In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 | 5:15pm – 6:00pm
Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
In the Insight, or vipassana, meditation tradition, we talk a lot about noticing the breath, but what about the rest of the body?
In fact, tai chi is often referred to as “meditation in motion.” This practice is one of slowing down while still feeling energized, and learning to relax our muscles while maintaining precision.
This practice is well-suited to do before sitting meditation—tai chi is one way to get in touch with the wholeness of the breathing body. Some benefits of tai chi include improved muscle strength, balance, and flexibility, and an increase in energy and focus.
Join Marijke Eliasberg, a certified shifu (teacher) of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Eliasberg is a long-time student of the tai chi Great Grandmaster William C. C. Chen, and is excited to share the joys of practicing this art with the NYI community.
All are welcome! No previous experience with tai chi is required to join the sessions.
This offering is part of New York Insight’s Mindful Movement series.
Registration:
Please register below for one or more sessions in this series. (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
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Teacher(s)
Marijke Eliasberg
Marijke Eliasberg is a native of the Netherlands, and Founder and Co-Artistic Director of her dance troupe; The Next Stage Project (TNSP). She has been dancing, teaching and choreographing for the past 26 years in New York City. With TNSP, she travels around the world, teaching, creating, mentoring and making exchange and performance projects possible.
Marijke holds a BFA in physical education with a specialization in dance. She continued her modern dance studies at the Rotterdam Dance Academy (Codarts) in The Netherlands and Dance Space Inc. in NYC. Marijke is teaching and sharing her Tai Chi Chuan learnings from Chinese Great Grandmaster William C. C. Chen, with whom she has been studying intensely for many years. Her form studies include: 60 Movements Short Form, Long Form, Form Refinement, Sword Form and Push hands/Sensing hands. For the past years, she also has been assisting GGM Chen with his online and in-person classes and workshops in New York, Bloomington, Saratoga and Washington.