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Tai Chi for Weavers with Amanda Robinette -- CANCELED
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About this event
Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese martial art now widely practiced to reduce pain, improve balance, and more. It’s easy, requires no special clothing or gear, and can be done virtually anywhere.
Tai Chi for Weavers is designed to specifically address the ergonomic issues of weavers. We rely on our bodies just like we rely on our equipment. We expect performance and we are frustrated when discomfort, pain, exhaustion, or injury prevents us from doing what we love.
In this workshop, you will learn how your body can work better for you so your weaving time can be more rewarding. After warm-ups, we will learn how the motions we use to weave relate to Tai Chi exercises. We will practice this connection by engaging in some fundamental Tai Chi exercises, finishing up with deep breathing and Qi Gong self-massage of the arms and shoulders. No experience required—come as you are!
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About the teacher: Amanda Robinette has been practicing Tai Chi since 2008 and teaching for the Movement Arts Institute (Marysville, PA) since 2013. By making connections between Tai Chi and weaving, Amanda developed Tai Chi for Weavers (a live program and DVD), a workshop designed to help weavers address ergonomic and repetitive stress issues due to the physical nature of their work.
Amanda is the author of Weaving Western Sakiori (Stackpole, 2018) and several articles in
Handwoven magazine. As an environmental science graduate, she became interested in the historical Japanese practice of sakiori (rag-weaving) through her interest in recycling and frugality in weaving materials. She developed Western Sakiori to honor this tradition by using locally available materials to make fabrics that are beautiful and useful by current standards. The object of her weaving is to always make something as good as or better than the original textile she uses as rag, in the same way that Japanese peasants sought to preserve the desirable properties of cotton from the rags they could obtain. Her website and blog are at
https://westernsakiori.com/.
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