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Dear World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Supporters,

FYI: All Official WTCQD T-Shirts ordered before January 1st, 2014, have been shipped. All "international" orders outside US have been shipped.

We are now working on all T-Shirt orders that have come in since that date, and hope to have them all shipped in 2 or 3 weeks. 

 

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We just got a VERY EXCITING note from Sifu Mark Peters in the United Kingdom!

 

Sports England may make World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events a national phenomenon with events being held, not just in over 50 PARKS in Birmingham alone, but in cities throughout the UK!

 

See article below, for more on UK WTCQD organizer, Mark Peters, who is with the Tai Chi Union of Great Britain, and Kai Ming Association for Taijiquan.  

 

 

 

  Croatian WTCQD organizers and Tai Chi champion, Nikolas Maricic     

   

Another inspiration to the world is the work of Croatian WTCQD organizer and Tai Chi champion, Nikolas Maricic, who has gotten massive media coverage of his World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events in Croatia, and is working hard with organizers in Macao to organize the 1st ever WTCQD event in Macao for 2014! We look forward to sharing videos of their event. See below article for more.    

 

 

 

TAI CHI UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN, KAI MING ASSN., AND THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND ARE PROVIDING AN EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD OF WHAT IS POSSIBLE, AS HAS NIKOLAS MARICIC OF CROATIA.   IMAGINE!

 

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Also, see a below article on a new TEACHING OPPORTUNITY FOR U.S. TAI CHI AND QIGONG TEACHERS through the SilverSneakers FLEX Program. WorldTaiChiDay.org has been at the cutting edge of integrating Tai Chi and Qigong into society at all levels and advocating on behalf of Tai Chi and Qigong teachers worldwide to help them be recognized for the valuable treasures they are to healthcare and society.

 

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Bill and Angela Wong Douglas, WTCQD


   

 

 

 

 

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Sports England May Launch Mass National World Tai Chi & Qigong Day event across UK ...

50 Parks in Birmingham to Hold Simultaneous WTCQD events on WTCQD 2014!

Tai Chi Union of Great Britain    
 

 Events planned in over 50 parks in Birmingham Alone!
 

Mark Peters of the Tai Chi Union of Great Britain sent a message saying that Sports England may coordinate a national wave of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events across the nation in 2014, expanding on a smaller version held in 2013.

In 2013 WTCQD events were part of a larger national fitness event. See video:
Active Parks Tai Chi and more
Active Parks Tai Chi and more

 

  

World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is a PERFECT FIT with this Birmingham England project. Birmingham and the United Kingdom is an example to the world of what is possible by coordinating World Tai Chi & Qigong Day's global wave with governmental fitness projects.

 

SHARE THIS ARTICLE AND THIS NEWSLETTER WIDELY!

 

 

We have no doubt that THIS CAN BE REPLICATED WORLDWIDE! WTCQD organizers have partnered with city, state and federal agencies, with university's, libraries, and health networks worldwide, but the scale of the UK event in 2014 will become a standard for the world in future World Tai Chi & Qigong Day organizing. 

 

See details on Birmingham's local WTCQD 2014 event at:

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Nikolas Maricic - One of the World's First International WTCQD Organizers in Croatia ...

Organizing WTCQD Event in Macao, China!

    
 In 2000, Croatian Tai Chi master, Nikolas Maricic, organized one of the first World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events outside of the United States, and continued to organize BEAUTIFUL WTCQD events in Croatia, year after year.

This year, in 2014, Nikolas is working to organize a WTCQD event in Macao, China. You can contact Nikolas at: 
www.facebook.com/wushu.croatia

See the CNN iReport on Croatia's past event:
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-964983� 

Also, read this fascinating article with Nikolas, the Croatian, and now Macao World Tai Chi & Qigong Day organizers in Violet Li's wonderful Tai Chi Examiner Column:
http://www.examiner.com/article/teaching-paraplegics-tai-chi

Welcome to World TaiChi and Qigong Day 2014 - Healing Event Worldwide
Welcome to World TaiChi and Qigong Day 2014 -
Healing Event Worldwide

2012 World TaiChi & Qigong Day Svjetski Dan Croatia - Hrvatska - Official 13th event
2012 World TaiChi & Qigong Day Svjetski Dan Croatia - Hrvatska - Official 13th event

World TaiChi and qigong day by Wushu Nikolas
World TaiChi and qigong day Croatia 2011
by Wushu Nikolas

World TaiChi & Qigong Day 2010
World TaiChi & Qigong Day Croatia 2010

World TaiChi Taiji & Qigong Day Croatia 2009
World TaiChi Taiji & Qigong Day Croatia 2009




WTCQD Organizers in Croatia, Nikolas Maricic on national Croatian media talking about World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Croatia
- 2005 event was featured on health show by most popular anchor Helga Vlahovic
Drugi Dio HRT- Govorimo o Zdravlju - Helga Vlahovic - TaiChi
Drugi Dio HRT- Govorimo o Zdravlju - Helga Vlahovic - TaiChi

 

Croatian Tai Chi Gold Medalist  

 

Sam Pou Wa met with World Tai Chi & Qigong Day organizers in Hong Kong, and announced her intention to organize a Macao WTCQD 2014 event.

