Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Training Certification- Housing and all meals 9/5-8/2019 Watervliet, MI

$90.00

This workshop is offered in a beautiful, peaceful retreat setting with the content naturally evoking inner reflection and stillness. The program is suitable for personal development, or as a career enhancement.  You may purchase three-night housing with nine meals without attending workshop.

Date of Event​: September 6-8, 2019, 7:00-8am, 9:00am-12:30pm and 2:30-6:00pm each day with group meals at 8:00am, 12:30pm and 6:00pm. Orientation Thursday, September 5th, 7:00-7:30pm following dinner at 6:00pm.


Event Location:​ Ronora Retreat Center, 9325 Dwight Boyer Rd, Watervliet, MI 49098

Click here to register for TCEPLT certification and pay for tuition, $450 before July 26th, then $525. If you are refreshing your certification, the reviewer rate is $225.

For info regarding the two available tuition scholarships or to request a sliding scale housing discount, visit this link: 
https://www.lifecraftwellness.com/products/scholarship-application-for-tai-chi-easy-practice-leader-certification
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To pay for commuter meals or housing, scroll down for info and add your choice to the shopping cart from the drop-down menu.

Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Training: A 25-hour Certification

Utilizing a carefully developed method and approach to Tai Chi makes it easy, beneficial and fun --- right away. These techniques are simple to learn, easy to apply and need no special knowledge or training, require no special equipment or clothing and can be practiced by all people --- sick or well. The slow, flowing movements of Tai Chi have evidence-based health enhancing effects, including the areas of balance and falls prevention, cognitive performance, hypertension, pain, depression, muscle strength, COPD and osteoarthritis. Learn to help yourself and others improve sleep and boost immunity practicing a mindfulness-based stress-reduction system. In the new era of complementary and mind/body medicine, Tai Chi and Qigong are rapidly ascending to the status of wellness power tools.

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Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader Training is a 25 hour certification that empowers motivated individuals to share the self-care practices of Qigong and Tai Chi in a widely diverse variety of environments. Many social service agencies, educational institutions and corporations are seeking this very type of wellness programming - including YMCAs, churches, spas, fitness, military and senior centers.  Anyone can learn to share the principles of tai chi, explain and demonstrate easy movements, and create practice sessions for any population. No prior experience is required. We find that the best practice leaders, teachers and practitioners have two qualities - enthusiasm and sincerity. Sharing Qigong and Tai Chi can be a part of creating and sustaining a personal practice.

 

This simple form of mind-body self-care focuses on:

Mindful Movements– gentle exercises that move, relax and stretch the body and increase balance and coordination. 

Breathing practices– triggers the de-stressing effects of the Relaxation Response™, increases circulation and energy, and enhances the body’s natural healing process.

Self-applied massage– stimulates energy and circulation flow throughout the whole body.

Meditation– relaxes the body, centers the mind, and calms the emotions.

At a time when resources and funding are scarce, Tai Chi Easy™ is gaining popularity as an evidence-based and cost-effective health intervention that works for any population. It uses slow and careful movement without strain to strengthen the body’s own healing forces and is medically proven to:

Support disease prevention,

Accelerate healing,

Reduce stress,

Radically reduce medical costs – with little expense for large populations.

This self-applied health enhancement method costs nothing to utilize, causes no negative side effects, and may be used anytime and anywhere by anyone! Tai Chi Easy is suitable as a gentle physical rehabilitation, allowing you to stay seated, or even lying down, to receive the same benefits as from the walking forms.

The powerful but gentle moving meditations, Qigong and Tai Chi, are the health promotion components of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Asian Wellness for modern times. Our own culture is discovering that self-healing potential present in everyone. The wisdom of these ancient practices is diffusing into medical programs and institutions nationwide.

The non-profit Healer Within Foundation is currently living out it's mission of  Training Thousands to Improve the Health of Millions through the Tai Chi Easy™ Dissemination Project.  Through collaborations with individuals and organizations, Practice Leaders are trained to introduce the Tai Chi Easy™ form and teaching methods created by Roger Jahnke, O.M.D. in communities throughout the world.

Donations received will support the Healer Within Foundation.

 

Click here to register for TCEPLT certification and pay for tuition, $450 before July 26th, then $525.


 

Kristy Putnam's certifications include wellness coaching and mind-body practices, with a focus on mindfulness. After earning a B.S. from Purdue in Financial Planning, and pursuing a traditional career path, Kristy became a Lifestyle Entrepreneur. Tai Chi Easy™ Senior Trainer of the IIQTC, and a student of holistic health since 2000, Kristy’s passion is to empower self-care through writing, public speaking, business consulting, and wellness education. Kristy has studied extensively with Roger Jahnke, O.M.D., including weeks of travel in China.

