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Class Schedule - Winter 2010

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
6:30 am   Tai Chi Ch'uan          
9 am
           Qigong &
Tai Chi - beg		  
9:30 am     Qigong &
Tai Chi - beg		      
10:00 am         Qigong &
Tai Chi - int		  
10:30 am     Qigong &
Tai Chi - int		      
11 am Tai Chi Ch'uan       Qigong &
Tai Chi - adv		 
11:30 am          
12:00 pm              
1:00 pm           Kung Fu
(youth)		  
4 pm

 

     Pre-Kung Fu
(ages 3-5)		   Kung Fu  
6:30 pm     Qigong &
Tai Chi		        

For private lessons or more information, contact Master Marilyn Cooper at littleriverwest@gmail.com or 925.818.8155.

 

Northern Shaolin Kung Fu
Traditional Northern Shaolin Kung Fu: warm-ups targeting vital energy centers, stretches, stances, kicks, punches, blocks, leg sweeps, jumps, solo and 2-person forms, ages 8 and up.

In Forma Health Club
23A Orinda Way
Orinda, CA
Saturday, 1 pm (youth)
Thursday, 4 pm (ages 3-5)

Orinda Community Center
28 Orinda Way
Orinda, CA
Saturday, 4 - 5pm

Qigong & Tai Chi

Qigong: various standing meditations, pure energy work with no martial intent, and Taoist and Buddhist breathing forms.

Tai Chi: warm-ups targeting vital energy centers, stretches, postures, and forms for balance, self-defense, healing, and developing internal energy.

Yang style Mainland 24 was created in 1956 by a symposium of tai chi masters brought together by the Chinese government. It is an introductory level form taught to beginners that takes 5 to 7 minutes to perform.

The 64, aka Guang Ping Yang style or Original Style is a more strenuous intermediate/advanced level form that takes 15 to 20 minutes to perform on one side. It represents a transition from the "hard" Chen style to the "soft" Yang style, containing primarily soft, slow movements with occassional fast, explosive movements.

Claremont Fitness Center
Monday, 11am - 12pm
(call for appt)

In Forma Health Club
23a Orinda Way
Orinda, CA
Tuesday, 6:30 - 7:30am

Orinda Community Center
28 Orinda Way
Orinda, CA
Wednesday, 9:30 - 11:30am
Saturday, 9am - 12pm

Tierra Yoga
1581 Sycamore Ave. #5
Hercules, CA
Wednesday, 6:30 - 7:45pm

 

The following forms are taught:

Northern Shaolin

Yi Gung Gin
Tan Tui
Gung Li
Lien Bu
20 Methods (2 Person)
Dwen Da
Staff
Hua Chuan 1
Broadsword		 Hua Chuan 2 (2 Person)
Straight sword
Hua Chuan 3
Spear
Hua Chuan 4 (2 Person)
Bar Duan Gin
Twin sword
Steel whip
Chin Na (2 Person)


Taiji (Tai Chi)

Short form, Yang style
Long form, G.P.Y. style
Shao Lu & Da Lu
Freestyle push hands
88 Move 2 person		 Combat Form
Straight Sword
Broadsword (2 person)
Broadsword (solo)
Spear (2 person)
Standing Meditations

 

Chin Na, Xing Yi, and Bagua are taught after the Shaolin and T'ai Chi are completed. Various forms of qigong are taught -- standing and moving, and various types of breathing.

History

Little River Kung Fu School derives its name from three main sources:

  1. We used to train next to a creek in Bangor, PA. in the early 80s.
     
  2. Kung Fu training is one of the many tributaries or pathways that flow towards the ocean of cosmic bliss, universal oneness or enlightenment.
     
  3. A Tai Chi practitioner should be like water, flowing over obstacles.
     

The school began in 1980 in New York, as the New York Kung Fu Loft, residing in Soho, Brooklyn and Chinatown. The school then migrated westward to New Jersey, then to Pennsylvania, and now to Northern California.