The Rising Sun School of
T'ai Chi Ch'uan

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Toronto T'ai Chi Classes at

The
Rising Sun School of T'ai Chi Ch'uan

We have no more than 8 students per instructor and you progress at your own rate. If you miss a class, you pick up where you left off the last time. We specialize in personal coaching!

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Paul McCaughey at:

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Master Lee's T'ai Chi Family

Although this chart for our School ends with the Rising Sun School of T'ai Chi Ch'uan only, our School is by no means the exclusive offshoot of the Montreal T'ai Chi Ch'uan Society, less formally known as Master Lee's T'ai Chi Family. As this chart is used to identify the relationship of our School within the historical context of the Yang Family and other Styles, we have not attempted to show any other groups. For more information regarding these groups, please refer to 'The T'ai Chi Family' in the Main Menu area.

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" In summary, while there were several T'ai Chi martial arts
before Chang San-feng, it was he who achieved their union.
From T'ai Chi's narrow martial origins, Chang San-feng
added the Taoist breathing techinques of Chi Kung (Qigong)
and utilized the I Ching principles in order as Chang himself stated,
to finally broaden T'ai Chi Ch'uan to help all people enjoy a long healthy life.
For these reasons, people came to respect and refer to Chang San-feng
as the founder of T'ai Chi Ch'uan."

The Tao of T'ai Chi Ch'uan
by Jou Tsung Hwa

Commentary

The deepest origins of T'ai Chi Ch'uan
lies in our need to learn and develop.
The virtue of analytical thought in human development
is often coupled with a defect, a fragmented sense of reality.
So we turn to elemental origins where we feel the unitive flow of life.
In the study of T'ai Chi we use both of these capacities.
The end result is superior focus within a sense of a continuum.

The study of one's lineage reveals the twin forces
of preservation (of knowledge) and development (insight).
The fertile soil of preserved teachings
allows a student to find roots of a sturdy practice
and eventually insight into the elemental forces
which have inspired such duration of T'ai Chi Ch'uan teachings.