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HOUSING and MEALS

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Ronora Retreat Center is nestled on Redtail Nature Preserve, featuring a secluded spring-fed lake, meadows, wildlife, pristine pastures, miles of nature trails, a meditation chapel and friendly rescue horses.

  
  
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Three nights, Check-in Thursday 4pm EST, Check-out Sunday 8pm. Meals from Thursday dinner at 6pm, through Sunday lunch, 9/5-8/2019.
Sunday night optional (housing only) for flat rate of $44, check-out 11am.
You may purchase housing with meals without attending workshop. For private family/group housing, purchase two, three or four rooms in a cottage.
Menu Restriction Examples: no dairy, no soy, vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, no red meat, no fat/oil, no peanuts, no mushrooms.
Commuter facility fee including meals but without housing is $30 per day.
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Prices below are noted per night:

STANDARD
$65 Dorm, 3-8 beds, up to 8 per shower.
$82 Double, up to 4 per shower.
$97 Private, 2-4 per shower.
Trilogy, the main dormitory Lodge, has 4 showers (2 female/2 male) and two toilets in the basement, plus a full bathroom and toilet room on the women's floor upstairs and 2 toilet rooms on the coed floor. An additional 10 showers and 5 toilets are in the separate building, Chadwicke Dining Hall.
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PREMIUM COTTAGE (Living room and kitchen, no porch access.)
$92 Double room, up to 4 per bathroom*.
$144 Private room, up to 4 per bathroom*.
$172 Couples cottage per each, or Private room, 2 per bathroom.
$242 Private cottage, private bath.
*If bunkhouse with no living room, has kitchenette, 1-2 per bathroom.
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DELUXE COTTAGE (Living room, kitchen, screened porch facing woods and lake.)
$118 Double room, up to 4 per bathroom.
$183 Private room, up to 4 per bathroom.
$218 Couples cottage per each, or Private room, 2 per bathroom.
$327 Private cottage, private bathroom.
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To pay for commuter meals or housing, add your choice to the shopping cart from the drop-down menu.

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Upgrades subject to availability on a first-come first-served basis. Preferred housing requests cannot be guaranteed unless payment is made in full before June 7th.  List names of requested roommates when you inquire. 
When requesting an application for a housing or tuition scholarship, state your reason.  You can find the application on the product page of this LifeCraft Wellness website.
Children not supervised by a full-time adult caregiver must be 13 or older and have a buddy to use lake or trails.
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Grace in the Woods always open for silent meditation.

fires

Join the group for a bonfire Saturday. Each large lodge is equipped with a wood-burning fireplace and firewood.  Additional firewood is available upon request.

horses

Visit our four-legged friends.  They have been rescued and provided with an easy life at Ronora.  Guests are welcome to feed the horses grass or hay.
RONORA is home to 6 rescue horses & a pony. Joe is the yellow--he's usually the first to approach and say hello.  Flinta is all black except for his white star.  Jenny Blue Eyes is mostly white and has, yep--blue eyes!  Lacey is the long legged red Thoroughbred.  Boom is the big white male, and usually vies with Joe for attention at the fence.  Betty Ann is black with 3 white socks.  Rosey Belle is the pony.   

 

Click here to register for TCEPLT certification and pay for tuition, $450 before July 26th, then $525.

 

OPTIONAL PRE-SESSION MINI-WORKSHOP:
Inner Power Qigong Basics:
9 Phases Movement Form for Cultivating Vitality.
This workshop includes practicum, lecture and Q&A.
Thursday, September 5, 2019, 12:00-3:00pm for only $55! 
Ronora Retreat Center, Chadwicke Hall, 9325 Dwight Boyer Rd, Watervliet, MI 49098

Spend a few hours experiencing qigong for the first time, or deepen your personal practice for self-care, stress mastery, and optimum well-being. Whether your focus is to heal yourself, serve others, merge with nature, maximize productivity, nourish intuition and creativity, or create inner peace, these 9 Phases are tools with extraordinary powers to release your potential.

Every form of moving meditation including tai chi, qigong, and yoga share a basis in essential empowerment principles. The greatest promise offered by the ancient mind-body practice of qigong is that we can heal our own pain and suffering. Refined for millennia, this Chinese meditative exercise system focuses on absorbing and cultivating life-force energies, combining body, breath, and mind-focused methods to enhance and harmonize qi (vital force). Those who practice qigong regularly often experience striking improvement in their energy and well-being.

Starting with the ancient Three Treasures and qi awareness, you can discover your natural inner power through the “Nine Phases of Cultivation and Mastery of Qi”, distilled from The Healing Promise of Qi: Creating Extraordinary Wellness Through Qigong and Tai Chi by Dr. Roger Jahnke

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To pay for commuter meals or housing, add your choice to the shopping cart from the drop-down menu.

Click here to register for TCEPLT certification and pay for tuition, $450 before July 26th, then $525.