 

Nikolas Maricic and Sam Pou Wa in Macao are coordinating World Tai Chi & Qigong Day organizing efforts in Macao this year.

 

Macau WTCQD Organizer  

  

 

2002's World Tai Chi & Qigong Day in Croatia was featured
on 2 Croatian television stations:

 

RiTV World taiChi & Qigong day
RiTV World taiChi & Qigong day
Croatian World TaiChi DAy 2002
Croatian World TaiChi DAy 2002

 

Below is a compilation of national television coverage for World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Croatia events, organized by Sifu Nikolas Maricic, now organizing in Macao for WTCQD 2014.

 

World taici taiji & qigong day - svjetski dan - coach Nikolas student benefits
World taici taiji & qigong day - svjetski dan - coach Nikolas student benefits


Below, Croatian WTCQD organizer, Nikolas, demonstrated for the International Women's Club, seen by 13,000 members of the group.

 

International Women's Club Taijiquan 42 demonstration
International Women's Club Taijiquan 42 demonstration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Gallery of Events!


World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Gallery of Events Worldwide -  #2 Installment
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Gallery of Events Worldwide - #2 Installment

Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Connecticut, Israel,
Egypt WTCQD Events Photo Gallery



World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Event Photo Video Gallery of Events Worldwide - Installment #1
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Event Photo Video Gallery of Events Worldwide - Installment #1

Oakland, California; South Africa; Argentina; Turkey; WTCQD Events Photo Gallery













 

The University of Kansas Hospital Heart Health Article is Out ... AND IT IS FABULOUS!

This can be replicated in hospitals worldwide!
See below video & article how this can be done!

Expanding Tai Chi and Qigong into the Epicenter of Modern Healthcare
Expanding Tai Chi and Qigong into the Epicenter of Modern Healthcare







 
If you subscribe to our free Ezine newsletters and read them, you will have learned step-by-step how we built this relationship with our state university hospital over years of work utilizing the Tai Chi Medical Research Library at www.WorldTaiChiDay.org and the "Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi."

If you missed those issues of our Ezine.newsletters and their other valuable information, tools and resources, you can go back and read them in several languages in our WorldTaiChiDay.org Newsletter Archive.

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3rd International Symposium on Qigong in Italy ...

   

 

 

 

We just got an email about a 3rd International Symposium on Qigong in Italy. We weren't contacted about it directly, just were on a mailing list, so look into it yourself and let us know what you think.

"I'm a Qi being!" Inner Consciousness for a Better World  

 

Rome, 18-20 October 2014 Seraphicum Auditorium (Via del Serafico 1, Eur area)

  

http://neidao.org/en/third_international_symposium.html





 
 

 








 

Tune into NQA's "Qi Talks!
March 13, 2014 features Bill Douglas ...

 
 
Qi Talks
Thursday, March 13, 2014
from 8:30 to 9:30 PM EST
with your host:
Vicki Dello Joio
featuring
Bill Douglas

 

 

 

 

Bill Douglas

Transforming Our Lives and Our Planet
with Tai Chi and Qigong

 

World Tai Chi & Qigong Day founder, Bill Douglas, will paint a vision of where our planet is headed and how Tai Chi and Qigong will play a crucial role in our getting there, by examining the mounting medical research, neurological and genetic research, and the sociological data that indicates mind-body techniques such as Tai Chi and Qigong may be part of a global transformation that will dwarf any of the great leaps forward humanity has ever seen in history.
 
Bill will explain how when you do Tai Chi or Qigong in your extra room or your back yard, or tell a friend or relative or co-worker about it, you may be joining in a global evolutionary movement that is changing the very foundations of our planet, and in ways that our grandchildren will thank us for being a part of at this critical time in human history.
 
Sound too fantastic to believe? You won't think so after hearing and participating in this upcoming Qi Talk with World Tai Chi & Qigong Day founder, Bill Douglas.
 
   

 

 

Register for Qi Talks
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XV7wrtxxbAZkfguxTUWa9W70Kc-eTXi7cKxbZnBdXL4/viewform  

 

  

 

 

Looking Ahead to Future
Qi Talks:


April 10, 2014
Michael Winn










 








 

Teaching Opportunity for SilverSneakers ...

