Year-Round Outdoor Taijiquan (Tai Chi) and Qigong Classes
Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Camden Public Library Amphitheater, Camden, Maine
Anna Dembska offers ongoing year-round outdoor classes in Yang Family tai chi together with qigong from various traditions. Classes take place every Monday and Thursday, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., weather permitting, at the beautiful Camden Public Library amphitheater overlooking Camden Harbor.
The spacious, lively movements and meditative nature of taijiquan and qigong offer powerful health benefits, supporting free flow of energy (“qi”) and developing strength, flexibility, balance, proprioception, self-awareness, calmness, and other invaluable qualities.
Everyone is welcome to join us at any time. Anna does her best to help all participants at every level of fitness and experience, including beginners, to learn, feel good, and have fun. Donations are happily accepted, and help support both Anna and the wonderful Camden Public Library, .
Anna also offers private lessons in tai chi and qigong.
For more information, and to sign up for Anna’s taiji email list for updates and weather cancellations, please use the form below:
Anna Dembska’s Taiji Bio
Anna dipped her toes into taijiquan in her 20s at an open class at a Los Angeles park. Decades later, in 2010, she returned to taiji through an adult-ed class to help rehab a broken leg. Her leg quickly recovered, and through the guidance and example of her teacher, Mike Shunney, she found that taijiquan offered much more. She’s been deepening her understanding and experience of its pleasures, mysteries, and benefits ever since.
Anna has been teaching taijiquan and qigong since 2019. She is a Yang Family Tai Chi Associate Instructor and attained Yang Family Gold Eagle Rank Three in 2024. She studies with Mike Shunney in Rockland, Maine. She has also studied Wudang style taiji and qigong with Zhong Xuechao (Master Bing) since 2014, and has attended yearly seminars with Grandmaster Yang Jun and other Yang Family instructors in Yang Family bare-hand, push-hands, sword, and saber forms since 2016. She also studied San Shou two-person play with Dr. Jay Dunbar and Kathleen Cusick.
A professional singer and voice teacher, Anna was delighted to find that taiji and qigong share many principles and practices with the art of singing, and she tries to use her understanding and experience of both arts to enhance the teaching of each other.
