Grandmaster Franklin has 50 + years of experience, practice, knowledge and teaching. Trained from age 5 he was taught especially as a teacher of the arts and sciences of Tai Chi movements, principles and philosophies. The focus of his teaching is on the individual, not on the group. He teaches the original form as it was taught in the monastery: unchanged Taoist Tai Chi Chuan 108 movements. This holistic approach focuses on the entire body as well as the mental and spiritual aspects. Each movement is fully explained.
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Tai Chi aka Taijiquan can be a fascinating hobby or very attractive form of activity for cultivating health. Originally it was, and still is a very subtle and profound branch of martial art.
Yang style tai chi of Yang Jian Hou. I also teach ba gua zhang and xing yi chuan. Our tai chi curriculum is comprehensive and contains two bilateral short forms created by me to help those with balance problems, mobility issues, or those with Parkinson's or traumatic brain to regain their balance, coordination and rewire the brain.
The Academy offers classes in Tai Chi, Bagua, Northern Shaolin and Qigong. An experienced, long practiced staff, friendly environment, and small classes.
Good quality training Slow Short and Long Forms. SAbre, Spear and Push Hands available for the more advanced students. The Ma family (Ma Yuengliang lineage) has maintained, perfected and standardized the Wu Style of Tai Chi Chuan to an effective art, practiced in various countries throughout the world.
We teach the full system of traditional Yang style Tai Chi Chuan. Forms, Breathing, and Martial Art. In slowness there is speed, in stillness there is motion, and in gentleness there is strength!
