Tai Chi Berkeley: Welcome
Tai Chi Berkeley is the
school of instructor
Lenzie Williams, a senior student of Laoshi
Lo Pang Jeng (Mr. Ben Lo) since 1975. Ongoing group and private
classes in the art of Tai Chi Chuan
are taught in Berkeley, California.
Workshops are offered throughout the year, in
the United States and Europe.
The form of Tai Chi Chuan taught and practiced at
Tai Chi Berkeley is a shortened
Yang-family form developed by Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing, who learned the
art of Tai Chi from Yang family master Yang Cheng-fu.
School Philosophy
"Tai Chi is such an incredibly multi-faceted art and diverse
art form," writes instructor Lenzie Williams, "with many
areas of potential development. This school represents
an environment where people are carefully taught the
important basics and fundamentals of the art, then are
encouraged and supported in working at whatever level and
pace they choose (some students stay in the beginning
class for two years, as I did with my teacher, or even
longer). Individuals working with health, rehabilitation,
and healing issues will find much improvement. Those needing
to get in touch with their bodies, to get more grounded
and centered, and to cultivate relaxation as an antidote
to stress will find much benefit from this practice. For
those seeking their development through the Way of Wu Shu
(martial training) and Wu Te (martial virtue and philosophy),
Tai Chi Berkeley is a safe and cooperative, yet a
challenging and developmentally rich, arena in which to
cultivate this aspect of the Art. Perhaps most importantly,
the school offers a Way, a Path, an Approach to a very
unique process of development of Body, Heart, Mind, and
Spirit. This school holds the
Context in which
we come together as individuals on our unique journeys
to work as a group (synergy Principle) through the Art of
Tai Chi Chuan, to contribute to our classmates'
development and our own Self-Cultivation, thereby
allowing us to actualize the best and most of our potential as
human beings."
For more information...
For information not provided on this site, please contact Lenzie Williams.
