CT World Tai Chi and Qigong Day is celebrated with events in more than 1800 cities in some 60 nations world wide, and has been recognized by the United Nations World Health Organization for its educational efforts to make people aware of these life enhancing practices.  It has been celebrated world-wide since 1999, Bill Douglas founded the event in Kansas City MO in 1998 to launch his book “The Idiot’s Guide to Tai Chi”.

CT World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Tai Chi and Qigong Teachers to offer free tai chi and qigong classes to the public.

Tai Chi and Qigong exercises are known to provide beneficial improvements to  overall health, including balance and falls prevention, high blood pressure, pain reduction, cardiovascular health, sleep quality ,immune function, stress relief, and mood disorder.

Beginning on the third Saturday in April at 10:00 AM in New Zealand, continuing time zone to time zone around the world: push a healing wave of energy.

Beginning at 10:00 local(CT) time CT World Tai Chi & Qigong Day free demonstrations and classes until 300 pm, in grateful appreciation to the Chinese People for their gift of Tai Chi & Qigong to the world, and to our teachers, especially  Master Jhou Tsungwa who showed us that sharing Tai Chi with each other would make it a much bigger and more powerful experience for everyone.   Bring a picnic, bring a friend to CT World Tai Chi & Qigong Day!

We Were Pioneers! After a few emails back and forth between Bill Douglas and Laddie Sacharko in Dec 1998, Laddie persuaded some T’ai Chi friends in joining together to create the CT World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Event which later grew, and grew some more. Not knowing at all what would transpire, trusting and letting go into the Tao, we shouldered the risks, invested our time and money, and worked hard to build the trust and confidence of the teachers who have annually celebrated with us. With the tradition established, an institution well founded: others will follow and reinvent it over and over again