The Celestial Tai Chi College has supported the Ashburton Festival for the last 20 years. In past years we have performed on one on the many stages along the street which only gave us exposure for a few minutes so for the past few years we have manned a display throughout the day.
This year was our most successful, with many people approaching the stand with a seemingly genuine interest in joining one of our groups. Interestingly most of them had relocated to Melbourne from interstate and wanted to join a class here.
Belinda Leong, Christine Dowdall, Anna Yeow and Margaret Rogers attended to everyone interested in the display. As well as the College leaflet, we handed out information on what Tai Chi is about and a list of all the College Centres and community classes in Ashburton, Hawthorn and Camberwell. This list was so popular that we ran out and people took photos of this on their phone. An osteopath who had a practice around the corner from the Ashburton Centre was so pleased to see us that she took a large handful of the College leaflets for her practice as she wants to refer her patients to us.
We were interviewed on our classes and the benefits of Tai Chi through the loud speaker system so everyone there knew the College was represented at the Festival and we hope we inspired people to come and try one of our classes.
Margaret Rogers – Ashburton & Hawthorn Centres
Celestial Tai Chi College of Australia
