Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Training Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC)

Mission Renewal Center, Santa Barbara, CA
March 15 - 20, 2010

"The regular practice of Tai Chi Easy provides significant health benefits for people of all ages. Tai Chi Easy helped me to recover rapidly from my own recent heart surgery." - James Firman, President & CEO, National Council on Aging, Washington, DC

The Santa Barbara Mission was established on the Feast of Saint Barbara, December 4, 1786 and was the tenth of twenty-one California Missions to be founded by the Spanish Franciscans. To read more about this historic treasure known as the "Queen of the Missions", visit here.

More than 200 years later, the Mission continues to be the chief cultural and historic landmark in the city of Santa Barbara. Home to a community of Franciscan friars, the Mission also has a retreat center with guest rooms, conference rooms on ten acres of beautifully landscaped gardens, where the IIQTC will be holding the Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader Training.

Professional Training PLUS Retreat Schedule
In Amazing Santa Barbara

At the end of a rugged winter, wouldn't you jump at an opportunity to warm up in Santa Barbara California? We are doing a 5 day version of the Tai Chi Practice Leader Training in a beautiful retreat setting on a retreat like schedule leaving time for you go to the beach, the art or natural history museum, tour the Queen of the California Missions, even go for a wine country tour. We train for 25 hours, but you will be awake for 75 hours  = quite a bit of free time. Plus, you can come early or stay extra days.

You will learn to lead Tai Chi Easy practice sessions AND have time to integrate the material AND get off campus to have some fun. If you have been hoping for the perfect opportunity to leverage your career AND have some fun in a beautiful environment, this is it!!

About the Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Training

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What an amazing time it is!

TWO THINGS ARE CLEAR

1. Health Care is a mess and it is doing nothing to enhance citizen self-reliance.
2. Over 70% of all medical visits and diseases are preventable through behavioral self-care.
   

At Health Action we have trained over 700 Practice Leaders of Tai Chi Easy (Mind-Body Self-Care Practice), and they are working in hospitals, clinics, social service service agencies, senior centers, school systems – teaching citizens health self-reliance and chronic disease self-managed care.

EVIDENCE BASE

The Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) has participated dynamically in clarifying the “evidence base” for Tai Chi (and Qigong) through our comprehensive literature review that is being published by the highly respected American Journal of Health Promotion this year.

You can explore this article in the IIQTC website research section. The first item is the article; the second is an accompanying table.

It is an exciting time!! Consider sending a team to this training, group discounts may apply.

There is no cheaper health care than proactive self-care with Mind-Body Practice. Self-care and chronic disease self-managed care are the new “patriotism”. The citizens of American can eliminate over $1 trillion of medical expenses a year by simply learning and practicing simple mind-body practices.

“The wellness practices of traditional Chinese medicine -- Tai Chi and Qigong -- are among the best forms of physical activity for diverse populations since they are low cost, group based, low impact and relatively easy to learn”. - The Consensus Report of the National Expert Meeting on Qi Gong and Tai Chi, National Blueprint for Physical Activity and the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Tai Chi Easy

In Chinese, Tai Chi means the “balance and harmony” of natural forces within our world and ourselves. It also means “supreme ultimate,” pointing to the awesome nature of all life and our own lives within the universe. Tai Chi, both moving meditation and martial art, is a widely practiced form of the ancient Chinese self-care practices known as Qigong. Qigong means to cultivate (gong) healing life energies and resources (Qi).

Tai Chi Easy is a mind-body practice that combines gentle exercise and meditation to activate self-healing properties that ancient Chinese texts call the “healer within” and the “elixir of life.” This training is a step-by-step program detailing how to share simple Qigong and Tai Chi in our communities, schools, faith institutions, hospitals, community centers, and social service agencies. Participants learn to lead others in simple Qigong and Tai Chi practices that improve health, enhance longevity, and promote inner peace. Anyone interested in empowerment based health care can learn to share Tai Chi Easy with others.

The Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) has graduates throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Central America, inspired and committed to bringing Qigong and Tai Chi to a broader audience. Our research initiatives continue to build the Institute’s international credibility.

Whether you are using these trainings as a career shift or as a personal retreat to improve your health, vitality and inner peace, this event will be a profound opportunity to immerse yourself in healing and actualize your personal mission of community service. You will renew your body, mind and spirit just as intended by those ancient Qi masters of China who gave birth to Qi cultivation so long ago.

Participants complete the training with the skills to design and lead practice sessions in their home community. It's exciting and fun!!

