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Relax, Calm and Focus Your Mind.  Improve Balance, Comfort and Flexibility. 
Have more energy.  Tone and Strengthen Muscles.  Have fun minimizing effects of aging. 

            
 Photo by Master Helen Wu                                    Photo by Gerald Beam                

Personalized Lessons in Your Home, Office or Event: 
Travel expenses may apply.  Enroll with Sue Michaelsen   815-229-5965


Tai Chi & Chi Kung Classes at Rock Valley College & Rockford College

TAI CHI is fun, low impact and uses dance-like moves that have been used for generations
to manage chronic pain, relieve stress and fatigue, improve balance, comfort, flexibility and memory. 
"TAI" means huge and "CHI" or "Qi" are Chinese for life force energy. 
Using simple to complicated routines, practicing Tai Chi is like dancing.  Movements are designed
to have the mind, like a symphony conductor, direct all the body's muscles to learn better balance
and coordination while improving function and strength. 

Medical Doctors use Tai Chi and Chi Kung to successfully treat many conditions. 

Students progress at their pace to learn breathing and warm-up exercises including
Individual, partner and self-defense training are offered with practice drills and
safety protocols.  Training tools are provided during class and may be purchased
to practice with at home. 

CHI KUNG, pronounced Chee Kung, is gentle exercise that combines specific
postures combined with slow, easy movements with imagination and special breathing
 techniques, to improve the immune system.  Chi Kung has been used for thousands
of years to improve body energy, circulation and strength.

Qigong Gentle Exercise, by Sifu Sue Michaelsen (text & dvd).  "Chi or Qi" are
Chinese words for life force energy and "kung or gong" are Chinese for exercise.  
Chi Kung is often used to begin and finish Tai Chi and other Martial Arts.


Sifu
Sue Michaelsen

Sue Michaelsen is the 1st American to earn Teacher Certification,
 from Traditional Private Training in Master Helen Wu's family system
of Internal Marshall Arts for Health and Healing.  Sifu Sue was trained
by expert Western and Eastern Medical Doctors and Masters of
Asian Healing Arts in China, Canada and USA.

Author of textbook / DVD, Chi Kung Gentle Exercise, Sifu Sue is
included in Chi-Kung, Tai-Chi & Fan, by Master Helen Wu, text used
by Rockford College,Rock valley college and York University.   
Tai Chi Sword Photo by Master Helen Wu
 

History & Lineage  of Wu Yi Jie He
Family System of Chinese Healing & Martial Arts.

Great Grandmaster Zi Ping Wang    1st Generation Master
Grandmaster Ju Rong Wang             2nd Generation Master, (1928-2005)
Grandmaster Cheng De Wu              2nd Generation Master, Houston, TX
Master Helen Wu                                3rd Generation Master, Scarborough, ON, CA
Master Simon Hu                                3rd Generation Master, Scarborough, ON, CA
 Sifu Sue Michaelsen                           4th Generation Teacher, Rockford, IL USA

 

          Chi Kung, Tai Chi & Fan,
by Master Helen X. Wu

York University, Rockford College
and Rock Valley College

Text © 2005 
US $39.95 + s/h,   CDN $49.95 +s/h   

DVD © 2008, $50.00 + s/h

 




 Master Helen Wu

Master Helen X. Wu was born in Shanghai, China in 1956. She began her Martial Arts Training when she was three years old, studying under her grandfather, legendary Martial artist Great Grandmaster Zi Ping Wang and her mother, Grandmaster, Professor Ju Rong Wang.  She is expert in all the major styles of Kung Fu and Tai Chi. 

In 1982, Master Wu graduated from the Department of Physical Education, Shanghai Teachers University and remained as a teacher of sports medicine.  She also studied and practiced healing under direction of her father, Grandmaster Dr. Cheng De Wu.  She authored more than 20 articles and published five books on subjects including Tai Chi, Wushu and Traumatology.  Master Wu now teaches Tai Chi Credit Courses at the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University in Toronto, Canada.


 
Master Simon Hu

Master Simon Hu was born in Shanghai in 1956.  He began his training in
Martial Arts when he was 12 years old, studying under both legendary
Martial Artist Grandmaster Zi Ping Wang (1881~1973), and Grandmaster
Professor Ju Rong Wang. 

He was also trained by eminent Chinese Tai Chi Masters, such as Master Gu Liu-Xin and Master He Bin-Quan.  He has had 30 years of teaching experience and is expert in all the major styles of Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Kung Fu

Watch Great Grandmaster Zi Ping Wang with his daughter Grandmaster
Ju Rong Wang performing with the straight sword. In the background is a
young Master Helen Wu (see below), granddaughter of Great Grandmaster
Zi Ping Wang.  Great Grandmaster Zi Ping Wang was known for patriotism,
great strength, martial skills and Doctor of Traumatology.  He was the last
of the Great Grandmasters from the last Chinese dynasty. 

Great Grandmaster Wang was born in 1881, during the unsettling time of
the last Chinese Empire.  Beginning training at age six, he became expert
in many styles of Wushu, including all major weapons, qinna, shuaijiao, free
fighting, Qi Gong, light body technique, and many more.  He was famous as
a well-rounded Martial Artist and expert in traumatology. 

He combined adept knowledge of Tui na with his bone setting skills and
originated a well-known system of treatment for sports and Wushu related
injuries in Northern China.  Great Grandmaster Zi Ping Wang lived until he
was 93 years old.  He was the head of the Shaolin Division at the Central
Martial Arts Institute.  He was the Vice Chairman of the China Wushu
Association, the highest Wushu organization in China.  He had many other
titles and responsibilities, including being advisor to major hospitals in China

.

Great
Grandmaster
Zi Ping Wang

 

 

 


Grandmaster Ju Rong Wang was born in 1928 in Hebei Province, China. 
From her father’s personal tutelage, at the age of five, Grandmaster Wang
began her training.  Young Ju Rong developed a deeper interest in Wushu
and traumatology.  In 1952, Grandmaster Wang graduated from the Aurora
University in Shanghai with a degree in Physical Education.  She became
one of the founding professors of the East China Physical Education
College where she was appointed as head of this department. 

She developed the graduate programs in Wushu and was the first
Professor in the Physical Education University to Graduate Students with
Master’s Degrees in Tai Chi Chuan.  Grandmaster Ju Rong Wang and her
father Grandmaster Zi Ping Wang, dedicated their lives to promotion of
Wushu and medicine.  In 1955, Grandmaster Wang married Grandmaster
Dr. Wu Cheng De, a highly accomplished Martial Artist and Professor of
Traditional Chinese Medicine.
 
 
 


Professor Emeritus of the Shanghai Traditional Medicine and Herbology
University.  Grandmaster Dr. Wu is a disciple of and the son-in-law of
Great Grandmaster Zi Ping Wang.  He was the first coach of the Shanghai
Traditional Chinese Medicine University Wushu Team.  He is a prominent
practitioner in Shuaijiao, many Wushu styles and a highly acclaimed
advisor for International Wushu Sanshou Dao Association. 

Grandmaster Dr. Wu has over a half century of Wushu, Jaijiquan and
Qi Gong experience as well as clinical experience in Chinese Medicine. 
From 1959 to 1989, he served as the director and professor for the
Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a Doctor in
Chief of the Longhua Hospital in Shanghai and currently teaches and
has his medical practice in Houston, Texas.



Grandmaster
Cheng De Wu


 

Master Helen Wu's two sisters are also 3rd Generation Masters.

Master Grace Xiao Gao Wu-Monnat

Master Lucy Xiao Ping Wu



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