Schedule

place: Stř­elecký ostrov (Shoot­ing Island)

11–13 Sep­tem­ber 2026

Fri­day Sat­ur­day Sun­day

Judith van Drooge

 Tomasz Nowako

Nils Klug

Nils Klug

Judith van Drooge

 Tomasz Nowakows­ki

Friday

  • 10:00 ‑12:30 —  workshops
  • 14:30 ‑14:50 — prac­tice in pairs: Tap Sao
  • 14:50 ‑17:00 — prac­tice in pairs:  Free push-hands
  • (17.00 — 18:30 — Pri­vate fenc­ing lessons for long-term stu­dents of Tomasz Nowakows­ki only. Sor­ry for the oth­ers.)
    18:00 — .. Those inter­est­ed can meet for din­ner togeth­er. Pivo­var Národ­ní, Národ­ní 8 (map)
    (Not includ­ed in the reg­is­tra­tion fee.)

Saturday

  • 10:00 — 12:30 —  workshops
  • 14:30 — 14:50 — prac­tice in pairs: Tap Sao
  • 14:50 — 17:00 — prac­tice in pairs:  Free push-hands
  • 17:00 — 18:00 — break, prepa­ra­tion for “Gala” evening
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  • 19:00 — … forms exhibitions
  • par­ty

Sunday

  • 10:00–12:30 —  workshops
  • 14:30–14:50 — prac­tice in pairs: Tap Sao
  • 14:50–17:00 — prac­tice in pairs:  Free push-hands
  • Work­shops – Expe­ri­enced teach­ers will present their meth­ods of work in Tai Chi Chuan and/or push hands.
  • Prac­tice in pairs
    • 4×5 min­utes of Tap Sao
    • Free push-hands: Par­tic­i­pants will indi­vid­u­al­ly agree on how they want to prac­tice in pairs. They will prac­tice in 10-minute rounds. Par­tic­i­pants will agree on the type of prac­tice (free push hands vs. form push hands, with steps vs. with­out steps). The lev­el is always adjust­ed to the prac­ti­tion­er with less experience.
  • Gala-evening – Space for pre­sen­ta­tions of styles, schools, and forms as well as a friend­ly meeting.

Teachers

 Judith van Drooge

Biography

Judith van Drooge

Judith van Drooge

Judith van Drooge liv­ing in the Nether­lands found­ed in 2003 her Tai Chi school ‘Inner Touch Tai Chi’. Now she is work­ing as a trav­el­ing Tai Chi instruc­tor around the world.
Due to her rich expe­ri­ence she has the insight to make con­nec­tions between dif­fer­ent styles and forms with­in Tai Chi. This helps you to bet­ter under­stand and inves­ti­gate the exer­cis­es. Judith let you expe­ri­ence what is meant by ‘mind­ful­ness’. You can often meet Judith at major Euro­pean Tai Chi events where she is reg­u­lar­ly invit­ed as a teacher. She is pro­mot­ing Tai Chi effortlessly.

 

  • Judith van Drooge is a qual­i­fied Tai Chi Chuan Yang style teacher, cer­tifi­cat­ed by Grand­mas­ter William Chi Cheng Chen who is estab­lished in New York, America.
  • She is hold­er of 2 Duan for Chi Kung autho­rized by the Health Chi Kung asso­ci­a­tion in Bei­jing, China.
  • Judith is a nation­al­ly rec­og­nized Mar­tial Arts Teacher qual­i­fied by the gov­ern­ment from The Nether­lands sports fed­er­a­tion NOC/NSF.

Workshop Topic

Body mechan­ics, William C. C. Chen teach­ing meth­ods. Inter­weaved with woman- pow­er, wis­dom and spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment. How do body and mind con­nect like Yin and Yang. Explor­ing with focus. Ulti­mate Ground­ing. Every move­ment needs ground­ing. Using your ground­ing will help to sup­port the force to be able to cre­ate expan­sion and exten­sion from the Dan Tien and giv­ing direc­tion to your move­ment. How to help each oth­er also includes prac­tic­ing being a Tai Chi Dum­my because some­times we need a lit­tle resis­tance. Besides part­ner exer­cis­es we will use easy to fol­low Chi Kung move­ments to explain the con­tent. Very use­ful to inte­grate in your own Tai Chi and/or Chi Kung practice.

Links

 Nils Klug

Biography

Nils Klug

Nils Klug

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Workshop Topic

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 Tomasz (Thomas) Nowakowski

Biography

Tomasz (Thomas) Nowakowski

Tomasz (Thomas) Nowakows­ki liv­ing in Lon­don, visu­al and mar­tial artist. He has stud­ied dif­fer­ent mar­tial arts since 1966 and has been teach­ing T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Qi Gong since 1982. Dur­ing the last 30 years, Thomas has taught Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong in many coun­tries: Aus­tria, Czech Repub­lic, France, Ger­many, Italy, Poland, Slo­va­kia, Tai­wan and the Unit­ed King­dom. He has led work­shops at his own school as well as for dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies, and cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions. Thomas was a judge at the Open Nation­al Cham­pi­onship of Tai­wan in 2004. He is a co-founder of The Cen­tre of Taoist Arts Gold­en Hill (Zlaty Kopec) in Prague, the Inter­na­tion­al Push Hands Meet­ing in Prague and founder of Tai Chi Art Cen­tre Lon­don. In 1990 he met his cur­rent teacher Dr Ming Wong C.Y. and stud­ied his fam­i­ly style Tai Chi, Tai Ki Kung San Fung and some tech­niques and the­o­ries of Chi­nese med­i­cine. Thomas is the author of “Shapes of Bal­ance” sys­tem (struc­tured devel­op­ment of perception).

Workshop Topic

“When you under­stand a tech­nique, you know a tech­nique. When you under­stand a con­cept, you know a thou­sand tech­niques.”
Under­stand­ing a con­cept is the core of my Shapes of Bal­ance teach­ing system.

The top­ic of my work­shop will be prac­ti­cal research of a con­cept of Chang San Feng 13th Fun­da­men­tal Forms Tai Chi in indi­vid­ual forms and their appli­ca­tions with part­ners in Tuishou (Push­ing Hands). Based on the com­par­i­son exam­ples from San Feng and Yang styles. We will be work­ing with tim­ing, coor­di­na­tion, the bal­ance of struc­ture and aware­ness of move­ments in action with partners.

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