Tai Chi with Jody Rubel of Mad Monk Tai Chi
For more information contact Jody Rubel at https://www.madmonktaichi.com/
Advanced - Saturday 9:15 am
Beginner - Saturday 11:00 am
(There is an instructor fee for this activity)
Mad Monk Tai Chi
Jody Rubel
TAI CHI INSTRUCTOR
I began my studies of Tai Chi at One Drop Monastery in the Pacific Northwest where I first learned principal of non-Doing. I continued my studies at the Longriver Tai Chi school in NYC, Rockland County and Amherst Mass.
I began teaching Tai Chi in 2015 and was accredited an ATCQ level 2 instructors certificate in 2020. In my teaching of the Yang 37 posture short form, sword, sensing hands and Dai Lu, I continue to seek ways to understand and convey the beautiful logic and natural physics of the form while honoring the healing, internal strength building, Chi flow and communal bonding that naturally take place in a Tai Chi practice.
Today prominent researchers such as Katherine Kerr (Brown University) and Dr. Peter Wayne (Harvard Medical school) are connecting movement based embodied contemplative practices to scientific findings, affirming that yes - this stuff is for real! Even for us skeptics!
In the words of my teacher Wolfe Lowenthal, (whose teachings are steeped in the Tao) in Tai Chi “There are no secrets,” only mysteries we unfold together.
I have taught in libraries, nursing homes, Martial Arts schools, Neurology centers, parks, senior centers, community centers, and retreat centers. In 2018 I started my own Mad Monk school of Tai Chi in honor of those misfit monks who lead with humor and compassion. For me, Tai Chi is a way of life; a method-less method for undoing and remodeling everyday excess, tension, and imbalance.
Society for Creative Anachronism Garb-Making Workshop
The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) Shire of the Rusted Woodlands holds Medieval Re-enacting Group Arts and Sciences Workshops. Topics of Ancient Arts vary from month to month.
This local group meets at LUUF the
2ND MONDAY OF EACH MONTH FROM 7 to 9pm!
Currently this series is: SIMPLE TUNIC MAKING WORKSHOP-
HOW TO MAKE YOUR FIRST "GARB" HISTORICAL CLOTHING
If you are new to SCA, this workshop is for you!
This Workshop Series is how to make your own basic Tunic to wear. It's multi-gender and can be customized to the era and geographic location of your choice. Its usually people's first historical "Garb" to wear. Workshop include general information about historical clothing construction from the middle ages, approximately 1100 to 1500.
This workshop is a beginner/multi-level sewing workshop. Hand sew or use machines (available to learn on) or just watch. Item to sew is a Basic Historical Tunic.
First easy sewing project. Sewing participants must supply their own fabric, and may bring their own sewing machine and extension cord if they wish. The presenters do clever things like: take one of your shirts and use that as your pattern, then extend longer to make a tunic. Add trim. Viola
Light fare pot luck. $5 or more donation. Free for LUUF attendees.
Open to the public
Historical dress Encouraged, not required. Dress in the spirit of medieval Europe, Asia or North Africa. Effort is valued over accuracy.
For more information contact The Shire of Rusted Woodlands
The Society for Creative Anachronism is a Non-Profit, Participatory , Living History, Educational Organization. It recreates the Middle Ages as it was or should have been.
Come join the Current Middle Ages!
