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All classes will include Yang 10 Form besides Yang 24 Short Form Tai Chi.
Although registration is past, you may still enroll by emailing everydaytaichi by lucy at everydaytaichi@gmail.com
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Yang Style 24 & 10 Form Tai Chi Classes begin September 9,10,&12
For more info, click here All classes will include Yang 10 Form besides Yang 24 Short Form Tai Chi. Although registration is past, you may still enroll by emailing everydaytaichi by lucy at everydaytaichi@gmail.com
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By Dorene Internicola NEW YORK, June 17 (Reuters) - For modern, harried lifestyles focused on getting and spending, fitness experts say tai chi, the ancient Chinese slow-moving exercise, can be an ideal way for anyone to stay fit. A staple in senior citizen centers and a common dawn sighting in public parks, the practice can offer long-term benefits for all age groups. "In this high-tech world that's all about speed, greed and instant gratification, tai chi is the antidote to bring us back to balanced health," according to Arthur Rosenfeld, a tai chi master and the author of a new book called "Tai Chi - The Perfect Exercise: Finding Health, Happiness, Balance, and Strength." "It doesn't mean you can win the marathon or clean and jerk 750 pounds or win a cycle sprint," said the South Florida resident, 56. "It's not about getting there sooner." Tai chi is more about how the body works than how it looks, and is about aging gracefully and "with less drama." "The last time I looked, there were some 500 studies about the various physical benefits of tai chi, from improving balance and attention span to boosting the immune system to beating back the symptoms of arthritis, asthma and insomnia," said Rosenfeld. An estimated 2.3 million U.S. adults have done tai chi in the past 12 months, according to a 2007 National Health Interview Survey. The practice is not perfect. Tai chi "does not supply the cardiovascular component that we'd be looking for in a well-rounded routine," said Jessica Matthews, a San Diego, California-based exercise physiologist. "The exertion level, while challenging, is not going to increase your heart rate." 'GRAND ULTIMATE MOTION' T'ai chi ch'uan, as it is formally known, derives from a form of Chinese martial arts. Explaining the slow, circular movement of the practice, Rosenfeld said tai chi is a philosophical term that means the harmonious interplay of opposing forces. When nature encounters a strong force, the way it answers that force to maintain harmony in the world is with a spiral, he said. "Astronomers see galaxies moving in spirals, water goes down the drain in a spiral, tornados form as a spiral. We spiral in tai chi because the most effective way to move fluid through solid is a spiral." Hawaii-based personal and group-fitness trainer Jordan Forth, who has studied tai chi since 2006, said one translation of tai chi is "grand ultimate motion." "I recommend it to everybody," said Forth. "It teaches people to move well in multiple planes of motion with a state of awareness not cultivated in everyday fitness. Most people check out on a treadmill or during high-intensity activity." Forth said tai chi improves mobility, movement and flexibility and can be even more dynamic than yoga, which the 35-year-old has studied since he was a teenager. "With tai chi you're grounded the entire time," he said. "For me, (it) translates more into functional everyday movement." Matthews, who is also a spokeswoman for the American Council on Exercise, said because tai chi is slow motion and low impact, many assume it's just for older people or not a viable means of exercise. Not so, she said: Research studies have found that the practice increased mineral bone density, boosted endurance, strengthened the lower body, and eased depression. everydaytaichi lucy’s recipe: Bitter Melon Egg
3 medium size bitter melons 3 cloves of garlic minced 1 piece of ginger, mashed 1 t black beans soaked and mashed 1 t oyster sauce 4 eggs scrambled (or more as needed) Heat pan to high. Add oil, then garlic, ginger and black beans. Stir fry to brown and cooked. This also flavors the oil. Quickly add sliced bitter melon, spread out and toss and turn. Gradually turn down heat not lower than medium. Add little water and stir to cook quickly w/o burning, cover to let simmer to soften melon. Add oyster sauce to taste when melons are nearly soft. (Salt and pepper for taste.) Add scrambled eggs in portions. Pour over the bitter melon then work egg in to coat bitter melon. (Yellowness of the egg will take the color of the oyster sauce and black beans as you toss and turn and work the eggs in. If you want more yellowness to your dish to top it off then find an area in pan and fry w/o mixing in.) This dish is similar to tomato and eggs and also like Chinese style lobster stir fry with eggs. The eggs cooked this way enhance the richness of the dish by coating and retaining the flavors. This morning at coffee at McDonald's Hawaii Kai where we have been meeting after our Luk Tung Kuen Chinese exercise for over 5 years, Penny, everydaytaichi lucy's Tesh sorority sister, neighbor, and finally a regular at exercising both LTK and tai chi shared a great recipe. When I mentioned that I woke up at 5AM to cook my mother some egg, potato, pork hash omelets, Penny recalled that she had a friend on FaceBook who shared a bittermelon egg recipe.