“Tai Chi Easy is perfect package of mind-body wellness skills for the health and social service agencies in my area. I am so enthusiastic to have solidified my Tai Chi and Qigong teaching skills at this level of simplified community practice.” - Valerie L. Fagan, LCSW, Complementary Therapies Facilitator, Regional Medical Center, Athens, GA

Tai Chi Easy™ promotes health self-reliance and chronic disease self-managed care with a wide array of benefits, including:

• Balance enhancement - falls prevention
• Stress mastery
• Pain management
• Limiting drug use
• Physical activity and meditation
• Energy enhancement
• Natural sleep improvement
• Natural digestive and elimination support
• Anxiety reduction
• All categories of disease management
• Institutional and corporate productivity enhancement and absence reduction
• Recovery from addiction and PTSD
• More – please review our websites and the research literature.
  

Tuition, Lodging and Meals Fee Plan

Fees include:

Tuition for Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader Training, 5 nights lodging (unless Commuter), meals, break refreshments, and training materials. Commuter fees include Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Training tuition, food plan with meals and training materials.

As a student of the IIQTC, you are part of a worldwide community. In addition, IIQTC graduates have access to a restricted web site and a internet directory listing.

Fee does not include required texts and videos, round trip airfare and ground transportation to and from Santa Barbara Mission Renewal Center.

Typical Daily Schedule

Registration for Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Training

Training & Lodging Option Click link below to register.	Registration Fees
Shared Lodging (Double) with Dormitory Style Bath	$1575
Single Lodging with Dormitory Style Bath	$1825
Single Lodging with Private Bath ****	$2050
Commuter	$1200

**** Mission Renewal Center has 6 Single Lodging with Private Bath rooms available. These rooms have a shared shower, but private toilet and sink. There is a possibility for our group to acquire more depending on other groups sharing the facility. ****

Available Payment Plan Options

We recognize the flexibility that is sometimes needed in meeting the registration cost for certain events. To support this, we have made available a 3-Month Pay Plan and a 6-Month Pay Plan under the Regular Registration period for a nominal finance and administration fee. To take advantage of one of the available payment plan options, simply register as usual. When you choose your preferred Lodging type, you will be taken to the Shopping Cart where you will see the payment plan options. Simply choose the one that works best for you and sign up!
 
Note: Your payments will be evenly dispersed over 3 months or 6 months depending on which plan you choose. The total of all your payments will equal the registration cost plus the applicable finance fee ($75.00 for 3-month plans, $180.00 for 6-month plans). Once you enter your credit card information and submit your order, your first payment will be charged immediately. Each subsequent payment will be automatically charged to your credit card in 30-day increments for the duration of your selected plan.

Cancellation and Refund Policy

A full refund of the amount paid, less a $125 processing fee, (and less the portion of the finance fee collected to date of cancellation for Payment Plan Enrollees), will be offered on or before 11:55 pm Pacific Time, Sunday, January 31, 2010. Due to required facility deposits, for cancellations made between February 1, 2010 – February 22, 2010, the refund is the registration fee less a $350.00 processing fee, (and less the portion of the finance fee collected to date of cancellation for Payment Plan Enrollees). No refund is available for cancellation if the registrant does not show up for the program, if the registrant leaves the program early, or if the registrant cancels his/her registration after February 22, 2010. For cancellations after February 22, 2010, a partial credit of tuition ONLY will be offered on a case-by-case basis for extenuating circumstances such as serious illness, accident, death in the family, or family emergency.

No refunds can be offered for lodging/meal plans under late cancellation circumstances. Tuition credit toward a comparable Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi training must be claimed within 1 year of issue date or monies will be forfeited. The Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) reserves the right to cancel any program, at any time. Should it be necessary for the IIQTC to cancel a program, registrants will receive a full refund if a satisfactory alternative is not possible.

 

Travel Directions to Mission Renewal Center (MRC)

Address:

2201 Laguna Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93105

From Los Angeles Airport (LAX):

Approximate distance: 100 miles. Take US405 North to US101 West (about 20 miles). Remain on US101 into Santa Barbara (about 80 miles). Exit on Mission Street, turn to the North (right) Continue up Mission Street until it ends at Laguna St. (about 1 mile) Turn left on Laguna. The Mission is straight ahead 2 blocks.

From points north of Santa Barbara (including SB Airport):

Take US101 South towards downtown Santa Barbara Exit on Mission Street, turn to the North (Left) Continue up Mission Street until it ends at Laguna St. (about 1 mile) Turn left on Laguna. The Mission is straight ahead 2 blocks.

Do I need a car?

Not necessarily; Santa Barbara can be a car-free city. This web site will provide the information you need:

http://www.santabarbaracarfree.org/

Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) Santa Barbara's Public Transportation System. MTD's Line 22 provides public transportation to and from MRC to downtown Santa Barbara. Check schedule.