Tai Chi (Taijiquan) is practiced widely around the world and is renowned as a system of training that enhances health, balance and well-being through a series of postures that are practiced slowly and with attention to alignment and relaxed movement. While many of the concepts go back to ancient times, the first complete forms are credited to the Chen Village in China (from the 1700s). This intermediate class offers deeper insights and training of the 24 movement Yang Tai Chi form and more detail on the meditative and martial aspects of the system. At the instructor’s request, students must have taken at at least three sessions of OLLI’s Tai Chi courses before signing up for Intermediate Tai Chi. Any exceptions must have instructor's permission.

Gary Carbone spent 35 years studying Tai Chi (Taijiquan), Xingyiquan, Bagua Zhang, Yiquan, Shaolin Kung Fu and Isshin Ryu Karate and is a seventh-generation lineage holder from Master Chen Jun Hao of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China. He loves sharing these arts with others.