Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader Training

Sponsored by

Houston Oaks Country Club
September 13 - 15, 2012

CE Available for Registered Nurses

"The regular practice of Tai Chi Easy provides significant health benefits for people of all ages. Tai Chi Easy helped me to recover rapidly from my own recent heart surgery." - James Firman, President & CEO, National Council on Aging, Washington, DC

Professional Training PLUS Retreat Schedule

During this 25-hour, 3 day professional training, you will learn Tai Chi Easy™, how to lead Tai Chi Easy practice sessions AND have time to integrate the material AND get around campus to have some fun. If you have been hoping for the perfect opportunity to leverage your career AND have some fun in a beautiful environment, this is it!!

About the Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Training

View IIQTC Certification Overview

Comparison - Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader and IIQTC Teacher Training Programs

In Chinese, the phrase Tai Chi means the “balance and harmony” of natural forces within our world and ourselves. It also means “supreme ultimate,” pointing to the awesome nature of all life and our own lives within the universe. Tai Chi, both moving meditation and martial art, is a widely practiced form of the ancient Chinese self-care practices known as Qigong. Qigong means to cultivate (gong) healing life energies and resources (Qi).

Tai Chi Easy™ is a mind-body practice that combines gentle exercise and meditation to activate self-healing properties that ancient Chinese texts call the “healer within” and the “elixir of life.” Our Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader training is a step-by-step program detailing how to share simple Qigong and Tai Chi in our communities, schools, faith institutions, hospitals, community centers, and social service agencies. Participants learn to lead others in simple Qigong and Tai Chi practices that improve health, enhance longevity, and promote inner peace. Anyone interested in empowerment based health care can learn to share Tai Chi Easy with others.

The Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) has graduates throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Central America, inspired and committed to bringing Qigong and Tai Chi to a broader audience. Our research initiatives continue to build the Institute’s international credibility. Whether you are using these trainings as a career shift or as a personal retreat to improve your health, vitality and inner peace, this event will be a profound opportunity to immerse yourself in healing and actualize your personal mission of community service. You will renew your body, mind and spirit just as intended by those ancient Qi masters of China who gave birth to Qi cultivation so long ago.

Participants complete the training with the skills to design and lead practice sessions in their home community. It's exciting and fun!! Consider sending a team to this training; group discounts may apply.

“Tai Chi Easy is perfect package of mind-body wellness skills for the health and social service agencies in my area. I am so enthusiastic to have solidified my Tai Chi and Qigong teaching skills at this level of simplified community practice.” - Valerie L. Fagan, LCSW, Complementary Therapies Facilitator, Regional Medical Center, Athens, GA

Registration Fees Include:

• Training Tuition,
• Training Materials (manual and DVD)
• IIQTC Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Certification (Upon Completion of All Requirements)
• Chef prepared Meals (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)
• Morning and Afternoon Snacks
• Shuttle to and from the Holiday Inn Express in Waller, TX to Houston Oaks (morning, lunch if needed and evening)
  

Fees do not include:

• Lodging
• Round Trip Air Fare to Houston, TX
  
• Ground transportation to and from the airport to your hotel
• Ground transportation to and from the Houston Oaks Country Club to your hotel, residence, or business (not the Holiday Inn Express in Waller, TX)
  
• Nursing Continuing Education Certificate (cost $35)
• IIQTC Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Certificate (cost $35)
  

Suggested lodging is Holiday Inn Express in Waller, TX. View group discount lodging info.

Please notify the IIQTC Office (by phone at 805-617-3390 or email at HA@healthaction.net) if your travel plans have you arriving or departing outside of the above guidelines, please note your certification is contingent upon your full completion of this training course.

Registration for Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader Training

Cancellation and Refund Policy

All cancellations must be made in writing to email refunds@healthaction.net. Cancellations made by September 5, 2012 will qualify for a full refund less a 10% administration fee plus credit card charges if applicable. For cancellations made September 6, 2012 or later, there is no refund. Should you need to cancel in an emergency on (or after) September 6, 2012, you may qualify to receive non-transferable partial tuition credit towards any IIQTC-sponsored course or workshop within one year. Cases are reviewed and awarded on a case-by-base basis. If you do not attend the training on September 13, 14, and 15, or leave once the training begins, there is no refund or credit. The sponsors of this event reserve the right to cancel this training, and in that event your payment is refunded in full.

