Lineage of the Long Yang Form taught at the School of T'ai-Chi Ch'uan, Harare
CHRIS HAMBLIN
[Born: Wembley, UK]
Studied T'ai-Chi 1980 -1985 with Beverley
Milne at the School
of T'ai-Chi Ch'uan, London, became an assistant teacher, conducted
revision classes and taught for the School at the Theosophical Society,
London.
A musician & a visual artist (HDFA Slade UCL 1976), he has been involved
with contemporary dance since 1980. Chris taught T'ai-Chi to 3rd year
drama students at Nonington College (1986) and as a Co-Director of the
Dance Foundation Course at National Ballet of Zimbabwe (1989 -91).
He has been conducting regular classes in T'ai-Chi in Harare since 1990.
A member of the Association of Complementary Health Practitioners (Zimbabwe) and
the National Ballet of Zimbabwe.
Photos : Beverley Milne from an article in Yoga Today (1979) and in Melbourne in 1992
BEVERLEY MILNE
[Born: Prospect, South Australia, 1938]
(Born Adelaide, Australia 1938)
Initially
an art teacher, Beverley Milne trained at the Elder Conservatorium of
Music, Adelaide, joining D'Oyly Carte Opera Company UK as a soprano
1968-71.
First inspired by Pytt Geddes in London, Beverley learnt
the T'ai-Chi form from her student Martha Crewe. From
initial private lessons in 1972, Beverley developed her own School of
T'ai-Chi Ch'uan and Centre for Healing and Spiritual Understanding in
London, emphasising healing, meditation, philosophy and
symbolism. She introduced T'ai-Chi to health festivals,
yoga groups, taught in the Midlands, and in Australia on many return
visits. She also taught at The City Lit in London from 1973-90,
the first to teach T'ai-Chi in an English Institute when the art was
still largely unknown. A lecturer, writer and healer,
Beverley developed Lotus Therapy (holistic healing via feet) with
manual, published her book T'AI-CHI SPIRIT AND ESSENCE a New Vision of
a Healing Process (1979, 2nd Edit.1994) video T'ai-Chi "Mirror of the Soul"
She moved back to Melbourne in 1990.
Gerda Geddes (Photo from her video)
GERDA GEDDES (1917 - 4th March 2006 aged 88)
Biography by Frank Wood, 'Dancer in the Light'
[Born: Norway better known as Pytt Geddes]
She Studied Psychology in USA, completed Reichian Training Analysis in
Oslo and a 4 year Modern Dance Course. She taught dance & stage
movement in the Norwegian National Theatre.
In 1949 she went to China and lived for 10 years in the Far East where
she studied T'ai-Chi Ch'uan with Master Choy
Kam-Man, an internationally
recognised teacher.
She taught for many years at the London School of Contemporary
Dance School, before retiring and has written a book 'Looking for the Golden
Needle' - an allegorical jouney "From cradle to grave we go through a
process of change, of 'becoming' and 'de-becoming'; we are, all the time,
on
our way towards something else." (from: Looking for the Golden Needle)
There is a video about her work made by Norwegian TV : Understanding T'ai
Chi Ch'uan. See here: https://youtu.be/XmVh75nz7qQ
Two photos from the cover of Understanding T'ai-Chi Ch'uan a video by Gerda Geddes.
Lineage of Choy Kam-Man (1924-1994)
Choy Kam-Man learned from Choy Hok
Peng
(1885-1958) and he learned from Yang Chengfu (1883-1936)
"It's impossible to list all of
the students of Yang Chengfu since he traveled all over China to spread
and teach Yang family Taiji Quan. The above are considered some of his
top disciples. And, as with Yang Chengfu it's impossible to track the
students of his students. Though Yang Zhenming taught a small, selective
group of students, others traveled and spread Taiji world wide. Major
contributors to spreading Yang Taiji world wide are: Zhen Manqian (Cheng
Man Ching), Fu Zong Wei and his son, Yang Zhenduo and his son, Dong Yingjie
and his son and grandson, and Choy Hok Peng (accredited with being the
first to teach Americans Taiji). Each generation has become more open
to teaching and spreading the art".
Micheal Gilman writes: "This rare video https://youtu.be/bD4oBBoZ1uA
shows three generations of the Choy family as they demonstrate the Yang
Style as taught to Choy Hak Pang by Yang Chen Fu. The first part is Hak
Pang moving through the 108 Long Form. This is followed by the Sword
Form, and finally the Saber Form. The next section is the 108 Long Form
demonstrated by Master Choy Kam Man. Then, the 54 Short Form is
demonstrated by Frank Choy. The last section is Master Choy working
with students in San Francisco in the early 1970's. I hope you
appreciate seeing how forms change as they get passed from generation
to generation. The video dated 1971 is narrated by Frank Choy"
See a Choy Family Lineage here: https://silvertaichi.weebly.com/lineage.html
