Curriculum

Taoist Preventative Arts

Tai Kung Ha Holistic Center

SEASON OF WINTER ENERGY
11/2 Sun - 1/24 Sat: Winter Quarter Training
1/25 Sun - 1/31 Sat: Winter Quarter Break

11/7 Fri, " Winter Begins "
11/20 Thu, day 1, 10th New Moon
11/22 Sat, Season of "Lesser Snow"
12/4 Thu, day 15, 10th Full Moon
12/7 Sun, Season of "Great Snow"
12/20 Sat, day 1, 11th New Moon
12/21 Sun, Season of "Winter Solstice"
1/3 Sat, day 15, 11th Full Moon
1/5 Mon, Season of "Lesser Cold"
1/19 Mon, day 1, 12th New Moon
1/20 Tue, Season of "Greater Cold"
2/2 Mon, day 15, 12th Full Moon

Surrounded by rushes of a busy world, quiet and solitude keeps life prolonged.

-Tai Chi 2018

SEASON OF AUTUMN ENERGY
8/3 Sun - 10/25 Sat: Autumn Quarter Training
10/26 Sun - 11/1 Sat: Autumn Quarter Break

8/7 Thu, Season of "Establishing Summer"
8/9 Sat, day 16, 6th Full Moon
8/23 Sat, day 1, 7th New Moon. Season of "Ending Heat"
9/7 Sun, day 16, 7th Full Moon. Season of "White Dew"
9/22 Mon, day 1, 8th New Moon
9/23 Tue, "Autumn Equinox"
10/6 Mon, day 15, 8th Full Moon. "Autumn Moon Festival"
10/8 Wed, Season of "Cold Dew"
10/21 Tue, day 1, 9th New Moon
10/23 Thu, Season of "Descending Frost"
11/5 Wed, day 16, 9th Full Moon

Seasonal Energy Cycles in 2025 (Year of the Snake)

Reserving energy and preparing for the next cycle is an important part of training.

The school will break for federal holidays, including: Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year.

SEASON OF SPRING ENERGY
1/12 Sun - 4/26 Sat: Spring Quarter Training
4/27 Sun - 5/3 Sat: Spring Quarter Break

1/14 Tue, day 15, 12th Full Moon
1/24 Thu, "Spring Begin"
1/29 Wed, day 1, 1st New Moon, "Spring Festival"
2/12 Wed, day 15, 1st Full Moon
2/28 Fri, day 1, 2nd New Moon
3/14 Fri, day 15, 2nd Full Moon
3/20 Thu, Season of "Spring Equinox"
3/29 Sat, day 1, 3rd New Moon
4/12 Sat, day 15, 3rd Full Moon
4/28 Mon, day 1, 4th New Moon

SEASON OF SUMMER ENERGY
5/4 Sun - 7/26 Sat: Summer Quarter Training
7/27 Sun - 8/2 Sat: Summer Quarter Break

5/5 Mon, "Summer Begins"
5/12 Mon, day 15, 4th Full Moon
5/27 Tue, day 1, 5th New Moon
6/10 Tue, day 15, 5th Full Moon
6/21 Sat, "Summer Solstice"
6/25 Wed, day 1, 6th New Moon
7/7 Mon, Season of "Lesser Heat"
7/10 Thu, day 16, 6th Full Moon
7/22 Tue, Season of "Greater Heat"
7/25 Fri, day 1, 6th New Moon

Immortal Food

In Taoist alchemy practice, the foods and herbs are considered immortal foods. It is a dietary system that balances the Yin/Yang in the food we provide to our bodies to sustain them every day. It promotes longevity, rejuvenation, calming the spirit and clarity of the mind. In a Taoist diet, every intake of food must have the 5 tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, pungent and salty.

Taoist Meditation

Learning to achieve simplemindedness by transforming negative into positive energy. Practicing helps with rejuvenation, increasing life force, and transforming daily stress into vitality. Taoist meditation promotes self-love and self-healing, and extending love and healing to others.

Eight Brocades Qi Gong

Eight Brocades Qi Gong (Baduajin) is a central and powerful set of Taoist exercises used for health rejuvenation, longevity, preventing injuries, improve organ functions and overall well-being. Eight Brocades Qi Gong is also the basics for Taoist internal alchemy, the path for attaining spiritual immortality.

Dao-In Taoist Yoga

The art of 'conducting physical energy.’ As a set of rhythmic movements, it is for personal adjustment, attunement, or refreshment. In the past, Dao-In was taught only in select private circles to a few special disciples...

Taoist Qi Qong

Practicing Qi Qong is learning about and managing balance of Life Energy – cleansing, detoxifying, refining Qi and restoring the Qi (life energy) to the healthy body to have healthy bones, tendons, muscles, and fighting against arthritis and cancer, etc. It promotes spiritual stability and clarity of the mind.

Tai Chi - Microcosmic Orbit Meditation

Practicing Tai Chi is learning about Yin/Yang interacting both internally and externally. Every individual human is a small Tai Chi and has a microcosmic energy network in the human body and mind. All the movements of Tai Chi are a series of cycles echoing the eternal cosmic laws. The practice consists of two parts: the movements and the stillness.