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Tai Chi Ruler with Zemaya Vuela Martinez
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Dana Cafe
is a monthly gathering in Oakland offering vital teachings at no cost to participants.
Each
month on first Sunday, the Dana Cafe invites a different teacher from
various arts and healing traditions. These classes are offered for dana
(donations) and there is no set cost to attend.
Check the listings below or visit the website for more info on upcoming classes.
We look forward to seeing you!
Dana Cafe
Every 1st Sunday of the month, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Temescal Art Center
511 48th St. @ Telegraph Ave. Oakland
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Precious Community,
During our last Dana Cafe,
we broke through boards with a single blow - guided by the
encouragement of Hand to Hand instructors Margot Ernst and Kimi Mojica.
We fortified our inner knowing that healing, personal power and growth
are available to us all. It was incredibly inspiring to witness each
and every participant approach a seemingly impossible challenge with
courage and break through!
The Dana Cafe hopes to offer a space where collective healing,
growth and empowerment continue to be co-created. A place where we meet
to break through again and again along this path.
Each month we explore different modalities of self discovery, all
offered for dana (generosity/donations) --you are wholeheartedly invited
to join us at the next session where we will be exploring Taoist yogic
arts with Zemaya Martinez, with more than 30 years experience as a
healer, medicine woman and teacher, Zemaya will lead us through the
first levels of Tai Chi Ruler. Please see details below and mark your
calendars for the 1st Sunday of every month!
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Join Us This Sunday For The Next Dana Cafe
October 6th 6pm-7:30pm at Temescal Art Center
511 48th St. @ Telegraph in Oakland
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Sunday October 6th:
Tai Chi Ruler with Zemaya Martinez
Tai Chi Ruler
is a Taoist Qi Qong set that employs a wooden dowel to aid in the
practice. There are 8 exercises that progress in physical intensity.
Seven of the eight exercises are done from a standing position and one
from a sitting position.
This set
gradually strengthens the legs, knees, deepens the breath, builds the
chi, focus and integrates right and left brain functions. This practice
is great for entering into the world of Tai Chi Chuan or is a wonderful
compliment to an already existent Tai Chi practice. However, Tai Chi
Ruler is a complete practice on its own. This is usually learned in a
session of 8 classes.
For this introduction to Tai Chi Ruler we will be learning the first exercise and the second if time permits.
Come wearing
loose pants and flat comfortable shoes. You can also be barefoot. You
can bring a wooden dowel, 2" in diameter and 11" long, if you like.
However for this first class you can bring the cardboard cylinder from a
used paper towel roll cut to 11".
I look forward to sharing my passion for the Taoist yogic arts with you!
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Zemaya is a Curandera, Early Childhood Educator and beginning Filmmaker.
She began studying the healing arts in the
early 1980's, beginning with massage therapies, pressure therapies and
then on to the more subtle energetic therapies. Reiki, Flower Essence
consults, movement, EFT, emotional and spiritual guidance and Ceremonies
are among the tools in her Medicine bag. Zemaya began her study of Tai
Chi Chuan in the early 1980’s and by the mid 80's began studying Taoist
yogic forms at the Taoist institute in West Hollywood, learning four
levels of forms and Tai Chi ruler.
Zemaya is an Early Childhood Educator, and
has now been teaching young children for nearly 20 years. She is also
available for parenting consults, classes and lectures.
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More Upcoming Sessions...
Held every 1st Sunday of the month 6pm-7:30pm at Temescal Art Center
511 48th St. @ Telegraph in Oakland
Always offered for dana ~ GIve as you are able and inspired
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November 3rd: Yoga Love with Treina Alexander
Treina's
teaching style is a Vinyasa Flow full of compassion, pranayama, mudras,
mantras, meditation and very much from the heart. She welcomes you to
become a YogaLover! More...
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December 1st: Reclaiming Ancestral Wisdom for Healing, Justice and Change with Seneca Miller & Rebecca Cascade
In
the seeds we sow are encoded our ancient roots and ancestral memories;
In this workshop, Rebecca and Seneca will guide us as we connect to the
wisdom of these old root seeds and of the ancestors and descendants
within each of us. Through expressive arts and ritual we will connect to
our ancestral memories and work to heal the wounds that separate us
from them. More...
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