Improve your health and have fun!
The Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA is excited to announce that beginning in March we will be offering a Beginning Class at the Orchards United Methodist Church. The 4 month class will begin on Monday March 5th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM. Taoist Tai Chi® has been available in this area since the Portland Branch was founded 30 years ago. Classes in Vancouver date back almost 20 years. We will continue to offer classes at the Hazel Dell Boys & Girls Club where we have practiced for over 7 years and special classes for veterans at the Vancouver VA. For several years we have been receiving requests for an eastside Vancouver class and have been seeking an appropriate location. Last month we toured your Fellowship Hall with Sherry Hibbs and concluded that we had found the right location for our eastside expansion.
The Taoist Tai Chi Society is a registered charitable organization (501-c-3). All of our accredited instructors have been trained by senior instructors and all are volunteers. We do have recommended tax deductible donations for participants however no one is turned away because of limited income.
Our society was founded in 1970 by Master Moy Lin Shin, a taoist monk trained in many of the taoist healing arts. As a very ill child his parents took him to a taoist monastery and turned him over to the monks who healed and trained him. As an adult he escaped into Hong Kong from China during the Cultural Revolution. In Hong Kong he continued to practice, teach and deepen his training. Eventually he emigrated to Toronto, Canada where he used his knowledge to develop the health enhancing form
of tai chi which we teach today. The society which he founded has now spread to 28 countries. The aims and objectives of our society are to:
1) Make Taoist Tai Chi® available to all.
2) Promote the health enhancing qualities of Taoist Tai Chi®
3) Promote cultural exchange.
4) Help others.
If you are interested in learning more about us you can access our international website at:
www.taoist.org
You can learn more about the activities of the Portland Branch by going to our local website:
https://www.taoist.org/usa/locations/portland/
If you would like to talk to one of our Vancouver volunteers you can reach us by calling:
360-737-1999.
Here are a few Vancouver participants practicing on the lawn outside the Hazel Dell Boys & Girls Club. 
You may have seen us at the Vancouver Peace & Justice Fair where we have had
a booth for the last 12 years. We will be back in September 2018.  
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