Due to the current pandemic, Pushing for Peace is offering free online training for self-care on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7KfG9_iFd66FBCTjl9nsZA
Students practice the Peace Games for mental focus, physical fitness and to facilitate collaboration. The hands-on practice starts slow with focused inner listening and then builds into more active energy play.
Grandmaster Marilyn Cooper created the Peace Games in 2000 to combat bullying and youth violence and increase mental and physical health. Today, the games are practiced all over the world, but the results are the same. Players of all ages and ability levels feel more centered, grounded, compassionate and relaxed.
Practicing T’ai Chi causes a significant shift away from the bully/victim paradigm to a mutually beneficial exchange. Our Tai Chi classes provide a level playing field for everyone to learn together; a safe space where there are no winners or losers and everybody gains.
Pushing for Peace Workshops are for:
- Children of all ages
- At-risk populations- refugees, under-served communities, regions in conflict
- Differently-abled people with special needs
- Veterans with PTSD
- Healing from substance abuse
- Understanding the meaning of T‘ai Chi
- Feeling Qi
- Conflict Resolution
- Creative teamwork
- T’ai Chi teachers who want to launch a children’s program
- Creating inner focus
- Stimulating creativity for the performing and fine artist
- Reducing stress and lowering blood pressure
To practice on your own, you can purchase The Peace Games Manual for a donation of $25.00 plus $5.00 for shipping. For outside the continental U.S., check the shipping rates from Orinda, California to your region and include that amount. Your donation supports our Peace Games missions all over the world and are tax-deductible. Your donations will send Peace Games project and manuals to underserved and at-risk students, from Kenya to Nepal to Oakland to Baltimore to Paris.
Little River Kung Fu School
For over fifty years, Little River Kung Fu School has been a resource for high level Chinese Kung Fu, with students teaching in Oakland, Oregon, Virginia, Philippines and China. Tuition payments and private lessons are always affordable, starting at $125 per month, depending on how many classes are taken. ($400/mo. for 1X/wk., {if there are 5 weeks in that month, you get a free lesson!} $345/mo. for 3X/mo. and $225 for 2X/mo.)