Rainbow T’ai-Chi Chi Kung
Rainbow T’ai-Chi Chi Kung has been developed by Peter Chin Kean Choy, Founder and Chief Instructor of the Rainbow T’ai-Chi-Chi Kung School and Chi for Self-Healing Centre. Choy studied T’ai-Chi Chi Kung with Master Huang of Malaysia, a pupil of Professor Chen Man-Ching. Choy also learned the application of T’ai-Chi Chi Kung with his father, Chin Ket Leong, who was a Chinese herbal doctor and martial arts master. He learned the Taoist Sciences with Mantak Chia in Thailand and the Option Process at the Option Institute, Massachussetts, USA. Choy also spent time with U G Krishnamurti, finding a unique, heart-centred way of applying his T’ai-Chi Chi Kung to daily life. He has trained with Dr T K Shih of the Chi Healing Centre, USA and Dr Pang of the Zhineng Chi Kung Centre in China. He combined his experience of T’ai-Chi Chi Kung with other Taoist exercises to develop the Rainbow T’ai-Chi Chi Kung Practice and Philosophy. He has led weekly classes and workshops on T’ai Chi Chi Kung and the Taoist arts for the last thirty years.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RAINBOW TAI-CHI SCHOOL
The Rainbow Tai-Chi School Programmes started with its first FTT Training Course in France in 1982. Sixteen years later in 1998, the founder Peter Chin Kean Choy bought Creek Farm and transformed it into a school having its own hall and residential guest and students house.
The Holistic approach of learning traditional Chinese Arts of Health and Relaxation include the heart, body, mind and spirit aspects (in that order - HBMS). It emphasizes the importance of beginning from the Heart, (just as in more than 8,000 years of ancient studies of Chinese Philosophy and Medicine began with the Heart Meridian being the Governor of all Channels of Chi Energy. Once the Heart beat listening skill for example has been mastered, the connection to the emotional, physical, mental and spiritual awareness of the greater world flows effortlessly. The HBMS also focus on the importance of harmonising with the environment as a way of respecting Nature as well as maintaining a healthy balance in our daily application of the Tai-Chi Principles. For example, the food grown at the school and water used and drunk at the school are energised with Chi. Started in 2002, more than 1,000 compassionate gardeners all over the world are connected to the School in their efforts to grow and share the vegetable Potimarron with local soup kitchens. More than 1,000 persons have received chi healings from students and graduates of Chi Healing since the school was established in Devon. In 2002/2003 more than three hundred persons in UK will receive chi healing from students training to be Chi Healers. Many of the subjects of study include The Foundation Tai-Chi Chi Kung Training (FTT), Foundation Tai-Chi Form (F3T), Zhineng Chi Kung Healing (ZCKH), Trilogue (Taoist Therapy), Swimming Dragon Chi Kung and Fusion of the 5 Elements.
Accessories for effective Rainbow Tai-Chi Chi Kung Learning
We are continuously improving the quality of our video and DVD aids so that students can truly learn from these aids. We received recently this reminder from some one who had not even attended our classes.
'The reason that I am calling this information to your attention is that Ihave learned that the library tape is the only one the first of several Tai-Chi Chi Kung videos which Mr. Choy has produced. After surveying the other video tapes available from the library, one by David Carradine and one by Paul Crompton, I can advise you that Mr. Choy's are superior in several important ways. They are much easier to follow, they provide a coherent psychological rationale to the instruction of what others treat as mere physical exercises and they exhibit a far higher stand of technical expertise than the others. I propose that the library promptly acquire the full series of Mr. Choy's very helpful videos as I am certain that many borrowers would benefit enormously from these acquisitions.' Sincerely, Michael Carmichael letter to The Central Library Manager, Oxford, UK.
Accommodations
Although charging less than half the normal price of B&B and hotels around the locality, we utilize the School property mainly for classes and courses in Rainbow Tai-Chi. As one student who came for the first time remarked that even the blades of grass radiated Chi to her, we deliberately energise every single physical item on the property with Chi, so that students can feel the chi flowing to him or her during their time here.
