A Tai Chi workshop, Tai Chi for Imagination
Friday, April 11 from 5-7 p.m. in the Social Room
The program is free and open to the public. Advance registration is recommended. Click here to register.
The workshop will be taught by Sean Boutin who is known professionally as, “Master Sean.” Master Sean Boutin earned his certification for operating North Country Tai Chi LLC in 2013. Master Sean was certified as a Tai Chi Master from the world renowned Wushu Grandmaster Aiping Cheng after an intensive “live-in” one-on-one mentorship and is proficient in three distinct styles of Tai Chi: Yang, Sun, and Chen. It is particularly rare for a Tai Chi Master to study and teach in more than one or two style outside of
China. Master Sean offers year-round classes in Canton, Potsdam, Heuvelton, and simulcasts all his school’s classes online. The school’s motto is “We are each other’s practice!” to stress the social interdependence of cultivating energetic balance together as a community. Master Sean has developed the Tai Chi for Imagination workshop specifically for the World Spiritual Practices Project.
Many religions connect finding balance with being in natural surroundings and cultivating a peaceful mind and heart. Although Tai Chi is not a religion itself, it draws significant perspective from the three major philosophies of the imaginative capacities of Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. It is the study of the ways by which energy can “play” into balance. Some people find that Tai Chi can be a transforming meditation that can both calm the mind while transmuting and amplifying a person’s energy and mental
clarity.
While Tai Chi is a martial art, it relies in observing the ways in which qi (energy) “plays” through the bodies of humans and other friends in the natural world. As we discover the ways in which play manifests in nature, we unlock a deeper understanding of the human potential for equilibrioception. The workshop will help participants improve balance, posture, and mental awareness.
All participants in the Tai Chi for Imagination Workshop will be invited to practice at North Country Tai Chi LLC’s classes free of charge until the end of April 2025.
This workshop is part of the year-long World Spiritual Practices Project (WiSPP) grant from the Unitarian Universalist Association funding program (UUFP), which is supporting experiences from a diversity of religious and spiritual perspectives that will be conveyed through workshops, worship, speakers, arts and cultural performances.