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Fostering the Taoist tradition through Cultivation, Education, and the Arts
Meditation Retreat
Instructor:莫至城 道長 Harrison Moretz
Friday Jan. 18th 9:00AM -
Sunday Jan. 20th 4:00pm

Taoist Meditation combines spiritual cultivation and the nourishment of physical health and vitality.
The juxtaposition of these two aspects results in a potent system of practice.
This retreat will include detailed instruction in Taoist meditation and supplementary practices.
Daily practice will include:
 Daoist sitting meditation and instruction
Dao-yin self massage
Study of Taoist meditation texts
Qigong practice.
CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
Saturday February 9th
5:30 - 9:30pm
Location: 225 North 70th Street
You and your guests are cordially invited to attend

 Taoist Studies Institute’s
2019
Fundraising Dinner & Auction
 Year of the Pig
 
The Evening’s Offerings will include
 A Chinese Banquet
 Silent Auction 
Martial Arts Performance
Live Music
Taoism Lecture Series
Instructor: 莫至城 道長 Harrison Moretz
Friday January 25th starting at 7:00pm
Location: TSI

An Evening of Taoist Storytelling

Taoist views of Joy and dispassion the intersection of cultivation and daily life.
VITALITY
BROWN UNIVERSITY PROTOCOL
Workshop
Instructor:莫至城 道長 Harrison Moretz
Sunday January 27th
 9:30am - Noon
Vitality Project protocol for improving health and vitality.

An introduction to the practices taught in the vitality project study at Brown University.


Upcoming Events

RETREATS
PUSH HANDS RETREAT
Instructor:莫至城 道長 Harrison Moretz
Friday Feb 15th 9:00AM
Sunday Feb. 17th 4:00pm

Push hands is an important component of the Taiji Quan system.
The practice of push hands helps to rectify the empty hand forms, increase internal strength, develop awareness of self, and cultivate ability to listen to, interpret and transform the force f an opponent. It is through push hands training that one can truly develop the Taiji energies.
Instruction to include:
Eight energies and five step
Solo practice
Developing the eight energies in push hands
Moving step push hands
Push hands neigong
Use of silk reeling in push hands
Dalu and variations
Use of the four corners (Cai, Lie Zhou , Kao) in  push hands
INTENSIVES & WORKSHOPS
POSTURAL PRINCIPLES INTENSIVE
Instructor:莫至城 道長 Harrison Moretz
Sunday Feb. 3rd
 9:30am - 3:30pm
The basic postural principles of internal arts apply in Qigong,
tai chi, bagua, xin yi,and meditation.

In this intensive we will explore these principles, how to find them in our own body, and apply them in practice. 
HUN YUAN GONG WORKSHOP
Instructor:莫至城 道長
Harrison Moretz
Sunday Feb. 24TH
 9:30am - Noon
Hun Yuan Gong is the most important of the Qigong methods in the Hun Yuan system.
This method gathers Qi from the environment and uses it to augment our prenatal Qi             (our genetic inheritance). 
To this end, the methods open the Qi-channels of the body and establish the Danqiao or Dantian, the energetic openings in the body where the qi, essence and spirit are cultivated.
Hun Yuan Gong promotes health, prolongs life, deepens stillness, and increases internal strength.
SPECIAL EVENTS & CLASSES
CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION 2019
Fundraising Dinner & Auction
Welcome the Year of the Pig
 Saturday, February 9th 2019
5:30 - 9:30 pm
 
Celebrate Together the Chinese New Year
 
 ~ The Evening’s Offerings will include ~
 A Sumptuous Chinese Feast
  Silent Auction 
Demonstrations
Martial Arts Performance
Live Music
New 10 Week Class

LEARNING CHINESE LANGUAGE

PASSAGES FROM TAOIST TEXT
10 Week Class
Instructors: Daniel Altschuler and Harrison Moretz.
 Mon. Jan. 7th - March 11th
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Chinese culture is rich with thousands of years of carefully preserved philosophical, religious and scientific canonical texts.

This class series will be exploring various classical Chinese philosophical texts starting with the the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) dating to the late Zhou dynasty.
This is one of the most widely read and least understood. Some read it is simply as advice to a king by a government employee fed up of politics; others understand the text is a profound instructions on spiritual wisdom.
There are as many interpretations of this text as there are commentaries and translations. Come and explore the Dao De Jing and other texts in the original Chinese language led by Daniel Altschuler and Harrison Moretz.

No previous knowledge of Chinese language or Chinese philosophy is required. But expect to do Chinese homework. Read, contemplate, challenge.
TAOIST LECTURE SERIES
Feb. 22nd at 7:00pm
Location: TSI
Continuing Lecture Series concerning the Tao and how it relates to all of us.
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