Tai Chi with Michael Riondel Community Centre Mondays
Mon, May 04
|Riondel
Join Michael in Riondel BC at the Riondel Community Centre Mondays and Wednesdays at 10am and Starting the first Friday in May Classes Start in Crawford Bay BC at 10am in the Crawford Bay community park.


Time & Location
May 04, 2026, 10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. MST
Riondel, Riondel, BC V0B 2B0, Canada
About the event
After 30+ years of learning and practicing martial arts I was prompted by my fellow practitioners to begin to teach the form I had called my own since being taught by Frank Boshard in 1994. I learned many different forms over the years with Frank and other teachers but I kept returning to the Cheng Man Ching for it's shorter overall form and it's effectiveness in all areas of life. Resistant to the title "Master" I've decided to use the word Sempai from my early Karate days. It means Older Brother or One who has gone on before, which feels much more truer to me than Master as I too am still coming to know the form in new ways every day.
Beginners classes begin with a brief standing meditation, bringing awareness to our 3 treasures. We follow that with Rainbow sun QiGong shared with me in 2011 by Ellie…