I listened to how she made it and took mental notes. Ken as you know gardens and just picked some bittermelon. Here is what we had for an early dinner. If interested, I will be happy to send you my recipe!! P.S. I have several other ways of cooking bittermelon, but this one with eggs was ono! every attempt will be made to try to teach Yang Style Tai Chi to everyone who is interested in learning this art to better their health mentally and physically. everydaytaichi lucy hopes to reach out to as many as I can through the power of the internet.
Read about how Ron's mangoes were a HIT this season...we all agree that they were the BEST Hayden mangoes, big and flavorful. Resurgent mango tree yields summertime feast
By Denby Fawcett / Special to the Star-Advertiser POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 01, 2013 DENBY FAWCETT / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER Mangoes were the star of a recent dinner, which included mango salsa, left, and mango cream pie. This summer more than 200 mangoes dropped into our garden from my neighbors' tree. As I write, more and more mangoes are falling, about a half-dozen Hadens a day. When strong gusts blow, it's a mango bonanza. I gather up about a dozen wind-blown orange beauties to haul into our kitchen. The irony is that we once hated this mango tree; its branches block our satellite TV signal and scrape on our roof, disturbing our sleep. We hoped it would die, this tree that is now giving us so much joy and so much life. The first thing I do when I arrive home, day or night, is patrol the sides of the house hoping to find more freshly fallen mangoes. In the pre-dawn darkness before leaving for my exercise class, I slip out with my flashlight to investigate, eager to locate any fruit that might have dropped during the night. Discovering a mango is endlessly thrilling, like spotting a beautiful egg during an Easter egg hunt. Every morning we eat the tree's nutritious fruit with blueberries and kiwi fruit in big bowls of Greek yogurt, or we spoon sliced mangoes on French toast. At sunset, we mix its puree with rum to make mango mai tais or daiquiris. For weekend dinners, we add chunks of mango to lentil stews and combine mango slices with red onions and vinaigrette for a refreshing summer salad. We bake mango bars and mango crisp. I love beating the other predators to the fruit. When I hear a mango drop on our roof, then a rolling sound as it slides off, and finally a thump when it hits the ground, I stop whatever I am doing and run outside to snatch the mango before the mynah birds and red-vented bulbuls get it. I must also beat the lizards, quick to leap on the fruit to slurp out the juice with their skinny tongues. My other competitors are armies of determined ants and an occasional shy garden rat. The tree's owners are Ron and Yvonne Malandra, former probation officers from Orange County, Calif., who moved to Diamond Head when they retired. The Malandras wanted to chop down the tree because of Yvonne's mango allergy, but they kept postponing the execution. The tree was a pitiful specimen, hidden behind a wall in back of their swimming pool. It scattered a mess of leaves in both our yards and produced only a few malformed mangoes. That is, until this year. THE TREE'S bounty has saved me from a summer I expected to be dreary, with no money to travel anywhere. Now, instead of climbing mountains in Tanzania, I am fighting with geckos and insects for fruit. When I feel guilty about getting too many mangoes — some of the best seem to always fall on our side of the fence — I invite the Malandras over for a mango dinner party. We celebrate with mango martinis and mango tonics, gathering under our banyan tree for a feast of wild salmon with mango salsa and mango cream pie, cooked by my husband, Bob Jones. The attire for the evening is "mango," meaning anything orange. My windfall has prompted me to be generous. Brown paper bags are piled full of mangoes to give to friends. When I started to post pictures of the mangoes on Facebook, my "friends" began bartering with me. For three perfect mangoes, wine importer Phyllis Horner traded me two bottles of moscato, a sparkling, sweet Italian wine she said would pair perfectly with the fruit. My hula classmate, Pam Jenkins, traded me a bag of avocados from her garden. I entered two of my prettiest foraged mangoes in the Moana Surfrider resort's best mango contest. The judges noted my free-fall mangoes were very sweet, but I lost the contest nonetheless. I was up against 45 competitors from all over Hawaii, some of them commercial growers. The mangoes have saved us money. I feel smugly superior when I see shoppers buying mangoes at the Saturday farmers market for $4.97 a pound. Candy Suiso's Makaha Mangoes are featured at Whole Foods Market for $5 a pound. In the old days it would have been shameful to go to the market to buy a mango. You always received them from friends. Writer Kaui Philpotts says mangoes are expensive today because fewer trees are planted each year and more are cut down. She says today's busy young families don't want to tend mango trees; they consider them messy and the dropped fruit smelly. Also, many mango trees have been removed to make way for new houses. Mango grower Mark Suiso says it is sad to think of frazzled parents chauffeuring their children through mind-numbing traffic to soccer games and piano lessons when they could be kicking back under a mango tree enjoying the summer, making family memories. As Suiso says, "Everyone has a mango story." Now I have my own mango stories. And in case you are wondering whether the Malandras still intend to chop down their mango tree, they decided to let it live. After the tree's dazzling show this summer — I like to think of it as an eleventh-hour effort by the tree to save its life — the Malandras are waiting for an encore. So am I. Denby Fawcett is a veteran newspaper and television journalist. She co-authored "War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam" (Random House, 2002). |
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