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A Day for Global Healing
by William “Tony” Rogers F or over twenty years on the last Saturday of April starting at 10.00 AM, holistic well ness practitioners, organizations and businesses in hundreds of cities in over 80 nations come together to provide group teachins, group meditations along with the marketing of mind, body, spirit holis tic wellness programs and services.
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In 1998 The Kansas City Tai Chi Club held a mass Tai Chi exhibition and teach-in on the lawn of an Art Museum in midtown Kansas City where over 100 people participated.
The next year 1999 World Tai Chi Day became an international event with Tai Chi and Qigong practi tioners in cities throughout the world using the last Saturday in April to coordi nate programs to introduce holistic energy wellness options to the public.
Over the years other mind, body, soul wellness groups and organizations also started using the last Saturday in April to coordi nate wellness informational and educational events creating a World Healing and a World Tai Chi Day on the last Saturday in April. In 2007 Dr. Robert Woodbine a Qigong and Tai Chi master asked me to help him coordinate the first Harlem Tai Chi Day in St. Nicholas Park. In 2008 other wellness practitioners joined in.
In 2012 on the last Sat urday in April a Holistic Wellness Expo was also held at the City College of New York in the Great Hall creating the first Harlem Holistic Wellness Day.
In 2013 the City Col lege Great Hall was not available until the first Sat urday in May creating the foundation for Harlem Ho listic Wellness Week, (also known as H2W) which starts on the last Saturday in April and ends on the first Saturday in May. This
year the H2W dates are Saturday April 25th to Sat urday May 2nd, 2020.
Plans are underway to have a two-day wellness expo again at The City College of New York on Saturday April 25th (World Healing Day) and on Sun day April 26th. Another exciting thing about this year’s Harlem Tai Chi/Qi gong Day is that Dr. Robert Woodbine has returned from three years of inten sive training at Dr. Yang, Jwing – Ming’s TaijiquanQigong mountain training retreat in Northern Califor nia.
Grand Master Yang is a decedent of the family that created the Yang Tai jiquan system one of the best-known Tai Chi train ing systems in the world. I am sure Dr. Woodbine’s demonstration and talk on April 25th about his ex perience of training in the mountains for three years with one of the most fa mous Taijiquan Grand Masters in the world, will be very interesting.
I would like to thank the members of the H2W 2020 planning committee for co ordinating a H2W planning and information meeting on Monday January 27th at Touro College, a large number of holistic well ness practitioners and businesses attended and were the first to receive deals for participating in H2W 2020. Pictures from the meeting have been posted on the Harlem Holistic Wellness H2W Facebook page.
World Tai Chi and Heal ing Day 2020 (as it has for the past seven years) will be the kick off for Harlem Holistic Wellness Week, which brings seven days of workshops, teach-ins, along with holistic health and wellness programs to different venues in the Greater Harlem area Com munity Boards 9, 10, 11 and 12.
Harlem Community News will publish a spe cial World Healing/H2W section in the April 22nd issue, special advertis ing rates will be available for local holistic wellness practitioners, organizations and businesses.
If you would like additional information on H2W 2020 visit www. H2W.nyc, visit our Face book page @harlemholisticwellnessweek or send an email to onuwon@ gmail.com.
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Dr. George Williams
