Master Angela Cantafio
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Angela Cantafio is an award-winning, master level Tai Chi instructor
and senior student of the world-reknown Paul Lam. She lives in Australia and travels
around the world teaching "Tai Chi For Health", a Tai Chi practice focusing on health
benefits for everyone, with a focus on arthritis. Angela is the daughter of Master Pansy
Hsu, a gold medal winner in many forms of competitive Tai Chi .
June 2006 Workshop calendar listing
June 2006 Workshop Info Tai Chi for Arthritis Weekend with Angela Hsu Cantafio from Australia, June 24 & 25
at Kahuna Valley Retreat
o 9.30am - 10.30am Session 1
o 10.30am - 11.00am Morning tea
o 11.00am - 12.00pm Session 2
o 12.00pm - 1.30pm Lunch
o 1.30pm - 2.30pm Session 3
o 2.30pm - 3.00pm Afternoon tea
o 3.00pm - 4.00pm Session 4
Between 4.00pm to 4.30pm, informal discussion and catch-up lesson time for anyone who
wants to stay on or feel they need more time with Angela. Cost: $90/day or $160/weekend.
Educational support materials will be available in class. Please leave a message on (808)
822-4268 or email taichi@kahunavalley.org to register. Pre-registration by June 21 is
necessary to confirm your place at this limited-attendance workshop.
Angela Hsu Cantafio has been an accredited Tai Chi coach and instructor for the last
nine years with the Better Health Tai Chi Chuan School in Sydney, Australia which was
founded and presided over by Dr. Paul Lam, world-renowned Tai Chi Instructor and President
of the BHTCC School. Angela is one of Dr. Lam’s key instructors and has trained
instructors from all over the world, including from as far afield as the UK, Switzerland,
Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, New Zealand, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, and South America.
Angela also trained in Beijing at the Third World Conference in Taiji Training in Beijing;
with Professor Kan Gui Xiang from the Beijing Institute of Physical Education; with
Beijing master, Zhang Junfeng; with the Mantis Style masters and with her award-winning
Tai Chi teacher/mother from Kaneohe, Oahu, Pansy Hsu. Angela is also an accredited
teacher with the Healthy Lifestyle Unit which is the Health Promotion arm of the Health
Department of Australia and at Mona Vale Hospital. She teaches seven classes a week,
as well as being a “regular school counselor”, as she calls herself, three
days a week.
Dr. Paul Lam is a family physician in Sydney for the last 30 years, and is an internationally
acclaimed tai chi teacher. He suffered from arthritis himself for many years, and has
gained good control of his ailment through his practice of tai chi. His simple and effective
TCA (Tai Chi for Arthritis) program is based on the Sun style of tai chi, which incorporates
many qigong moves, as well as more nimble footwork which is more easily managed by arthritis
sufferers or more frail tai chi practitioners. In designing his program Dr. Paul Lam
consulted with numerous health professionals, including rheumatologists and physiotherapists.
His TCA form has gained support and endorsement from many Arthritis Foundations and Societies
throughout the world, including USA, England, Sweden, Spain, New Zealand, Hong Kong,
and South Korea. Dr. Lam will be coming to Kaua'i to teach in 2007.
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