LAKEPORT – Join Sutter Lakeside Wellness Center’s Tai Chi instructor Arch Kottler, along with individuals around the globe, as we celebrate World Tai Chi/Chi Gung Day, Saturday, April 25.

To celebrate this event, Kottler will hold a free, outdoor Tai Chi class in the beautiful healing gardens adjacent to the Wellness Center and hospital.

Spectators and Tai Chi enthusiasts are welcome to join in the global health and healing celebration. Internationally, this event begins in New Zealand and will spread time zone by time zone across the globe, through 60 countries and across 6 continents. This creates a “Healing Wave” to promote calm and worldwide wellness.

Tai Chi and Chi Gung (Chi Kung) are health technologies evolved over thousands of years of research in China, and are growing in popularity worldwide. They are used in hospitals, wellness centers, prisons, schools and other institutions.

Research has shown that Tai Chi and Chi Gung may reduce anxiety, depression and chronic pain conditions. These classes boost the immune system, improve respiratory and cardiovascular function, and burn calories. Both have also been proven valuable to dramatically improve balance, offer powerful stress management tools and slow aspects of the aging process.

Join us for World Tai Chi and Chi Gong Day, Saturday, April 25, from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at Sutter Lakeside Hospital’s Wellness Center, 5176 Hill Road East, Lakeport.

Kottler offers weekly Tai Chi classes on Tuesday from 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 pm and 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. and on Thursday from 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. at the Sutter Lakeside Wellness Center.

For more information on World Tai Chi and Chi Gung Day, visit http://worldtaichiday.org or call the Wellness Center at 707-262-5171 or visit Sutter Lakeside Hospital’s website at www.sutterlakeside.org.

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