EXHIBITION DETAILS Date: 14 October 2019 – 21 February 2020 Venue: Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture Gallery, Building EA.G.03, Parramatta South Campus, Western Sydney University. Corner of James Ruse Drive and Victoria Road, Rydalmere. Gallery Opening Hours: Monday – Thursday 10.00 am – 3.00 pm, Friday 11:00am – 3pm Contact: Lindsay Liu, (02) 9685 […]
Australians love to travel. Some of them take their Tai Chi, Wushu and Qigong practice with them. In the beginning of 2019, to celebrate their passion, we announced a Photo Competition and invited everyone to submit the pictures of Australians in action while overseas. Entries will be closed on 12 January 2020. We remind that the […]
During November – December 2019, Qi Studio at St Leonards offers a series of workshops where you will learn simple acupressure techniques and exercises that will help you to relieve aches and pains, activate natural self-healing processes and restore function. Duration: 2 hours. Places are limited to six people per session. Visit http://qi-studio.silverdot.co/2019/01/25/workshops/ to book your […]
by Peter Payne(1) and Mardi A. Crane-Godreau(1,2,*) Frontiers in Psychiatry (July 2013) Abstract This review focuses on Meditative Movement (MM) and its effects on anxiety, depression, and other affective states. MM is a term identifying forms of exercise that use movement in conjunction with meditative attention to body sensations, including proprioception, interoception, and kinesthesis. MM includes the […]
by Roger Jahnke, OMD, Linda Larkey, PhD, Carol Rogers, Jennifer Etnier, PhD, and Fang Lin American Journal of Health Promotion (July – August 2010) Abstract Objective Research examining psychological and physiological benefits of Qigong and Tai Chi is growing rapidly. The many practices described as Qigong or Tai Chi have similar theoretical roots, proposed mechanisms of action and expected benefits. […]
The 15th World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, China (20-23 October 2019) was exceptionally well covered by WushuTV. All events were live-streamed and later were available as recorded videos. Thanks to that, we were able to watch all performances of the Australian athletes. In short: Good effort! For details, see our Summary compiled from the official results: […]
21-22 September 2019 Review of 2019 Conferenceby Dr. Khoo Cheng Choo The programme of the 2019 Conference “Tai Chi, Wushu & Qigong in Today’s World” promised an exciting and informative time for all who attended, and it definitely delivered. The two dayConference had a discernable and palpable positive energy as speakers presented and fielded numerous […]
Tai Chi, Wushu & Qigong in Today’s World 21-22 September 2019Macquarie University Sydney Australia The aim of the Conference is to provide a venue for an interdisciplinary forum with the intentionally broad scope to bring together Australian and international scholars, practitioners and teachers from different fields and various directions including, but not limited to cultural, literary, philosophy and […]
by Guo-Bin Dai & An Lu Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (published online 06 August 2019) Abstract Wushu is widely misunderstood and its essentially combative nature is being challenged in public discussion. Understanding and recovering its essential nature has become a core issue. This paper first conducts a review of the history of the Chinese […]
by Gehao Zhang(Doctoral Thesis) Abstract This thesis takes the primary contemporary icons of Chinese tradition –the popular practice of Tai Chi‐and subjects its career in both China and the West, to a series of critical interrogations focusing on three main moments; the invention and (re)imagination of tradition, the practice’s migration from China to the West, […]
