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Issue 78 January 2009
Happy Chinese New Year! This year is the Year of the Ox and takes place on the 29th of January. This is the first day of the first lunar month and fifteen days later ends with the Lantern Festival.  The year is a mythical beast called the Nian who would come to eat animals, children and even whole villages in its hunger.

February 2008
no newsletter

Issue 79 March 2009
This month Gary has lots to say about a focus on the mind and spirit of tai chi and something quite interesting about the etymology of some of the Chinese words we use.

Issue 80 April/May 2009
The first of the new format, and a double-issue. Gary looks at sinology and introdcues us to form instruction.

Issue 81 June 2009
syllabus supplementals: yin yangsymbol, diaphragmatic breathing, form and function, etc.

issue 82 July 2009
Gary introduces us to the DO TAI CHI SYLLABUS and we get an understanding of neck exercises.

issue 83 September 2009
Here we continue the Syllabus with the exercise ‘embracing the tree’. An important aspect of tai chi and serve to aid internal chi development. From here we move to ‘sliding down the tree’ and look at what these movements do for you.

issue 84 October 2009
Gary explains in more detail about this new Tai Chi Syllabus project, and presents Session 5.

issue 85 November 2009
the Do tai Chi syllabus discussed, the Eight Essential Forecs, the I-Ching.