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- Yang Style Tai Chi - solo form and push hands
- Self-defense for Women and Girls
- Okinawan Shuri-Ryu Karate
- Filipino stick fighting art of Modern Arnis
Welcome
to my website - I am glad you found me, and I hope you will check back often as this is a work in progress.
I
offer classes and private instruction in Tai Chi and Qigong, Modern Arnis, and Women’s Self-defense. Just click on the
pages to the left for more information and class schedules, and to learn a little bit about me. ( Be
sure to read my weekly Tai Chi 'Blog' and I'd love it if you sign the guestbook! )
About Dorian
For me, Tai Chi is the study of change and the power of transformation. Tai Chi is
also an art that asks me to get comfortable with myself and promises that my greatest power flows from that comfort. Or as
Lao Tse said in the Tao Te Ching: "To know others is intelligence, to know oneself is wisdom."
I was drawn to the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts in
1989 by a circle of women acting and moving to a vision of peace and justice. It is a vision that
sustains me still as I navigate the rich and varied landscape of my home. I have worked in the fields
of social change and in corporate finance - finding that balance of yin and yang in everything - and I bring
this wide of range of experience to my martial arts and tai chi practice and teaching.
I have now studied conscious movement and philosophy for almost
20 years. I study and teach Yang Style Tai Chi (my teachers are Jan Parker and with Sam Masich). I am a nationally certified self-defense instructor through the National Womens' Martial
Arts Federation, and I have earned black belts in Okinawan Karate (from Sensei
Janet Aalfs at Valley Women's Martial Arts) and in Modern Arnis (from the late Grandmaster
Professor Remy Presas). I have a masters degree in Philosophy.
(See
links and resources page for more information about self defense, karate, modern arnis, tai chi and my teachers).
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