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| Chaliese Poset from Seattle captures restorative energy in the Garden |
On a beautiful Spring day in Seattle, where do you go to capture the intoxicating rays and energize your spirit? Where do you soak up as much vitamin D as your skin can handle after a winter wash of rain and fog? The secluded five-acre site on the top of Delridge in West Seattle is a heady alternative to the usual tourist sites in Seattle, most assuredly because of its blissfully secluded feel. If you sit by Song Mei Ting with the fish pond gurgling gently in your left ear, the planes soaring overhead become the counterbalance - opening channels to far-reaching countries, engaging the energy of China brought near.
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| Restita de Jesus in the Courtyard |
Capture some of that energy and celebrate World Tai Chi and Qijong Day at Knowing the Spring Courtyard this Saturday, April 27, where martial arts master Restita de Jesus of Seattle Wushu Center will open the Spring season at the Garden with a tai chi practice in the Courtyard from 10 to 11:30 am.
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| Restita de Jesus with her class in the Courtyard in August 2011 |
Tai chi and qijong have evolved over several thousand years of practice and research in China to become a popular, worldwide healthy gentle exercise -
meditation in motion - used to reduce stress and anxiety, depression and chronic pain. People in over 70 nations will celebrate World Tai Chi and Qijong Day. The energy begins circling the globe starting 10 am in New Zealand moving east through the time zones and ending almost 24 hours later in Hawaii.
Aficionados believe the practice of tai chi and qijong boosts the immune system, improves respiratory function, burns calories, lowers blood pressure and slows the aging process.
Even if you don't participate in tai chi, celebrating with a picnic in the Garden might very well gain you similar benefits.
