Tai Chi Schedule

January - March 2020 

January - 25

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February - 1, 8, 22 

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**please note there is no class held on the 15th or 29th of February

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March - 14, 21, 28

**please note there is no class held on the 7th of March

 

Tai Chi classes will be held on SATURDAYS at 1-2:30pm at

Toluca Lake Tennis and Fitness Club

6711 Forest Lawn Drive 

Suite 108

Los Angeles, CA 90068

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*This location is very near Forest Lawn Cemetery. Please be sure to park at the Toluca Lake Tennis and Fitness Club in the LOWER Level or on Forest Lawn Drive. 

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Investment is $35 per single class

or $160 for 5 class card

Please purchase through VenMo (@michael-ballentine), cash or check

 

 

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Classes will draw from the pillars of the Chu Tai Chi system that I have practiced for 15 years. Participants learn to improve their postural foundation based on universal Tai Chi and human developmental principles of bodily awareness, relaxation, correct breathing and body segment alignment.  

       
The four pillars of Grandmaster C.K. Chu's Yang style Tai Chi Chuan system are Tai Chi Form, Sitting meditation, Chi Kung, and Nei Kung.

Ninety minute classes will weave breathing and awareness meditation, stance development, and Tai Chi Form instruction. 
       
Tai Chi Form teaches the art of continuously moving with balance, postural efficiency, deep diaphragm breathing and relaxation. One goal of correct practice is to unite strength, flexibility, balance, mindfulness, intention and full body coordination in purpose and function. 

Please email to let me know you will be joining us so I can add you to my list. Class investment is $35 per 90-minute class. VenMo (@michael-ballentine), cash or check are all accepted the day of. If you would like to purchase a class card and save you can choose a five class for $160. 

 
DIRECTIONS:
For those of you who have not been the clinic gym space before, it is a bit hidden. The main building is a Spanish style building with tennis courts on either side of it.  If you are coming from Barham Blvd., it is the last building on the left. Pull into the furthest driveway and go down and to the right into the lower parking lot marked “tenant parking only." There is a large sign for the restaurant Santuari at the parking lot entrance. On Saturdays you can park anywhere in this lower lot.  As you walk toward the building you will see glass double doors under the tennis court.  Go in these doors and we are down the hall in Suite 108 on the left.

WHAT TO WEAR:
Loose, comfortable clothing with socks. Shoes are optional - you may also practice in bare feet. Sneakers, if worn, should be flat-soled -- running sneakers are not ideal.