The Medicare covered SilverSneakers Program, is launching a new Flex program to work with Tai Chi & Qigong teachers as independent contractors.
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World Tai Chi & Qigong Day and WorldTaiChiDay.org long ago reported on breaking medical research showing that Tai Chi was a "more effective stroke rehabiltation" therapy than the SilverSneakers Fitness Program. We encouraged everyone to contact their government representatives and the media to urge that Tai Chi and Qigong be covered by Medicare as well as the SilverSneakers program. Although we may not be there yet, this new FLEX program below may be a first step in that direction.

WorldTaiChiDay.org has been at the cutting edge of integrating Tai Chi and Qigong into society at all levels and advocating on behalf of Tai Chi and Qigong teachers worldwide to help them be recognized for the valuable treasures they are to healthcare and society.



WorldTaiChiDay.org was recently contacted by the SilverSneakers new FLEX Program organizers, about a project to work with Tai Chi and Qigong teachers as independent contractors.

We contacted them to see how it would work, and this is what we found, and we share it with you in case you or your teacher would be interested in it.

Teachers can use this FLEX program to supplement their existing classes. The FLEX payments are not high, but according to the organizers, you can have an existing class where your regular students or others who do not qualify for the FLEX SilverSneakers program will pay the normal class tuition they have always payed.

But the FLEX SilverSneakers qualified participants
will have their tuition paid by the FLEX or SilverSneakers program.

How you, as a teacher, will be paid depends on where you are located. If you live in an urban area where there are 500 SilverSneakers members in a 5 mile radius of your class location, you will make $19.00 per class  for 1 to 10 SilverSneakers students. Then you will make an additional $2.25 per class for each student over $10, with the class income maxing at $50 per class for teacher payment.

If you live in a less than 500 SilverSneakers members in a 5 mile radius area, you will make $2 per member per class.

Again, the students will not pay you, the SilverSneakers FLEX Program will. SilverSneakers students will be 65 years old and older to qualify for SilverSneakers.

Only those people with certain health plans qualify for SilverSneakers FLEX Tai Chi or Qigong classes, and each state's plan is different. In our home state of Kansas, there are 3 health plans that qualify. To search for your state's plans, visit the below and follow below instructions:

 
Do I have Silver Sneakers?
 
See if you already have SilverSneakers!
http://silversneakers.com/HealthPlanLocator.aspx 
 
* select state to see what Health Plans in your state cover SilverSneakers



The SilverSneakers FLEX Program will do a mailing to their SilverSneakers members in your area, to let them know about the Tai Chi or Qigong classes you offer through the FLEX program. However, they expect you to promote them as well as best you can.


TEACHERS:
* You will have to have, or to find, a location for these classes. You can make them a supplement to your existing public or hospital classes, but you can also be creative, and perhaps use FLEX as a way to get classes into Senior Centers, and Senior Care facilities. So if you could get 24 people in a senior center to attend your class you could make around $50 for a 1 hour class. Perhaps you could get several senior centers involved, and it could add to your teaching income.


WORLDTAICHIDAY.ORG TEACHING BUSINESS TIP:
What's great about senior center classes, is you can do them during the weekdays in the day time, which leaves your evenings and weekends open for public classes where you may charge more for your class.

TEACHER REQUIREMENTS:
You'll need to be registered with the SilverSneakers Program, and their requirements are:
* You need a Tai Chi or Qigong Teaching Certification
* You need a CPR Certificate
* SilverSneakers FLEX will do a Background Check on you, which you'll have to pay for, between $17 and $45
*You need $1 million in Liability Insurance


Learn more about SilverSneakers FLEX Instructor Program at:
http://silversneakers.com/Home/Instructors.aspx

 
   

 

 














 

Time to Spread the Word -
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2014!
  
                                                                   
In 2013 WTCQD events spread from 70 nations in 2012 to 80 nations in 2013.  SHARE THIS VIDEO PRESS RELEASE WIDELY ... YOU are the engine of this healing event!
  
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Press Release
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Press Release
  
















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In This Issue
Sports England May Launch Mass National World Tai Chi & Qigong Day event across UK ... WTCQD Events to be Held in Over 50 Parks in UK!
Nikolas Maricic - PROVIDING A POWERFUL EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD ...One of the World's First International WTCQD Organizers in Croatia ....
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Gallery of Events Worldwide !...
State Hospital Reports: Tai Chi AVOIDS HEART PROCEDURE and REDUCES MEDS! ... This can be REPLICATED IN HOSPITALS WORLDWIDE! ...
3rd International Symposium on Qigong in Italy ....
Tune into NQA's "Qi Talks!...March 13, 2014 features Bill Douglas ...
TEACHING OPPORTUNITY for Tai Chi & Qigong Teachers with Medicare related SilverSneakers Program, ... Get Details ...
Time to Spread the Word -... World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2014!...
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