Yellowknife
Please direct all correspondence and inquiries to:
Taoist Tai Chi Society of Canada, Yellowknife
Greg at (867) 873-6679 or
Diana at (867) 873-6191
Email: yellowknife(at)taoist.org
Classes
Yellowknife offers regular beginner level and seniors' classes (from September to May) and an on-going continuing practice. Beginner and seniors' classes are scheduled in two sessions per year, starting in September and January. Taoist Tai Chi Society™ internal art of Tai Chi Chuan (taijiquan) practice is offered three times per week for continuing members at a cost of $40 per month.
There are two annual regional weekend workshops, one in the fall and one in the winter. Monthly local mini-workshops are held on the first Sunday afternoon of every month (from September to May), for beginner and continuing students, at a cost of $10 each.
Beginner classes start in September and January, and there are no scheduled classes in the summer months.
Class Locations
Baker Community Centre,
5710-50th Avenue
Green Stone Building
Class Schedules
Please contact us for information on the next round of beginner and continuing classes.
About Yellowknife
Situated on the shores of Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife has been the capital of the Northwest Territories since 1967. The eight (and counting) official languages of the Northwest Territories—Dogrib, North and South Slavey, Gwichin, Inuktitut, Innuinaqtun, English and French—are indicative of the aboriginal peoples of the area. A multi-cultural city to rival any in Canada, Yellowknife is home to immigrants from all corners of the world as well as a large contingent of southern Canadians. Diamond mining has recently replaced the 68 year old gold mining industry in the area, and both the territorial and federal government have their home in the city.
The Taoist Tai Chi Society™ internal art of Tai Chi Chuan was first taught in Yellowknife in 1991 when a city recreation employee invited a southern instructor to town to teach the 108 moves in a series of four workshops over the course of the year. Though the the club has no permanent home, the bright and sunny Baker Community Centre has been its main rental space for several years. Before that time, school gyms and library meeting rooms were rented for practice. The Baker Community Centre, which is the hub of a seniors’ residential complex, allows easy access for seniors to attend classes and practices. Holding classes at the centre also helps build a relationship between the members and Yellowknife seniors. At least twice a year, the Society in Yellowknife hosts a “Lunch with a Bunch” event for the seniors.
Among other yearly events, Yellowknife members celebrate International Tai Chi Awareness Day and perform demonstrations at Relay for Life. As part of the ongoing effort to make Taoist Tai Chi™ arts of health more accessible to the community, our noon practices are now being held in the lobby of the new energy-efficient federal Greenstone Building.
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