[NEohioPAL]TrueNorth Cultural Arts – Tai Chi Classes Offered with International Champion

[Carol Cordova]

TrueNorth Cultural Arts prides itself in attracting and retaining faculty 
members of national and international prominence and professionalism. None 
can be truer than that of the credentials exhibited by one our their newest 
faculty members, Shifu Li Peizhi (Rebecca Lee), TrueNorth’s Chinese Tai Chi 
instructor.

Rebecca studied under the famous Master Huang Qin Long in Fuzhou China for 
14 years. She was tested and received her teaching certificate in 1999. In 
2000 she won first Place for Women for Wu Dang Tai Chi Quan in the 2000 
China Qingdao International Wushu Championship. She taught in China from 
1999 until May 2005, when she came to the U.S.A. She received a gold medal 
in Wu Dang Tai Chi Quan at the Chinese Martial Arts Championship in Oct. 
2005 and was awarded First Place in Wu Dang Tai Chi at the Hall of Fame Open 
in Canton, Ohio in 2006.

Chinese Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese sport designed to enhance physical 
health and delay aging.  It is a soft, slow and flexible boxing especially 
suitable for physical exercise by different age people.  Chinese Tai Chi is 
a set of exercises created according to the relationship between our 
universe and human bodies.  Tai Chi emphasizes harmony between heaven and 
humans, physical and spiritual presence, dynamic and static combination. By 
doing Tai Chi, the spiritual pressure is released; the human body’s 
circulation is promoted; breathing, circulation and joint health are 
inter-connected; and spiritual power is raised. Practicing Chinese Tai Chi 
provides an excellent exercise for the body’s bone structure, muscle 
texture, and internal organs.  It helps prevent and cure diseases, slows 
down the aging process, and helps us live longer. The movement of Tai Chi is 
not limited to movement of limbs, muscles and joints, it is extended to 
coordinating deep breath.  It emphasizes movement with spiritual awareness 
to relax the whole body, to focus consciousness into movement, to instruct 
with the mind, to move the body with force and direct it at will. It is 
required to continue moving using dynamic movements and to restrain dynamic 
movement at will, so as to balance yin and yang. The reason why Tai Chi is 
popular is because Tai Chi is very scientifically developed and in 
compliance with the human body’s structure and laws of movement. It 
organically integrates the human body’s integrity, coordination and 
beautiful movements.

Rebecca Lee is currently offering Tai Chi classes for both youth and adult 
students in the TrueNorth Cultural Arts Dance Studio located at 33491 Lake 
Road in Avon Lake.

TrueNorth Cultural Arts, a multi-disciplinary arts organization, is 
committed to building and strengthening individuals and the community 
through the performing arts, the visual arts and the humanities. TrueNorth’s 
vision is two-fold: To educate, equip and empower individuals so they can 
embrace and succeed in the creative arts, and to envision and encourage a 
community where creative arts and art appreciation flourish.

TrueNorth Cultural Arts is located at 33491 Lake Road in Avon Lake next to 
the Avon Lake Theatre. For more information or to register for classes call 
440-933-7771 or visit us online at TNCArts.org

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