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Sept. 17-8 Workshop with Eli Montaigue in Ottawa, CA

posted Jun 29, 2011 6:11 AM by Ron Charron [ updated Jun 29, 2011 6:17 AM ]

Eli Montaigue Taiji Workshop

September 17 & 18, 2011

Ottawa, Ontario

Name ____________________________________________

Address ___________________________________________

___________________________________________

Phone ___________________________________________

E-Mail ___________________________________________

The cost of this workshop is $200.00 payable with this registration form.

Please send the above form and the signed waiver and release form (below) and your payment to:

Josephine Anderson

570 Byron Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K2A 0E4

Further details as to location and exact start and end times of the workshop will be sent to you as available. If you have any questions, please contact Josephine at

(613) 729-9991 or doubledragonott@aol.com

Eli Montaigue will covering the Old Yang-style form - Yang Lu Chan form, Bagua, Small San Sau and elements of push hands.

Thank you.

WAIVER AND RELEASE

LIABILITY

I, the undersigned, acknowledge that I am applying for instruction in Tai Chi with the Double Dragon Tai Chi Studio and, in consideration of being allowed to participate in this instruction, and other activities, I hereby:

1. Acknowledge that some activities may be physically demanding and carry with it certain risks. These risks include, but are not limited to physical injury, disability or death.

2. Agree that prior to participating, I have a right and duty to inspect the facilities and equipment to be used and if I believe that anything is unsafe or beyond my ability, I will immediately advise my instructor of any such condition(s) and refuse to participate.

3. Agree that, knowing the risks involved in the exercise and martial art of Tai Chi, I assume the risk and accept personal responsibility for any damages incurred by my participation.

4. Release Double Dragon Tai Chi Studio, Josephine Anderson and any other instructor, or person acting as an instructor (the releasees), from any and all liability, claims, demands, losses or damages on account of injury, including permanent injury and death, or damage to property, caused or alleged to be caused in whole or in part by any releasee, including those damages caused, or alleged to be caused by their negligence and I waive all rights to, and covenant not to, sue or be otherwise compensated by the releasees, their heirs, successors or assigns.

5. Bind my estate, heirs, successors and assigns to this release and wavier.

6. Acknowledge that I have read the above waiver and release and understand that I am giving up substantial rights by signing it and, knowing this, sign it voluntarily.

7. Acknowledge that I am agreeing to participate knowing the risk and conditions involved and do so entirely on my own free will.

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Participant Signature Date

| Attachments: Registration Form 2011.rtf WAIVER AND RELEASE.doc

May Seminars With Eli and Erle Montaigue

posted May 17, 2010 7:07 AM by Ron Charron [ updated May 17, 2010 11:41 AM ]

By Josephine Anderson

On the weekend of May 8th and 9th (2010), I was proud to host a workshop for Eli Montaigue, head of the WTBA, and son to Erle Montaigue, the founder of this fighting and healing system. This the the third workshop Eli has conducted for the WTBA community here in Ottawa, and following in the tradition of this system, he delivered with superlative skill and grace, insights into both subtleties of energy, and the martial effectiveness of the forms of the Yang Lu Chen form and Small San sau, which press such energy, as a healing agent, into practical use. And of course, as Eli alternated with seamless ease between Yang Lu Chen and The Small Sau, it became perfectly clear to all who attended, that the external and the internal achieve a mutually reciprocating and enhancing dynamic. The healing, then, is inextricably bound with self defense. This constitutes the core of the philosophy behind the WTBA, acting as both a salubrious counter-position to all diluted Tai Chi forms which emphasize only empty form, undermining their own intent to promote healing, and as a critical commentary on hard style marital arts that play themselves out by the overexertion of movement unsupported by the momentum of internal energy. Thank you Eli for delivering this balanced approach in the spirit of your own beautifully balanced character and personality. We look forward to your return..

On the following week, his father Erle Montaigue hosted a workshop in Salisbury Maryland, where he introduced, the first of the four Dim-mak corner stone forms, the River. It was such a pleasure to receive Erle here, in North America, for the first time in twelve years. The spirit of the winding and twisting river found its way through the crowd of participants, raising the volume of their energy, and binding them together. As well, Erle retraced the steps of the Yang Lu Chen form, providing us with the example of his own performance of the art, which, according to my own experience of such past events, transmits something inexplicable at an unconscious level, that takes seed and bears fruit for years to come. And of course, the subtleties of the push hands, which Erle was willing to share with us, has proven to have the same durable effect. He delivered all of this with his usual humor, story telling, and charisma. Thank you Erle, and again thank you Eli, who was present as well, assisting Erle, and helping others.

There are whispers that Erle will be making this a yearly event.

Josephine

Photo below: 2010 WTBA Workshop group photo

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