Ziran Acupuncture / Ziran Movement

g patients in private practice, as well as treating at the Emperor’s College Community Acupuncture Clinic, clinical externships at the Roy & Patricia Disney Cancer Center in Burbank, CA, and at the Venice Family Clinic’s Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center, as well as providing acupuncture services at the annual West Los Angeles Veterans Administration “Stand Down” events.

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Ziran Movement Classes:

Tai Chi & Qi Gong Class
Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:00 AM (Thousand Oaks, CA)

Quan Fa Class
Thursday 7:00 - 8:00 AM (Thousand Oaks, CA)

The Tai Chi class is focused on promoting good health through practicing the ancient art form of Tai Ji Quan. Tai Chi has a slow gentle pace and is often called moving meditation. It has been helping people stay healthy for hundreds of years! The class is open to all fitness and skill levels. The benefits of practicing Tai Chi are well documented, including increased mental focus, circulation and bone density, as well as strengthening the cardiovascular and immune systems. The class will include stretching exercises that promote mobility and longevity; Qi Gong practice (breathing exercises) which nourishes vitality and health; and Tai Chi form work (moving meditation), which combines Qi Gong with flowing sequences of movement. The style of Tai Ji Quan we present is from the the Yang Family lineage, through the Yang Ban Hou line (Guang Ping). The Quan Fa (Kung Fu) class presents a combination of multiple styles of Quan Fa within the Ziran Shen Quan (Natural Spirit Fist) system, including Northern Shaolin, Tibetan White Crane, Natural Style, and the Emperor's Long Fist system, which was the predecessor of internal styles Xing Yi Quan, Ba Gua Zhang, and Tai Ji Quan. This class presents a system of martial arts training focused on the cultivation of Qi, intellect and physical strength and agility (Qi, Cho and Li) through rigorous practice and mental discipline. Skills include practice of multiple empty hand and weapons forms, sparring, ground boxing, grappling, and throwing arts. Students are admitted to class through an interview process. Contact Sifu Ted Lizée for additional information. Qi Gong (Qi Work/Exercise) is a deliberate and specifically prescribed set of techniques and exercises that cultivates one's personal connection to Qi. Yi Quan (Intention Fist) is a unique system of Qi Gong that is focused on building the fluency of directed intention rather than focusing on mastery of physical motions. Where the intention goes, the Qi follows. Practice in this manner promotes the free flow of Qi throughout the body, which nourishes and supports health and vitality. When we over use physical force, our Qi is blocked, when our Qi is blocked, our intent is stifled, when our intent is stifled, our spirit is distracted. The study and practice of Yi Quan shows you a way to tap into your Qi, and build a connection that will grow with diligent practice. Qi Gong brings you into the present moment, which lets you disconnect from other concerns for a moment, allowing the pressures of life to drop away, and lets calmness descend, even amidst a storm. Yi Quan is a derivative of Xing Yi Quan (Form and Will / Intention Boxing / Fist) , which is one of the three main "Internal" schools of Chinese Martial Arts. Yi Quan was developed by Wang Xiangzhai (1885-1963), a life-long dedicated student of Xing Yi Quan, where he parred down the emphasis on physical motions and techniques and re-directed the focus to the mastery of intent.

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BIO:
Ted Lizée has been studying Chinese martial arts for over 20 years. He holds the rank of Sifu, 3rd Duan Black Belt, within the Natural Spirit Fist Kung Fu Association, founded by Sifu Brian Moran, LAc. Ted has been teaching since 1998, and practices Yang style Taiji Quan, the Yi Quan Qi Gong system, as well as multiple styles of kung fu, including Northern Shaolin, White Crane and Emperor's Long Fist (which incorporates elements of Tai Ji Quan, Ba Gua Zhang and Xing Yi Quan). He is currently studying Qi Gong with Sifu John Cole, LAc. of the San Francisco Bay Area, who studied for many years under the tutelage of Simu Min Ou Yang and Dr. Yu Peng-Xi, who were some of the foremost teachers of Qi Gong in the world. Ted teaches an early morning kung fu class in Thousand Oaks, and is also a Nationally and California Licensed Acupuncturist.