Big Weekend at Body Balance: Kung Fu & Tai Chi Promotions plus Push Hands Seminar

This Friday at 6:00pm, join the Kung Fu practitioners for a special sash promotion ceremony, complete with African drumming and kora music.

Saturday morning at 10:00am is Tai Chi with Tea and promotion ceremony for those who have completed the first set of Fundamentals and Sections 2 & 4 as well as the First Palm of Ba Gua.

On Saturday from 11:30am until 1pm, join Shih Fu Eileen for a Push Hands Seminar. This seminar is open to all Body Balance students at any level of experience. You will learn to experience the virtues of yielding and redirecting through the Push Hands form.

Kung Fu meets Aerial Dance in the Halloween spectactular "Dracula"

What happens when martial arts combines with aerial dance? Find out this weekend at The Center for the Arts performance of "Dracula" by AirAligned.

Body Balance Kung Fu practitioners Jean Kono and Larissa Gilbert lend their martial arts skills to this spooky tale. Don't miss it.

Shows at 8:00pm Friday and Saturday, October 28 and 29th plus a Family Matinee on Saturday at 2:00pm

For ticket prices, sales and more info: http://thecenterforthearts.org/airaligneds-dracula/

Lotus Group member Bill Douglass profiled in The Union

What do you love about your work?

Playing music with others is a joy. We must always be engaged with deep listening to each other. Music always has structure, and often somewhat complicated structures. It helps to keep us awake to each other, in the moment. Perhaps the best reason to be doing it. I'm lucky to play with good friends. One of my favorite gigs is playing with Kit Bailey at Body Balance in Grass Valley once a month. I play both bass and bamboo flutes, and Kit brings percussion instruments.

Read more of Bill's profile at The Union.

Self Defense Workshop for Adults, Kids & Family Oct 15

Learn easy & effective strategies 

for keeping yourself safe from physical attacks.

Saturday, October 15

11:30am - 1:00pm

Open to Everyone

Body Balance Students $25

General Public $35

Families - 3rd attendee is free

Sign up at Body Balance Academy

Call 530-477-0677

cultivate chi on the Yuba River, sunrise October 8

Shih Fu Catherine invites you to join with her and the Tsi Akim Maidu for Calling Back the Salmon Ceremony at sunrise, Saturday October 8th at Sycamore Ranch Park (off Highway 20, 4.5 miles west of Parks Bar bridge).

Each year for the past 11 years, the Tsi Akim Maidu tribe has invited everyone to join them for a sunrise ceremony to call the salmon back to their ancestral home in the Yuba River. This ceremony invites us to cultivate chi in our own backyard, to join energies to heal the river ecosystem and to heal our relationships with each other.  Learn more about the tribe and the history of this fall celebration at http://indigenouspeoplesdays.org
http://www.callingbackthesalmon.com/

Don't miss this unique local cultural experience. Ask Catherine about the ceremony if you are interested to attend and participate.

What does chi look like to you?

Water moving over rocks, sunlight moving through water, rocks resting on river bottom

an excerpt from Chapter 41 Tao Te Ching

When a superior person hears of the Tao,
he immediately begins to embody it.
When an average person hears of the Tao,
she half believes it, half doubts it.
When a foolish person hears of the Tao,
he laughs out loud.
If he didn't laugh,
it wouldn't be the Tao.