"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resits" - Chinese Proverb ..

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YMAA Tai Chi & Qi Gong at our Club in Clonmel

Saturday 28th August 2010:

Hello ,  Your New YMAA Tai Chi Classes in Clonmel begin on Monday 30th August and Saturday 4th September 2010.

USUAL TIMES AND VENUE.  WE PROMISE YOU AN INTERESTING AND FULFILLING SEASON OF TAI CHI

QI GONG PRACTICE.  SEE YOU THERE. 


Wed 21 Oct 2009 - News for Club Members and those Interested on the News page.  Thank You! 
 There is no YMAA teacher in our town, only YMAA students! Which is a little story in itself worth telling. Quite a number of years back a few of us were introduced to Tai Chi by Sensei John Aylward who had learned a short form from his Shotokan teacher, Master Kanazawa. 

When that ended, we had to find a more comprehensive programme, and in 2004, Fred Binchy who had previuosly studied Tai Chi with a few other teachers, felt it was now time to try and source a systemic teaching programme for Tai Chi & Qi Gong.

So he attended Master Yang' annual Irish seminars in Dublin.

  HERE MASTER YANG SHOWS GRASP SPARROWS TAIL

Afterwards Fred signed up for regular training in Dublin, and he has been attending a full personal training programme ever since, including weekly training in Dublin, & annual workshops in Dublin, Liverpool, and Lisbon.

Others soon joined him.  After a few years we were very keen to get some level of recognition, in order to access to more training and support. We were very positively supported by YMAA in Dublin, director Paul Moran, and Assistant – Director - teacher Damian Fox.

In our first year, we established a base in a Clonmel School, who have kindly given us generous access to training facilities on Monday evenings, Saturday mornings and sometimes for full day workshops at weekends. We were also able to conduct a couple of workshops, one an introductory Tai Chi & Qi Gong workshop, and a second one based upon Master Yang's excellent Qi Gong series, concentrating on Four Seasons Qi Gong.

In the spring of 2009, Paul and Damian made a proposal to YMAA Boston headquarters, to have Clonmel recognized, under the auspices and direction of Dublin, and with Damian Fox as our director.  We were received for provisional registration and you will now find details of our club in the YMAA Community at www.ymaa.com .

We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation and thanks to St Peter & Paul’s School in Clonmel for their generosity
and support in our first year.

For a little more information please go to the About Us Page. 

We hope you will come and train with us in South Tipperary.   If you are interested in joining us then please go to the About Us/Want to Join section.

thank you



Class details for 2010 are on the Class Page.