Continuing Education Contact Hours Available for Registered Nurses

15 Continuing Education Contact Hours Available for Registered Nurses. Fee is $35. For inquiries, contact the IIQTC Administrator at 805-617-3390.

Training Location - Houston Oaks Country Club & Family Sports Retreat

Houston Oaks Country Club & Family Sports Retreat
22602 Hegar Road
Hockley, Texas 77447
713-888-0000 Main
936-372-5503 Fax

Houston Oaks is conveniently located just 35 miles northwest of Houston in Hockley, Texas.

Driving Directions
From Houston/Katy/Cypress Heading northwest on Highway 290, exit Hegar Road. Turn right on Hegar Road and proceed past FM2920. Houston Oaks is located two miles on your right.

From Tomball/Spring
Heading northwest on FM2920, turn right on Hegar Road. Houston Oaks is located three miles on your right.

* NOTE: The Tai Chi Easy™ practice and the 3-day Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader Training program are derived from the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi training programs and include copyrighted materials belonging to Dr. Roger Jahnke, O.M.D. and the Health Action Inc family of companies.

This training is not a Qigong or Tai Chi teacher certification, which requires a minimum of 200 hours training. Also note the Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader Training was formerly called the Tai Chi Easy™ Facilitator Training.

Some Exciting, Proven Benefits of Tai Chi Easy™

Tai Chi Easy™ promotes health self-reliance and chronic disease self-managed care with a wide array of benefits, including:

• Balance enhancement - falls prevention
• Stress mastery
• Pain management
• Limiting drug use
• Physical activity and meditation
• Energy enhancement
• Natural sleep improvement
• Natural digestive and elimination support
• Anxiety reduction
• All categories of disease management
• Institutional and corporate productivity enhancement and absence reduction
• Recovery from addiction and PTSD
• More; please review our websites and the research literature.

“The wellness practices of traditional Chinese medicine -- Tai Chi and Qigong -- are among the best forms of physical activity for diverse populations since they are low cost, group based, low impact and relatively easy to learn”. - The Consensus Report of the National Expert Meeting on Qi Gong and Tai Chi, National Blueprint for Physical Activity and the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

About the Trainers

Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD, the developer of Tai Chi Easy™ is a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine with thirty years of clinical practice and eight research trips to China to study its healing traditions. He is Director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC), and serves as a consultant to hospitals, social service agencies, and corporations in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CAM/IM), wellness, and medical cost reduction. Dr. Jahnke authored The Healer Within (Harper Collins, 1999) used in Mind-Body programs worldwide and The Healing Promise of Qi (McGraw-Hill, 2002), an instant classic in the western literature on Qigong and Tai Chi. In 2005, he co-convened the National Expert Meeting on Qi Gong and Tai Chi in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Blueprint for Active Aging. Most, recently Dr. Jahnke edited and translated the clinical chapters for Chinese Medical Qigong (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010), the first English translation of the only official textbook of medical Qigong, used in colleges and universities of Traditional Chinese medicine in China.

Henderson Smith Jr is a Conscious Living Coach,  Holistic Work-site Wellness Consultant and is certified to teach Qigong and Tai Chi by the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi and the National Qigong Association. He is a 2nd degree black belt in Seibu-do Martial Arts and is a member of the International Association of Martial Arts and Oriental Medicine. With a background of over 20 years in the health insurance industry, Henderson has garnered first-hand knowledge of the employee health habits that continue to drive the rising cost of benefits. Through Living Well Therapies, Henderson is now delivering an integrated mix of holistic wellness solutions focused on training people to consciously exercise healthy choices in pursuit of health, happiness and a higher quality of life.

Resources

National Expert Meeting on Qi Gong and Tai Chi Consensus Report

Qi Gong and Tai Chi: promoting practices that promote healthy
aging - The Journal on Active Aging September/October 2006

Promoting Health with Tai Chi Easy™ - Podcast Recorded March 27, 2011