Would you like to have a life-altering experience?

Would you like to learn how to apply meditation techniques to your life?

Would you like your mind and body to work as a unit?

Would you like to learn how to breathe?

Would you like to be healthy?

Do you NOT want to "suffer" in order to do all of this?

Lily Cohen, a Tai Chi Teacher from Tel Aviv, Israel, demonstrates and works with her students, giving them an introduction to the Ancient Martial Art of Tai Chi Chu’an. She incorporates Tai Chi exercises and Qigong techniques to join together the opposing elements that create a whole: the Ying and Yang. Meditation, posture and breathing techniques are central to her class, to help the student co-ordinate the mind and the body into a cohesive unit.

The principles of Tai Chi are:

Relaxation

Yin and Yang

Slow, methodical movement

Balance and Harmony

Rooting

Co-ordination

Concentration

Energy

Breathing

LILY COHEN

Lily Cohen’s early training as a dancer and qualified teacher at Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerasulem led her to a career in dance. She appeared in the first Israeli production of "The King and I," where she danced the role of Simon of Legree in the "Small House of Uncle Thomas" ballet. She danced and taught extensively in Israel before moving to London for 14 years, where she danced in the musical theatre, worked as a movement teacher and choreographer and studied acupuncture, shiatsu, Feldenkrise, theraputic massage and radiant healing. Lily became fascinated by the art and discipline of Tai Chi, which uses elements she had loved in her dance career, combined with relaxation and meditation. She has studied extensively the Wu style of Tai Chi with Sifu Gary Wragg in London and Sifu Eddie Wu Kwong Yu, a 5^th Generation Master of the Wu family. She has become a Wu Style Teacher. In Israel, she has her own school for Wu style Tai Chi and Qigong. Lily travels to New York City frequently to give intensive Master Classes. She also works with hi-tech companies developing programs based on her knowledge of Tai Chi to enhance employee performance levels and health. Lily presents Master Classes of Tai Chi/ Qigong techniques throughout the world and has a best-selling video to enable students to continue their work.

TAI CHI CHU’AN

TAI CHI is an ancient discipline, based on the observations of a Taoist monk in the 12^th Century, A.D. It is known as the "soft" Martial Art, favoring non-aggression and yielding. The movements are based mostly on circular motion and flow at a smooth, even tempo, making for perfect balance as the weight of the body is shifted from one side to the other, resulting in a high level of body control. This, in turn, leads to greatly increased powers of mental concentration. To practice this art you need nothing more than the floor space of an average room. Tai Chi teaches how to conserve and increase your energy flow. Instead of being tired at the end of a session, one has more energy than at the beginning.

Lao Tze, a 4^th Century B.C. Chinese philosopher, put the whole thing in a nutshell:

"Nothing under heaven is softer or more yielding than water, but when it attacks things that are hard and resistant, there is not one of them that can prevail. That the yielding conquers the resistant and the soft conquers the hard is a fact know by all men, yet utilized by none."

QIGONG

QIGONG is an ancient Chinese energy exercise that utilizes breathing and visualization. It is excellent for energizing the body and mind.

For inquiries about classes, intensive seminars, lectures and retreats in New York or Tel Aviv, E-mail Lily at Lilytaichi@aol.com or LWellsNYC@aol.com.