'It was a gloriously sunny day when I visited the Rainbow Tai-Chi School in Woodland, near Ashburton. The location is pure Devon - a converted farmhouse down a green flowery lane with a panoramic view across the valley to Dartmoor. And although the activity is distinctly Eastern in flavour, there could hardly be a place on earth more suitably natural and calming.' Kirstie Newton, Feature Writer Devon Today, July 2002
T
HE RAINBOW TAI CHI SCHOOL COURSES WITH CHOY2007-2008
(For
all payments, please make cheque payable to Chi Self Healing Fountain)
LIGHT
BEING INTENSIVE ONE BEGINS IN APRIL 2008. ENROL BY 1 SEPTEMBER
2007.
FUSION
INTENSIVE STAGE ONE BEGINS IN JUNE 2008
2008 WEEKLY CLASSES
WITH
CHOY
AT
THE RAINBOW TAI CHI SCHOOL, DEVON
TAI
CHI CHI KUNG TAI CHI FORM
CYCLE
OF 9 CLASSES
From Friday
11
January - 14 March
11,
18, 25 January, 1, 8, 15 (no class 22nd) 28 February,
7
and 14 March
Fundamental
Tai Chi Chi Kung 6.30
- 7.50pm
Tai Chi Form Beginners
8pm
- 9.20pm
£36
for 9 Classes or £5 drop in
ENROL
BEFORE 1 JANUARY
ZHINENG
CHI KUNG AND HEALING
CYCLE
OF 10 CLASSES
From Tuesday
8
January -
18 March
8, 15, 22 and 29 January,
5,
12, 19 February
(no
class 26 February) 4, 11 and 18 March
Only
for students attending the Friday Class Cycle.
Zhineng Chi Healing -
6.30pm
- 7.50pm
£40
for 10 classes or £5 drop in
ENROL
BEFORE 1 JANUARY 2008
For bookings, please make cheque payable to Chi Self Healing Centre, Creek Farm, WOODLAND, ASHBURTON, NEWTON ABBOT, DEVON TQ13 7JY.
ENQUIRIES
: 01364 653618
SUMMER
SCHOOL 2008
Part
One 21 July - 29 July
“15 Ways to a Happier You”
Part Two 31 July - 8 August “37 Steps to Happiness”
Photo (above): Heather, FTT Trainee Teacher enjoying the potimarron design she drew on the fruit, Summer School
Photo above: Enjoy cooking, eating, washing up and sharing a meal is an important part of the Summer School learning, 2004
'I was in the Ensuite bedroom (Tai-Chi School Accommodations). It was clean and comfortable and the flowers were a beautiful gift. The food felt as if it was cooked with love and was delicious. Thank you Christine!' Jenness, Easter Workshop participant
The 15 Fundamental
Exercises and Principles
Rainbow T’ai-Chi Chi Kung is based upon the 15 Fundamental
Exercises and Principles as developed by Choy, promoting a deeper understanding
of your heart, mind, body and spirit. Many people who have practiced
these exercises have reported that their lives have changed for the better.
Not only has their health improved, but they have also had more vitality,
enabling them to successfully undertake projects which they may have been
putting off for years. Rainbow T’ai-Chi Chi Kung gives you an amazing
mirror in which to gaze upon all the varied self's that make up YOU! It
is a powerful series of exercises that can help you to make changes in the
way you live, and be able to sustain those changes.
Revitalising Your Organs
You are a being of energy. May your feet guide you home to your tan-tien (literarily translated as 'The Sea of Chi', the chi-energy centre of your being. May Nature’s Dance of Chi Energy truly help you to nourish your organs. Invest in healthy organs. Understand that your organs need a touch of kindness, compassion and gentleness from your heart, and that if they receive this they will give you a long and healthy life. You would stretch out and touch a man who had fallen by the roadside, and give compassion, kindness and gentleness if he was hurt, wouldn’t you? Why not do the same for your organs? The 15 Fundamental Rainbow T’ai-Chi Chi Kung exercises give you the opportunity to do so.
The Art of Growing
The core of Rainbow T’ai-Chi is you. You discovering you. Many
great T’ai-Chi masters like Professor Cheng Man-Ching, speak of a baby learning to
walk as the best example of a T’ai-Chi practitioner. When you watch a baby
going from crawling stage to learning how to walk, you will notice that the child does not
judge his crawling as ‘good crawling’ or ‘bad crawling’. Neither
is he motivating himself to learn to walk by blaming crawling as a bad experience. In the
same way, for the child or adult learning T’ai-Chi Chi Kung, the art of growing can
be a non-judgemental process of learning how to find balance within situations of
imbalance. We can rediscover this pure chi energy within ourselves because we are born
with it.
