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Tai Chi in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Monday
Experience wellness at NOMA with beginner-friendly, outdoor tai chi classes in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Our tai chi classes are led by instructor Barry Goodman.
Class is $5 for members and $10 for the general public. Tai chi participants meet at the garden entrance on the corner of Collins Diboll Circle and Enrique Alferez Drive, across the street from Café NOMA. Please bring a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Walk-ins are welcome and can pay with cash. If you are a member paying in cash, please also bring your membership card or member number.
For Monday classes: register online by 3pm the day of class.
For Wednesday classes: register online by 3pm on the Tuesday before class.
These classes are outside and will be canceled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the day before class. Call 504.658.4128 or email education@noma.org with any questions.
About the Instructor
After ten years of studying the Yang Intermediate Tai Chi form in the lineage of Da Liu under the instruction of Marilyn Yank, Barry Goodman was invited to teach Tai Chi for the V.A. for five years as adjunct therapy for veterans living with PTSD.
Goodman is a Supreme Science Level 1 Qigong instructor, and has had the good fortune to study various Tai Chi forms with visiting scholars from China, as well as ten years of practicing with Terry Rappold and Jamie Babin at NOMA.
Goodman has also taught at the Kinship Elderly Care Facility, the JCC Uptown, and NOMA.
About the Class
The first 30 minutes of class focus on simple celestial elemental Qigong forms, a gentle and accessible style of movement suitable for anyone. The second part of class explores progressive sequential movements from the “Tai Chi Easy” form developed by Roger Jahnke, O.M.D., director of Integral Institute of Tai Chi and Qigong Center. In many martial, exercise, healing, and meditative traditions, attainment is the central aim. Our invitation is something different: to release, through the spirit of play, any obstruction that separates us from well being and harmony.