Qigong Association. She is the author of many books, scientific publications and CDs.

Workshop in ChanMi-Qigong
Our spine is the key to our health and a symbol for our spiritual attitude. I am going to teach the basic exercises of ChanMi-Qigong. Its fluent movements bring energy to every vertebra of the spinal column, the energetic blockages loosen and our back feels well in a very short time. But we'll not only get a painless back, but even much more energy. There is a whole therapeutic system that is based on these movements of ChanMi-Qigong.